Yummy In My Tummy

Snicker Doodles are not just fun to say ... they're also fun to make and eat.  Enjoy!

1/2 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup shortening

1/2 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 3/4 cup flour

2 teaspoon cream of tartar

1 teaspoon soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 Tablespoon sugar

2 teaspoon cinnamon

Heat oven to 400.  mix butter, shortening, sugar, and eggs.  Blend in four, cream of tartar, soda, and salt.  Shape dough by rounded teaspoon-fuls.  Mix sugar and cinnamon.  Roll balls in mixture.  Flatten with hand and place 2 inches apart on baking sheet.  Bake 8-10 minutes.  

Celebrate Good Times

Aaron graduated from Seminary!

The proud Parental Units

The Whole Fam-Fam!

So we decided to celebrate!

Homemade Double Decker Cookie Cake by Yours Truly

Ice Cream, Root Beer Floats, Cookie Cake, and Pink Lemonade = The Celebration of Champions

High School Graduation Tonight ....

... May the force be with us.

If You Like to Talk to Tomatoes . . .

The week of 11/11/11 11:11:11

I baked.

 And then we decorated.

And we ate chocolate like objects.

And I worked 10 hours in one day . . . (cookies on line 1!!)

 Feature Film of the Week:

Broccoli, celery, gotta be . . . Veggie Tales!

 And Devin got all dressed up!

Tanner: "Nice bling!"

Gail: "It's a leash!"

COOKIES ON LINE 1!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello my imaginary audience!!!  Time for an almost weekly update!!!

First things first . . . (what a confusing statement; of course if something is first, then it's the first thing you do) anyways, I got the Student Manager Job!!!!!  :] Yay!!!!!!!!!!!  I'm super excited!!!!!  It's going to be a lot of work, (seriously, I have a ton of training to get done by December 1) but I'm excited about it for a lot of reasons, mostly because it will be a personal challenge for me and allow me to strengthen myself and push my limits until what used to be my limits aren't my limits anymore, but have become my norms.  In the past, I've looked at the Student Managers and I've admired most of them; they're so . . . legit.  Seriously, most of them are totally awesome and know a lot of stuff about the Cougareat in general and are the kind of people I want to eventually be like.  To me, this is just another step to becoming the best me that I can possibly be.

Oh yeah, and this.

D-Vine

Today I finally started baking again!  On the menu: Chocolate Mousse in Cookie Bowls

First, we have the cookie bowls.

My partner in crime, Hanna, and her mad skillz with a rolling pin.

As always, roll out the dough!  In order to make the bowls, you want to roll it out kind of thick (1/4-1/2 inch).

Test "cookies" 

 And then you drape and mold them over the bottoms of a muffin pan! (Creative, right?!)

They should look kind of like this.  The original recipe uses fluted muffin pans, which make very classy looking bowls, but a regular muffin pan works, too.

 Cover a dozen or so muffin bottoms (and don't forget to spray the pan so that the cookies won't stick because that would be terribly unfortunate.).

Before the Oven

 Pop them in the oven for about 10 minutes. (@ 350 degrees)

After the oven

 Very, very, very carefully, remove the bowls from the tins.  The easiest way we discovered to do this was to run a knife along the bottom (the lip) of the bowls and then gently left them up.

They come out beautifully!!!

 And set them on a rack to cool :]

Cue Ray Charles: "You are so beautiful to me . . . etc"

While they're cooling, on to the Chocolate Mousse! (you can find the actual recipe for the chocolate mousse in one of my links over on the side- biggirlssmallkitchen.com.)

Basically, this is chocolate chips, water, butter, eggs, sugar, an salt.  Together,  they have it all.

 At this point, it smells delicious and looks very chocolatey.

Before the fridge/freezer.

 So, we didn't chill it for quite long enough so it was more like a chocolatey soup than mousse.  But it was still wonderful!!

And this is where the real test of your skills comes in to play.

 And you combine the two in perfect harmony.

They look wonderous . . . angels designed for these two to be together.

 And the bakers saw the chocolate mousse, that it was a thing of greatness.

Sprinkle a little powdered sugar on top, and you have the equivalent of pure gold.  You could also do  fresh raspberries or a sprig of peppermint and that would pretty much be perfection, but we didn't have any because we're poor college students without a vehicle to call our own.

After sprinkling the powdered sugar, prepare yourself for the most amazing dessert ever and enjoy! (Don't forget to breathe during the process.)

BWAC

 (Bored With A Camera)

Provo City Library [used to be Brigham Young Academy before the University became a university]

"Whenever I touch a velvet rose . . . I know Heavenly Father loves me."

"I'm glad that I live in this beautiful world Heavenly Father created for me."

It's Lee-uh; not Lay-uh. {I'm a different kind of princess.}

This is my goal for the summer.  So far, it's coming along [just swimmingly]!

The [Famous] Cookies of Gail Morgan! (Which were actually made by Leigha, but I still give her credit for the recipe and advice ;] )

"The vales exult, the hills acclaim, and all thy works revere thy name."

"The light of God rests on the face of brook, and flower, and tree and kindles in our happy hearts the hope of things to be."

The Amazing Gail Morgan! :] I love this girl. 

This is my roommate from Korea!  Her name is Shinjung and she is the prettiest Korean I've ever met!

This is my roommate from Hong Kong!  Her name is Lillian and I think she's gorgeous!

This is my roommate from Singapore!  Her name is Amanda and I think she's silly sometimes :) but she's also super cute!