Magnolia Charm: Cooking and Baking

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Sunday, April 24, 2011

HAPPY EASTER!

Happy Easter to you & yours!! :)

This is how we are spending our Easter morning!

Thanks to Sr. we had some Delicious benyas that he made! Yum!

I hope you are having a wonderful Easter like us! :)

Monday, March 21, 2011

First day of Spring was yesterday, I was feeling inspired by the beautiful flowers blooming for Spring around my house, and silly me decided to make a fresh flower front door wreath. Of course it died . LOL. Yep, so now I have to make another one with fake flowers. To get back inspired, I came across these BEAU-TI-FUL wreaths, and now I'm jelly! Now, I am going to make another one. :)

Spring wreaths!
Here is a beautiful yellow wreath made by Pretty Handy Girl!

(source: Pretty handy Girl)

Is this beautiful? I love the yellow and the buttons!

Next is this butterfly wreath that was made by a soft place to land!

(Source: A Soft Place to Land)

This is wreath is so unique.

(source: unknown)

(Source:Living with Lindsay)

This is another beautiful Spring wreath.. I heart the letter!

ok, so now onto my fresh flower wreath that is dead already.

this brush started it all. lol this is the brush that got me into the Spring mood!

I got this wreath from Bridge House. The price on it was 9.95. As if I was really going to pay $10 for this, even though I was in LOVE with it. However, there was a red line through it, so that meant it was half off. Still I say, as if I was going to pay $5.00 for it! Nevertheless, I paid $2.00 for it which was the right price. Don't you think so? lol

Isn't this beautiful? Wouldn't you feel inspired to make a fresh wreath too??! lol

Well, this was the end result. I LOVED it! Nevertheless, it died a few short days later, so now I have to go to the dollar store and buy some stuff to make a new one that will last the season. Wish me luck :)

Have you started your Spring wreath yet????

Side note, I had a great weekend. We did a mini reno on the kitchen ( I will post on that later), I got ~~most~~ ~~some~~ a little of my Spring cleaning done ( give me a break lol) , Sr. cooked me such a DELICIOUS breakfast, and we hung out on the lake with family and ate crawfish. I live for Sundays!

(Sr. calls this his 7th ward breakfast)

How was your weekend?

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Valentines day brownie cookies! Yum!

Brownie Roll-Out Cookies*

Recipe from Deb’s mom

3 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup lightly salted butter, softened (Deb note: I don’t really see “lightly salted” much these days, so I used one stick salted, one stick unsalted)

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa (I used the “good” stuff–Droste or Galler–but I can assure you that my mother only used Hershey’s growing up, so your choice)

Preheat oven at 350 degrees. Whisk dry flour, salt and baking powder in bowl and set aside. Mix butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla and cocoa in mixer. Gradually add flour mixture, and mix until smooth. Wrap in plastic and chill for at least one hour.

Roll out cookie dough on floured counter. Cut into desired shapes, brushing extra deposits of flour off the top. (It does disappear once baked, though, so don’t overly fret if they go into the oven looking white.) Bake on a parchment-lined baking sheet for 8 to 11 minutes (the former for 1/8-inch thick cookies, the latter for 1/4-inch cookies) until the edges are firm and the centers are slightly soft and puffed

Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

* According to my mother’s recipe, they’re called chocolate sugar cookies but I do not feel that it does them justice.

I got this recipe from: Smitten Kitchen