Saturday
Wednesday
Sugar Cookie Recipe
I know Halloween is over, but these are Fall-ish, and you can use the recipe for your Christmas cookies. I decided to copy my friend Erica and make some cute Candy Corn Cookies (click the link to see picts and tutorial) like the ones over at ourbestbites.com. Check out their tutorial because it is wonderful:). I made them, but with my mama's sugar cookie recipe because its my favorite. I doubles them so I could sample/practice and still take some to my girls school to decorate on Halloween. It made A LOT of cookies!!! I cut them a little thicker the second time and they turned out delicious! Here is the recipe:
1 cup. butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup milk
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
5 tsp baking soda
6 cups of flour
bake at 350 for 7 min.
Since Kindergartners and 2nd graders were decorating, I didn't dip them in chocolate, I just made a butter cream frosting with real butter and lots of vanilla:) Enjoy:)
1 cup. butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup milk
2 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
5 tsp baking soda
6 cups of flour
bake at 350 for 7 min.
Since Kindergartners and 2nd graders were decorating, I didn't dip them in chocolate, I just made a butter cream frosting with real butter and lots of vanilla:) Enjoy:)
Saturday
Halloween Cosmetology Cake
This is for a girl who is graduating from The Paul Mitchell School. Her Aunt wanted to surprise her with Hair Stylist cake in her favorite color of purple...and it would be fun if it had a some Halloween colors since it was Halloween weekend:)
I LOVE this cake!
Thursday
Chocolate Lava Cake {Guest Blogger}
Hi i am Adelyn .Here is the recipe to the chocolate lava cake: it was easy to make and i liked a lot. good+good=delicious
just like 8+2=10 or7+3=10
1 cup flour [I USED EXTRA COCOA]
3/4cup sugar
2tbs. cocoa
2tbs. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup milk
2tbs.oil
1tsp.vanilla
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup nuts
1/4 cup cocoa
1 1/3 cup hot water `ENJOY
in ungreased 9x9 pan stir together flour,sugar ,cocoa,baking,and salt.mix in milk,oil, and vanilla with fork til smooth.sprinkle with brown sugar and cocoa. Pour hot water over batter. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes. Let it stand for 15 minutes and it will set up.
Monday
Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
There is something about chocolate chip cookies that just make me smile! They remind me of home, of my mom, of the millions and millions that I made while working on my families guest ranch in Idaho to have ready for the guests when they got back from a long hard horse ride, of my little brother who didn't like oatmeal or nuts in cookies, and of my friend Melissa who always thought we were crazy for mixing the cookie dough by hand. I make cookies A LOT lately as a quick and easy treat/dessert for my family, to take to neighbors, and to send in the mail to my brother who is serving a two year mission for our church. I have sent him every kind of cookie that I make but with this recipe got "those cookies were amazing...they were soooo good, they didn't last long at all" instead of the usual "thank you so much for they yummy cookies". So try them today, and share some with your neighbors or a missionary, because if you don't you will eat them all...they are really good:)
1 cup real butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup DARK brown sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2 1/2 cups flour
Slice your butter into cubes and place 1/2 cup in small pan on stove top and the rest of the butter in a mixing bowl. Melt butter and stir continually until butter turns a golden brown color {and smells like heaven}. Take off stove immediately so you don't burn your butter {this can happen quite easily} and pour onto the cubed butter in your mixing bowl. Mix together and add and mix in your sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. Stir for one minute then let mixture rest while you mix together your dry ingredients in another bowl. Then mix for another minute and then let set a minute. Dump in your dry ingredients all at once along with 3/4 bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips. Stir with fork or wooden spoon just enough to have no flour clumps {stir as little as possible at this point}. Bake at 375 for 8 min.
Enjoy!
1 cup real butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup DARK brown sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2 1/2 cups flour
Slice your butter into cubes and place 1/2 cup in small pan on stove top and the rest of the butter in a mixing bowl. Melt butter and stir continually until butter turns a golden brown color {and smells like heaven}. Take off stove immediately so you don't burn your butter {this can happen quite easily} and pour onto the cubed butter in your mixing bowl. Mix together and add and mix in your sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. Stir for one minute then let mixture rest while you mix together your dry ingredients in another bowl. Then mix for another minute and then let set a minute. Dump in your dry ingredients all at once along with 3/4 bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips. Stir with fork or wooden spoon just enough to have no flour clumps {stir as little as possible at this point}. Bake at 375 for 8 min.
Enjoy!
Wednesday
Fresh Fruit PIE recipes!!
One of my FAVORITE things about summer is fresh fruit! There is nothing better than a perfect peach! We have eaten a lot of fruit by itself, on pancakes and waffles, made jam, and of course had to make a couple of pies:) If you are interested in recipes click here:
http://kiddiekupcakes.blogspot.com/p/recipes.html
http://kiddiekupcakes.blogspot.com/p/recipes.html
Kids in the kitchen
The other day my daughter (7 years old) asked if I would teacher her how to cook. She said that she liked learning how to decorate cakes with me a while ago but now she wanted to learn how to make things all by herself. How can you say no to that? I am a HUGE fan of kids helping in the kitchen. Kids talk a lot more and things about their day come out when you are working together in the kitchen, they learn math skills, and have fun!
Our first lesson consisted of going over cooking/baking tools, talking about how they are not allowed to use the oven/stove without help from mom or dad/ spent lots of time going over measurements and different ways they can get 3/4 cup or 2 tsp./ how to read a recipe. Then I got all of the ingredients that they would need for their very first recipe and put them on the kitchen table along with all of my measuring spoons and cups, and told them (my 2 girls) that I was going to give them a recipe and was going to leave the kitchen to go vacuum...They were to read the recipe: A would put in the first 2 ingredients and L would put in the last 2 and they could figure out how to split the last ingredient so they could both put it in, and then I would be back to put them in the oven. Their eyes got huge when they realized that I was really going to let them do it alone...I WISH WISH WISH I would have videoed them, they were so cute and acted so big in their measuring away! Then while they waited for them to bake, they copied down the recipe onto their very own recipe card.
The super easy recipe:
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
1 cup peanut butter (we used creamy because that is what we had and they were GREAT, but I really like using crunchy so you have bits of peanuts in the cookies)
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg ( I gave them a small bowl to break the egg into first to make sure there were no shells)
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup chocolate chips
Let cool in fridge for 30 min. Drop by teaspoon onto un-greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 7 minutes. Let sit on pan for 10 min to prevent crumbling.
These cookies turned out A-MAY-ZING!!! The girls were very proud of their cookies, and that they measured everything out perfectly without my help, L even told me that she was pretty sure they turned out even better than when I make them! :)
Warning: only make about 18-20 cookies....and you will want more than that..trust me!
So there you have it! 5 ingredients, super yummy treat! (we will work on a healthy one for next time:)
Our first lesson consisted of going over cooking/baking tools, talking about how they are not allowed to use the oven/stove without help from mom or dad/ spent lots of time going over measurements and different ways they can get 3/4 cup or 2 tsp./ how to read a recipe. Then I got all of the ingredients that they would need for their very first recipe and put them on the kitchen table along with all of my measuring spoons and cups, and told them (my 2 girls) that I was going to give them a recipe and was going to leave the kitchen to go vacuum...They were to read the recipe: A would put in the first 2 ingredients and L would put in the last 2 and they could figure out how to split the last ingredient so they could both put it in, and then I would be back to put them in the oven. Their eyes got huge when they realized that I was really going to let them do it alone...I WISH WISH WISH I would have videoed them, they were so cute and acted so big in their measuring away! Then while they waited for them to bake, they copied down the recipe onto their very own recipe card.
The super easy recipe:
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies
1 cup peanut butter (we used creamy because that is what we had and they were GREAT, but I really like using crunchy so you have bits of peanuts in the cookies)
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg ( I gave them a small bowl to break the egg into first to make sure there were no shells)
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup chocolate chips
Let cool in fridge for 30 min. Drop by teaspoon onto un-greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 7 minutes. Let sit on pan for 10 min to prevent crumbling.
These cookies turned out A-MAY-ZING!!! The girls were very proud of their cookies, and that they measured everything out perfectly without my help, L even told me that she was pretty sure they turned out even better than when I make them! :)
Warning: only make about 18-20 cookies....and you will want more than that..trust me!
Friday
Back to School Recipes
First off,OVERNIGHT OATMEAL CHOCOLATE WAFFLES:
We started a "tradition" when my oldest daughter started Kindergarten by having chocolate waffles topped with fruit on the first day of school. This recipe is awesome for a couple of reasons: 1- they are packed with oatmeal (and only have the tiniest bit of cocoa) so they are filling and healthy, and 2- they can either be made all at once (after they have sat overnight) and frozen, then popped right in the toaster before school, or my favorite is to make the batter and store it in an airtight container in your refigerator the night before school starts, then pull out your waffle iron and make them nice and fresh while the kids are getting dressed, then put it back in the fridge till the next morning:).
2 1/4 cups flour
2 Tbsp. sugar
1 pkg. active dry yeast
1/2 tsp salt
1 3/4 cup milk
2 eggs
1/3 cup oil
1 cup oatmeal
2 Tbsp. cocoa powder
In large mixing bowl stir together flour, sugar, yeast, salt, oatmeal, and cocoa. Add milk, eggs, and oil. Beat till thoroughly combined. Cover loosely and refrigerate overnight.
Stir batter. Pour about 3/4 cup batter into a preheated lightly greased waffle baker.
Top with fresh fruit, or syrup, or butter and powdered sugar.
* If chocolate-oatmeal is not your thing, you can omit the cocoa and oatmeal and add 1/4 tsp cinnamon :)
I like to have these in my freezer so I can pull them out and stick in right in the lunch box!
Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 1/2 - 3 cups flour.
1/2 bag milk chocolate chips
1/2 bag semi-sweet chocolate chips
Beat butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs and slowly stir together. In a separate bowl mix together the dry ingeredients (at first only adding 2 1/2 cups of the flour) Slowly stir in the dry ingredients with a wooden spoon just until everything is barely mixed together. Add chocolate (I sometimes add M&Ms if I have them). Again just barely stir them in..don't over-mix.
Set in the refrigerator for one hour before baking at 350 for 8 minutes or until lightly golden. (of they are too flat you can add the rest of the flour.
I like to bake them, let them cool, wrap individually in plastic wrap and then put them in a gallon sized freezer bag in the freezer so I can get them out all ready for the lunch box or an after school treat.
I like to bake them, let them cool, wrap individually in plastic wrap and then put them in a gallon sized freezer bag in the freezer so I can get them out all ready for the lunch box or an after school treat.
Wednesday
BACK TO SCHOOL
I had fun getting a few things ready for school. We still have some shopping to do, but I wanted to show you some of the things that I made:)....maybe you can make some too! And while I am making hairbows, let me know if you need some!! AND... CHECK US OUT TOMORROW FOR SOME AWESOME BACK TO SCHOOL RECIPE IDEAS...ie. waffles, cookies, and blondies that freeze perfectly for back to school breakfast/lunch box treats!
We bought 2 white t shirts, 1 pink one, 1 pink striped one, 1 brown, and 1 maroon, and 1 pair of white shorts for $3.50 each at Walmart and then came home and fancied them up with things that we already had. I used the shorts for the skirt that A is wearing. I took a piece of fabric and folded it in half length wise and then sewed the 2 sides. Then I flipped it upside down and sewed it onto the shorts and ta-da...we have a super comfy skirt that was sooo easy! Then we just ironed on and sewed around the edges of the heart, attached a fancy flower (the kind I make for hair bows), and made a matching head band.
This one, all I did was make 2 flowers using fabric that I cut into circles, held over the lighter to curl them, and then stacked and sewed on a bead in the center then onto the shirt.
This one is one of my favorites! I used tulle to make the flower and the ruffles.
The next ones the girls did on their own. We have some glue and glitter that we bought for A's birthday that is for fabric and washable. We bought it and used it on Barbie dresses, so we knew it would work. They just glued the cute tiny pocket, and then dumped on the glitter:) The headbands are made out of their old tights!
And the next one I didn't make but I LOVE. I bought it when JCrew was having 40% off their clearance and free shipping! But we did make a matching head band and L is just too cute modeling to leave it out!
Tuesday
A few cakes!
Green and Brown Monkey Baby Shower
Derby Cupcakes for little girl to take to school
Derby Hat Cake
Pink and White Bubble cake
Black and white Polka dots
Sunday
Cookies for Japan Part 2
Now that we are finished we thought you would like to have a report of how our service project went:). Thank you so much to all of you who ordered cookies and made this possible for my girls. They took lots of orders and were very excited to go way over their goal of $20. (They even jumped up and down a few times when they realized how much you were all giving them). After all of your orders they made $170 and were very excited when I went to the bank with all of the checks and money and asked the teller if I could get all of the money in one dollar bills! We thought it would be fun for them to SEE how much money they had made...and they were SHOCKED! As we were counting it out they said with big smiles on their faces "wow I can't believe how much money we get to give the people in Japan".
They were so cute and they worked really hard baking and baking and baking the 27 DOZEN cookies! By the end they were getting a little bit worn out but as we drove around and delivered the cookies all of the excitement came back. Then when we took the rest of the cookies to the Ronald McDonald house they got the "it feels so good to serve" feeling all over again. The girls really liked this part and smiled from ear to ear when the lady told them that they had 20 families staying with them and that the cookies would make they all smile and feel better. I can't thank you enough for all of the support you gave us, it was a really good experience and we were happy to be able to have a chance to serve. Below is a letter from the girls and then a bunch of pictures of the project! Thanks again!
Bryn
Dear family and friends,
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the money that you gave us to help the people in Japan. We got $170 and gave it to the Bishop today (to give to the Humanitarian Aid Fund). We had fun making your cookies. We hope you like them. For all of you who didn't get cookies we gave them to the Ronald McDonald house. 20 families are staying at there. They were happy to get so many cookies. We felt happy when we served. We love SERVING! Thank you again for all of your help.
Love, A and L
They were so cute and they worked really hard baking and baking and baking the 27 DOZEN cookies! By the end they were getting a little bit worn out but as we drove around and delivered the cookies all of the excitement came back. Then when we took the rest of the cookies to the Ronald McDonald house they got the "it feels so good to serve" feeling all over again. The girls really liked this part and smiled from ear to ear when the lady told them that they had 20 families staying with them and that the cookies would make they all smile and feel better. I can't thank you enough for all of the support you gave us, it was a really good experience and we were happy to be able to have a chance to serve. Below is a letter from the girls and then a bunch of pictures of the project! Thanks again!
Bryn
Dear family and friends,
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the money that you gave us to help the people in Japan. We got $170 and gave it to the Bishop today (to give to the Humanitarian Aid Fund). We had fun making your cookies. We hope you like them. For all of you who didn't get cookies we gave them to the Ronald McDonald house. 20 families are staying at there. They were happy to get so many cookies. We felt happy when we served. We love SERVING! Thank you again for all of your help.
Love, A and L
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