Monday, July 23, 2012

Haven't been doing any crafts lately, sorry for not posting.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Fresh Strawberry Frosting
1 cube softened butter
1 cup strawberries
splash vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
cream (amount varies due to differences in strawberries) -
Variations:
Lemon zest/juice added.
Banana mashed added.
Peaches added.

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Milk Chocolate Frosting (for brownies.)
1 cube softened butter
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
splash vanilla
Melt chips, beat together , then add
4 cups powdered sugar
and
1/4 cup cream (or correct amount to make the consistency you want)
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Recipe makes enough frosting for an 11 x 15 sheet of brownies to have the frosting almost exactly the same height as the brownies.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Another variation of Stephanie's cookies
Cherry Chocolate Cookies
1 white cake mix
1 cup Hershey chocolate syrup
3 eggs
1 cup chocolate chips
Cover 1/2 cup of dried cherries, 1 cup of chopped almonds & a shot of cherry brandy with boiling water and soak overnight. Drain and grind.
Grind chips.

Combine all ingredients into stiff batter.
Spread the dough in a jelly roll pan (a cookie sheet with sides).
Bake for about 20 minutes at 350 degrees F.

Monday, January 23, 2012

This is the frosting for the previous cookies, sprinkled with chocolate jimmies.
Got it years ago on Gail's Recipe Swap from: Dawn/NYS -- VERY sweet
caramel/butterscotch frosting
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
5 Tbsp butter
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup milk
1 1/2 cup confectioners (powdered) sugar
Sift sugar if lumpy, and combine sugar, butter, and salt in saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
Add milk and reduce to low heat; simmer for about 3 minutes. Let cool.
Add powdered sugar and whisk until thickened.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Chocolate Butterscotch Bar Cookies
1 Devil's Food cake mix
3 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 cup chopped butterscotch chips

Mix together.
Spread thick dough in 15x11 cookie sheet
Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
Cool, remove, frost, cut in small squares.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Making toasted coconut/butterscotch blondies, blueberry cookies, and cowboy cookies for the apartment house this month.
Found the recipe for the blueberry cookies here - http://www.phuocndelicious.com/2011/05/20/marblised-chocolate-and-blueberry-cream-cheese-cookies/
We skipped the chocolate dough for marbling and used only the blueberry dough, They are a nice blue color with bits of fruit. The first pan at 12 minutes was a little too overdone, so the others were in for only 10 minutes.