Amish Friendship Bread

If you would of asked me a month ago what I loved to eat, I would have told you Amish Bread!

One of my friends gave me a start for Amish Friendship Bread and I kept it going for a month or so and finally I had to stop because I was the only one eating it! (and because I am never home anymore)

If you haven't had Amish Bread you are missing out. I kept the directions (which tell you how to start your own) and thought I would share them with you.

It takes 9 days to make but believe me this little bread is heavenly!

Just click on the image and you'll be able to read it better. If not right click it and save it to your computer, than you can print it out.

How to Make Orange Julius

My husband totally loves Orange Julius and lately we have been stocked up on Minute Maid frozen orange juice and I was trying to find a way to make something similar to an Orange Julius with the frozen Minute Maid....and I actually found how to make Orange Julius through a simple Google search. And it is just as yummy as the Orange Julius in the Mall.

Thought I share it with everyone! Enjoy!

Things You'll Need:
1 c. milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 (6-oz.) can frozen orange juice concentrate
1 c. sugar
12-15 ice cubes

Step 1
Put the milk and 1 c. water in a blender.

Step 2
Add the vanilla extract.

Step 3
Add the frozen orange juice concentrate and sugar.

Step 4
Start the blender.

Step 5
Add the ice cubes, one by one, until the beverage reaches the desired thickness.

Step 6
Pour and enjoy.

Oreo Cupcakes

I had a roommate in college that would make these really yummy giant oreo cookies. And for some weird reason I have been craving them lately. Today was a bad crave! The only problem was I didn't have any clue how to make the cookies. So I improvised and came up with my very own type of Oreo creation.

I'd like to call it the "Oreo Cupake" -

they may not look the prettiest but they are REALLY GOOD!

They are so simple to make.
Just get a box of Duncan Heines Devil's Food cake mix (mix as the box says)

place batter into well greased muffin pan (fill cups 1/3 - 1/2 full - to get flatter cookies)

Follow the cooking temp and time on box

Let cupcakes cool. Cut in half and spread your favorite type of frosting in between halves.

There you have it, "Oreo Cupcake"

ENJOY!

Warming if you are pregnant and hungry it will be hard to eat just one!

I am trying to freeze the rest to see if they are good frozen. It would also be fun to use colorful frosting and decorate the tops - but Im not that creative! Let me know what you think!

Creative Goodies

Many of you know I am not a baker at all but I'd love to become one and I keep finding all of these cute little goodies I want to make!

Check them out:

Mini Cupcake Suckers

(This lady is amazing and has tons of cute ideas surf her blog)

Flower Sugar Cookies

S-mores Cookies

Tee-Time Cupcakes

Recipes I Wanna try

I am the first to admit that I am NOT a chef...I’m not even a COOK! Manwich is my specialty and Mac-n-Cheese is a delicacy.

So I thought I would find some recipes that looked good and hopefully it will motivate me to widen my cooking horizon.

Click on name for Recipe:

Speedy Stovetop Lasagna

Peanut Butter & Jelly Muffins

Ravioli with Sage Butter

Skillet Four-Cheese "Baked" Pasta

Buffalo Chicken Pizza

And this recipe was from Shelley:

String Pie

1 lb ground beef

8 oz pkg spaghetti noodles, cooked and drained

2 eggs, beaten

1 c. cottage cheese

1/2 c. chopped onion

1 jar (15 oz) spaghetti sauce

1/3 c. grated parmesan cheese

2 tbsp melted butter

1/2 c. mozzarella cheese

Brown beef and onion. Drain fat. Add jar of spaghetti sauce. Mix well and simmer.Combine hot spaghetti noodles, parmesan cheese, eggs, and butter in large bowl. Mix well.

Place noodles mixture in bottom of 9 X 13 dish. Spread cottage cheese over noodles. Pour sauce over cottage cheese and sprinkle mozzarella cheese over top. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

Thanks Shelley!

Fruit Pizza with a Twist

I have had some people ask me to do some posts on some fun recipes for kids. I am about 22 weeks pregnant and I have been craving fruit alot so I thought I would make a fruit pizza and see if my 15-month-old boy would eat it, and it was a hit.

Im sure many of you know how to make fruit pizza, it's pretty simple. But I decided to make it a little more fun for my boy and this is what I came up with...little individual pizza's in shapes.

He loved it!

What you need to make fruit pizza:

-1 (18 ounce) package refrigerated sugar cookie dough
-1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
-1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed

-your favorite fruits sliced up

Directions:

Take your sugar cookie dough and flatten it onto a cookie sheet (bake as suggested). In a mixing bowl mix together your cream cheese and whipped topping. When your crust (sugar cookie) is cooled spread your mixed topping over it. Take your sliced fruit and decorate the top as you wish.

If you want to do the shapes for kids just cut them out and cook like regular sugar cookies and decorate with fruit in fun shapes or faces.

I am sure many of you will come up with some clever ways to decorate.

Let me know if your kid(s) loves it as much as mine did!