I got this recipe from a baker friend. She developed it herself. Thank you, MC!
My favorite part of this cookie is the crystalized sugar from the melted marshmallow.
1/4 C. unsalted butter (I know, not much butter)
3/4 C. brown sugar
1 egg
1 T. vanilla
1 C. flour
1/2 t. baking soda
1 package of graham crackers (one standard size box is usually divided into three packages)
3 Hershey bars
1 C. mini marshmallows (leave the marshmallows out on a plate for a bit so they dry out)
Preheat oven to 325.
1. Cream butter and sugar.
2. Add egg and vanilla and mix.
3. In a separate bowl, mix all dry ingredients. Break graham crackers and Hersheys into bite size pieces.
4. Add dry ingredients to wet. (Wet bowl should be big enough to receive the dry ingredients.)
5. Bake for 15 minutes.
Warning:
The dough looks weird and really dry but don't worry. It's supposed to look that way.
Just spoon it onto a cookie sheet and stick it in the oven.
On a different note, I recently received two mini succulents. Cute, aren't they? Best of all, it is nearly impossible to kill them or so I am told.
Now that Katie can read, it's a joy to go to Borders and to hang out at Starbucks. The girls have reached the age where I feel like the hard, physical stuff is over. When I see baby pictures of them, I miss it for a second or two. But I am enjoying this stage of their lives. Back to Katie...I looked over one night and saw her reading.
Not sure if this is hugely resourceful or just lazy. In any case, it cracked me up.
Mexican wedding cookies...Russian tea cakes...powdered circles of nutty goodness. Whatever you call them, they are my favorite cookies of the season.
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| My Personal KitchenAid |
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| Ready for the Oven |
This is an old Bon Appetit recipe.
2 1/4 C. all purpose flour
1/4 t. salt
1 C. (two sticks) butter, room temp.
1/2 C. powdered sugar
1 t. vanilla extract
3/4 C. finely chopped pecans, toasted
powdered sugar
1. Sift flour and salt together.
2. Cream butter in a large bowl until light. Gradually add 1/2 C. sugar and beat until fluffy. Add vanilla.
3. Mix in dry ingredients in 3 batches. Mix in pecans.
4. Refridgerate at least 1 hour or up to 12 hours.
Preheat oven at 400F. Form dough into 1 inch balls on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for about 15 minutes. Cool and roll in powdered sugar. You can cool completely and roll them again in powdered sugar but who has the time or the patience!
It is official. I have two readers. I know who you are and I want to thank you for reading my blog. I would like to gift you a recipe, an idea for dinner. I always appreciate dinner ideas. This one is from my pastor's wife.
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| Jackie Rigatoni |
It really is delicious and a cinch to cook up especially if you have three hungry little kids running around. I am surrounded with friends with three kids (including my pastor's wife).
1 pound of rigatoni pasta
1 package of Trader Joes Sweet Italian Sausage
2 packages of Trader Joes broccolini
1 handfull of sun dried tomatoes in olive oil (Trader Joes sells this as well)
5 or 6 cloves of garlic sliced up
1. Boil pasta in salted water.
2. Saute sausage and set aside.
3. Saute sliced up garlic in olive oil. Add broccoli and sundried tomatoes. Chop up the tomatoes and cut up the broccolini first though. I also like to peel the broccoli stalk.
4. Add sausage back into broccolini mixture.
5. Add pasta. As soon as the pasta gets near al dente, I scoop up the pasta from the boiling pot with my trusty spider and dump it into the pan. No need to rinse. Plus, some of the pasta water ends up into the sausage/broccolini mixture which adds some liquid to the dish.
6. Mix and season with salt as needed.
It's yummy to let the pasta sit in the pan a bit - you get a nice brown crust on some of the pasta pieces. Enjoy!
I am a cryer. Just today, I think I teared up three or four times. Sometimes, it's embarrassing. Like when my boss is telling me something cute about his kid and I can feel my eyes welling up. It's weird because there's nothing particularly moving about it but I just start tearing up. I'm hoping people can't tell. But I have a sneaking suspicion they can. Other times, it happens when I'm singing in my car by myself. Something about a combination of notes and I start tearing up. It's a joke amongst my family and friends. My singing and my crying.
A song that made me tear up:
Those Christmas lights light up the street
Down where the sea and city meet
May all your trouble soon be gone
Oh Christmas light, keep shining on
