From the Art Show Last night!! July 6, 2012

Last Night I served my cupcakes and cookies

At Gavin Miller‘s Art Show at the US Bank in the  Pearl District, Portland, OR

I baked mini cupcakes in chocolate, vanilla, and red velvet

With mini art palettes and flowers, made from marshmallow fondant

I also baked some chocolate chip and sugar cookie

Flower

Art palettes

At the art show Gavin was selling his art and shirts

Here is some of the art on display for the month of July

If you like any of the painting that you see

Please talk to Gavin Miller

If you want to see more art

Garage Sale June 8, 2012

This past weekend

My Grandma’s Community

Had there yearly garage sale

I love going to garage sales

So I decided to make a visit and

Sell some treats

The treats went over well (almost sold out of cookies)

I also found some cookie cutters

And more cookbooks

To add to what I already have

Which is a lot

And there are more that did not fit in the pic

So if you want to order some treats

Please visit the Order Now page

to see information

Thank You

Cream Cheese Cookies March 8, 2012

I’m going to a birthday/going on Externship party tomorrow.

We all were asked to bring something to eat. So i decided to make Cookies.

 I was looking thought my Betty Crocker’s Cookbook from 1969 (which is older then the one my mom has).

I was going to make the chocolate chip cookies that i always make

but then i seen this one and decided to try it.

Cream Cheese Cookies

Final Product

Ingredients you will need

1/4 cup butter or margarine, Softened

1 package (8oz) cream cheese, Softened

1 Egg yolk

1/4 teaspoon Vanilla

1 Package of Cake mix

( I used White Cake, can’t believe a cookbook from 1969 has a recipe that uses cake mix)

What you will need

Medium Bowl

Wood spoon/ mixer

1/4 teaspoon

container for egg white

Then Start the Dough

1. Cream Butter and Cream Cheese

2. Separate the egg

3. Mix in the yolk and vanilla

4. Then mix in the Cake mix 1/3 at a time

5. Cover and Chill for 30Mins

6. Preheat oven to 350°

7. Cut or pinch off pieces and place on a ungreased pan

( they don’t grow or spread any)

8. Bake for 8 to 10 mins until just starting to get gold on edge

9. let cool on the pans

Makes about 28 to 30

Let me know how you like them

Toasted Almond and Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies March 2, 2012

Today I decided that I wanted some cookies, but there were no cookies in my house. So I made some.

This is the final product

To start gather all the ingredients you will need

2 1/4 c. all-purpose flour

1 t. baking soda

3/4 c butter (1 1/2 sticks) softened

3/4 c. brown sugar, packed

1/4 c. white sugar

1 (3.4 oz.) pkg. instant vanilla pudding

2 eggs, room temp

1 t. vanilla extract

2 c. of add-ins

Add-ins can be anything you like, I used Chocolate chips and Toasted Almonds

Them gather all the equipment you will need

Med. Size Bowl

Wood spoon or Mixer

Measuring cups/ spoon

Cookie Scoop

2 sheet pans

Preheat oven to 350°

Time to start mixing

1. Start by Creaming the butter and both sugars

2. mix in the pudding

3. mix in the eggs

4. Mix in the Baking soda and Flour

5. Then get your add-ins ready

6. Mix them all in

7. Then Scoop your cookies

mine were 1oz balls

8. Bake for 8-12 mins or until just starting the get golden on the edge

mine took 10min

9. let cool on pan for 4mins

10. then move to a cooling rack

I got about 42 cookies, they are about 2 bite cookies.

Let me know how you like them and what you added!!