Princess HK cake pops

This past weekend it was my god-daughter Jayla's 3rd birthday! Can't she's growing sooo fast!   I decided to make some cake pops for her. Her birthday theme was princess so  I added princess icing decors on the cake pops. Of coarse, I had to add my touch of Hello Kitty (HK) in the mix also.   Here are pictures of the cakes pops. They came out soooo cute!

 

 

 

Flavor: Red Velvet (on taller lollipop sticks)

Vanilla (on shorter lollipop sticks)

Triple Chip cookie

Mmmmm.... this tastes good just reading it. I'm was on Bakerella.com and found this cookie recipe. TRIPLE CHIP COOKIE!!!!  3 types for chocolate chips??!! You can't go wrong with that!       UPDATE: Made a batch of these cookies today (10/09/11) and boy, these cookies are really sweet but good! I only had half of a cookie and I was good.

Triple Chip Cookies

Ingredients:
2 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups butterscotch chips
1 1/2 cups white chips

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large bowl, mix flour, soda and salt with a wire whisk and set aside.
• Using a mixer, mix butter and both sugars for about 2 minutes until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs and vanilla and mix until thoroughly combined.
• Add flour in two additions, scraping down the sides in between. Mix until thoroughly combined.
• Mix chips together in large bowl and stir into the cookie batter.
• Cover a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Then use a 1.5 inch scoop to place cookie batter 2 inches apart on baking sheet.
• Bake for about 10-12 minutes.

Makes 5 dozen cookies.
Note: For 1 1/2 cups of chips you’ll need a 10.5 – 12 oz. bag. This will give you a few left over. I didn’t use the entire amount of chips from each bag because I was going to sprinkle the remaining chips on top right before baking, but I forgot. But you can also get away with using the entire bag in the batter if you like.

Baby shower cake pops

On Friday (9/16/11), Sheena and I made some cake pops for her friend's baby shower. They came out great! Here are pictures of the purple with rainbow sprinkles cake pop. I totally forgot to take pictures of the cake pops Sheena decorated.  (oops sorry sheena!)   Hope you guys like them too!

       

 

Here are some pictures of the cakepops I made for my HK buddy's sis-in-law's baby shower a couple of weeks ago. Yes, both ladies are have baby G-I-R-L-S (cuz girls rules )!!

   

     

  Flavors:  Red Velvet and Vanilla cakes

Toffee chocolate chip cookies

I have been craving and wanting to make toffee cookies. I have a recipe for butter toffee cookies but I wanted to kick it up a notch and add chocolate chips. Here is a recipe I  found on Allrecipes.com.  It was sooooooooooo addicting and yum-goodness!! (is that even a word?! LOL.)

p.s. I flattened (lightly pressed) the cookie dough before it went in the oven.

 

Yields 3 dozens

Ingredients

• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 (6 ounce) package almond brickle chips
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Mix sugars, margarine and shortening until light and fluffy. Mix in egg and vanilla. Stir in flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Stir in chocolate chips and brickle chips.
3. Drop dough by rounded teaspoons onto ungreased cookie sheet. Make 9-10 minutes until lightly brown.

 
 Here is the link: (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/toffee-chocolate-chip-cookies/detail.aspx)

Chocolate Chip walnut cookies

So, because I love chocolate chip walnut cookies, I decided to bake some last week. With this batch, I used whole shelled walnuts as opposed to the pieces. Boy, these were nutty delicious!!