positively perfect peanut butter cookies

  Do you ever suddenly get that urge to have something peanut-buttery? Sudden urge as in, you have to have it right then? Well I have very easy, very quick cookie recipe I would like to share with you all! I made these last night and they were d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s. Here are the ingredients you will need/need to do:


2 cups peanut butter

2 cups white sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 pinch salt

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. Preheat your oven to Bake 350

2. In a medium bowl, stir together the peanut butter and sugar

Hault for just a second here before you read anymore! It will seem like forever until you get the sugar and peanut butter stirred together, but just keep on stirring it together until it looks something like this...

Now you're ready to move on.

3. Beat in eggs, baking soda, salt and vanilla until smooth.

 

4. Form into balls (or use cookie scooper) and place on cookie sheets. Press criss-cross pattern with the back of a fork onto tops of cookies.

5. Bake for eight to ten minutes



 Voilà! You now have a batch of warm, yummy cookies. Enjoy!

Pizza Pockets

Remember the photo of the pizza pockets I posted here? Yea, those ugly things. Well today I decided to try to make them again and they tasted 100 times better than the ones I made Saturday night. And to celebrate - I have decided to post the recipe for them!

Pizza Pockets

Not only are these extremely easy to make; they would be great for parties, kids that are {very} picky eaters, a super easy and tasty food for kids while you're babysitting, the whole nine yards baby!

Here is what you will need:

1 premade pie crust

pizza sauce

mozzarella cheese

pepperoni

1. Preheat your oven to Bake 350
2. Roll out the dough onto a cutting board and use a cookie cutter to mark where you will be cutting the dough.
3. Cut the dough with your cookie cutter and place the circles of dough back onto the cutting board in pairs. {should make about eight circles}
4. Put a spoon full of pizza sauce, mozzarella, and a piece of pepperoni on every other circle of dough.
5. Get the plain circles of dough and place on top of the dough with topping. Carefully pinch the ends of the two circles of dough together.
6. Place each pizza pocket on a cookie sheet and bake for twenty minutes.
    

 

 

  Voilà! Your pizza pockets are complete.




 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Mild and Marvelous Muffins

I promise I won't keep bombarding you all with recipes, but you have to, have to, have to try this one! These are positively, absolutely, without a doubt, delicioso!

Tonight after supper, I had a bit of a sweet tooth and thought something mild yet still a bit sweet would be ideal. After searching around the web, I decided to make mini maple chocolate chip muffins from Bakerella. Turns out, we had everything except for buttermilk, so I found a recipe very similar to the original one. And let me tell you, they are w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l and super easy to make.

Not only are these teensy little muffins adorable, but did I mention that they taste heavenly? ;) Here is what you will need/need to do to whip these up:

1/2 cup sugar

 1/4 cup shortening

 1 egg

1/2 cup milk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:

In a large mixing bowl, cream sugar and shortening until fluffy. Add egg, milk and vanilla; mix well. Combine dry ingredients. Gradually add to creamed mixture; mix well. Fold in chocolate chips. Spoon about 1 tablespoon of batter into each greased or paper-lined mini-muffin cup. Bake at 375 degrees F for 10-13 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack.

^If you feel so inclined to do so, add your trademark.

What are you waiting for? Stop reading and start baking!

Chocolate Drugs

First of all, no, these are most certainly not drugs (I can see it now, Anna Gray giving a drug recipe...haha. No). However, the title does give a good description of how addicting these suckers are.

These are easy. quick. no bake. and most of all, fantabulous tasting. If you think about eating maybe one or two of them, think again. You will want to eat about five or six.

I whipped up a batch of these cookies this evening and thought it would be the perfect time to take a few photos and share the recipe. Here is what you will need/need to do, dear friends.

1 stick of butter

1/2 cup of milk

3 tablespoons of cocoa

2 cups of sugar

^(Mix together in a saucepan on medium-hi. Stir constantly until smooth)

Step #2

1/2 cup of creamy peanut butter

1 teaspoon of vanilla

3 to 3 1/2 cups of oatmeal

^(Combine with the ingredients above, all of it in a bowl off the heat and stir)

Form into balls and place them on a baking sheet (a pizza pan works too!) and let them set for approx. fifteen to twenty minutes

If you want to, you could add a signature touch like so...

Bon Appétit!

Oh the Places You'll go...

We have had a *how should I put this* very busy week this week! It started this past Wednesday when we saw the Trans-Siberian Orchestra in concert...

On Friday I had a Christmas party and there was lots of delicious food....

                                          and nachos and cheese (recipe at the end of the post)........

                                                                     and lemonade (recipe coming too!)...........

                                                        and made lip gloss (recipe coming)............

                                                                and did pedicures (compliments of moi!)............

After my Christmas party, my friend Kiley and I went to a lady's house to help with a kid's outreach. After that we came home, watched The Others (way less scary than the trailer made it seem), and went to bed at 10:30! I am shocked myself that we went to bed that early. I mean, we usually go to bed around 12:30 or 1:00. Then the next morning.......we babysat four kids (ages 10, 8, 5, and 2) for seven hours. And then after that, we went to Carols by Candlelight at my friends, Beth and Breanna's church (which was a-m-a-z-i-n-g!). Yes, I was pooped by the end of the day. Goodness.

Anyway.......

                          Here are the recipes for the nachos, lemonade, and the lip gloss!



Home-made Nacho Cheese

1. 1 large block of Velveeta cheese (other brands may be substituted)

2. 8 oz. of sausage

3. 1 can of rotel (other brands may be substituted)

4. Brown sausage and drain it

5. Combine all ingredients in pot over medium heat until cheese is melted

Lemony Lemonade

(How to make the lemonade.....super easy!)

1. 1 cup of lemon juice

2. 1  1/2 cups of sugar

3. 6 cups of water

Stir all three ingredients together in large pitcher

Then.....

Put 1/2 a lime, 1/2 a lemon, and 1/2 an orange in the lemonade and refrigerate

Lip Gloss

1. Vaseline

2. Any flavor of Kool-Aid drink powder (other brands may be substituted)

3. 1 lip gloss jar (I got mine at Wal-Mart....98 cents for two!)

Get one big scoop of Vaseline and put it in a bowl; and pour in as much flavored drink powder as desired (the more powder you put, the more color and flavor you get!). Stir the Vaseline and flavored drink powder together and put it in the microwave for 15 seconds. Take it out, put about a pinch's worth of water in the bowl, put it back in the microwave for 10 seconds, take it out, and stir it. After it is good and stirred, put it in your lip gloss jar and voila!

(For me, grape and cherry powder worked the best!)

One Word.......Irresistible

So this lovely, warm evening, I was seriously craving something....chocolaty. Do you ever get that way? Where you are craving something that is just irresistible? That's how I was about 15 minutes ago until my taste buds went like, "WHOOOOOOOOOO!"

So what made my taste buds go like, "WHOOOOOOO!" it was Hershey's 'Perfectly Chocolate Hot Cocoa.' Oh. My. Gosh. It was heavenly. I mean, who cares if it's like 70 degrees outside...you can still have something chocolaty and warm, right?

Soooo...I thought that I would post the recipe for the 'Perfectly Chocolate Hot Cocoa.'

*Warning, it is reeeeeeeaaally easy



~Perfectly Chocolate Hot Cocoa~

1. 2 Tbsp. sugar
2. 2 Tbsp Hershey's Cocoa
3. Dash of salt
4. 1 cup milk
5. 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract

Then................

6. Mix sugar, cocoa and salt in large mug

7. Heat milk in microwave at HIGH 1 1/2 minutes or until hot.

8. Gradually add milk to cocoa mixture; stir well. Stir in vanilla

Once you've done all of the above, 'WHALA!,' you've got some seriously, uber awesome, irresistible, super yummy 'Perfectly Chocolate Hot Cocoa.'

You guys neeeeeeed to try it (that's an order!) =)

♥ Happy Blogging ♥

Bran Muffins

Hello friends! Sorry I haven't been posting lately, I have just been very busy with school lately and haven't really had much time to post. So, since I can post right now, I am going to post a very yummy, easy to make, and healthy a good for breakfast recipe that all of us three of us in the Smith house like to eat sometimes, called Bran Muffins. Here is the recipe for them...

(Be sure to get a large mixing bowl to mix everything up in)

1) 15 oz of Bran Flakes (or Raisin Bran)

2) 3 cups of sugar

3) 5 cups of plain flour

4) 5 tsp of baking soda

5) 2 tsp of salt

6) 4 eggs (beaten)

7) 1 qt of buttermilk

8) 1 cup of vegetable oil

After you mix up all of the ingredients, stick it in your refrigerator and let it get cold overnight. The next day, when you're ready to have a muffin, turn your oven on Bake 400 degrees, fill up a 2/3 cup with the batter, put them in a muffin pan, stick them in the oven for 15 minutes (or longer if they aren't done), and then...ENJOY! (Great with either butter, jelly, or cream cheese inside).

~A.G.~ :D :O :)