Chicken Alfredo Pizza

Chicken alfredo pizza is something I have always dreamed of trying. To me there are few things that sound more appetizing than alfredo sauce with chicken, covered with melted cheese, served in pizza form. Yum! My husband on the other hand is not a huge fan of alfredo sauce, so whenever we get pizza it's always the standard marinara sauce. I decided to go out on a limb and make the pizza and it turns out he likes pizza with alfredo sauce! Which means I will most definitely be making it over and over and over again! Here's what I did:

Easy Chicken Alfredo Pizza

Ingredients:
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
3 tablespoon butter (divided into tablespoons)
1 tablespoon oil
1/2 cup alfredo sauce (jarred or homemade -- whatever you have!)
1/4 cup minced onion
1 cup baby portabella mushrooms (sliced)
2 cloves minced garlic
1/2 roasted red bell pepper (sliced) (I used the ones in the jar but you could also roast your own!)
1 can pillsbury pizza dough
2 cups shredded mozarella cheese
fresh basil
salt
pepper

Optional ingredients:
Artichoke hearts
Sundried tomatoes


Instructions:

Unroll pizza crust on a greased baking sheet.

Spread 1/2 cup of alfredo sauce over the crust.

Pat your chicken breasts dry and season with salt and pepper. Cook chicken breasts in 1 tablespoon butter and 1 tablespoon of oil until juices run clear. Remove from pan, cut into pieces and place on top of the alfredo sauce.

Sautee onion in 1 tablespoon of butter until the onion is translucent (just a couple of minutes). Remove the onion and spoon it over the chicken.

Sautee mushrooms and garlic in the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter until the mushrooms are soft. Spoon the mushrooms and garlic over the top of the chicken.

Slice the roasted bell pepper into long strips then cut them in half (but only if you want to). Spread them over the top of the chicken/mushrooms/onions and all the deliciousness that will soon be your pizza.

Sprinkle the cheese all over the top. If you want more cheese feel free to add more cheese. I always add more cheese. I can't help it.

Bake at 400 degrees for 12-15 minutes. Make sure the bottom is nice and browned and the cheese is all gooey and starting to brown.

Chop up some fresh basil and throw it over the top so it looks super fancy. Unfortunately for me I didn't have any fresh basil so I had to use dry basil which gave me a slightly less fancy pizza. But, it was definitely still fancy.

Oh, and make sure to cut it into squares because for some reason squares look much more elegant and fancy.

Now, dig in!

Coconut Banana Cake

I have an addiction. My addiction comes in the form of moist and delicious cake. And also brownies. Oh, and cookies. Sometimes pie... Okay, let's just say I have a dessert addiction. I can trace it all back to my childhood and the hundreds, no, thousands of delicious desserts I consumed in the 18 years I spent in a house with my "let's make a cake tonight!" mother. I can tell you that in those 18 years I probably consumed enough sugar and butter to fill the grand canyon...twice! Which i'm sure has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I sometimes need to get my sugar fix and there's nothing anyone can do to stop me.

After finishing dinner one night I had that urge -- you know, that urge. The one that makes you feel like you would give your left arm for something sweet. Well, I had that urge, so I rummaged through my cabinets hoping to spot some random chocolate chips floating around or maybe some old halloween candy, but instead I found a box of cake mix. Knowing my husband and his love of anything with bananas, I decided to throw something together that even he would like, just because that's the kind of wife I am. Let me just say that after one bite of this delightful little treat I knew that, once again, everything was right in the world.

Banana Cake With Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe: {Print Recipe}

Ingredients: 
Cake:
1 Box of Yellow cake mix
2 bananas (mashed)

Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting:
3 tablespoons butter (softened)
4oz cream cheese (softened)
1 1/2 - 2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon coconut extract

1 1/2 cups shredded coconut
2 teaspoons butter (optional)

Instructions:
Grease and flour a 9" x 13" pan. Follow the directions on the box and right before you beat the cake mix for 2 minutes throw in the mashed bananas. Bake in the oven according to directions on the box.

Beat together the butter & cream cheese & slowly mix in the powdered sugar. Add the coconut extract and beat it together just for a second.

When your cake has cooled just slap on all the frosting and spread it around, and if you're like me you'll just keep spreading it until every single visible section of cake is completely covered and then you'll spread it more until it's perfectly even.

Then take your coconut and if you want to you can throw it in a pan with some butter and brown it, or if you're as impatient as I was and you can't possibly wait another second you can just throw it on top of the cake as is.

The final step is possibly the single most important step: Now that you have your cake you should eat it, too.