Frosty the Snowman

I made snowmen for my Daughter's classroom Holiday Party. I ran out of time to make scarves for all of them though. These aren't my favorite cookies, as I time-crunched myself and was forced to do them quickly, but they'll work. You'll never know how sloppy they were once they're eaten. :)

Cookies, cookies and more cookies

Last week I attended a cookie exchange get together. I couldn't decide which kinds to make, so I made two different varieties. The first ones were macaroons dipped in chocolate. The other batch was pumpkin cookies drizzled with both chocolate and regular glaze.

Santa Hat Cookies

I made these Santa Hat Meringue Cookies from a recipe in the Family Fun magazine. They were real easy and they taste great!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

These Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies make for a real yummy and moist treat!

4 Eggs

1 1/2 Cup Crisco

4 Cup Sugar

1 Large can Libby Pumpkin (29oz)

6 Cup Flour

1 Tbsp. Baking Powder

1 Tbsp. Baking Soda

1 Tbsp. Cinnamon

1 Tbsp. Nutmeg

1 tsp. Salt

1 Tbsp. Vanilla

1 Large pkg of milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips

In Large bowl, cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs, then pumpkin. Add baking powder, baking soda, salt and all spices to about 2 cups of the flout, then pit into creamed mixture and blend together well. Add additional flour and vanilla. Mix well. Add chocolate chips last. Drop by heaping tablespoons on greased cookie sheet. (Parchment paper works well too.) Bake at 350 degrees for 12-14 minutes and Enjoy!

Gooaaaal!

As a gift to the kids on my Daugher's soccer team, I decided to bake some soccer ball cookies. One of the Mom's called me regarding the end of season party and I had mentioned I was making them. She thought it was a good idea and decided to opt out of buying a cake in leu of the cookies. I made enough in case there are any siblings at the party and also had to make enough for another team and their siblings.

I'm not entirely thrilled with the result, as I always have issues using this frosting in small spaces, it causes it to dip and create holes. Oh well. It's all going to be eaten anyway right? :)

Turkey Treats

Here is a fun Thanksgiving treat you can make with your kids...

Made from Oreo's

Chocolate frosting (from a can)

Candy Corn

Red Hots

Whoppers

Split the Oreo in half take a little chocolate frosting and spread some on both pieces of the cookie. Use the candy corn to make feathers and placed on top of the chocolate frosting (to help the candy stay in place). Stick a whopper on the other piece of Oreo and tiny bit of frosting on top of the whopper to hold on the red hot and then place the feather side of the Oreo on the piece with the whopper and there you have it a simple turkey treat that the kids will love!

Tidbit of information

I opened up this blog to my friend DeAnna to also share some of her dessert creations. She's made some really pretty cakes and cupcakes that I plan on emulating at some point. :) Here's a snapshot of the cutest cupcakes ever that she made!

Variation of the leaves

I had to make some more cookies for a bake sale tomorrow at Brent's command. I made some more pumpkins and also a new color combo on the leaves.

Ghosties

This past week, my oldest and dearest friend DeAnna and her Daughter came to visit me. I hadn't seen her in years, and this was the first time I met Isabelle. I had such a great time and really didn't want her to leave. They came out in time to trick-or-treat with my girls and they made out very well in the candy department. Before we headed out that evening, I had baked some of my cookies since she never had the opportunity to try them before. Shame on me for not sending them! Being the awesome photographer she is, she set up a little ghostie photo shoot and took superb shots! Thank you for that DeAnna! Now you get to fly out here after every creation to snap some pictures! :)

Witchy Woman

I can't take credit for the ultra-delicious caramel apple lollipops, but I created the witchy woman using black trash bags (cape), green and black yarn(hair and tie for cape), black card stock (hat), googly eyes and red construction paper (mouth). These are going into a goody bag for my Daughter's class.

Worth losing a tooth over!

As far as I can remember, this was my first attempt at making caramel apples. Hopefully no one will lose a tooth, but if they do, it was well worth it!

Cakes!

Here are a couple cakes I made today for the cake walk on Saturday.


Snickerdoodle cake with cinnamon buttercream frosting. One of the tastiest cakes I've had in a long time!




Chocolate pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate glaze. I wasn't able to try a piece of this one, but it smells absolutely scrumptious!

Pumpkins

The last and final ones of the fall batch are complete! I also added some red to the non-swirl leaves for a slightly bolder effect.

Acorns

Just when you thought nuts were just for squirrels...along comes greatness in a cookie!

Fall leaves

My Daughter's school is having a bake sale next weekend, which I volunteered for. I'm making a lot of cookies, two cakes and caramel apples. I'm currently starting on the sugar cookies, since they need to be frosted and given time to dry. Today I finished the leaves. These are the basic ones. I plan on adding more detail to the pumpkin shapes and acorn shapes.

Cookies

Valentine's cookies

St. Patrick's cookies

Spring cookies

Halloween cookies

Christmas cookies

Birthday cookies

Special Occasion cookies

Misc. cookies

I'm hoping to create a much finer collection this year that includes several more styles for each holiday. I'll create new blogs to showcase them as they are made.