I love sheet cake! My mom has made the most amazing chocolate Texas sheet cake since I was a little girl licking the batter bowl (hmmm, I guess I still do that). Recently I heard about a peanut butter version of this childhood favorite. At first I thought, “sounds great!” Then I had an idea I just knew would taste great. Chocolate sheet cake with peanut butter icing! Chocolate peanut butter is one of my favorite flavor combinations so I decided to try it.
I recently did a sensory table my kids were crazy about. I used a leftover half bag of spaghetti and boiled it in small batches in food coloring and water to make a whole rainbow of pasta fun. They enjoyed it so much I just had to share on my blog as my 100th post… Continue reading “Rainbow Pasta Fun”
I am a salty sweet kind of girl, I love chocolate with pretzels and salty peanuts on my ice cream. So it isn’t a big surprise I’m in love with salted caramel! I like the sauce to be just drizzled over ice cream, or a piece of chocolate cake, or over cheesecake. I like it in cookies, or yummy fall coffee drinks, or in frosting on cupcakes. Yes, I love the combination so much I just had to learn to make salted caramel sauce and then used it in my cream cheese butter cream icing! I took some chocolate cupcakes with salted caramel icing to a pot luck and they were a hit 🙂 I even got the sweet compliment of being called the “cupcake queen.”
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With a surplus of apples recently, My family has been enjoying many comfort foods such as apple pie. Wanting to save some for later pies I made some apple pie filling in my crock pot and canned it. Oh, and I made one to enjoy now as well with the filling.
Yesterday for my Tuesday art class at our CC group, I taught the kids about Van Gogh. We discussed his life, art, impressionist style and my favorite painting of his, Starry Night. I explained that he used oil paint on canvas and how the oils give the painting a really neat texture. Since I’m NOT giving 4-8 year olds oil paints to work with, I came up with a fun way to let them recreate Starry Night with texture.
Now that fall is here I have been craving some yummy soup! One of my very favorites is broccoli cheese. Only made better by being served inside a fresh bread bowl with chunks of bread from the inside sitting around the plate to dip in my cheesy soup.
My homemade oreos are my little sister’s favorite thing I bake. She recently started a new job, is moving in her first house and many exciting new things are happening for her! I wanted to congratulate her and encourage her in all of her new endeavors. So I spent my Saturday night baking her favorite treat 🙂 homemade oreo cookies. Continue reading “Homemade Oreos”
