Homemade Apple Fritters

As long as I have known him, Brock has loved Apple Fritters!  They are one of his very favorite treats of all time!  So for Father's Day, I decided to try making him home made ones!  Aaaand, they were DELICIOUS!

Here's the recipe I used (I got it from seeminglygreek.com, but as always, added my own twist and adapted it to how I like it):

Homemade Apple Fritters Recipe:
1 heaping cup All purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
dash salt
1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 T. butter, melted
1 egg
1/3 cup milk + plus more if needed
1 apple, chopped into peanut size pieces (I used Gala, but just use your favorite kind)

oil for frying
powdered sugar for dusting (mix powdered sugar with melted butter if you want to make a glaze)

Mix dry ingredients together, then slowly add the wet ingredients, minus the apples.  When the batter is kind of a cake-mix texture, fold in the apples.  Heat up the oil in a frying pan, medium heat or lower, and deep enough to cover a little more than half of a scoop of batter.

Using an ice cream scoop, carefully place about 4 scoops of batter into the oil at a time and let them brown.  You can make them as big or small as you want, but a heaping ice cream scoop worked great for me.  Use tongs to grab the sides and flip them over when they are ready.  We dusted them with powdered sugar and ate them while they were still warm.  SO delicious!!!

This is the picture from the recipe blog I used; mine didn't look quite that good (first time around- I'm sure next time they will look much better!  Ha ha)

Try it!  Not super healthy, but very delicious :)  Enjoy!

Crock Pot Ribs

So, in my post about my Super Bowl Meal a while back, I mentioned that I made baby back ribs.  But I never told you how!  Secret- it is the EASIEST thing in the world and they are so so so good.

Crock Pot Ribs


Get some raw pork ribs from the grocery store.  I prefer baby back.  But rib tips are also really good.  Put a little bit of oil in the crock pot, just enough to cover the bottom completely.  Then put your ribs in.  Then, fill the crock pot with coke.  Yes, just regular old coke!  Until the ribs are submersed.  Then pour a bunch of BBQ sauce in as well!  Depending on how many ribs you have, it usually needs to cook about 4 hours.  They are ready when they are nice and juicy and tender- easy to cut, but not quite falling off the bone.

Put them on a platter and drown them in more BBQ sauce.  My favorite- Chipotle sauce!  My 2nd favorite- Famous Dave's Rich & Sassy.  You can buy both of those sauces at Wal Mart.

They are so easy and so delicious!  Now go try it and enjoy!!!

Caramel Brownies

These are the most deliciously moist, perfectly flavorful brownies you will ever eat!  Made from scratch, and SO easy!!!!

I got the recipe from allrecipes.com, but, instead of frosting, I decided to try caramel.  And it was perfect :)

Caramel Brownies


- 1/2 cup butter/margarine
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- Caramel flavored Ice Cream topping

In a large saucepan, melt 1/2 cup butter.  Remove from heat and stir in sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract.  Then beat in cocoa, flour, salt, and baking powder.  Spread batter into greased 8 inch square pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes.  Do not overcook.

Immediately after removing brownies from the oven, generously drizzle the caramel topping all over them.  It will seep into the wholes and, when it cools, give you the most delicious dessert ever!

Pretty sure I ate the whole pan by myself in like 2 days.  Awesome :)