Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Are you in the hunt for the PERFECT chocolate cookie recipe? Well I have it! No longer will you have flat cookies that are hard as a rock. This recipe produces the perfect plump cookie that maintains its shape and is delicious when dipped in milk.


Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yields 4 ½ dozen
2/3 Cup Butter Flavored Shortening
2/3 Cup Butter, softened
1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Brown Sugar
2 Eggs
1 TBS Vanilla
3 ½ Cups Flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 Cup Chocolate Chips

Start by preheating the oven to 375 degrees.

Next cream together the shortening, butter, white sugar, brown sugar until smooth.

Beat in the eggs one at a time.
Stir in the vanilla.

Combine flour, baking soda, and salt.

Then stir into the creamed mixture.

Stir in chocolate chips.

Use a measuring tablespoon to round dough balls. Don’t roll just make rounded. Place onto ungreased cookie sheet.





Bake 10-12 minutes or until centers are set and very lightly browned. Don’t over bake.


Cook 2-3 minutes before removing from cookie sheet.





Monday, December 20, 2010

Recent Cakes


The past month has been extremely busy with multiple craft shows, many cake orders and other craft orders. Plus the hustle and bustle that comes with the holidays. Here are pictures of the cakes that I have made in the past month.

Kendall State Bank asked me to make cupcakes for their own cake decorator Kristina's 40th Birthday. I made chocolate and French vanilla cupcakes and topped with a vanilla/cream cheese swirl frosting.

Little Miss Lillian Brown turned just turned one. The smash cake was decorated to match the owl theme of her party. Then each French Vanilla cupcake was topped with pink cream cheese frosting or white vanilla butter cream frosting swirls.



Dozens of different flavored cupcakes were prepared and sold at the Rossville Craft Show.






I was asked to make asked to make four dozen cupcakes for a customer. One dozen was for them to keep and three dozen was going to a bake sale benefit for a man who is recovering from a car accident.




It's Hayden's Birthday and this year the little man wanted an airplane cake that he could take to his birthday party at the airport. The airplane was created out of rice cereal and fondant. The fluffy clouds are made of frosting.


Can you believe it? Kaycin is already 1 year old. A friend from high school asked me to make this girlie cake and coordinating smash cake for her daughter's 1st Birthday.


I love referrals and that is how I was asked to complete this anniversary cake. Wishing you many more years of happiness and marriage.


This year my Grandma's (or as we call her Nanny) Birthday fell on the same day as Thanksgiving. A chocolate birthday cake is what every family needs to eat after a big Thanksgiving meal. My niece helped with the decorations and informed me that "everyone likes sprinkles".