Saturday

Batman and Joker Cake



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:)

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}

Today I am having one of the sweetest, smartest, most fun little girls in the world be my guest blogger! She is in the second grade and loves to cook all by herself! She and her cute little sister Londyn made a super yummy chocolate lava cake for her moms birthday and she is going to share the recipe and tell us all about it! Enjoy!

 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!

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

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:)