Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

I love Fall/Thanksgiving time. What I love most about this time of the year is all the yummy delicious desserts that I can make. The other day my friend was saying that she was going to make a recipe for Pumpkin Bars. I absolutely love Pumpkin Bars with cream cheese frosting on top. The recipe below is one of my favorite recipes for making Pumpkin Bars with cream cheese frosting.

Ingredients

Bars:
4 eggs
1 2/3 cups granulated sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
15- ounce can pumpkin
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 tea. baking powder
2 tea. ground cinnamon
1 tea. salt
2 tea. baking soda

(Ingredients for Pumpkin Bars)

Icing:
8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
1 tea. vanilla extract

(Icing Ingredients)

Instructions for Bars:

1. Preheat over to 350 degrees.

2. In a large bowl, combine eggs, sugar, oil and pumpkin until light and fluffy.

(Combine eggs, sugar, oil and pumpkin)

 

3. Stir together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and baking soda.

(Combine all dry ingredients)

4. Spread batter into a greased 9x13 baking pan.

6. Bake fore 30 minutes. Cool completely before frosting.

Instructions for Icing:

1. In a medium size bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar and butter. Mix until smooth.

3. Stir in the vanilla.

4. Spread on cooled pumpkin bars.

(Enjoy!)

Recipe credit to:
Amanda Del Toro

Photo credit to:
Amanda Del Toro

Slow Cook Chili

I absolutely love fall. What I love so much about fall is the cold weather and also making chili. My family and I have competitions on who can make the best chili. My dad seems to always win every year, I don't know why, maybe because he put steak, jalapenos, hamburger, sausage, anything to make your mouth be on fire. The recipe below is something that is quick and easy that you can throw everything in the crock pot and let it cook.

Ingredients:

2 lbs. any meat (I used hamburger)
1 onion, finely diced (I used minced onion)
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 (14.5 oz.) can diced tomatoes (I used fire roasted tomatoes)
2 (14.5 oz.) cans Rotel (any type of Rotel will do)
1 (8 oz.) can tomato sauce
1 cup water
1 (15 oz.) can kidney beans, drained
1 (15 oz.) can pinto beans, drained
1 (15 oz.) can black beans, drained
2 T. chili powder
1 T. ground cumin
2 T. white sugar (regular sugar)
1 T. salt
1 t. ground black pepper

(What you will need)

Instructions:

1. In a large skillet brown hamburger, add onion and garlic and drain.

(Brown hamburger, onion and garlic)

 



 

2. Rinse and drain all beans.

 

(Rinse and drain beans)

 

 

3. In a 5-quart crock pot add Rotel, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce, water, kidney beans, pinto beans, black beans, chili powder, cumin, sugar, salt, pepper.

(Mix together all ingredients, except hamburger)

 

4. Slowly mix in hamburger.

(Mix in hamburger)

 

5. Once everything is well mixed, set the crock pot on high and cook for 5-6 hours or on low for 8-10 hours and stir occasionally.

6. When the chili is done, enjoy!

For Serving:
I serve my chili with sour cream, cheese, crackers and corn bread.

Recipe credit to:
Amanda Del Toro

Photo credit to:
Amanda Del Toro

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars

If you are like me and absolutely love chocolate and peanut butter. Then you will love Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars are one of my favorite type of cookies. Not only that, but this recipe is very simple and easy to make. Even a man that does not know how to cook can make them. They are that easy.

Ingredients:

2 eggs
1/3 cup water
1/4 cup margarine
1 cup peanut butter
1 yellow cake mix
1 pkg chocolate chips

(What you will need)

Instructions:

1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Cream together eggs, water, margarine, peanut butter and 1/2 of cake mix.

(cream eggs, water, margarine, peanut butter & cake mix)

 

3. Once everything is mixed well, add remaining cake mix and chocolate chips.

(mix ingredients well)

 



 

4. Pour into greased 9x13 cake pan.

(pour mixture into pan)

5. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

(Delicious)

Recipe credit to:
Amanda Del Toro

Photo credit to:
Amanda Del Toro

Easy Beef Enchiladas

I love Mexican food. My favorite Mexican dish is Enchiladas, Mexican Rice and homemade Refried Beans. My mom makes the best Enchiladas and homemade Refried Beans. What I like about Enchiladas is that there is an easy and hard way to make them. I personally love the easy way. If you are looking for something quick and easy for dinner then Easy Beef Enchiladas is the way to go.

Ingredients:

1 lb ground beef
1/2 cup onion, chopped (I used minced onion because I don't like that much of onion taste)
2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
20 oz can enchilada sauce (I used a 28 oz can of mild enchilada sauce)
8 flour tortillas (I used 12 tortillas in order to make a dozen enchiladas)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brown meat and onions in large skillet. Drain.

2. Once the meat is browned and drained, add 1 cup of enchilada sauce and 1 cup of cheese.

3. Mix well.

4. Place about 1/2 a cup or so along the center of each tortilla

5. Roll tortilla up and place seam side down in a 9x13 pan

6. Once all tortillas have been rolled and placed in pan, pour remaining sauce over them.

7. Sprinkle remaining cheese over the top.

8. Bake for about 30 minutes or until cheese is bubbly.

Cooking Tip:

I serve my Enchiladas with Refried Beans, Mexican Rice and chips.

Recipe credit to: Amanda Del Toro

Amanda's Famous Goulash

Italian food is one of my families favorite type of food next to Mexican. One Italian main dish that my family absolutely loves is goulash. They say that my goulash is very buono. They have even raved about my goulash to some of their friends. Thus, is were the name Amanda's Famous Goulash came originated. I will admit that it is pretty delicious, however I would not say that it is to die for. One thing about my goulash is that it is really cheesy. Although, there is a secret ingredient in my goulash. If you want to know the secret ingredient you will just have to watch the video to find out. The video is from a demonstration speech that I did for my speech class. Enjoy!


Ingredients:

1-2 lbs. Any type of meat (hamburger, turkey, sausage, etc)
1 jar of Prego Spaghetti sauce (I normally use Traditional or Mushroom)
1 pkg of Mozzarella Cheese
1 pkg of Monterey Jack Cheese
About 1 cup of Parmesan Cheese
Mixture of spaghetti noodles, elbow macaroni noodles and shell noodles.



Recipe credit to:
Amanda Del Toro

Video credit to:
Amanda Del Toro