Let's have a SWEET Link-Up Party

Starting next Thursday we'll have our official SWEET THURSDAY Link-up Party... But I want to have a "Party rehearsal" today! What do you think? Would you like to Join us? I will share a "dessert" recipe and then you'll just LINK UP those great Sweet Recipes (desserts only) ... This is your "Virtual Coffee Shop" You don't need to leave your home to have the whole "Coffee Shop" experience! We'll all bring our desserts to your home! I think our Thursday link-up parties won't only be yummy but they'll be all beautiful too! don't you agree???

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Here is my recipe:

Pay (PIE) de Queso (Mexican Version of the famous American Cheesecake)

Ingredients:

1 (14oz.)  can sweetened condensed milk

1 (12 oz.) can evaporated milk

6 ounces cream cheese, softened

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 prepared graham cracker crust (I use 2 cups of crushed honey graham crackers, 6 tbsp. melted butter and 1 tbsp. sugar. All mixed, pressed into the pie dish and baked for 6 min @375 F -cooled-)

Directions:

Preheat oven at 350F. In the meantime pour both condensed and evaporated milks, eggs, cream cheese and vanilla into the blender cup. Blend until smooth, about 1 minute. Pour into prepared graham cracker crust. Bake @ 350 F for about 45 minutes or until center is set. (Do not overbake)

Remove pie from oven; let cool to room temperature. Refrigerate pie at least 3 hours before serving.





© Paloma King

Brownies and Coffee

Hello everybody! How are all of you doing? I am here, don't think I will be MIA again! :) I've been baking, cooking and baking some more! Taking pictures and everything... so yesterday I was wondering what I should make for dessert... I had just made "Pay de queso" (the Mexican version of  "cheesecake") and we loved it, but were craving some chocolate.... I had some chocolate chips in the refrigerator but didn't feel like making chocolate chip cookies and I found a great recipe that instead of cocoa powder uses chocolate chips... I wasn't sure how it would turn out but the reviews were really great... Hubby doesn't like really "fudgy gooey brownies" he likes them with that thin flaky kind of crust on top and I thought this would be it! I am glad I wasn't wrong... I think this will be "our brownies" from now on...

So... these are really Great (and very VERY easy) brownies! - Gotta love Allrecipes, don't you think???-

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons water
• 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease an 8x8 inch square pan.
2. In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar, butter and water. Cook over medium heat until boiling. Remove from heat and stir in chocolate chips until melted and smooth. Mix in the eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; stir into the chocolate mixture. Spread evenly into the prepared pan.
3. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until brownies set up. Do not overbake! Cool in pan and cut into squares.

Can you notice where I "pushed the crust down" with my finger? flaky goodness

Enjoy them with ... a cup of coffee if you love coffee just as much as I do... or with a cup of milk if you wish! ....

And since you are already here... why don't you leave a comment... come on! don't be shy!

© Paloma King

Gevalia BeanChat and more...

Hello friends! I am really excited to let you know that I've been invited to host the next BeanChat at the Gevalia Coffee Facebook Page!  It would be really cool to see some of my great friends from The Coffee Shop in the chat! (And Gevalia will be having some giveaways LIVE during the chat! isn't that neat??) To join you just have to visit Gevalia Coffee Facebook Page LIKE them and then on the left sidebar you will find the Beanchat Tab which you will be able to click and join both through facebook or with your twitter account! I am very happy for this and it will be great if during the chat you mentioned you knew about the beanchat through this post/blog! I will be very happy to chat with you and say hi to you LIVE! Wherever you are! The Beanchat will be on Thursday 9/22 from 10:00-11:00 a.m. (EST) So, what do you say? Will I see you there?

Something else that I am very happy about is that I was as a baker on The Cake Slice , this is a group of bakers that basically bake a cake each month and blog about it with pictures and everything! I thought The Coffee Shop had to be the perfect place to have scrumptious and beautiful cakes! so... I joined and I am very excited to start this new project! Don't forget to start sending your pictures for our Coffee Fridays to my email love.for.coffee@gmail.com . We will re-start our Coffee Fridays on November this year! There are great things coming! You will see!

Lots of love!

 © Paloma King