Chocolate Chip Cookies Part Dos

After coming home from a fun night with friends, it's always nice to have a late night snack that you're so proud of you have to take a picture of it! Here is Nestle's mint hot chocolate with some mini marshmallows and Hershey's chocolate chip cookie recipe. We used the new Hershey's melts in the cookies and they are fun and different, but I think I prefer actual chocolate chips :) I also had to add like 4 extra cups of flour, because they were thin as paper!! My daddio likes em like that, but I prefer fluffy cookies :)

Chocolate Chip Cookies

It's Super Sweet Sugar Study Day! Which oddly enough, wasn't that sugarish haha We very quickly got sick of treats, soooo we ended up with a ton of extra cookies :P Good thing we get to get rid of them at FHE!

Thank you Stephanie and your fam for this awesome recipe!

3 c flour

¾ tsp salt

¾ tsp baking soda

2 sticks butter

¾ c sugar

1 c brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

In a bowl, mix flour, salt, and soda; set aside. In another bowl, mix butter, sugars, vanilla, and eggs. Mix flour and butter mixtures together. Add chocolate chips. Bake at 350 degrees for 17-22 min.

Not So Great, Great Value

Ya. Never will I EVER use a Great Value recipe again. This is what happens. 

Ok, so these don't LOOK that bad, but they are. The insides are barely done and the edges are crispy, crispy. This was the first batch. The second batch was worse. The bottoms and edges were charcoal and the middles were still raw dough. What. The heck?? The same thing happened once last year!

See?? Except the edges were so much more burnt this time :P Lame. Apparently they were still delicious though, so I'll eat em! Just aren't pretty :P So ya. Let me repeat. I will NEVER EVER use a Great Value recipe again. 

Applesauce Chocolate Chip Cookies

What a freakin AWESOME weekend!! Holy cow, so fun. Wanna hear about it? :) 

K, so Friday, Ben and I got to go and spend the day in St. George after classes! We visited my amazing family, went to the fastest temple trip ever (those baptistery workers let no time waste!), then went to the amazingly, fantastically, and wondrously delicious Sweet Tooth Fairy for some heavenly cupcakes! Ya. I will own one of those (or my own shop like it) one day. 

Saturday, boyfriend, friends, and I wanted to go make breakfast at Ben's grandparent's lot up the canyon. Well, it was freakishly rainy yesterday, so when we got up there, of course all the wood was soaking wet, so a fire was impossible to make haha

 But that didn't stop us from enjoying the absolutely gorgeous fall leaves and weather up there :)

 

  But we were still all starving, so we went back to mine and Kiersten's house and made a great breakfast with eggs, hash browns, blueberry Belgian waffles, sourdough bread w/ nuttela (drooooool. SO good.), and orange juice :)

 

 And what a better way to work off that filling breakfast than with some Just Dance 3??

  After a great Saturday Stake Conference session, there was a party in our house haha It was sweet! So Kiersten and I had already decided we would cheat our Friday rule, so a few friends and I made Applesauce Chocolate Chip cookies! Holy flippin bananas. These are so good. And they make so many!!!! It was awesome :) 

 What were the rest of the bajillion people in our house doing? Learning freakin legit line dances from this crazy good dancer, Thaddeus. If only pictures could capture exactly how awesome this dudes dancing skills are!

See? I told you it was a great weekend :) 

Peanut Butter Cookies

Oh my goodness, oh my goodness. It's my last day at work!!! Oh such mixed emotions! I'm way glad to not have to be waking up at 4:20 a.m. anymore (way, way too early, folks), but I am going to miss my co-workers and good friends I've made this summer. So, since this is my last day, I brought cookies to work!! I brought Peanut Butter cookies (I just didn't put on the kisses) and Volcano cookies :) But guess what? So I get to work and it's a normal, hot, sweaty day, up until around lunch time. I noticed no one was going on break. Weird, usually people are pretty dang good at not forgetting their break ha ;) I just so happened to notice a present on my manager's desk and I knew what was going on!! They were throwing me a surprise party XD I totally knew it. But I pretended like I didn't! Eventually, everyone left, leaving just me and 2 other people working. They are so totally throwing me a party. Finally, we got to go up there and I was so right :) Awwww!!! They brought pizza, soda, and 2 DELICIOUS cakes. Flan and Tres Leches. So, so, so yummy. I even got presents! Diana gave me this really pretty bag that her mom made and my good friend Miguel (who was basically in love with me this summer bahaha) gave me gorgeous flowers :) Awww tender. I love the people I work with!! Shout out to you guys!! But I must say. I'm freaking excited to go back to SUU!! :D Go T-Birds!

Where Did the Summer Go?

So it's been flipping forever since I've posted on here and I'm terribly sorry for that. The summer has been cRaZy busy these past couple months! I still had time to bake and such though, of course ;) Wanna see what I've been up to?

To celebrate the 4th of July, my biggest bro, Dave, and I created our own rubs for some kabobs :) (Don't ask what we put in there, we kinda just threw stuff in) They were one of the tastiest kabobs I've ever had!

And since it was a patriotic celebration, I had to do something festive :)

Now this entire summer, my boss at work has been an absolutely FANTASTIC being and has brought us snacks and treats everyday :) So I decided to give back as well and bring some delicious treats! I sadly didn't get to take any pics :P But I made the scrumptious Mint Brownies and Dulce de Leche Brownies :) (The Dulce de Leche brownies were a HUGE hit among my Latino co-workers :) )

Being freaked out by an Emu at an awesome FHE is always fun :)

 Family reunions in a freaking nice cabin are always essential.

Trip to Lagoon with friends old and new :)

Many, many, many a temple trips :) (With future sister-in-law I bet on the far right!)

Cousin Alex had a beautiful wedding in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple :)

This is normal for my family :)

So. Many. Fires.

Spending all the time I can with my bestest best friend, Bayley :)

Somewhere along here I made some freaking good Hello Dolly's, but again didn't get the chance to snag a pic :P

 Almond Joys are one of my favorite candy bars EVER, so why not make my own?

K and it's flipping hot in my work place, so I'm always craving ice-cream. But sometimes store bought ice-cream isn't sounding like enough. No? Well hows about some homemade ice-cream :) Coconut-y, Oreo-y goodness. I got this recipe from this book. Here's the recipe.

1 fourteen oz can coconut milk
1/3 c sugar
2 TBS cocoa
10 crushed Oreos

Combine the coconut milk, sugar, and cocoa powder in a blender and blend for 20 seconds. Pour the liquid into the bowl of an ice cream maker and churn according to the manufacturer's directions. In the last 5 minutes of churning, add the crushed Oreos. Transfer the ice cream to a plastic container, cover, and store in freezer until ready to eat.

And finally, one of my very best friends, Arissa Moore (now Rowley) got married to a guy that I completely approve of. They will live a very, very happy and exciting life together :) Love you guys!

Man. See? I told you I've been busy! But summer's almost over and school starts next week. Gotta live up what time I have left! Oh, and this school year's gonna be big. I can feel it. 

Keep it real, homies :)

100 Cookies in One Night? Done.

So tomorrow's a big day for my bestie, Bayley. She's turnin the big 20! She's havin a little partay of sorts and asked me to make some cookies for it. At first I thought, oh I'll just make about 3 dozen cookies. But I don't want to make just one type of cookie, that's boring :P So I made this one from my mom's blog and then using my mom's chocolate chip recipe, made the middle cookies, but switched out the chocolate chips for M&M's. This turned out to make A LOT of cookies. I was shocked! But I had a system and it went pretty well :D Then, for Bayley's birthday present, I was making her favorite, Inception cookies, that had a little laminated note in the middle of each cookie. 20 cookies, with 20 reasons why she's my best friend :) Cute, eh? So after I made the first two cookies, I had to make these. By around midnight, I was finally finished baking. Ho.Ly. Cow. I've never made so many cookies in one night in my life and I don't think I want to do that again. At least for a while ;)

M&M Cookies:

2 sticks butter

1 c brown sugar

3/4 c sugar

2 eggs

1 TBS vanilla

3 c flour

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 bag chocolate chips (or M&M's in this case)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix well. Add flour and soda. Mix well. Stir in chocolate chips or M&M's. Bake for 8-10 minutes. 

Inception Cookies:

Using the same ingredient as the recipe above, make the cookie batter. Grab a normal size portion of the cookie dough, split it in half, and place a mini Oreo (or if you want them to be hideous jumbo cookies like I did, place 2 normal sizes of cookie dough around either side of a normal sized Oreo) on one of the halves. Place the other half on top and seal the edges of the cookie dough, shaping the cookie back into a ball shape. Place on the cookies sheet and bake like normal!

Gingersnaps

Let me introduce you to some of my good friends :) That's Austin, Bayley, me of course ;), and Paul. We've all been friends since high school, and I don't think our friendship will ever end! I dunno about you, but I think that's pretty cool :) So we decided to make some yummy cookies tonight. No one had any ideas of what to make, so I suggested these. Gingersnaps baby! It was fun to spend the night baking, but what was even better was spending it with these awesome people :) 

 

Volcano Cookies

...or No-Bake Cookies as the rest of the world knows haha. These things are heavenly goodness! And I finally know how to make them not be puddles! BE SURE TO LET OATS SIT IN THE CHOCOLATE MIXTURE AFTER YOU STIR THEM IN FOR 10 MIN! :) That's how they don't turn to slop ;)

Snickerdoodles :)

Snickerdoodles! I love them! They're easy, yummy, soft, and this recipe makes a ton! XD I love it.

Super Sweet Sugar Study Day

Dum, duh, dum, dum, duuuuuuuuum!!! It's finals week next week!!! Aaaa!! Time to crack down and start the legit studying! Now, SUU being awesome, the school gives us the Friday before finals week off so that we can study our little hearts out. But who can really be that focused without any help? No one! At least Kiersten and I can't ;P So we need a little sugary assistance. We did this last semester and loved it, so we decided to do it again. Basically, we make as much treats as we want and eat them all throughout the day, killing our bodies, and enriching our minds with course material. It's a stupid thing we do, yes, but will we continue doing it? Of course ;)

 This S.S.S.S.D. I made these and these. Both were extremely rich and extremely delicious. You ate one and you NEEDED to be done, but you couldn't help but eat more ;) Kiersten made some other treats and we had the best chocolate covered ice-cream cones. Overall, we had enough to feed the whole building. But it was just the two of us ;)

Cute 'Lil Sugar Cookies

Spring break is over and I'm back at school. That's cool and all, but I'm bored and want to use my new Kitchen Aid that I came home to! So after searching for a while, I found these. Well, I didn't have anything to make the cinnamon part with, so I just made these into cute 'lil regular cookies :) And instead of using that glaze recipe, I used this one. Although it wasn't my treat day, so I didn't have any, my roommates said they were good, so I'll take their word for it ;)