Soft pretzels

I found an easy recipe for soft pretzels off of Pinterest. I don't think though that I kneeded it enough because it was too hard to roll out.




It looks more like a bagel then a pretzel. I will try again with a little more kneeding.



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Party time

I had a party this past weekend and it was so rainy I had to have the party inside. I made chocolate cupcake with spring decorations.




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Twist

Yesterday I made a cinnamon twist recipe that i found off of Pinterest. Which you can follow me at starlightgoodys. I know it is spelled differently but it wouldn't let me spell it the other way. The picture for the cinnamon twist looked like they used a refrigerated pie crust but it was a simple bread using yeast. Then the dough was rolled out and brushed with butter. A mixture of cinnamon and sugar sprinkled on top. Now the fun part; roll the dough, then take a knife and cut down length wise. If I remembered I should have taken pictures step by step for this. Then with the cut side up I twisted the two sides together and pulled the ends together making a ring. I brushed some more butter a sprinkled more cinnamon sugar mix on top.




This was not as pretty as the one I found online (practice Mamie's perfect) but it tasted great.
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S'more bites

My friend found this recipe online. The recipe called for fluff and Nutella, I decided to use marshmallows and Hershey bars. My little said I was a little rebel. :) the base is a simple peanut butter cookie dough then I added one piece of a Hershey bar and half of a large marshmallow before I covered it up with a thin layer of the peanut butter cookie dough. I still say the oven is off because the recipe said 15 minutes but it was close to 25 minutes before it was done. Oh well.






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Two blondes in one kitchen!

My grandma bought a mini pie maker so I went up to her house and we started making the apple filling. The pie crust she bought was frozen and she defrosted it. Lets say that was not the best idea. The crust kept ripping and tearing. So we just put the apple pie filling we made into the pie crust hoping to make a whole pie instead. Unfortunately there was not enough filling so we folded it in half for a turnover effect but it looked like a burrito.



After we put that in the oven we had all the pie crust that fell apart when we tried to make the mini pies so she rolled it out and made cinnamon rolls. Which was a cut idea for leftover pie crust.



We put that in te oven at 400 with the pie/turnover and after about 15 minutes we took our creation out and cut it in half.




The turnover tasted great. I was worried about the taste because this recipe called for cornstarch but once I think about it cornstarch is used to help thicken stuff.
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Mother's Day

For Mother's Day I redid my moms porch with flowers, she is having some medical problems and has a lot on her mind so I decided to help by at least starting the flowers so all she had to do is take care of them. For dessert it was a little harder to decide what to make. She is on weight watchers so I had to make a healthy dessert. So I made an angel food cake with fresh blackberries and yogurt covered almonds.





























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Recipes

I posted something like this awhile back I am not posting recipes anymore but I will message them to you if you ask.


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Researching

I want to write this one for you to respond. Have you ever wanted to know something about baking; like you don't have the right ingredients for a recipe, how to tell eggs are still good, or any questions about baking that you have and don't have time to look. I will research those questions for you with great depth. Please leave your questions in the comments.


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Success!!

Finally made a chocolate chip cookie that I am proud of. I got the recipe from a friend at work. The recipe is different than normal baking recipes. My mother told me while I was growing up that baking is a science follow the recipe. This one the flour portion you could put 4-5 cups. I mean I altered some recipes before but usually I needed to alter other ingredients in the recipe also. But I did 4 1/4 cup if flour and they came out beautiful. My mom her cookies that she uses all the time and I still like the one I made. :) her cookies used butter while mine used shortening, there is a definitely a taste difference but baking wise I don't know the difference have to do some research.




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