What is on your menu this week?

I recently had a birthday.  My daughter loves to help me in the kitchen, so I had her help me make a cake.  We decided to make an oreo ice cream "cake".  I love all things oreo (except those weird flavored ones, like strawberry or bubble gum, or whatever they are).  This ice cream cake had the perfect amount of oreos.  It has a buttery oreo crust on the bottom, topped with vanilla ice cream, homemade chocolate sauce, whipped topping, and then topped off with a few more oreos.  I made this recipe last summer, but forgot about it.  I found it on Becky Bakes , but changed it a little bit.  Some of the layers are straight from cartons, which is super easy and still yummy.  I made my own chocolate sauce to drizzle between the layers of vanilla ice cream and whipped topping.  I used the chocolate sauce from my éclair cake recipe .  You could just as well use a jar of hot fudge sauce.  It's been several days s...

I had extra whipping cream in my fridge from the chocolate ice cream we made last week, so we had  to make more ice cream tonight.  I'm glad we did, because it sure was yummy. We used the recipe for Old Fashioned Vanilla that was inside my ice cream maker owner's guide, then we added chopped up Oreos at the end to make it Cookies & Cream Ice Cream.  There are lots of other mix-ins that I'd love to try.  Or just plan vanilla would be yummy too.   Old Fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Rival (model 8151) Electric Ice Cream Maker Owner's Guide makes 1 1/2 quarts 3/4 c. sugar 1/8 tsp. salt 1 3/4 c. whole milk 2 eggs, beaten 1 1/2 c. whipping cream 1 T. pure vanilla extract Combine sugar, salt and milk in saucepan.  Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally until mixture almost boils.  Reduce heat to low. Gradually stir about 1/2 c. of hot milk into the beaten eggs.  Add eggs to remaining hot mixture.  Cook over low heat, sti...

I saw this recipe on Picky Palate the other day and thought it would be fun to try.  They are kind of like rice krispie treats with oreo crumbs instead of rice krispies.  Can't go wrong there. Mine didn't work out as well as they should have.  I used mini marshmallows and I don't think I used enough of them because I had a lot of extra cookie crumbs.  My kids loved them though and gave me two thumbs up!