Bar cookie #2! Sort of like what my mom calls “Magic Cookie Bars” but with a chocolate chip cookie base. 1 (1 pound, 1.5 ounce) pouch Betty Crocker chocolate chip cookie mix 1/2 cup butter, softened 1 egg 1 cup butterscotch chips 1 cup milk chocolate chips or semisweet chocolate chips 1 cup flaked coconut … Continue reading
Last night I was in charge of the activity for our Young Women and Young Men at church so I set up a “Chopped” activity for them, sort of like the tv show of the same name on the Food Network. We divided them into 4 teams and gave each team a bag of ingredients … Continue reading
I’m back! The movie is finally over and I have until the end of April before I start the next one so I’m hoping to get in lots of cooking and baking and blogging! Bob and I are on a quest to lose some weight and get in shape (again!) so on January 30 (the … Continue reading
We’ve still been doing the Bountiful Basket almost every week but I just haven’t been posting it mostly because of work but if any of you out there want to see what is in it every week, just let me know and I’ll start posting it again. We’ve been getting lots of English cucumbers so … Continue reading
Only one more week of work people and then I’ll be back on the blog! Can’t wait! In the meantime, here is a picture of a girly baby shower cake we did on Friday for our friend Shannon at the request of our other friend Sarah (Shannon’s sister). The cake is brown sugar adapted from … Continue reading
Courtney was having friends over tonight for their traditional Sunday night “movie night” and I have been dying to bake so I made these cupcakes for them. The recipe comes from Wendy Paul’s “101 Gourmet Cupcakes in 10 Minutes” cookbook which I just love. Here’s how I decorated them – I took some of our … Continue reading
I’ve been working long hours on this movie and so haven’t had a chance to bake very much let alone blog about baking but last weekend Courtney made this cake all by herself (I did bake the cake for her – brown sugar) for the sister of a friend and she did such a great … Continue reading
Brownies for my friend Julie for her birthday and also for my girls at church. I changed the recipe up a bit since I didn’t have any York Peppermint Patties, I used Junior Mints instead. They tasted great but the Jr Mints seemed to just melt and dissolve in the batter whereas when I’ve used … Continue reading
The recipe for these truffles is already on the blog under “Easy Oreo Truffles” but I thought I’d blog about them again for Valentine’s Day as a quick and easy treat idea if you’re in need of one. I made 2 batches of these which ended up being about 86 truffles and it only took … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Marlene! These are for you! Courtney and Courtney’s friend Jaren and I made these cupcakes for our friend Marlene who loves panda bears. (We made the panda bear graduation cake for her too.) The idea comes from Karen Tack and Alan Richardson’s cookbook called “Hello, Cupcake!” – love it! So much fun to … Continue reading
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