Friday, July 20, 2012

Cinnamon Rolls(ish) FAST

So. Here we are sitting on my couch. Being UUBER lazy... Waning cinnamon rolls but not willing to wait for the oven to preheat, cinnamon rolls to cook & wait for cooling time. Yup. Somedays I'm beyond ridiculous!! So without budging I started thinking about what I have that gets hot fast & cooks fast! Toaster... No. Foreman...NO! Waffle Iron... GAME ON.

And this is how easy it was. Pop the can of pillsbury cinnamon rolls, once preheated spray waffle iron down with cooking spray, place one roll per quarter, close the iron(if it rotates then rotate it), wait 2-3 minutes & done! There's 8 rolls to a pack. Everything done in less than 10 minutes. They're crispy & yummy. I still have the same complaint I always have, however... NOT ENOUGH ICING!!! Not even close! If pillsbury ever does cinnamon roll marketing research... I WANT IN! This must be fixed!! (0:


Sorry some of the pictures are blurry. I was multitasking(eating & snapping pictures)

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Easy Homemade Caramels...

It's not a secret that I am madly addicted to pinterest... So real quick before bed I'm going to share a pinterest find with a Rachel twist.

I have made homemade caramel before only to find that if you're not a professional weight lifter it'll kill your arm. I saw microwave caramel and that it only too 6 minutes to make and decided... I'm okay with wasting a mere 6 minutes on something new. So here's the caramel recipe

Microwave Caramel:
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup light Karo syrup
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk

Mix all ingredients in a microwave safe bowl(I used a glass loaf pan because all of my glass bowls are MIA).

Microwave for 6 minutes... Stirring every two. Pour into a lightly greased dish. Cool. Enjoy.

I, like always, slightly deviated. I put the molten caramel into a glass liquid measuring cup, poured it into a greased star shaped ice cube tray & put it in the freezer. Once frozen they popped out easier than ice cubes. You can stop there but that'd be too easy for me.

Next, I busted out my Velata warmer(which I sell, www.chloeado.velata.us), a bag of our premium Belgian Milk chocolate(SOOOO good & I'm not just saying that because I sell it... I'm a chocoholic!!), melted the bag (which takes at the most 22 minutes in the warmer that will NEVER SCORCH OR BURN the chocolate) and half dipped the caramels in the chocolate. They don't have a huge color pop (which I LOVE) but they are awesome!!! (0:

This recipe is sooo easy you'd be silly not to try it!!! (0:

Nighty Nite. Velata dreams too you & yours!!