One Great BIG Tip!!!!!!!!

Hello! I have one great big tip for you all!!!!!!!!!!!! WATCH FOOD NETWORK OR ANY OTHER COOKING CHANNEL! IT IS FUN TO WATCH AND YOU CAN LEARN A LOT! But seriously, you really should watch some sort of cooking show! Thats my ONE GREAT BIG TIP! (or maybe not so big). heehee

Banana Boats

At Camp Forest Springs, a christian camp I went to, we had to camp outside for one night. During that night, we had to cook our food over the fire. Then we made a dessert over the fire. I didn't have one but my friends did and said they were so good!!!!!!!!!! Usually you would make the over a fire, but you can put it in the oven on broil. So this is how to make Banana Boats:

You will need:

one banana

mini chocolate chips

mini marshmallows

peanut butter

tinfoil

How to make it:

You take the banana, but don't peel it!!!! Just make two slits the long way on the peel about a half an inch deep. Then peel back that part of the banana, but don't take it all the way of the banana. Then take part of the banana out and put peanut butter on it. Then take a handful of mini chocolate chips and sprinkle them on on the peanut butter. And finally take ten mini marshmallows and put those on on top of the peanut butter and chocolate chips. Then put the peel that we cut and put it on top. Rap the whole thing in tinfoil and put it in the broiler until everything is melted. then take it out, and eat it!!! Yummmmmmmmm!!!!

The post beneath me

Hi!!!! I made the post beneath me by accident and I really don't know how to undo it. So sorry!!!!!!

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Chocolate Chip Shortbread

Hi again!!!!!!! My friend, Sarah, bought me this AMAZING recipe book for my birthday!!!!!! Here is one of the great recipes (this won't be very good for you, but oh well):

Chocolate Chip Shortbread

ingredients:

(serves 8)

4 oz butter, diced, plus extra for greasing

4 oz of all-purpose flour

2 oz of golden superfine sugar

1 and 1/2 oz cup of semisweet chocolate chips

2 oz of cornstarch

recipe:

1- Sift the flour and cornstarch into a large mixing bowl. Stir in the sugar, then add the butter and rub it in until the mixture starts to bind together.

2- Turn the mixture into a large 9-inch loose-bottom fluted tart pan and press evenly over the base. Prick the surface with a fork. Sprinkle with the chocolate chips and press lightly into the surface.

3- Bake the shortbread in a preheated oven, 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes, or until cooked but not browned. Cut into 8 portions with a sharp knife. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

THEN DIG IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So that's it!!! I want to thank Sarah Fetzer for giving me this recipe book! I really appreciate it! You are so awesome, Sarah!

Fun With My Sister Abagayle!

Hi again! Well, lately, my sister Abagayle and I have been blending lots and lots of smoothies! Yummy! We have been making our own recipe, Fruity Smoothie. It is sooooooooooo delicious! Here is the recipe:

A WHOLE carton of strawberries

1 banana (it's alright if it's brown)

A fair amount of ice

Organic Agave Nectar or maple syrup

Plain yogurt

Around 3-4 cups of orange juice

It is so easy. All you do is cut up all the strawberries into 4th's. Slice the banana into 3/4 of an inch slices. Then, put everything in the blender, and blend it up!!!!!! Blend it up until it is king of watery but also icy. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. :)

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Once, we were making chocolate covered strawberries with my grandma. They are very easy! All you do is melt semi-sweet chocolate chips in a bowl in the microwave. Then, once they are all melted, you take the bowl out of the microwave. You'll need about 2 pints of strawberries for this recipe. Then, you take a cookie sheet and lay wax paper on it so it covers the whole cookie sheet. Take the strawberries and wash them. You may want to do this ahead of time so the chocolate doesn't harden. After they are all washed, dip the strawberries into the chocolate and set them on the cookie sheet. And you are all done!!!!!!!!!! Yummy!

Fondue

At our New Year party, our friends brought fondue. If you don't know what that is, it is melted chocolate in cup kept warm by a candle. It was really yummy!!!!! And you might think it would be gross, but the best thing to put in it was pineapple! You should try it!

Holiday Cheese

I just got done cutting cheese for our Christmas party on Christmas. A cute thing to do with your cheese on any holiday is to find a cookie cutter that matches that holiday (star or tree for Christmas, pumpkin or leaf for Thanksgiving, etc.) and simply cut your cheese into large rectangles and then press your cookie cutter into the cheese. Then, you gently press the cheese out of the cutter. You should have you cheese in the shape of the cookie cutter by the time you are done. Cut out as many shapes as possible from one rectangle. Then what should you do with the extras? You can sprinkle the extras on top of anything as needed. You could also take each extra of cheese and split into little pieces and then put a toothpick in it and then set it out an a tray. Merry Christmas!

Yummy looking bars

A couple days ago, I was looking through a magazine. There were some yummy looking bars, and they were milk or dark chocolate (anyone you choose) on bottom and white chocolate on the top with bits of candy cane sprinkled on top. They were hardened so they were probably put in the fridge to harden!

Dirt Bars! Yum!

We have a banquet at our church and my mom had to bake some treats so she chose this recipe and a couple others, but these are sooooo good I have to tell you them!!!!!!!!! Here they are! They are called Dirt Bars!


What you need:

1 package of German sweet chocolate cake mix
1 1/2 sticks of butter
1 cup of chocolate chips
1 bag of caramels with 45-50 caramels in it
1 small can of evaporated milk (5 ounces)

Melt butter and mix with cake mix. Mix will be a little dry and pasty. Spread 1 half of the paste mix in 9x13 pan. (spray pan)

Bake at 350 degrees for 6 minutes. Remove from the oven and add chocolate chips.

Melt caramels and milk in microwave until melted. Pour over chips. Crumble the rest of the cake mix on top.

Bake t 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Cool completely then cut!

Potato Yogurt

Even though this blog is about cookies, cakes, and such, I have some really great advice about a dinner that is great for you!!!!! Potatoes are actually great for you, as long as they don't have too much unhealthy stuff on them. So instead of sour cream, you can use organic yogurt with some seasonings in it. And instead of lots of cheese, can use a small handful. With a little salt and butter, this could be a dinner you could love!!!!!

Ideas for Christmas cookies

Every year, we bake lots of cookies with my Grandma for Christmas! Here are some we do every year.......we get these ideas from cookie books, so here they are:

chocolate truffles: chocolate balls rolled in sprinkles
pecan fingers: cookie-dough with pecans in it rolled in powdered sugar
chocolate kiss cookies: sugar cookie dough with pressed in chocolate kisses in the middle

So if you are looking for some great cookie recipes you could try these, they are great!

Merry Christmas!

Cooking Mama

If anybody likes cooking but doesn't want the kitchen to get messy, and if you have a Wii, you can get the Wii game Cooking Mama! You can make cakes to sushi all on the TV!! And you can compete with cartoons from France, China, and more!!!!!! And you can do 2 players also!!! You might want to check it out!!!!!

Banana-Oatmeal Cookies

We sometimes make cookies called Banana-Oatmeal Cookies!! They are delicious!! Here is the recipe:

3 ripe bananas
2 cups of rolled oats
1 cup of chocolate chips
1/3 cup of vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract


1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F
2. In a large bowl, mash the bananas. Stir in the oats, oil, and vanilla. Mix well and allow to sit for 15 minutes. Drop teaspoons of the mixture onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
3. Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly brown.

You may want to let them cool for a little bit, or else they are very melty.

Hope you like them!

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog! It's about candy and all kinds of fun! I hope you like it!