Church Bake Sale

Last week we had a bake sale at our church.

I wanted to think outside the box and come up with something a little different.

Cupcakes in a jar.

These are the coolest things, I actually saw these on Food Network and thought,

what a genius idea.

There is so many things you can do with these.

You can take these on the go, or if you don't eat it all, you can save the

rest for latter. Not to mention these would make a great gift.

These are super easy to make.

I used a cake mix and store bought icing.

Bake cup cakes in a muffin pan, let cool and cut in half.

Place the bottom cupcake in the jar, top with icing,

place the top part of the cupcake on top of icing and end with the icing

on top.

I tied a spoon around the jar so if they wanted to eat it right then they could,

plus it looks really cute with the spoon.

My second item for the bake sale.

These babies almost didn't make it to the bake sale.

The smell of these Cinnamon Rolls tormented us,

I think my whole family was hoping I would drop them on the floor

so I wouldn't have to take them to the bake sale and believe me, we would

have eaten every cinnamon roll off the floor including me.

Sadly enough, I didn't drop any but, we did eat the ones that we thought

might not be bake sale worthy. Code for, we could not help ourselves.

I admit it, I had a week moment. I think those cinnamon rolls put some

kind of spell on us, yea! thats what happened, it was all the cinnamon rolls

fault. Shew! I feel a lot better now that I realized I wasn't week, I was just

under a cinnamon roll spell and the only way to break the spell is to

eat the cinnamon roll. :-)

You guys are probably thinking, enough with the spells and

give us the recipe!

Here is the recipe, and remember if you find yourself eating a lot of these, it's ok,

your doing the right thing, it's the only way to break the ( scary music in the back ground)

"Cinnamon Roll Spell" MUWAAAHAAAA!!!!

Ok, here's the recipe.

1/4 warm water

1/4 c. butter melted

1/2 of a 3.4oz pkg of instant vanilla pudding

1 c. warm milk

1 egg room temp.

1 Tbs sugar

1/2 tsp salt

4 c. bread flour

1 pkg yeast ( i used bread machine yeast in a jar)

Place al ingredients in bread machine and set on dough cycle.

When dough is finished. Roll out dough on a slightly floured surface.

Roll dough into a rectangle.

Filling:

1/4 c. softened butter

1/4 c. white granulated sugar

3/4 c. brown sugar

2 1/2 Tbs cinnamon

Spread softened butter onto dough.

Mix together the other ingredients and sprinkle over butter.

Roll up dough, beginning with the long side and slice.

Place in a greased or buttered 9x13 inch pan and let rise about 45 min.

Bake at 350 for 30 to 40 min or until they START to turn brown.

For the icing, I used the same icing recipe that I used on the

ricotta cookies.

ENJOY!

Monday: Leftovers

Tuesday: Taco salad

Wednesday: Asian pasta

Thursday: Chicken and rice soup

Friday: Family night, pizza

Saturday: Eating out

Ricotta Cookies

These cookies are supper dupper yummy.

My friend Jessie was the one that got me hooked on these cookies.

She makes a pretty mean cookie.

After tasting her cookies, I went on a search for a recipe, and

I think I came up with a really good one, even the kids and hubby

LOVED them.

1 c. butter

2 c. sugar

2 eggs

15 oz ricotta cheese

2 tsp vanilla

4 c. all purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

Heat oven to 350

In a large bowl cream together butter and sugar.

Beat in eggs one at a time.

Next, stir in the ricotta cheese and vanilla.

Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Stir the ricotta mixture into the dry ingredients.

Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto baking sheet.

Bake for 10 minutes.

Cream Cheese Frosting

1 stick of butter

1 8oz block of cream cheese

3 c. powder sugar

1 tsp vanilla

Cream butter and sugar, add vanilla.

Then slowly add the powder sugar.

BOO PUMPKINS

I love these pumpkins that you can get at Michaels,

because you can use them from year to year.

These are on sale this week for 40% off.

You have probably seen this craft all overs blog land.

I actually saw this for the first time last fall and knew I had

to do it.

Sooooooo, using the cricut and some vinyl

TA-DA!!!

Gorgeous Darling, Gorgeous.

Monday: Buffalo chicken salad

Tuesday: Spaghetti

Wednesday: Chicken wings

Thursday: Salsa verde chicken (didn't get to make it last week)

Friday: Baked fish and potatoes Saturday: Grilled chicken and veggies

IKEA JARS

A couple of months ago I was at IKEA and bought these adorable jars.

I believe they were only like two dollars. CHA-CHING!!

I printed out some skull and cross bones from the cricut.

These will be great to serve apple cider in for Halloween.

Menu Plan Monday

Monday: Papaws tacos

Tuesday: Crockpot chicken soup

Wednesday: Buffalo chicken salad

Thursday: Stuffed peppers

Friday: Eating out (its our anniversary)

Saturday: Chicken verde

(new recipe, i'll let you know how it turns out)

Lowe's Home Project

Isn't this just the cutest things ever?

These cute little ghost candle lights are in the Lowe's

home project catalog, or you can just go straight to there website

for the tutorial.

This looks so easy.

I think it would make a great project for the kiddos.

These guys totally look like a Martha Stewart project.

You Go Lowe's!! ;-)

My Halloween Bowl

I'm so excited to show you guys this. The Katie Brown collection at

Meijrs is on clearance right now, and I have had my eye on this bowl for a while.

So, as soon as I saw the orange tag, I knew right then I had to have it.

One of the things I like most about this bowl is,

it's huge!

Since Halloween is coming up, I thought it would make the perfect candy bowl.

I got out the old cricut machine, some vinyl

and printed out the letters and stuck it on the bowl.

It turned out sooooo cute!

I keep walking back to the kitchen just to look at it.

I'm totally in love with this bowl.

More Fall/Halloween Stuff

I'm having so much fun getting the house all ready for fall and halloween.

Sams club has these cute little halloween pretzels, and is perfect for the

kids lunch.

I got this giant pumpkin at T.J Maxx. Just

wrap some lights around it and BooM! Instant Fallsville:)

It looks very fallish (: is that a word? :) sitting on our hearth.

I absolutely love these guys.

I bought them at Kirkland's and love how they look

in the house.

Ahhhh, my cloche, how I love thee.

I put a white pumpkin in it and some leaves. It's really endless

what you can do with these.

Now if it was just cool enough for a fire, I would

be all set.

Fall Is In The Air

Is anybody else ready for fall?

I am! I can't believe I'm saying it but, bring on the cooler air, scarfs,

pumpkins, the changing of the leaves, the smell of cinnamon in the kitchen,

a warm cozy fire in the fireplace with a nice cup of hot chocolate.

Fall is definetely one of my favorite times of the year.

So come on fall, BRING IT!!

Since I'm in the fall mood, I thought I would start decorating for it.

I got these wooden acorns at hobby lobby this week and

they were only 1.50

They are so cute!

While I was out looking for more fall deals, I thought I

would go in this store called the christmas shop.

I have never been in one these store before because I thought it was a store

that sold christmas stuff.

I don't know what would give me that idea :-)

Anyway! This store is awesome!

They sell all kinds of stuff, cheap stuff.

If you have one of these stores in your area, you must go.

I got this cute little wooden pumpkin ball for only a 1.00

This store has all kinds of seasonal stuff for a 1.00

These buckets are my favorite.

They also came from the christmas store.

Don't you think they look like Mary Engelbreit stuff?

They were only a dollar!!!!!!!

I think I'm ready for another shopping trip to the christmas store,

what do you think?