Cream Cheese Bars

1 cake mix(yellow, lemon, chocolate, strawberry...)
1 8 oz pkg. cream cheese
2 eggs, used separately
1/3 c. oil
1/2 c. powdered sugar
2 tsp. almond extract(lemon juice for lemon cake mix, strawberry extract, cocoa etc.)

Mix together cake mix, oil and 1 egg until crumbly. Save 1 cup of the mixture and pat the rest into the bottom of a greased 9X13 pan. Bake at 350* for 10 minutes. In a separate bowl whip the cream cheese until fluffy. Add the sugar, egg and extract. Whip until incorporated. Pour over the cake crust and sprinkle the rest of the cake crumbs over top. Bake for another 10-15 minutes.

Peanut Butter Bars

A Spencer(and now Bennett) family favorite!

1/2 c. butter softened
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. peanut butter
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp vanilla
1 c. flour
1/2 c. oats
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1 c. chocolate chips

Cream together butter, sugars and peanut butter. Add egg and vanilla, mix well. Add flour, oats, baking soda and salt. Spread into a greased 9X13 pan. Sprinkle with the chocolate chips. Press the chips into the dough. Bake at 350* for 20 minutes. Remove bars and prepare icing:

1/2 c. powdered sugar
2 Tbsp. peanut butter
2 Tbsp. milk

Pour over bars and let cool

Shortcakes and Kiwi Ice cream

I brought this for dessert at the in-laws and it was a big hit!

For the "shortcakes" as I felt like calling them I just made cupcakes out of a yellow cake mix, easy enough.

Kiwi Ice cream:

6 kiwi's
2 Tbsp. sugar
2 cups heavy whipping cream
3/4-1 c. sugar
1 lime

Remove kiwis from the skin and mash up. Add the 2 tbsp. sugar and let sit in the fridge for an hour. After an hour in a separate bowl add the sugar(I felt like a cup was a little much so somewhere between 3/4 and 1 c.) and a bit of the heavy cream. Whisk together until the sugar and cream are incorporated, whisk for about 30 seconds. Add a little more cream and whisk again for another 30 seconds. Do this a couple more times until the cream is all added. Add in the kiwi, zest from the lime and juice from the lime. Pour into your ice cream maker and follow those instructions. Pour into a air tight container and freeze if using later. Scoop over the cupcake and serve

Caramel Crispy Treats

1 c. butter(2 sticks)
1 c. brown sugar
1/2 bag of marshmallows
around 6 c. puffed rice cereal aka rice krispies

In a large pot melt butter. Stir in sugar. Add marshmallow and stir over heat until the marshmallow is all incorporated. Remove from heat. Add your rice krispies, as much as you'd like, and stir well. Pour into a greased 9X13 pan and let sit...or eat out of the pan if you so desire!

Lemon frozen yogurt

1 tub vanilla yogurt(any brand works but if you get brown cow you wont regret it)
2/3 c. sugar
zest from 1 lemon
juice from 2 lemons

Mix all ingredients well, pour into your ice cream maker and voila, healthy and tasty frozen yogurt!

Cinnamon, banana and nutella panini

Any sort of bread that you would use to make toast
nutella
bananas
butter
cinnamon

Mix a few tablespoons of softened butter with some cinnamon. Spread this on one side of one slice of bread. Place this side down on your panini maker/grill. Spread the side facing up with a generous amount of nutella. Place desired amount of sliced bananas on top of the nutella. Spread nutella on one side of another slice of bread. Place that side down over the bananas. On the side facing up spread more of your cinnamon butter. Proceed to grill your panini until it reaches your desired crispiness.