Hey y’all & Happy Monday! With Thanksgiving only next week (holy cow!), I figured some of you guys might be scrambling for some easy dessert recipes too, so I just knew I had to repost one of my absolute Fall favorites. Seriously, these pictures are making my mouth water, I absolutely adore this bread pudding. Crockpot desserts are too wonderful because of their ease and they stay nice and warm until they’re ready to be served. I can’t recommend enough y’all add this to your Thanksgiving menu this year. Have a wonderful day and thank you so much for stopping by!!!….
Happy Happy Monday y’all!! I have been waiting for forever (okay, a week) to share this recipe with you guys! This crockpot pumpkin bread pudding is so on my list now for my favorite fall recipes.
First off, you really can’t beat desserts made in the crockpot, honestly if the thought of baking cakes/cupcakes/bread pudding in the oven is intimidating, I highly recommend getting a start with a crockpot.
Second, this is pumpkin (obvi) and me and pumpkin are BFF’s and last but not least this is bread pudding and again bread pudding is always a good idea, like always. Also, the amazingly decadent sauce I poured all over this stuff is totally optional but I really really recommend you make it because it totally puts this bread pudding over the edge.
This recipe couldn’t be any easier to make, and it baked up so easily and perfectly, let me tell you how incredible your kitchen is going to be smelling while this is baking up, yum!!! I hope you had a great weekend, have a wonderful start to your week and thank you so much for stopping by!!!
french bread…
into your crockpot…
all of the ingredients into your bowl…
mix, mix, mix…
pour over your bread…
make sure the bread is all covered up…
bake, bake, bake…
now, for the sauce…
boiling…
and enjoy!!! 
- 1 Loaf of French Bread Pudding, Torn Into Pieces.
- 2 Cups of Half & Half or Heavy Whipping Cream.
- 1 (15 Ounce) Can of Pumpkin Puree.
- 3/4 Cup of Granulated Sugar.
- 3/4 Cup of Light Brown Sugar.
- 4 Eggs.
- 1 Tablespoon of Cinnamon.
- 2 Tablespoons of Vanilla Extract.
- 4 to 5 Quart Slow Cooker.
- 1 Cup (2 Sticks) of Unsalted Butter.
- 1 Cup of Half & Half.
- 1 Cup of Light Brown Sugar.
- Liberally spray your slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray, set aside.
- You can cut up your whole bread loaf with a knife or just rip it up into pieces and place into your slow cooker pot.
- Now in a medium/large bowl place your pumpkin puree, half & half, brown sugar, granulated sugar, eggs, vanilla and cinnamon and whisk all together until well mixed.
- Pour the mixture all over your bread pieces in your crockpot and with a spoon or spatula, press the bread down to make sure all are well covered.
- Now turn your crockpot on high and bake for 2.5 hours (or on low for 5.5).
- In a medium saucepan, place your butter, half & half and brown sugar.
- On medium heat melt all of the ingredients together, then raise the heat to high and bring your ingredients to a boil for about 20 seconds, lower the heat to low then simmer for about 5 minutes or until it starts to thicken.
- When your bread pudding is done, when you serve it, pour this delicious sauce all over and enjoy!!!
as you will see, I pretty much bought every flavor because #innerfatkid…
mmmm…
double mmmm…
alrighty, so let’s get to the donut that I was obsessed with trying, The Dollie, look at that burnt sugar top…
you guys, that middle filling is real crème brûlée pudding, droool…
y’all, it is a s’mores donut sandwich!!! and that is their homemade marshmallow!!!
this one is basically a peach cobbler donut sandwich, and yes that is housemade peach cobbler filling, you could taste how fresh it was…
that is a freeze dried strawberry and freeze dried strawberry dust sprinkled on top and put into the glaze on the donut…
their apple fritters are not only the size of your face, but they’re absolutely incredible, it was so big I couldn’t get it all in the frame, or begin to finish it, but that’s what family is for haha…
Oh, also Halloween is now in sight, which means costumes, haunted houses, Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party in a few weeks and lots and lots of chocolate in the shape of pumpkins which automatically means they taste better. 
So before we get to today’s post, I would like to make mention that I had been feeling especially hungry one day (everyday really) and making french toast out of donuts popped into my head and I proceeded to congratulate myself on how clever my idea was. I swear, the next day, IHOP rolled out their ads for their new donut french toast that was about to makes it appearance for a limited time, sigh, I’m not a culinary genius after all. 
Oh well, they didn’t make theirs pumpkin, so at least I have that going for me, and I think I can say without a doubt mine is better hehe. Y’all, I had a feeling that these would be ridiculously delicious and decadent, but I don’t think I was prepared for how mind blowingly decadent they ended up. Even using cheap Kroger brand donuts that had probably been hanging out in the bakery about a day too long still had no effect on how delicious these ended up. Lots and lots of pumpkin spice flavor, and the perfect french toast texture (I just can’t bring myself to say the ‘M’ word today haha). Anyways, I hope everyone has a wonderful day and thank you so much for stopping by. 
mix, mix, mix…
donut getting ready to be cut in half…
a few ready to be battered…
into your batter, make sure to get both sides…
and then onto your pan…
and enjoy!!!
Unfortunately, here in Atlanta we only got 97% of the eclipse so we didn’t get the full darkness out like some photos I’ve seen, but still it was very awesome to get to experience that. Anyways, so let’s get to the food shall we? Today’s treat is another one that I almost didn’t post due to my own mistake. You see, I looove marshmallow fluff, and the original recipe that I stumbled upon for this roll, to me didn’t seem to have near enough fluff for my taste. 
So when I made this roll I added almost double the amount of fluff that the recipe called for, which made actually rolling this dessert up properly almost impossible. I kind of made it work, but this thing was absolutely falling apart and fluff was oozing out all over the place. Even after sticking this bad boy in the fridge for almost an hour it was still pretty gooey. Basically what I’m saying is, follow the recipe as listed below, and don’t do what I did and get overzealous with your fluff, but I did put in what I used just so y’all will know. This will probably be my last s’mores post for the summer (because I cannot guarantee that I won’t do a s’mores-esque fall recipe at some point) so I hope you get a chance to make this recipe (properly). Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day!!! 
Y’all, I will totally have my office decorated for Halloween September 1st, no shame here. Anyways, so with the onset of my favorite season comes the need for lots of dips, because watching a football game without some sort of chip & dip combo is just unacceptable. I am basically always on the lookout for a new dip to try, and honestly the easier the better in most cases #lazyonacheatday. This particular dip has popped up in my feed for forever, with a number of different names with varying ingredients, but for the most part there have been 5 or less ingredients in most of them, which is just perfect. 
For such a simple and un-fancy dip, I can only assume it’s called the Neiman Marcus Dip due to them serving it at some point? I really have no idea, all I know is that this dip was thrown together in about 5 minutes and is spectacularly delicious, I mean how could it not be with all of that mayonnaise & cheese in it? I did make one slight little change in this recipe by swapping out the green onions (which I just cannot stand) with the dried Parsley. 
Also, the next time I make this dip, I will swap out the basic shredded cheddar with finely shredded cheddar-which I made note of in the recipe card-so it will blend more smoothly. If you’re looking for something easy and delicious to make for your football watching pleasure or maybe some Game of Thrones viewing, I think this one will be right up your alley. I hope everyone has a wonderful day and thank you so much stopping by! 
Honestly, the term pizookie isn’t really used around these parts, we just call them skillet cookies, but I get that it’s supposed to be a mix between a pizza and a cookie, so yeah. I digress, so these pizookies that BJ’s have all look absolutely incredible, like holy crap, can I please just try every single flavor and happily go into a sugar coma for the rest of my life? 
Well, very unfortunately, the closest freaking BJ’s is no less than a three and a half hour drive from the Atlanta area, and well, I’m just not gonna do that y’all, I drive enough during the week. You guys, so obsessed am I, that I have even contacted BJ’s requesting that they build one of their restaurants in my area, I have yet to receive a response (shocker), but I had to at least try . Sooo, I decided, heck, I can bake some stuff, bet I can try to emulate this one particular pizookie that they have with a chocolate cookie, peanut butter, marshmallow fluff and toasted marshmallows on top. 
Since I have never actually tried their stuff I can’t accurately compare it, but holy freaking cow y’all, this turned out absolutely positively incredible! The soft, gooey chocolate cookie with the layers of peanut butter, fluff and toasted marshmallows, ohh emm geee, just get in my mouth. Yes, I cheated a bit since I used pre-made cookie dough but it was Trader Joe’s brand, so, #health haha. This dessert is oh so decadent and crazy easy to make so just go ahead and make your weekend a whole lot better and make this. Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have an absolutely wonderful day and weekend! 
As you can see, this stuff is a Biscoff Gelato, pretzels, peanuts and caramel. Seriously, I love allll of these ingredients and I was so hoping that they would come together perfectly and OMG did they ever. You can really taste the Biscoff flavor in the gelato which is amazing, the peanuts are not small tiny little pieces, they are half and full sized which I loved. There was the perfect amount of caramel swirled throughout and the only complaint that I had was that the pretzel pieces were slightly soggy, which honestly is to be expected since they’re sitting in gelato, but it didn’t ruin this by any means. This is the perfect mix of sweet and salty, and the gelato is so deliciously creamy. This gets a solid 9 out of 10.
