Posted in recipes on November 17, 2008| 6 Comments »
Cheat and buy pie crust, homemade is better… but if you are going for quick… buy it
Spread LOTS of butter on the dough, use CUTE acorn cookie cutters, cut and place on a cookie sheet.
Sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mixture.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
YUM, bubbly, warm, buttery, cinnamon/sugar sweet pie crust… Which by the way is the best part of the pie, my favorite is apple pie with crumb top, I eat the crust and crumb top only…
Posted in recipes on November 7, 2008| 5 Comments »
One Bowl Brownies
4 squares Baker’s unsweetened baking chocolate
3/4 cup {1 1/2 cup sticks} butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
Microwave chocolate and butter in a glass bowl until butter is melted, about 2 minutes. Stir until chocolate is completely melted.
Stir in sugar, eggs, and vanilla, and flour, until well blended.
Spread into a greased foil lined 9 x 13 baking pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes, do not over bake.
I dust with powdered sugar!
Enjoy with a BIG glass of milk, I LOVE all brownies, and mostly make them straight from the box, but these have such an AWESOME taste, I crave them!
Posted in recipes on September 9, 2008| 5 Comments »
1 pkg. yellow cake mix NO PUDDING in the mix {Duncan Hines is the only mix I know doesn’t have pudding in the mix}
1 cup Flour
1 stick of melted butter
1/4 cup honey
2 eggs
sprinkles
wooden craft sticks or thick skewers
Mix together cake mix, flour, melted butter, honey, and eggs. Beat on low speed for one minute, scrap down sides of mixing bowl with rubber spatula. Cookie dough will be THICK! Shape dough into one inch balls. Roll balls in colored sprinkles.
Place dough balls 2 inches apart on cookie sheets. Bake 8 to 12 minutes. Remove pans IMMEDIATELY insert wooden sticks halfway into the side of the cookie. Let cookies rest on cookie sheet for 1 minutes carefully remove cookies with metal spatula to wire rack and cool completely 30 minutes!
Posted in Decorating, Friends, recipes on September 2, 2008| 4 Comments »
Cookie Topper Recipe
2 Dozen Cookies
1 1/4 cups of flour plus more for dusting
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
Cream butter {softened} and sugar with electric mixer, until pale and fluffy. Mix in egg and vanilla. Mix on low, add flour, baking powder, and salt. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about an hour.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. On a lightly floured surface roll dough out to about 1/8 inch thick. Cut 2 inch circles, cut out centers with a mini letter shaped cookie cutter. Transfer to baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake about 10 to 12 minutes. Let cool completely.
Cookie Glaze
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
2 TBSP BOILING water
1 1/2 tsp corn syrup
3/4 tsp vanilla
food coloring of your choice
In a small bowl combine powdered sugar, water, corn syrup, and vanilla. Blend with a wire whisk until smooth. Add a tiny amount of food coloring as needed. Apply {paint} with a small paint brush. Sets in about an hour to a shiny semi hard surface. note: Cover the glaze in the bowl with a piece of plastic wrap, frosting takes a while and this prevents the glaze surface from drying. I left a small opening for my paint brush.
Now to check out the party decor visit Em’s blog.
Posted in projects, recipes on August 31, 2008| 21 Comments »
Remember when I said I have a love for acorns?? I seriously think they are super CUTE… Now to eat one… no thanks…. That is until this little idea….
You will need frosting, Hershey Kisses, and mini Nilla Wafers.
Put a small amount of frosting on the bottom of the Nilla Wafer, place the bottom of the Hershey Kiss to the frosting and add a dab of frosting to the top.
I will be serving these at Em’s party tonight. They remind me of a Twix candy, the cookie and chocolate make a tasty treat!
Posted in recipes on August 28, 2008| 2 Comments »
Posted in recipes on August 13, 2008| 3 Comments »
Here is the YUMMY recipe I use…
6 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt {or more depending on what you like}
1/2 cup shortening cut into small pieces
2 1/2 cups warm water
Place flour in a bowl, I use my kitchen aid mixer, add baking powder and salt, stirring to mix well. Add shortening. Turn mixer on low and slowly pour in the water. Mix on low until well mixed.
Scrape dough out of bowl and turn on floured surface. Divide into 2 equal portions, cover with plastic wrap and let rest at room temp. for 20 minutes. Divide each half into 8 small balls. {You will now have 16 dough balls} Lightly flour your work surface. With a floured rolling pin, roll each ball into an 8 inch circle. Stack the rounds on a baking sheet with plastic wrap in between each tortilla. Let rest 10 more minutes. Heat a skillet to about 375 lightly spray with cooking spray and cook about one minute on each side, or until light golden brown spots form on the surface.
Posted in recipes on June 30, 2008| 5 Comments »
Chocolate Caramel Yummy
1 small can evaporated milk
14 to 16 ounces of caramels
1 package German Chocolate cake mix
3/4 cup melted butter
1 small package chocolate chips
In a double boiler stir 1/3 cup evaporated milk and unwrapped caramels, until melted and smooth {set aside}
In a mixing bowl stir cake mix, melted butter, and 1/3 cup evaporated milk. This will make a wet dough.
Press half of the dough in the bottom of a well greased 9 x 13 baking dish, bake 6 minutes @ 350 degrees.
Remove from oven sprinkle with chocolate chips, top with caramel, drop remaining dough randomly over the top and return to the oven for 14 to 18 more minutes.
Cool, cut, get a HUGE glass of cold milk and ENJOY…
Posted in recipes on June 13, 2008| 1 Comment »
Thank you Cathy for the recipe… {it was super YUMMY}… I loved every ones comments… I should have probably clarified that with 5 boys {3 of which are teenagers}, plus my hubby and I that it really wasn’t a lot of chicken, some of you probably thought we’d be eating chicken for weeks! Two chickens and a bag of chicken breast goes pretty quick around here!
Chinese Chicken Salad
For the salad, you need a bag salad, or shredded iceberg lettuce. You take wonton wrappers and slice them into thin strips (we go about a 1/2 inch wide) and fry them until they are golden brown. You start in a big bowl with lettuce on the bottom, then shredded cooked chicken (we will usually bake the chicken in the oven with just a seasoning of salt and pepper), then toasted slivered almonds, then finely chopped green onions, then the wonton strips, and finally the dressing on top. We just make it in one big bowl, then dress it and serve it out of there. The dressing recipe is:
CHINESE CHICKEN SALAD DRESSING:
1/3 CUP RICE VINEGAR
1/2 CUP OIL
4 TBSP. SUGAR
2 TSP. SALT
1 TSP. PEPPER
COMBINE ALL INGREDIENTS IN A SALAD DRESSING CRUET OR BOWL AND MIX WELL. BE SURE TO MIX DRESSING JUST BEFORE POURING ON SALAD.
Posted in recipes on June 5, 2008| 4 Comments »
Cinnamon Pull Apart
3/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
5 TBSP melted butter
1 loaf frozen bread dough, thawed
1/3 cup light corn syrup
Lipstick and Laundry 
