FYEAH, STRANGE FINDS! | 10 Foods You Can Allegedly Make in a Coffee Maker. Homemade Girl Scout Cookies: Samoas Bars. I love the look of the original Samoas Girl Scout Cookies, but making them from scratch can be a little bit time consuming. This is largely because the dough must be rolled out, cut out and then each of the cookies has to be handled individually for topping. The results are well worth it, in my opinion, but we don’t always have time to make a labor-intensive recipe – no matter how bad a craving for Girl Scout cookies gets.
Bar cookies are the perfect solution. This is basically a shortcut recipe that still delivers all the great samoas flavor without some of the more tedious parts of cooking making. These bars have a buttery shortbread base that is topped with the caramel-coconut samoas topping and chocolate. The final step is to dip these in chocolate once the topping has set. Homemade Samoas BarsCookie Base: 1/2 cup sugar 3/4 cup butter, softened 1 large egg 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 2 cups all purpose flour 1/4 tsp salt First, make the crust. Preheat oven to 300. Makes 30 bar cookies. DIY Birthday Party Hats. Here’s the perfect little Indian headdress for your birthday pow-wow. Head over to Dear Lizzy for details on the party hat and more from the amazing little Indian party she threw for her daughter. You can never go wrong with an old-fashioned newspaper hat.
This DIY version from Curly Birds adds a super fun cloud theme to the mix. This newspaper crown is simple but totally awesome. Visit At Home with Kim Vallée for details. Here’s a lovely felt birthday hat tutorial from Princess Lasertron. These DIY party hats from Opening Ceremony pack a festive sparkle with paper accents. These festive party hats add a touch of sophistication in the details. I love these wooden party crowns. Lovely handmade party hats by Shannon Leigh Anderson. Related. Scrambled Egg Muffins « Breakfast. Happy New Year, dear friends! I wish you health, love, happiness and joy! And I am completely sure that you’ll have it all. Some things I just know.
What I am also sure about is that you’ll love these scrambled egg muffins. The idea comes from lovely and cute Jessica Seinfeld. The recipe is included in her cook book called ‘Deceptively Delicious’ where she shares very smart secrets on how to trick your kids into eating healthy stuff. Cool, huh? To tell you the truth, I am kind of blushing now. Maybe worse than naughty. The original recipe includes chopped chickpeas and I just left them out wickedly. And, I added salt. Aaaaa… I can only hope that the universal committee for healthy living will forgive me. But I think they have to because these muffins tasted just amazing. Here’s what we need. 1. 2. 3. 4. You can also cut the bacon with kitchen shears if that makes the job easier for you. 5. 6. 7.
Nice. 8. 9. 10. 11. You wanted to know it, so now you know it. 12. Here they are. Just adorable. Mmm. Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies. ***Last Friday night, Brad and I got an invite to an impromptu dinner party...What fun! We were both excited, and of course, I immediately started to think about what I could take along for dessert. I was in the mood for cookies, but not the same-ole', same-ole' variety. I wanted to try something new, but using the ingredients that I had on-hand was a necessity. A trip to the grocery store was not in the cards if I wanted to be on time.
So, I began browsing through cookbooks and blogs for just-the-right recipe. As soon as I found this recipe for Nutella Chocolate Chip Cookies, my search was over. First of all, you can't go wrong with chocolate chip cookies. This recipe didn't disappoint...The cookies were indeed incredible. You'll LOVE these! Bon Appetit! Nutella Chocolate Chip CookiesSource: Kirbie's Cravings Food Blog. Lemon Sugar Hand Scrub {for Mom} Nutella Cinnamon Rolls. As you can probably guess I am an avid reader of MANY food blogs.
I love them! And right now most of my favorite food bloggers are posting about healthy recipes. I think the sentiment is, "we ate too much for Thanksgiving so let's take a break and make something light this week. " Which totally makes sense. I think that is how any sane person would feel. Let me explain. I always make cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning. Nutella Cinnamon Rolls, makes 10-12 3 tablespoons warm water3 tablespoons sugar2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast1/2 cup (1 stick) butter1 cup milk (I used whole, but any kind is fine)2 cups bread flour1 teaspoon salt1 1/3 cup flour1 cup Nutella3-4 teaspoons cinnamon In a small bowl stir together the water and sugar.
In a small pot melt the butter. In the bowl of your mixer (or just a large bowl) combine the flours and salt. Roll dough out into a large rectangle. I also made a simple glaze out of melted butter and powered sugar. Repurposing: Neck Tie into Bow Tie. Looking for the Mini Me Baby Gear giveaway? Scroll down or click here?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . My husband wanted a new bow tie. And there weren’t any at the store. At least not at the department stores we went to at the mall. So we improvised. And turned a neck tie into a bow tie.
With a simple velcro closure, using the skinny end of the tie. Perfect for my husband who just wanted a simple little bow tie. And the real reason? My husband is in PA school (physician assistant) and some of the guys in his program all wanted bow ties to wear with their white coats every Friday, while at the hospital. I guess it’s one of those “don’t-ask-why” guy things.
(And Mr., you better shave that sweet face or you’re going to get busted at school. Would you like to make a bow tie of your own? (That’s on the agenda for this weekend. First, this works best with the wider ties…..not the narrow skinny ties. Then make folds where your pins are at and tuck the ends behind…. Nice and simple. Request Tickets - February 14, 2013. Monogram Mugs. Friends! I’m so pleased to share our first gift DIY of the season. Maude made these fantastic monogrammed mugs over the weekend. Don’t they look terrific? The idea came when we saw these fun initial cups at Anthropologie and remembered our kitchen was lacking in hot cocoa mugs. It’s a very doable project. 1) We started with a trip to Goodwill, where we collected 8 plain white mugs. 2) Then we gathered supplies. For the font, I had something very specific in mind. 3) Cut out an initial and a piece of transfer paper. 4) Trace the initial. 5) Take your Porcelaine pen and trace over the lines of the initial. 6) Once the lettering is done, let the mugs sit for 24 hours. 7) And that’s it!
The project turned out so well that it has my mind spinning with other possibilities. What do you think? Need more sibling gift ideas? Free Printable Love Coupons. Man Bouquet 2 :) Hello! Tonight we are going to my sister and brother-in-laws to celebrate his 30th birthday. I have been wanting to make another man bouquet and I thought he would love one too. I've made a man bouquet before ( and loved it the first time (so did my husband!). This time I thought I would use a beer mug instead of a flower pot. It looks even better! Here are the materials that I used. First I stuffed some tissue in the bottom of the mug so that ball had something to sit on. Then I took the blue tissue and the ball out and wrapped it all in the green tissue so that it would look nice from the outside. Here is a top view of how I wrapped the ball. After I set the mug up how I liked I started to tape my gifts to the wooden skewers.
Just stick the skewer right into the ball and make the gift item as high or low as you like. Here is a picture of a few gift items already skewered into the styrofoam ball. Cassie.