C&C: Shabby Apple Dress Giveaway!

C&C: Shabby Apple Dress Giveaway!: This week I'm happy to help giveaway one of Shabby Apple's women's dresses !!! Woot woot! Not only that, for this next month you can use a...

The only thing that can make monday better...Chocolate Cookies!

A number of years ago I found a recipe for Malted Milk Ball Cookies. They were awesome. They would be devoured before they were even off of the pan. But then when I moved out of my parents house I lost the recipe. So I spent quite sometime searching for a substitute recipe. These cookies beat the other ones by far. 

They have a great Chocolate flavor that can be made more bitter or sweet depending on your preference. I use half Semi-sweet chocolate and half Milk chocolate in the recipe so that they are not as bitter. You can also use dark chocolate. 

I thought that I would share them with you.  I hope you like them. 

Ingredients: 

4 Semi-sweet Baking Squares ( or if you want less sweet cookies use 8 squares and omit the first cup of Milk Chocolate)

1 Cup Milk Chocolate Chips or 4 Milk Chocolate Baking Squares

1/4 Cup Butter or Margarine

3/4 Cup Packed Brown Sugar

2 Eggs

1/2 Cup Flour 

1/4 tsp Baking Powder

1 Cup Chocolate Chips (Milk, White, or Dark Chocolate or Chopped Nuts, Malted Milk Balls, Skor Bites, or any other chocolate bar chunks/bites that you enjoy)  (Mini Rolos are great)

Microwave Baking Chocolate and 1 Cup Chocolate Chips (or squares) for 1 minute then stir until melted and smooth. You may need to microwave again for another 30 sec to melt it farther. 

Stir in butter, flour, eggs, brown sugar, and baking powder, Mix well. 

Add remaining Chocolate Chips, nuts, or chocolate treats.  

Drop by heaping spoonful onto ungreased baking sheet. 

Bake in preheated 350' oven for 12-13 minutes. Cool on baking sheet for a couple minutes before transferring to wire rack. 

Store in airtight container. 

I like to use a Medium Scoop from Pampered Chef for my cookies because I like them all to be almost the same size, and it makes scooping so much easier. 

 

 

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The Beginning of the End & a Beautiful Baby Card

The end that I am speaking of is not that of impending doom for our world or anything of great significance. It is really just the end of my sanity. I am slowly going crazy.

I am a stay at home mother who loves what I do, but I cannot handle being stuck at home for what feels like 24 hours a day talking to a lovely little girl that does not talk with me. That is not entirely true, she does respond, it is just normally with yells or sounds that she is learning or her favourite word of almost everyday, "dadda".

So this is the beginning of something to stop my end. This blog is to help me stay sane in a crazy time for me. I guess its just like my journal that I wrote growing up but now I am putting it out there for people to read in hopes that it will help someone.  Help someone find their crafty side or at least to learn from my mistakes, since I have made and continue to make a lot of them.

We just got back from church and it is a blustery day, little A is finally down for a nap, husband is out doing work in the garage and then getting diapers, and I am enjoying the quiet of the house, the clicking of the keys and all of the crazy directions my mind is running in. I have so many ideas of what I want to post that I am struggling to force myself to hold it back and share it on another day.

So today I will just post a card. My sister-in-law just had a baby girl and I am so excited to meet her. Her name is Cadence Nicole. I needed a Congratulations card to give to them and I wanted to use my new Elebration stamp from Stampin ' Up.   Seen here  http://www.stampinup.com/ECWeb/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=121175

Here is how it was done:   (sorry for the strange pictures, I am just getting the hang of taking pictures with my left hand while working with my right)

Stamps: Elebration
Paper: Whisper White Cardstock, Pink Pirouette, Rose Red, Pink Pirouette Designer Series Paper
Ink: Staz On Black ink, Stampin' Write Markers in Rose Red, So Saffron, Pretty In Pink, Bashful Blue
Embelishments: Pink Pirouette Grosgrain Ribbon
Tools:  Blender Pen, Tabletop Cutter, Bone Folder, Big Shot, Stampin' Up Backgrounds Texturz Plates  (polka dots)
Adhesives: Anywhere Glue Stick, Sticky Stripz