Pumpkin Cookies

Pumpkin Cookies

1 1/2 Cups pumpkin

1 cup sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp. baking powder

1 1/2 Cups butter

2 Cups flour

1 tsp. salt

1 Tbsp. cinnamon

Mix the pumpkin, sugar, butter and vanilla. Mix the dry ingredients and add to pumpkin mix. Spoon onto a cookie sheet at 350 for 15 minutes.

This recipe is also super simple and very quick! I also love to add chocolate chips to the mix! I know that chocolate chips with pumpkin cookies don't sound the most appetizing but they are delicious! 

I don't know why this picture came out so blurry but the cookies came out wonderfully! They are super soft like fluffy chocolate chip cookies that taste like pumpkin and cinnamon!

Enjoy!

Sugar Cookies

I love to make sugar cookies and DB loves to eat them! A few years ago I got the a bucket with lots of different cookie cutters for all different holidays so it's fun to make them for holidays.

The recipe is super simple and pretty quick too! The best way to get the shapes apart from the dough is to refrigerate the dough ball overnight.

Sugar Cookies

1 Cup butter

3 Cups flour

½ Tsp. vanilla

¼ Cup milk

2 eggs

1 Tsp. baking soda

1 Cup sugar

1 Tsp. Salt

First, sift flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. Mix in butter until the mix is crumbly. Mix the vanilla into slightly beaten egg and add the milk. Add the egg mix into dry ingredients and form a large ball. Wrap the ball in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.

Once your dough has chilled in the refrigerator pull it out of the fridge to roll and cut bake at 350 for 8 minutes. 

The icing  depends on the consistency you prefer, I like to just turn the cookies upside down and dip them so I make the icing pretty syrupy.

For the icing just mix powdered sugar and milk to the consistency you want. Once I've mixed it the way I want I add food coloring and this time I added cinnamon flavoring oil to the red icing.

The cinnamon icing was absolutely delicious and DB had most of these cookies eaten up in no time.

Have a safe new year!

I'm sorry it's been a while, things have been crazy here through the whole holiday season. I really hope to get back on here with a quickness.

I wanted to get on today and say I hope everyone has a very Happy New Year! Please be safe and have a blast!

I feel like this year has flown by and now is the time to say goodbye to 2010 and welcome 2011 in for a bright new year. I hope with the new year we will find new opportunities and a better way of living. 2010 was a hard year for my DB and I so I hope that we can learn, grow and become better people from our experiences over the past year.

If you have resolution's I would like to wish you luck and the best to everyone on a new year!

Christmas Dinner

We had a great Christmas dinner with my DB's parents and younger brother. We usually have dinner at my grandma's and sometimes at DB's mom's as well but this year my grandmother decided to go down to my mom's house for Christmas leaving us with the choice of either making dinner or no dinner. I choose dinner, of course, so we did it at our house...our first Christmas dinner. It actually turned out awesome and everything was delicious!

DB made the lonely dip and crackers while I was finishing up the rolls for dinner. I thought that I snagged a picture of the lovely humongous rolls when they were in the basket but I was apparently mistaken and as it turns out my little brother-in-law is a compulsive roll eater, which means there aren't many left to photograph. They turned out beautiful though and extremely big! DB was poking at them all day yelling about how they weren't getting big enough and then, as if they heard him ridiculing, they blew up into monsters.

*Ham gravy (sorry about the picture DB was whisking)

The dessert counter, yum! I have been baking and baking and running around like a crazy person trying to get this dinner all together. I plan to get these recipes posted soon and perhaps someone will find them interesting enough to try!

I'm sure everyone has been equally as busy and I hope that you all have a happy and safe holiday!

Merry Christmas!

Mailbox...Tuesday

This is my last two weeks worth of mail. The box at the top left is an I love Lucy salt and pepper shaker blender set that I bought on Amazon with gift cards from swagbucks.

I hope everyone is more ready for Christmas than I am. Things have been pretty busy but I only have a couple more days to finish up. I still have a ton of cookies to make...is anyone else as behind as I am?

Chocolate Peppermint Malt

Chocolate Peppermint Malt

3 Cups  Milk

4 Cups Chocolate Ice Cream

1/4 Malt Milk Powder

1/2 Tsp. Peppermint Extract

1/2 Tsp. Ground Cinnamon

Crushed Hard Peppermint Candy

Blend everything together. You could save some ice cream to top with if you would prefer ice cream over milkshake style. 

These are super easy and really yummy! They are very good for a quick dessert. DB loves peppermint so I try to make these quite a bit through the holidays and a couple times through the spring and summer. I hope if you make these you and your family enjoy them as much as we do!

Bacon Apple BBQ Chicken dinner

This Chicken was absolutely delicious! I found the recipe for Bacon-wrapped Apple Barbecue Chicken in the October All You of 2009. Yeah, over a year ago, I was going through some cookbooks recently and found that I had stuffed this recipe away and completely forgot about it. It says that the cost per serving is $2.07, that's really cheap and we love barbecue chicken.

The recipe is actually for the crockpot and it's super simple. It says to cook for 8 hours on low but I was in a rush and hadn't gotten it ready early enough so I set it on high for a little less than 4 hours and it came out incredibly well!

Bacon-Wrapped Apple Barbecue Chicken

1/2 Cup barbecue sauce

2 apples, (we used granny smith) peeled, cored and grated

Juice of 1 lemon

4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves

8 slices of bacon

Mix together the barbecue sauce, grated apple and lemon juice. Rinse chicken breasts, wrap 2 pieces of bacon around each chicken breast and put into slow cooker. Pour barbecue sauce mix on top of the chicken breasts and set cooker to low for 8 hours. 

This recipe is super easy, cheap and incredibly delicious!