brown sugar muffins | recipe.

Mmm these muffins are my favorite. So easy + quick to mix up.

Brown Sugar Muffins:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 egg
1/4 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

In large bowl combine butter, brown sugar, and egg. Beat at high speed for 4 minutes or until light and fluffy. Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix well. Add milk and vanilla. Add walnuts. Fill greased muffins tins. Bake at 400* for 15 minutes. 

We like to put butter in the middle and heat them up in the microwave! Yum!
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Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honor all the day. Psalm 71:8

strawberry + cream pudding cookies | recipe

These are my FAVORITE cookies. They literally are the bomb. I could just eat one after another!! ;)

Here's the recipe:
1 cup butter, softened
2 tablespoons Stawberry Jello
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 (3 1/2 oz.) box vanilla pudding
2 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 bag white chocolate chips (you can also use peppermint crunch [half a bag] instead of white chips)

Cream butter, sugar, jello, eggs, and vanilla. Mix flour, pudding mix, baking soda, and salt.

Mix well. Stir in white chocolate chips. Spoon onto greased baking sheet.

Bake at 350* for 9-11 minutes. {Makes 5-6 doz}

You can dip them in milk or....

If you're like me and don't like milk, just eat 'em by themselves!

I'm sure you will fall in love with these cookies like my family did!! I hope you all enjoy baking them!

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Be fruitful in every good work, and increase in the knowledge of God. Colossians 1:10

5 minute iced coffee | recipe

A couple weeks ago Heather and I were getting ready to leave to babysit for our cousin. I wanted some coffee but didn't have a lot of time to make something. That's when I remembered a recipe I'd found on Pinterest for 5 minute coffee.

Here's the recipe:

Dissolve a spoonful of instant coffee in 1/2 cup of water. 

Add flavorings + sugar.

Fill the rest of the way with milk.

Top with crushed ice.

Enjoy!

{Do you like iced coffee? What flavorings do you like to use?}

Photo credit: Heather

cinnamon roll bites // recipe

Hey girls! 

Do you enjoy baking and trying new recipes like I do? If so, here's another one for you to try: cinnoman roll bites. 

They are super easy to make and yummy!

RECIPE:
2 cups flour
1 tbsp backing powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup cold butter
3/4 - 1 cup cold milk
[NOTE: I put in 3/4 cups of milk and the dough was pretty sticky. I added more flour and all was fine.]
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 tbsp cinnamon

Glaze >> 
1/3 cup icing sugar
1-2 tbsp milk (enough to bring glaze together)

In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt, 
Cut the butter into cubes and add to the bowl. Cut the butter with a pastry cutter or fork until butter is in pea-sized pieces.
Stir in milk gradually, adding just enough so that the dough comes together. Bring together in a ball with your hands (if you add too much milk, add more flour)
Preheat oven to 350*. Grease the sides of a 9-10" pie plate. Place 3-4 tbsp melted butter in the bottom of the pie plate and swirl to coat the bottom.
In a medium bowl, combine brown sugar, sugar and cinnamon. Roll dough into 1" balls and dip in cinnamon sugar mixture and place in the pie plate. **[NOTE: I had a lot left over from the cinnamon sugar mixtue, enough for another batch.]**
Drizzle melted butter over dough balls in the pan. 
Bake for 23-26 minutes until biscuits are cooked and butter/sugar mixture is bubbling in the bottom of the pan.
Pour glaze over warm balls.

Let me know if you try this recipe and how it turns out!

"Oh taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him." Psalm 34:8

mocha frappuccino // recipe

Hey friends! 

Are you looking for a new recipe to try? How about making a Mocha Frappuccino! It's easy, delicious, and a new favorite of mine.

Here's the recipe:

1/4 cup cold coffee

1 1/2 tbsp sugar

1/4 cup milk

1 cup ice

1 1/2 tbsp chocolate syrup

1/2 whipped cream to taste

Simply put all these ingredients in the blender and blend. Pour into a cup (or glass jar!), add a pretty straw and viola!
**[NOTE: you can add the whipped cream on top, or mix it in with the rest of ingredients.]**

Enjoy!

>> Recipe taken from here.

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies || recipe

One word describes these cookies: amazing. delicious. mouthwatering. OK, that was actually three. ;) As soon as my family tried this recipe, we immediately fell in love with them (well, all of us but dad)!! We can’t understand why he dislikes this recipe and likes our old one (which gets very hard and crumby). These, for the most part, are very moist and chewy. Even though I really don’t like chocolate, these are delicious! :) 

[Note: We normally double this recipe right away since it doesn't make that much.]

The recipe:
½ cup shortening
1 cup white sugar
2/3 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup peanut butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 cup flour
1 cup oatmeal
1 pkg. choc. chips [we use less than a bag for one batch]

Cream shortening and sugars; add eggs and beat until light. Add peanut butter, vanilla and dry ingredients, adding chocolate chips last. Roll into balls. Bake at 350 degrees for 9 minutes. They may seem not quite baked after 9 minutes, but when cooled they will be soft and chewy. Leave cookies on the pan for a short time before removing to cool.

>> photo credit: Heather

Hope you all enjoy this recipe and will have to let me know if you try it!

Do you like to bake/cook? If so, what have you made recently?

Should I do more recipes in the future?

What is your favorite thing to bake?