A Delicious Flop

I can’t believe it has been 2 weeks since I’ve last updated Fallon’s Cucina. My bad! It literally does not feel like it has been that long. I set some time to get this post together because 1) today is February 29th, 2012 and 2) it was time to get a more updated post. I couldn’t miss out on today because we won’t have another leap year for 4 more years. Happy Birthday to whoever is actually born on a leap year. I always wondered how that works? How old can you really be if your birthday only comes every 4 years? Hmmm ;)

Today I have a recipe for you which is easy to put together but ended up turning out to be something completely different. Remember those rolo cake mix bars I made? They were so good, I wanted to change them up and do something different. Like using a chocolate cake mix and adding marshmallows, caramel sauce and pecans. Sounds delicious right? Well the bars ended up turning into this gooey, lava like cake. These definitely required a spoon for consumption, unless you like sticky fingers! As much as I wanted to call this mess a flop, it actually turned out to be a delicious lava like cake.

I baked them for over 30 minutes because I thought the cake was still not cooked through but it just continued to stay gooey. I realized I might of gone a bit overboard when it came to the caramel sauce and it is what kept the cake so moist and lava like. Which isn’t a bad thing!

It was enjoyed throughout the night at my best friend’s house. I couldn’t stop picking at them either. The toasted marshmallows are the best part. I’d recommend this cake to someone with an urgent sweet tooth because this cake will solve all those problems.

Gooey Chocolate Cake mix with Marshmallows, Caramel and Pecans
By Fallon

Ingredients
1 box (18.25oz) chocolate cake mix
1 (5oz) can evaporated milk (I used reduced fat)
1/4  cup unsalted butter, melted
2 cups mini marshmallows
1/4 cup caramel sauce, warmed
1/4 cup pecans, chopped

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9x13in pan with cookie spray. With a mixer, beat cake mix, evaporated milk and butter until combined. Mixture will be thick and sticky.

Divide batter in half and press 1 half onto the bottom of the pan. Bake until just set, approximately 8-9 minutes.

Remove base from oven and place marshmallows, caramel sauce and pecans on top. Drop remaining batter on top of marshmallow mixture in teaspoon sized amounts. Bake for 30 minutes longer until marshmallows are toasted and cake mix is cooked through but still fudgy.

Cool and serve by scooping into a bowl and if your feeling extra frisky, serve with vanilla ice cream!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope everyone has a great day today! I’m glad it is already the middle of the week. I’m so ready for my days off. ;)

Enjoy,
Fallon

Rolo Cake Mix Bars

As soon as I saw this recipe I knew they would be good. Yellow cake mix and a milk chocolate covered caramel candy baked together, yeah it just sounds good! With this simple recipe there are so many other dangerous varieties like a chocolate cake mix and peanut butter cups, funfetti cake mix and marshmallows, yellow cake mix and heath bar etc. I could just go on but instead I’ll just share you this recipe. I found the recipe over at Cookies and Cups. I knew it would be good coming from her blog. She makes everything look delicious.They were well liked by my friends over the weekend and I think they will start to make a regular appearance. Just make sure you have a lot of time to unwrap each piece of Rolo candy. Yeah that wasn’t fun at all!

Rolo Cake Mix Bars
Adapted from Cookies and Cups

Ingredients:
1 box (18.25oz) yellow cake mix (Definitely use Duncan Hines)
1 (5oz) can evaporated milk
1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
40 Rolo candies, unwrapped and cut in half

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9x13in pan with cookie spray. With a mixer, beat cake mix, evaporated milk and butter until combined. Mixture will be thick and sticky.

 

   

Divide batter in half and press 1 half onto the bottom of the pan. Bake until just set, approximately 8-9 minutes.

Remove base from oven and place Rolo candies, caramel-side down on top. Drop remaining batter on top of Rolos in teaspoon sized amounts. Bake for 20-24 minutes longer until top begins to golden.

Cool completely before cutting into squares.

Oh yeah!

Enjoy,
Fallon

Chocolate Caramel Cookie Bites

Here is the second cookie I made for my boyfriend's package. I actually had this recipe bookmarked for a very long time! Kate from A Dash of Sass came up with one of the most brilliant cookies yet. A chocolate sugar cookie dough, that is rolled out, cut into circles and then wrapped around a caramel. Baked in the oven and before you know it, you have this soft, gooey, warm delicious filling oozing out! I'm drooling now wishing I still had one of these cookies to have. I did eat 3 of them when I baked them fresh, I couldn't help myself. ;)

Okay so enough of my chatter and here is the wonderful recipe over on A Dash of Sass for Chocolate Caramel Cookie Bites. Check out the rest of her blog while you are there, she has great recipes. Like her turkey burgers that I've made on my blog. 

I love the look of the dough rolled into the turbinado sugar. 
 

They are so pretty, look at them sparkle saying EAT ME! =P
 

Cookie bite #1. I wasn't satisfied with the picture. 
Good excuse right? So.. what did I do?
 

Well I had to eat another one making this cookie bite #2.

I was a bit more satisfied with this shot showing off the gooey-ness. 
 

These are for my boyfriend, letting them cool 
off before they get packaged up.
 

So I was tired of rolling and rolling cookie bites. I ended up just making 
normal chocolate sugar cookies. They were really good.
 

SO GOOD, that I made an extra big one and took an extra big bite! 
I don't know but less then 24hours and this dozen plate 
of cookies was gone. I'll be honest and say it wasn't me!
 

Some notes:

• Yes the dough was dry when rolling it out. What did I do? Well I just pat my hands in some water to smooth the dough out. It helped a little bit, but when I tried to cover the caramel the dough would break. Nothing but a little heat from the hand helped it mend together perfectly.
• I used Kraft caramels. I've never made homemade caramel before, but that actually has been on my baking list for a while. I love fresh homemade caramel. Maybe this holiday I'll feel adventurous because I did buy myself a baking thermometer last year.
• I'm thinking a marshmallow stuffed in the dough would be really good.

It is Friday and it doesn't even feel like Friday! Maybe because I'm working. LOL. I just worked out and had a nice big bowl of oatmeal with flax meal, honey roasted peanut butter, and a banana. It rocked my socks!

Till next time,
Fallon

PS: Are you wondering what happen to cookie bite #3? Well I wanted to see how the cookies were after being completely cooled off, and didn't have the camera near me. They were more solid but still soft enough to enjoy. Which is how my boyfriend will be able to enjoy them unless they go stale (which I HOPE NOT!).