Category: Recipes

“Grammy, we should make something really good.”

“Yeah, like yummy cookies or something that we can eat all the day.”

“Anything for you my darlings.”

:}

Ingredients:

1 cup butter- softened
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsps vanilla
1-3/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3 cups quick-cooking rolled oats

Directions:

Heat oven to 350°F.  Beat butter, and sugars in large bowl until light and fluffy; blend in eggs and vanilla. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, mixing well. Stir in oats. Spread into a lightly greased jelly roll pan or cookie sheet.
Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until set. Do not over bake. Cool. Cut into bars and serve alone or with ice cream.

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Ingredients

• 1 cup butter- softened
• 1-1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsps vanilla
• 1-3/4 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 3 cups quick-cooking rolled oats

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 350°F.
2. Beat butter, and sugars in large bowl until light and fluffy; blend in eggs and vanilla.
3. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, mixing well.
4. Stir in oats.
5. Spread into a lightly greased jelly roll pan or cookie sheet.
6. Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until set.
7. Do not over bake.
8. Cool.
9. Cut into bars and serve alone or with ice cream.

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Seriously now, have you ever seen anything so adorable in all your life? Popcicle cupcakes toppers–just in time for your summer barbeque dessert.

And best part of all–they don’t melt, but they sure do look like they could help you beat the summer heat, even if they are just pretend frozen pops.

Here’s how you do it~

Find flat toothpicks and snap 24 of them in half–you are only using the bigger of the two halves. Throw the other ends away.

Choose whatever color Mike & Ikes that suite you. I got Tropical Typhoon because I simply HAD to have the color blue in my Popcicle pile.

Now take the stick and very carefully…

push it into the flat end of each candy piece.

And there you have the sweetest little Barbie-sized, no drip “popcicles.”

In fact, if you’re like me, you’ll have a hard time stopping yourself once you get started.

I actually couldn’t keep myself from playing with all those pretty, bright colors!

These would make a perfect Summer Birthday party treat. But be sure to help younger children take the sticks out before they eat their cupcake.

So simple and fun and summer-y and most of all–

totally cool.

Heh.

PS– Gracious Rain is in 2nd place in the KSL Best Local Blogger Contest!! If you’d like to vote go right here and register…then vote. Thanks- thanks!!

We’ve been trying to eat more fruits and veggies around here instead of all the sugar that’s been kicking around these days–and it’s actually been fun. Don’t get me wrong, I can eat a Symphony bar with my lips glued shut, but right now, I’m trying not to.

So when this little recipe popped up on Pinterest, it would have taken a Mack truck to keep me from making it. Simple. Chocolaty. Frozen.

Save me.

No don’t.

Here’s how it goes…

Freeze 2 or 3 peeled bananas in a ziploc bag. Once they are frozen, cut them into pieces and whirl in the blender with 2 Tablespoons of cocoa. Work quickly and pour the mixture into a chilled bowl. This is a fabulous–no sugar added–fruity, frosty treat that is best eaten very cold.

In the time it took me to run for the camera, it was more thawed out than I wanted it to be. So I took one last taste and popped it back in the freezer, where it will stay until…

tomorrow…

for

breakfast.

Go fruit!

Heh.