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S’Mores Cookies

July 21, 2015 By Callie Leave a Comment

I have a deep deep obsession with s’mores. I have an entire pinterest board devoted to the things. They’re just so super summery right?

When I was in high school my friend Beckie and I our senior year summer, right before college would make s’mores 3-5 times a week. I’d grab supplies and drive to her house. Massachusetts gets dark! We’d make a bonfire and just sit for a couple of hours. It was super fun.

I thought it was about time to break open a s’mores recipe. I mean it’s summer!!!! These s’mores cookies are quick and easy and yummy.

Prep to finish was about 10 minutes. The longest part was cutting the graham crackers-no joke.

Ingredients-

Graham crackers

Large marshmallows

Chocolate Kisses

Use a cookie cutter or biscuit cutter to chop the graham crackers into pretty shapes! Lay them out on a cookie sheet. Preheat the oven to 300. Place one large marshmallow on top of each graham crackers. Pop in the oven-now you have to watch them. I would say about 3-5 minutes. Use this time to unravel your chocolate kisses. Grab those puppies out and push the chocolate kisses in the center. That’s it. Let them cool just a bit because they are a hot mess.

They are super yummy! If you like more graham cracker with yours simply don’t cut the graham crackers. I ate 2 hubs ate all the rest! I think he liked them.

Happy S’moring

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Valentine’s Cookies

February 12, 2015 By Callie Leave a Comment

Valentine’s Day up!

Boy did Valentine’s Day sure sneak up on me! How about you???? We have a toddler Valentine’s party tomorrow and I was rushing to get Row’s valentine’s together and a quick treat for the Mamas and kiddos. I snuck onto pinterest and found this. Looked easy enough! I did change a couple of things 🙂

You’ll need:

Strawberry wafer cookies-these were actually hard to find-only Walmart carried them.

Vanilla meltables or baking chcolate

Sprinkles

Wax paper

Lay out your wax paper. Melt your white chocolate. I don’t use the microwave method because it never comes out the right way. I bought a double boiler. It was only 19.99 at Bed Bath and Beyond and has been so worth it. Boil your water, dump all the chocolate into the top pan. Once the water starts to boil cover immediately with the second pot containing the chocolate cover with a lid and turn the flame off. Stir as needed until chocolate is smooth.

Super important-make sure you don’t get any water in the chocolate mixture it will ruin it.

Dip the tops of the cookies in the chocolate, place on wax paper and add sprinkles immediately.

There you have it! Super easy, cute, quick, and ready for tomorrow!

We are hoping you’re having a wonderful Valentine’s Day week!

Grinch Christmas Cookies

December 17, 2014 By Callie Leave a Comment

The toddler Christmas party I hosted included a Christmas cookie exchange for the mamas! Each mama was asked to bring two dozen cookies of their choice and in return left with a two dozen variety of their choosing. I love to bake-cupcakes are what I’m best at but cookies are becoming a fast second in line.I love trying out new things-especially when they’re super fun! I scrolled through pinterest and found a recipe for Grinch cookies. I immediately chose them. I changed them just a bit.

Ingredients-

One box of french vanilla cake mix-or you can make from scratch.

Vegetable Oil-you can substitute applesauce if you wish!

Eggs

green food coloring

heart shaped sprinkles

powdered sugar

To make follow the directions on the cake mix and add green food coloring. Row helped with this! I also doubled the recipe because 1. I make a little my cookies a little on the big size and 2. I wanted to make sure I had enough for two dozen.

Chill batter in the refrigerator for roughly 15-20 minutes. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line your cookie sheets with parchment paper or a silpat sheet-love those. You can also use baking spray but I prefer not to for cookies. Leaves a bit of an after taste. Pour some powdered sugar in a bowl.

Remove batter and scoop out roughly one tablespoon at a time, roll into a ball, drop into the powdered sugar, roll and cover-use this liberally.Put on the cookie sheet and press in the single heart sprinkle-right in the middle.

Bake for 8-10 minutes. Let firm for 2 minutes on the cookie sheet and then move to a cooling rack. These tasted really good because well they’re cake. Row approved and they were super cute. You could easily use this recipe for Valentine’s Day with pink or red batter!

Happy eating!

And that’s how we feel about that!