Saltine Chocolate Scotcheroos

Scotcheroos are a crispy dessert treat consisting of puffed rice or corn cereal, peanut butter, and a decadent butterscotch-chocolate coating. Scotcheroos got their name after one of the key ingredients used in the preparation process – butterscotch. Although not much is known about the invention of these crunchy treats, the recipe was originally printed on…

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Butterscotch Candy Shortbread

Butterscotch is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter.  Butterscotch is similar to toffee, but the sugar is boiled to the soft crack stage, not hard crack. Often credited with their invention, Parkinson’s of Doncaster made butterscotch boiled sweets and sold them in tins, which became one of the town’s best-known exports. They became famous in 1851 after Queen Victoria was presented…

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Brown Sugared Walnut Pie

Well, the back was, other than, “absolutely amazing and delicious – oh, my god!” – “It’s like pecan pie with walnuts and instead and not the weird corn syrupy taste. It’s better.” I’ll take that! Now that we are into the season where nutcrackers emerge, I thought I’d introduce our kitchen to some freshly shelled…

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Peanut Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

I had borrowed two extra cake pans from the neighbor in order to create my two different colored Gender Reveal Cakes – you’ll read the story in a few days – both berry cakes were fabulous.Anyway, I needed SIX cake pans for the project, and only had four at home.My neighbors across the hall are…

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