spice cookies

Spice cookies.. best spice cookie recipe yet.

Blondies from your Blondie

I found the BEST blondie recipe ever. This is the holy grail of blondie recipes. I've never had such an amazing blondie a day in my life. I got the recipe here. I used pecans instead of macadamia nuts because, well.. because they are a hellalot cheaper. But in no way, did that affect the recipe. I've tried tons of blondie recipes and they always come out dry and tasting like straight up flour. I think the secret in these is the brown sugar, brown sugar seems to be the secret in everything haha. The sea salt is delish in these!

Lofthouse cookie.. wannabes

I love Walmart's lofthouse soft sugar cookies. They are one of my fave sugar cookies and I've wanted to learn the secret recipe. Today I was looking up recipes for soft sugar cookies, because I wanted to bake something. I found a recipe that claimed to be similar, so I tried it. The frosting is a tad different, but the actual cookie is pretty close. I also love the pink icing I made! :)

On a unrelated note... I saw Where The Wild Things Are last night and it was an amazing movie, I loved every second of it. I haven't been moved by a movie like that in such a long time. I just totally got it 5 minutes into it.. good message, very emotional at parts, not blaintly obvious emotion, but the kind when you actually read between the lines. Isn't it funny how most of the time, children's movies have the most powerful layers of messages?

Anise Biscotti

First attempt at biscottis. They are just plain anise biscottis, nothing too special, but they are pretty tasty, when they were done I glazed them with a anise glaze.

best chocolate cake

It was my brother in law's birthday the other day and I've mean wanting to try out this cake recipe for months. I have been feeling very sick lately and on top of feeling sick, kinda a little down. I went to see my favorite band play this past week and it was the most amazing show that I've ever been to, maybe the best night of my life and I've seen this band (Brand New) play about 7 times, it was just amazing. But after the show I was more sad than usual that it was over, because I was looking forward to this show for the longest time. Don't you wish that sometimes you could just travel around with your favorite band when they are on tour and go to ever single show? Thats how I feel, haha.

So anyways, I decided to make a cake and it came out awesome. It is probably the best chocolate cake recipe that I've ever used and the buttercreme frosting is amazing as well, I was very pleased.

P.S If your on a diet, this isn't the best cake to cake, it's too good.

Giant cookies!!!!!

So, forever I've been searching for a giant cookie recipe. Ya know, those kind that you can only buy at one of those creepy gas stations in the middle of no where that you happen to stop at, at 3am in the morning on a road trip. Those are the best! So after years of searching for this cookie recipe, I finally caught a break! I was checking out this awesome cookie site and found the recipe!!!! I made them this afternoon, decided to skip lunch and split one of them with my sister and just work out like crazy tonight to burn off the calories.

Apple pie.

I decided that I wanted to make a pie today, to continue my joy of the cold weather combined with baking! I had a horrible night of sleep last night, as usual. So I woke up early, made my dough and then ran to the boys and got some apples and some pears ( that's my secret to making the perfect apple pie, because of the starch content in a pear) I came home, starting pealing away. I went all out today and did some hand crafted leafs for the border of my pie. Enjoy!

world's best peanut butter cookies

So this weekend, we got our first "cold front". The weather has just been amazing, I'm loving every second of it! When it gets nice and chilly like this, I love to bake. I'm on a diet and can't really eat anything good so I haven't been able to bake lately, although I have been able to try out a BUNCH of awesome low cal recipes! I will eventually post these recipes with pictures and my evaluations of other low cal products.

Like I said, I LOVE to bake in this weather, to me, there is nothing more comforting than a cup of chai tea in one hand and a cookie tray in the other. So I decided to make some cookies, and just force myself not to eat any of them!!! My brother loves peanut butter cookies and I found this really awesome recipe online. The recipe claimed to be the world's best peanut butter cookies and it turns out that they really are that amazing! I even gave some to my neighbor. That's right! they are neighbor worthy! Here's the link.

chocolate eclair

Second attempt at a chocolate eclair.

peanut butter and jelly bars

Well, my brother in law's brother (Sten) has been staying with my sister and my brother in law. He just moved here from New Zealand. Tonight, my family and I are having them over and making a nice sit down dinner. So I decided to make something homemade for after dinner. I was looking online for something that I could make that I already had the ingredients to. I already made chocolate chip cookies just a few days ago, and the night prior I had made brownies. My options were kinda limited because my kitchen aide stand mixer is broken. I wanted to make chocolate peanutbutter bars, but my Mum can't stand peanutbutter and chocolate together, so I decided to go with this recipe that I saw when I was watching Barefoot Contessa. It had everything to make it, so I made these bars. Oh no, hopefully Sten isn't allergic to nuts! Didn't think about that one! Guess we'll find out.

"I brought you flours"

I was watching one of my favorite movies of all the time other day. Stranger Than Fiction.

Will Ferrel and baking mixed into one?

What else could I ask for?

If a guy ever brought me "flours" I'm pretty positive I would want to marry him, right on the spot.

This is one of my favorite movie scenes.

Escargot

So I've been waiting to get a can of escargot and I finally got one the other day. I decided to prepare my escargots and freeze them. But I had to try one of them out first. I made toast points to dip in the escargot. I don't think I'm a huge fan of the canned escargot. It had a horrible can taste that is really hard to get rid of.