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World Food Automatic Qualifier Contest

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Time to get those recipes ready! I will be having an Automatic Qualifying online contest for you all very soon! I am so excited to be a part of the WFC Ambassador Council AND be able to do my part in helping find some amazing competitors for this years event as well.

We’re in the middle of working out all the details, but lets just say, for now, get your “Chicken” thinking caps on, and I don’t mean “wings!” The Council and I will be judging a few online contests that I will be hosting here on my blog. We will be looking for chefs, home cooks and foodies of all types to show us your skills and bring your A-Game.

Even if you’ve never entered a contest or competition before, this would be a great opportunity for you to test your “chops” (as my husband would say in the music world) and creativity!

Contest date, details and rules will be coming soon! Stay tuned and don’t forget to like, follow and share Darci Bos as well as World Food Championships on all forms of social media to keep up to date with all the great things to come!

Brat Burger: Bud & Burgers Contest

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So yesterday I put up a picture of this amazing burger and figured I would let you in on this super easy recipe. The hubby and I came up with this burger for the Budweiser Bud & Burgers contest. I am hoping to get to go to a cook off, but honestly it all depends on what they are looking for, so we will see!

This burger is honestly so easy and you will feel like you are eating a restaurant quality burger from your own home! I have gotten back into entering contests again. There are a ton of fun ones coming up and I am hoping to place in at least one of them!

Brat Burger

We love brats in our house so when we were coming up with the perfect burger, we thought, what about making the patty out of brats? Not that it hasn’t been done, Johnsonville makes brat pattys, but its the combo of all the classic toppings and flavors we have added that makes this the perfect burger!

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Contests….

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For those of you who don’t already know, I was selected as a top 3 finalist for my “Thank God For Oats Stuffing” recipe for Joy Bauer’s “Too Good To Be Healthy Contest” I will be on the Today Show this wednesday morning along with the two other contestants and the judges will try our dish and chose a winner! I am flying to New York for my very first time, this is so crazy!

I really can’t believe it.

I also got news yesterday that my Crunchy “Butterscotch-a-roo” Brownies are a top 3 finalist in a competition in Chicago this Friday. This is a really cool event. It’s called America’s Baking and Sweets Show. It is a huge convention at the Schaumburg Convention Center in Chicago. There were a bunch of categories and I entered into 4 and the one that got chosen was my Butterscotch Brownies! I get to see a professional chef bake up my brownie recipe and celebrity judges try them and pick a winner.

So, with all that said, I have a busy week ahead of me! Stay tuned to see if I end up winning anything, crossing my fingers!

Peanutbutter Sandwich Cookies Dipped in Chocolate

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Let me first start off by saying that I STILL can’t find Amaranth! I may have to drive into Nashville to get it. So for now I think I’ll choose another ingredient that you guys commented with! Once i find amaranth I will do a post with it. I made these cookies a few weeks back and they were a hit!! They were for a contest, but I thought I would share them with you!

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Peanutbutter Sandwich Cookies Dipped in Chocolate
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Ingredients
  • Cookies-
  • ½c butter softened
  • ¾c brown sugar packed
  • ¼c granulated sugar
  • 1 lg egg
  • ¾c creamy peanut-butter
  • 1tsp vanilla
  • ½tsp baking soda
  • 1½c flour
  • Toffee-
  • 1c sugar
  • 1c butter
  • ¼c water
  • Filling-
  • 1 stick butter softened
  • 2c powdered sugar(or more depending on consistency)
  • ½c chopped toffee
  • 1tsp vanilla
  • Chocolate Dipping-
  • ½ bag Chocolate Melts
Instructions
  1. Start first by making the toffee. In a small sauce pan bring to boil sugar, butter and water. Reduce to medium heat, stirring constantly, and cook for 15min or until a nice golden color. Place wax paper in a small pan and pour toffee. Place in refrigerator until hardened.
  2. Once hardened, chop into small pieces. You can also just buy toffee pieces if you don't wan to make it.
  3. In small bowl whisk together flour and baking soda. Set aside. Cream butter and sugars in large bowl. Add egg, vanilla and peanut butter. With spoon stir in flour mixture and don't over mix.
  4. Chill dough for 30min or longer.
  5. Preheat oven to 350.
  6. Once dough is chilled roll into small balls and bake about 8 min or until they start to crack. Do not over bake. Take off pan as soon as you can and let fully cool.
  7. For filling-
  8. Cream butter and powdered sugar, add vanilla. Keep adding powdered sugar until desired consistency. Stir in toffee.
  9. To assemble-
  10. Fill pastry bag with large open tip with filling. Take 2 peanut butter cookies and make a decent sized dollop of filling on one underside of cookie. Place other underside of cookie on top. Do this until all are finished. Place in refrigerator for about 10 min.
  11. Melt chocolate melts in microwave in 30second increments. Be careful to not over cook. Take cookies out of fridge and dip half way into chocolate. Let cool and harden on wax paper(about10min or so) and enjoy!!!

 

 

 

“Healthier” Mini Apple Pies

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I’m not sure what is going on with my posting but I think I got it fixed!! It’s been a long tiring week with a sick 2yr old and a hubby gone…I’m sleepy! Hence why I haven’t posted or done much baking! But I did manage to enter a contest for the Today Show. They wanted recipes using apples that were healthy and that you would feed your family this fall.

This is what I came up with!

Oh and I am having the hardest time finding Amaranth, anyone know where they sell it!

Healthy Mini Apple Pies

Ingredients:
Crust
1 1/2C whole wheat pastry flour
1/4tsp salt
3/4C virgin unrefined coconut oil
4 1/2TBS cold water
Filling
3small Fuji apples
1/2TBS fresh squeezed lemon juice
3TBS coconut sugar(plus more for top)
3tsp cinnamon
Good dash of salt

In a medium sized bowl mix flour and salt. Add coconut oil and mix with hands until combined, it should look like pea sized flakes. Add water 1 TBS at a time until you have a good consistency and isn’t sticking. Set aside.
Fun fact: the coconut oil will make your hands soft!
Pre-heat oven to 400.
Grease muffin pan, this makes about 6 mini pies.
Peel, core and slice apples thin.
In another medium sized bowl combine apples, lemon juice, coconut sugar, cinnamon and salt. Set aside.
Now take your crust dough. Flour your table and rolling pin well with flour. You may need to keep adding flour so it doesn’t stick. The coconut oil gets sticky very fast. Roll out and cut circles slightly bigger than muffin size. Place each in muffin pan and form to fit. Fill each with apple filling. Take the rest of the dough and tear small bits and place as top of pie crust. Sprinkle each with coconut sugar.

Bake at 400 for 5 min. Then turn hear down to 325 and bake for about 20min. Always keep an eye on them. Once slightly golden take out and enjoy!!

 

King Arthur Flour Contest//and//Snickerdoodle Cookies

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Can I just say it is not easy to bake with a 2yr old….and on top of that her 5yr old brother who stayed home from school today…OYE! But, I got the job done!

Today I used http://joythebaker.com‘s recipe for Apple Pie Biscuits using http://www.kingarthurflour.com‘s Self Rising Flour for their #bakingbootcamp contest! This was so easy and yummy! You can find the recipe on her website along with details of the contest. I believe it ends within the next week or so.

I got asked to bake for a friends community group and thought this would be perfect! She said there are going to be kids there as well which is where the Snickerdoodles come into play!

Here’s a pic of the yummy biscuits…

Apple Biscuits

The contest is to win a year supply of King Arthur Flour and some awesome Kitchen gadgets! Sooo I’m crossing my fingers on this one! I will let you all know how this pans out.

Now on to the Snickerdoodles..

These are always such a great cookie to have and I thought they would be perfect for the kids at my friends group, I mean who doesn’t like cinnamon and sugar?

//Snickerdoodle Cookies//

1C butter, softened

1C granulated sugar

1/4 C brown sugar, packed

1 large egg

2tsp vanilla

3C flour

2 1/2tsp baking powder

2 1/2tsp cinnamon

1/2tsp salt

Rolling Sugar

1/4C granulated sugar

1tsp cinnamon

Baking Instructions

Pre-heat oven to 350. Line with parchment paper or grease a baking sheet. Mix together rolling sugar and set aside.

Cream together butter and sugars until nice and fluffy. Add in egg and vanilla and mix well. In separate bowl mix together dry ingredients; flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Add dry ingredients to wet slowly, mix well. Form 1in balls and fully cover in rolling sugar. Place in center of oven and bake for 8-10 minutes. Should look slightly golden but may not seem done, don’t worry they firm up while they rest. Enjoy!

Snickerdoodle

My First Blue Ribbon!

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First off, a fun little note. I have been baking the past month or so by hand…yes that means with a wisk and spoon not a mixer!! It’s been really tough but also very rewarding! I feel very accomplished when I bake without a mixer…the down side? You realize you have muscles in your arms and wrists that you never knew existed! Ouch!!

Well today that has ended…I found myself a Kitchen Aid hand held mixer at Goodwill for $2.99! What a steal! I mean it’s not exactly what I would want, but it works a lot better than just mixing by hand!

Ok now on to my Blue Ribbon story.

We moved from California to Tennessee about 3 months ago and I’ll just tell you, I haven’t been able to cook in my own home or kitchen for about 2 years so I’m sure you can see how I was itching to get right to it!

I saw a fair was coming to town, the biggest fair in Tennessee, the Wilson County Fair. I also saw they had a big baking contest, since this was all new to me I decided just to enter my grandma’s Apple Pie.

Here’s a brief story of where the recipe came from….
The filling was my great grandma Snyder’s, her mother’s, recipe. So cool that it’s been passed down 4 generations now! The crust was from a trucker who worked with my grandpa who actually worked in a truck stop cafe at the time! All I did was change crisco to butter(I’m a butter lover) and that’s the short story of how this has been in my family for a long time.

So I turn in my Apple Pie Thursday August 14th, 2014 around 5pm. They were judging them after 6pm that evening and we were supposed to be getting a call if we won. Well the next morning came around and I hadn’t heard anything…”oh well, maybe next time” were my thoughts. That Friday night was opening day and we HAD to take the kids! When we got there I told my husband I wanted to check out the winners and see their pies. We walked into the building and they had all the winners kept in a fridge, I was looking for Apple Pie and what I found was DARCI BOS next to a pie that said first place and had a blue ribbon! My jaw dropped! I was shocked, excited, confused, happy, etc…I started laughing and couldn’t believe it!

Apple Pie Win

 

I HAD to call my grandma and tell her the good news! Her response “Well isn’t that a hoot!” Haha my silly grandma, I love her! Needless to say I had a smile on my face the rest of the night and had no idea this would begin my obsession for baking and even more entering contests!

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Grammas "Truck Stop" Apple Pie
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Ingredients
  • For The Crust:
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • ½ teaspooon salt
  • 2 sticks cold butter
  • ½ cup cold water
  • For The Filling:
  • 6 granny smith apples, peeled, cored and sliced thin
  • ¾ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
  • dash of salt
  • ½ stick cold butter, sliced
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat oven to 425.
  2. For The Crust:
  3. Add flour and salt to large mixing bowl.
  4. Mix butter into flour with hands, crumbling as you go until you have about pea sized pieces.
  5. Slowly add in water until you have a nice dough formed.
  6. Sprinkle flour onto surface and roll out to desired thickness, make sure to have enough for your top crust.
  7. Place crust into pie dish and fork the bottom, set aside.
  8. For The Filling:
  9. Peel, core and thinly slice apples. I use an apple peeler and corer little device that makes life so much easier!
  10. Place apples into a large bowl.
  11. Add sugar, cinnamon, flour and salt and stir until combined.
  12. If you haven't done it already, slice your ½ stick of butter.
  13. Add filling into prepared pie dish.
  14. Lay slices of butter over top.
  15. Roll out top crust and lay over top, making sure to seal edges.
  16. Make slits on top crust.
  17. Optional: I like to sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over top!
  18. Place in pre-heated oven for 15 min.
  19. Lower the temperature to 350 and cook for another 30-45 min or until top crust is golden.
  20. Enjoy!

 

 

I bet you never had one of these…

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I have an online contest coming up!! I am creating new recipes for a bunch of different categories!

Here’s the contest… http://americasbakingandsweetsshow.com

Today’s baking fun includes my version of Butterscotch Brownies, I call them….

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Crunchy "Butterscotch-a-roo" Brownies
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Ingredients
  • ¾ C butter, softened
  • 1¾ C brown sugar, packed
  • ¼ C peanut-butter
  • 1 Tbs Vanilla
  • 2 eggs
  • 2¼ C King Arthur All Purpose, Unbleached Flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 C butterscotch chips
  • 8oz chocolate melts
  • 4oz crushed fritos (I used 4 of those small 1 oz bags)
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 350. In a medium size bowl stir together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. In a large mixing bowl cream together butter, sugar and peanut butter. Add vanilla. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add dry ingredients slowly to the wet ingredients. With a spoon stir in butterscotch chips. Spread in a greased 9x13 pan and bake for 30 min. Once brownies are fully cooled take your chocolate melts and melt in microwave for 30 second increments, be careful to not over cook. Crush fritos to desired size and stir into chocolate and fully cover. Spread frito mixture on top of brownies. Let sit until chocolate has fully harden again. Slice, serve and enjoy!

 

Next up…

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Maple Iced Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
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Ingredients
  • For Cookie:
  • 1C melted butter
  • 1C brown sugar, packed
  • ½ C white sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 Tbs Appleton Rum
  • 2 C King Arthur All Purpose Unbleached Flour
  • 2 C Rolled Oats
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp cardamom
  • 1 C raisins
  • For Icing:
  • ½ cup powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons maple syrup
  • Water
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 350. In a medium sized bowl mix together dry ingredients, flour, oats, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and cardamom. Set aside. In a large mixing bowl cream together butter and sugars. Add eggs one at a time. Add in vanilla and rum. Slowly add dry ingredients to wet. With a spoon mix in raisins. Place 1in sized scoops of dough on greased cookie sheet. (or how ever big you want them to be) Bake 10 min or until slightly golden. they may not look done when you take them out, thats ok, they will settle as they sit.
  2. For Icing:
  3. Stir together powdered sugar and maple syrup. Add water a tablespoon at a time until desired consistency. Slowly drizzle over cookies, let dry and enjoy!

Hope you enjoy these yummy treats!