Fall Campfires and S'mores Pancakes!

Fall has arrived early this year (so sad, I miss summer!) and what would be more awesome for breakfast than S'mores Pancakes?!?
Plus, I just got back from Hershey, PA. so we've got chocolate on the brain..

Ingredients:
 1 cp flour
2tsp baking powder
2TBS cocoa powder
2TBS brown sugar
3/4cp milk
1 egg
for topping: 1cp marshmallow fluff +2TBS boiling water- stir until combined.

Whisk the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
Beat the wet ingredients together in a smaller bowl then add to the dry ingredients and stir to combine.
 
Spoon a quarter cup of batter onto a skillet (or griddle, if you have one) on medium heat that has been coated with nonstick cooking spray/butter (mine is no stick, YAY!). Flip after 3-4 minutes, just as you notice bubbles forming around the edges of each pancake, and cook 2 minutes more.

Drizzle the sauce over the top. If you're really wanting chocolate, stick a piece of chocolate on top of the pancake before the marshmallow sauce...just sayin'
 

The Pancake Experiment: Chocolate Waffles

OHHHH These were so good! Almost like brownies for breakfast..

It's too bad I didn't have any cherries for the top. You could put all your favorite sundae toppings on it- chocolate sauce, nuts, etc!

They are so easy to make:
Ingredients:
1& 1/2 cp Bisquick
1/2 cp sugar
1/3 cp cocoa (sweet or unsweet depending on how sweet you want them)
3/4 cp water
2Tbs oil
2 eggs

Heat waffle iron. You may need to coat it with non stick spray.
Stir all ingredients together.
Pour about 1/3 cp onto center of waffle iron and close top- or follow instructions for your machine.
When they are done cooking, it's time to add all your favorite toppings and dig in!

I love the heart shaped waffle iron! hmm..Valentine's Day is coming...

Gooey s'more cookies

So pretty and delicious! I used an old chocolate drop cookie recipe and added some toppings to make this ooey and gooey.

the Special dark chocolate chips are my favorite for baking and snacking..

After mixing up the cookies, I put some chocolate chips on top and cut the marshmallows in half (or thirds) like shown below.

Then put the marshmallow half on top of the chocolate chips like so:

ok, ok, I've teased you long enough. Here's the recipe:

Combine 1/2cp soft BUTTER, 1/2cp BROWN SUGAR, and 1/4cp WHITE SUGAR in a large bowl.

Beat 1 EGG and 1 tsp VANILLA EXTRACT together then add to butter mixture.

Combine 1cp FLOUR, 1/4cp UNSWEET COCOA, and 1/2 tsp BAKING POWDER in a separate bowl then stir into butter mixture.
Preheat oven to 350F.

Drop onto cookie sheet by rounded Tablespoons. 
Bake for 5 min.

Put chocolate chips on the tops of the cookies. Then cut the marshmallows as shown above, and place them on top.

Bake 5 min. more and you have gooey chocolate insides to devour with milk. mmmm..

The Pancake experiment: Chocolate Milk Pancakes

After the last batch of pancakes, Mike said suggestively,' I wonder...what about chocolate milk pancakes? hmmmm...?' HAHAHA, says I, then I started wondering myself..

He happened to have some pancake mix in the cupboard  and he ALWAYS has chocolate milk ingredients (it's his favorite).

So I just used chocolate milk where the box called for water.
The batter kind of tasted like cocoa krispies!

Who says you can't play with your food?
Raspberry buttons and eyes and chocolate syrup scarf.
There's nothing frosty about this snowman!

Happy fella!

So funny to see a grown man in a tie eating a snowman pancake!! Love it!

Cranberry White Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Cookies

Oh boy! Sound like too many good things all in one place? Only one way to find out! This recipe is what I'm thankful for this year ;)

Here's the recipe:
2 cp flour
1 1/4tsp baking powder
1tsp baking soda
1tsp cinnamon
1/4tsp nutmeg
1/4tsp ground ginger
1/8tsp ground cloves
2 eggs
1 1/4cp brown sugar (I cut mine with a no calorie sugar substitute by 1/2)
1/2cp oil
1tsp vanilla extract
1cp pumpkin
1cp dried cranberries
1cp white chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350F

 Whisk dry ingredients (flour-cloves) and set aside.
Combine eggs and sugar until well blended. Add oil, vanilla, and pumpkin.
Stir in dry mixture a little at a time.
Add cranberries and chocolate.
Drop cookies onto cookie sheet and bake 8 min.

They are like cloud cookies so light and fluffy. Bet you can't eat just one!

There's Steven Mitchell & Virginie Jensen teaching at the fabulous swing and blues dance workshops that kept me from my blog all weekend!