It Christmas time people. Break out the oreos!

I found this wonderful holiday treat online.

Oreo bark!

Oreos + white chocolate = rich & creamy goodness.

I made two pans during thanksgiving week and it was so good!

I think this would be great for all those holiday parties, the neighbors or just for yourself to eat!

Preparation: Line an 8×8 pan with enough parchment or wax paper for a 1 inch overhang on each side.

• 10oz. Ghirardelli white chocolate chips
• 15 regular size Oreos, plus 3 more for topping

Instructions:

1. Place chocolate in a double boiler over low heat and stir continuously, until chocolate is completely melted. Transfer chocolate to a heat proof bowl and cool for 5 minutes. Add chopped Oreos and stir to combine. Pour mixture into pan. Use a spatula to smooth out top.
2. Finely chop remaining Oreos and sprinkle on top. Chill for about 10 minutes until chocolate becomes solid.
3. Lift whole bark out of pan by holding onto parchment or wax overhang. Split bark into pieces with a fork.

Recipe found here.

Happy Saturday!

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The best pumpkin cookies you will EVER eat!

During the fall I just love to bake. There is just something I love about turning my oven on and getting the mixer out on a cold, cloudy day. My favorite cookie to make during the fall season is pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. But I have a special recipe that I just love.

These may look like any normal pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. But I promise you, they're not. Whether you like it or not these cookies disappear fast. You learn to hide a few for yourself!

The best Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies you will ever eat:

3 sticks butter

2 cups brown sugar

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 t vanilla

16 oz can pumpkin

4 cups flour

2 t baking soda

1/2 t baking power

1/2 t nutmeg

1 t salt

2 t cinnamon

2 cups oatmeal

2 cups chocolate chips

Mix butter & sugars. Add the rest of the wet ingredients. Mix the dry ingredients in a separate bowl & add them to the wet. Add the oatmeal & chocolate chips.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes.

These are my favorite fall cookies. I hope they'll become your favorites too!


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You'll need a glass of milk with this...

Delicious. Crazy. Yummy. Fun. Perfect. Wonderful. Heavenly. Amazing.

You pick any great word you want to. It fits this cupcake!
Every bite is so rich, chocolaty & peanut buttery and once you've had a bite there's no stopping you. Your going to finish that cupcake. No matter what!
And the chocolate butter cream is the best.
You ready for the recipe? Oh yes you are!

1 box chocolate cake mix
3 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup sour cream
1 bag chocolate peanut butter cups

Mix together cake mix, eggs, milk & sour cream.
Pour 2 tablespoons batter into your paper cupcake liners. Place a peanut butter cup on top! Then fill your cupcake liners 3/4 full.

Bake at 350 for 15 -18 minutes.

Now for the frosting (The best part!)
1 stick butter softened
1/3 cup cocoa powder
3 3/4 cups powdered sugar
2-3 Tablespoons milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Beat butter. Add cocoa powder, powdered sugar, milk and vanilla extract together.

After cupcakes are cooled, pipe frosing onto cupcakes and add cut up pieces of extra peanut butter cups to the top of your cupcake.

There you go. So easy! And so yummy. This is a recipe you for sure will want to try.

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Just because

I love gifts. I love getting them, and I love giving them. Gifts make me feel special and happy. And Don't you love when you receive a gift from someone even though it's no special event? That it's "just because"no holiday or birthday but just for you? I feel like giving today.... So how about a giveaway?

I am giving away 2 $5 gift cards to....

See's candy!!!

Why see's candy? Because yesterday I went to their brand new grand opening less than 10 minutes from MY house! And I spun a wheel and I won chocolate drops! I'd never heard of them till then, but now there a favorite of mine.

So even if you hate see's candy you have to know at least 1 person who likes it.... are you in the giving mood? Or maybe you just want it for yourself.... do what you like with the gift card, just enter! (Why wouldn't you?) :)

How to enter:

Leave me a comment answering this question "What's your favorite type of see's candy?"

If you don't like see's candy (what?!) name your favorite kind of candy. And remember, you can always give the gift card as a gift.

Giveaway ends on Wednesday June 8th 2011.

My favorites? I am all for their dreamy white chocolate polar bear paws & of course their yummy peanut brittle bars.... mmmm.

By the way did you all know they have a new kind of lollipop? Root beer! I tried it out and liked it very much. Just so you all know. :)

Happy Saturday night!!!

The spanish Jack

I don't eat cereal a lot for breakfast. I usually eat eggs, bread (Rosemary bread is my favorite), bagels, and other things. This is one of my favorite ways to cook my eggs. Looks yummy, right?

I call it
The Spanish Jack omelet

Spanish Jack omelet

Mix in bowl:
2 large eggs
1-2 green onions cut up
salt & pepper
shredded cheddar Jack cheese (as much as you want)

Once cooked in the shape of an omelet add salsa & more cheese on top. Be creative and add in more ingredients if you want!

Let me know if you try making it. It's worth trying. And eating. :)

Aloha!

A while ago My aunt Jenny asked me if I would be in charge of planning my cousin Cammi's 7th birthday party. I agreed to and I'm glad I did! I'm going to take you step by step into Cammi's party in case you want to throw a party like this too (Or if you just want to see the pictures). Cammi wanted Bright colors, so I thought of a Luau theme! I worked great.

1. I started by looking for invitations on Etsy and I found Pink Pickle studio's etsy shop. I loved their cute Luau invites so we ordered those. You can see them HERE. I did have a little trouble since when they emailed me the invite and it said "Your invited" instead of "You're invited". Kind of weird but we asked them to fix that and they did. We just printed them out at cosco and then hand delivered them (and emailed some).

2. The set up. We had the party in Cammi's backyard. We set up 2 tables and lots of chairs for where the kids would eat. We got the cute table clothes at Party city.


3. Food! The party was at 1:30 so we made it simple and just did snacks and cupcakes. The kids loved the food! We had: Tropical juice pouches, Rainbow goldfish, Cheesy sun chips (Cammi's request), A fruit rainbow, and cupcakes!






4. The cupcakes! I am SOO happy with how they turned out! I found the idea at Family fun's site. They took a long time to make but were really yummy.




I had this idea then to make Cammi a Rainbow fish! She was the only one who had it and it was a special birthday treat for her.




5. The activity's. We split them up into 4 different groups and the rotated to each different activity


Activity #1.. Limbo! Sorry no pictures...

Activity #2 Digging for treasure!

We bought a kitty pool at walmart, bought sand at home depot and filled it with fun prizes from the 99 cents store! The kids loved this activity and thought it was so much fun!



Activity #3 Donuts on a string! Cammi told me before we had even planned the party that this HAD to be one of the activity's. It was and was very fun!
Activity # 4 Games with Hula hoops and balls!
I was in charge of this station so this is the only picture I got.... after the party. All I did was come up with a few quick games with the balls and hula hoops, but everyone had fun. They also blew bubbles and danced to Hawaiian music!



6. Pinata time!

Here is the cute fish pinata we bought at party city. We filled it with candy and let the kids hit away!


7. The party buckets
We found sand buckets that were a great price and filled them with some fun stuff. Like their own canteen/water bottles, rubber duckies, a Hawaiian kit to make a bracelet, bubbles, a noise maker, candy from pinata and the prizes from sand digging. They also got a Lei at the beginning of the party from the birthday girl.


The Birthday girl was very happy and I hope she had a great birthday! ( I just had to take a picture with her and the amazing clouds in the background!)

Happy birthday Camsi! I love you!

Really yummy Garlic Cheese biscuits

These biscuits are so easy to make and SO yummy to eat! I made them to go along with our dinner tonight. There are never any leftover that's for sure!


Garlic Cheese biscuits:

2 cups Bisquick baking mix
2/3 cup milk
1/2 cups cheese, shredded
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

Heat oven to 450. Mix baking mix, milk, & cheese until a soft dough forms. Drop dough by spoonfuls onto an uncreased cooking sheet. Bake 8 - 10 minutes or until golden brown. Mix butter & garlic powder. Brush garlic mixture over warm biscuits before removing from cookie sheet. Serve warm!
Before....
And after!
Don't these look so yummy?!
Hope you try them out! You will be glad you did! :)


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Mothers day

We had a great mothers day celebration this year. After church we had a yummy dinner and then opened presents!

Grandma with a card from Emma.
Grandma with a card from my mom
Grandma with another card.... (Yes she did get presents, not just cards!)
This was my gift. We took a picture of all the grand kids with a letter, and it spelled grandma. Then I put the picture in a picture frame!

Here she is with it!
Close up. I love how it turned out!!

For dessert we had the BEST cake in the world!! Seriously! It can't beat anything you have tasted before. It's a nothing bunt cake! If you haven't heard of them before or tasted their cake before you need to look at their website and order some cake. Go HERE.
This one was white choc raspberry!
And the cream cheese frosting is the best part!
I think you already know how long I could go on and on about their cakes!

I am so thankful for my mom and my grandmas!

"February" Collage

I promised my "February" collage.... So here it is! The pictures are not in any order of the right date, but that's okay. It was really a big pain to do this collage and then get it to post on here (Really it was!), but I hope you enjoy it! I just realized that most of my pictures have to do with Nature or food!! :)

Valentines day projects

We did a lot of stuff for Valentines day!

We made Cookies made for our neighbors and other people in our ward.
My mom made these "Valentine CD's".

My mom (I helped some) made these cute lollipops. (She made them for primary).

For part of out girls camp fundraiser we helped make heart cookies. These are the ones me and my friend Natalie made.


We got "heart attacked" from the activity day girls.
And brought us cute treats!

What do you do with cute boxes you found in the $1 section at target?
And cute cupcakes??? AND m&m's??
Turn them into valentines for all your friends in YW!
Our Red valentines dinner on valentines day

Valentine making
The table



"Red" meat for the taco's

Salad with "red' tomato's
Red jello with strawberry's
"red" soda

For dessert my mom made the batter for the cupcakes and I piped them. They turned out really cute!
My dad's birthday is tomorrow so we did a little party that night.
The cupcakes

My grandpa and Grandma brought see's candy!

And here's some pictures of Valentines day flowers.



Hope you had a happy valentines day!!!