The Weekend Dish: 9/19/2020
Hellloooooo weekend!
We have dipped into cool temperatures and I am loving every second of it! Walking the dogs in long sleeves or a fleece? Yes, yes, yes!
How are things where you are? Tell me what you’ve been up to and how you’ve been.
On Brown Eyed Baker This Week
Ultimate Oreo Cake – The ultimate Oreo cake! Triple layer chocolate cake, cookies and cream filling, chocolate fudge frosting, and white chocolate glaze. Then garnished with more chocolate frosting Oreo cookies.
How to Make Vanilla Extract – This homemade vanilla extract is made from just two ingredients (vanilla beans and vodka) and takes less than 10 minutes to prepare. Let it sit for at least one month (longer is better!) and it’ll be ready to use for baking or to give as a gift.
Homemade Apple Butter – Homemade apple butter in the slow cooker could not be easier! Mix up apples, sugar, and spices and cook overnight, puree and enjoy!
Friday Things #389Â – School, kids stuff, Ina’s new cookbook, popular cookies, bake-along requests, a heartwarming story, and more!
Top 5 Most Popular Posts This Week:
1. My Favorite White Bread Recipe
2. Grandma’s Banana Nut Bread
3. Refrigerator Bread and Butter Pickles
5. Key Lime Pie
This Time Last Year…
These were the recipes that hit the site during this same week last year…
The Best Authentic Beef Enchiladas
What I Bookmarked This Week
Apple cider bundt cake for the fall win!
More fall deliciousness with brown butter apple blondies with cinnamon maple glaze.
Love this easy dinner >> Maple Sheet Pan Smoked Sausage with Butternut and Brussels
I would devour all of these >> Chocolate Toffee Cashew Clusters
So ready for holiday flavors! >> Gingerbread Bars with Eggnog Cream Cheese Frosting
Have a delicious weekend!
Those gingerbread bars are a keeper!  I know because I’ve been baking them for about four years as part of a baked goods & warm drink treats for my coworkers at Christmastime. (I’ve been doing this for a decade!).  They made a permanent place in the spread, as well as a copycat cranberry bar, and YOUR Monster Cooke Bar recipe with green and red m&ms.  Â
A PRESENT FOR YOU
ROCKY ROAD COLA CAKE…,,,this is a MUST BAKE
2 cp flour
2 cp sugar
4 tbsp Hersheys cocoa
1/2 tsp salt
whisk together in large mixing bowl
1/2 lb unsalted butter
1 cp regular coca cola
bring to boil in small sauce pan, pour over dry ingredients and stir until combined
2 large eggs, room temperature
1/2 cp buttermilk
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
whisk together and add to batter
9 x 13 pan 350 degrees 30 minutes or until tester comes out clean
while cake is baking make frosting
1 lb powdered sugar
5 tbsp unsweetened cocoa
whisk together inn large bowl
1/4 lb unsalted butter
1/3 cp coca cola1
1 tsp espresso
2 tbsp water
bring to boil in small sauce pan
pour over sugar mixture and stir with wooden spoon until well mixed
1 cp coarsely chopped walnuts
1 1/2 cp mini marshmallows fold n
spoon frosting all over cake and let firm up
UNBELIEVABLY GOOD
Thank you for this, sounds delicious!
This looks delicious and I’d like to try it.  Is the espresso a powder and does the frosting go on the cake while it’s hot ?  warm ?  Or after it’s cooled?  Thanks for sharing this.  I hope I hear back. Â
I live in Northern CA, and we’ve been heavily impacted by the fires. Smoky air, road closures, evacuations, empty shelves at the stores. But we’re pulling together, and we’ll make it through. God bless the firefighters.
I’m so sorry, Rachel. I hope that you and your family stay safe.
Thanks for the reminder on gingerbread recipe as a Fall taste we need to return. I get a one track mind on pumpkin pie from Costco😊. I so love the Fall and can’t wait. I bought some Fall things yesterday to put up at my parents place. It makes my great niece so happy to see the new signs and decor up…and my Mom as well.
Happy weekend to you all. Loved your Friday post. Ill go read the comments later today. For some reason the comments lately are saying zero comments the entire day…then they appear much later. Before they would post throughout the day.
Hi Macy, The comments thing is happened to me too, but only when I’m on my phone. If I’m on my laptop, they all show up. I’m thinking it has to do with how the mobile browser caches sites.
Aaahhh……Michelle…….I just pinned those exact Chocolate Toffee Cashew Clusters last night when I was scrolling through Pinterest. Great minds think alike. I added them to my Christmas goodies/desserts list. I know I’ll probably be in the minority by saying this, but life is good and I have zero complaints. Our first grandchild was born on March 06 and he was brought home when our state (NY) was just being locked down. Myself, as well as the hubs, both of our children and their spouses, are by nature kinda the homebody type. We have been very fortunate in that none of us knows anyone who has contracted this virus and/or passed away due to it. Wearing a mask and not being able to find a few items in a store is the only way we have really been impacted by this. And I wouldn’t really call either of those things being impacted. Maybe a mild inconvenience? So all in all we are doing well. Having good food to eat (don’t you just love fall baking); a warm house (winter is right around the corner); our health (so far so good) and family around us (a new granddaughter due November 17)………..who could ask for more! I so look forward to your Friday and Saturday posts to read while drinking my coffee. You have a very beautiful family and I hope you are all doing well. Our daughter gets a little disappointed at times that she can’t take her baby and show him off to friends or bring him along to the grocery store, but we’re all just trying to stay as safe as possible. So today we are all going apple picking. One of the few things we can all do outdoors where masks are optional and we can bring Quincy Edward in his stroller. Have a glorious weekend Michelle. Stay safe.
Vicki
We are so blessed. Even in hard times God is Good. So refreshing to get to read about good things. Loved your post and congratulations on the babies. Such a gift.
Thank you so much for your kind words Macy. I agree……we are blessed, God is great and these babies are such a precious gift. I think so often we forget to feel gratitude for just a simple, “ordinary” day where we haven’t faced any struggle or overcome any challenge and maybe just went through the motions of a typical day in our life. I know I am guilty of it and am trying my best to be more mindful of it. I sincerely hope that is good enough.
Yessss to feeling gratitude for simple, ordinary days with no struggles. xoxo
I absolutely adore your positive attitude, Vicki! I am also a homebody so quarantine and staying home hasn’t bothered me at all. Our immediate and extended families have stayed healthy, so we are thankful, as well. I hope you enjoyed apple picking; it was beautiful day here in Pittsburgh!
Temperatures so cool that we had frost on the barn roof this morning! It’s only mid-September. Â More oddity to add to the already infamous 2020. Â
That apple cider bundt cake that you bookmarked looks like it would be a great addition to my Thanksgiving dessert table. Â But first I think we need a trail run :)