Chocolate Sandwich Cookies

…kinda like Oreos, only soft and chewy and…

with cream cheese frosting in the middle, instead of whatever the heck that other filling is. Ah, yes–a significant improvement on the age old classic that the cavemen enjoyed. It’s a new day for Oreo lovers I’ll tell you!

Ingredients:

1 Devil’s Food cake mix

2 eggs

1/2 cup shortening

Mix everything together until smooth. Roll or scoop dough into balls about the size of a large grape.  Bake on ungreased cookie sheet about 9-10 minutes at 350 degrees. Allow to cool on wire rack.

Frosting

1- 3/4 cups powdered sugar

1/4 cup butter

4 oz. cream cheese

1 tsp. vanilla

Beat until smooth. Spread frosting on bottom side of cookie and squish another one on top of it.

Now be careful here–because, as you can see–it’s real easy to get carried away with this step. In fact, our dear friend–who gave us the recipe–and whose doing the driving in the above picture added two more wads of icing to this cookie.

You think I’m kidding?

Here’s proof.

Now this is some serious frosting love my friends. One bite and that filling is going everywhere.

We can handle it.

heh, heh, heh.

Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
 
:
Ingredients
  • 1 Devil’s Food cake mix
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ cup shortening
Instructions
  1. Mix everything together until smooth.
  2. Roll or scoop dough into balls about the size of a large grape.
  3. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet about 9-10 minutes at 350 degrees.
  4. Allow to cool on wire rack.
Notes
Frosting

1-3/4 cups powdered sugar
1/4 cup butter
4 oz. cream cheese
1 tsp. vanilla

Beat until smooth.
Spread frosting on bottom side of cookie and squish another one on top of it.

What a Feeling…

Positively nuts–that’s what I kept saying over and over again—all weekend long…

at the response to daughter April’s “Quilts For Japan” post. Wonderful people just kept coming.

We don’t have all the stats yet on how many quilts we have yet–quite a few people took some home to finish–but this I know…the stack you are looking at right now is about a foot and a half from the ceiling! Thank you soooo much everyone who came. You are all so amazing and generous. We had a fabulous time and are still getting quilts left on the porch by night~thank you, thank you little quilting elves. :}

We’ll get back to everyone with the numbers in a few days–with pictures too, but in the meantime we are still very busy putting together quilt packets with all the fabric and batting we have left. If anyone would like to take a pre-cut quilt packet to make at home, it would be so appreciated.

Just email AprilRosenthal@gmail.com for the details.

And again–thank you all so much for your kindness and support. Sisters helping sisters.

What a feeling.

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{ Finding Truth }

“I think a man’s duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life”

Plato

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This Moment…

A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from our lives.

A simple, special, memorable moment.

A moment I want to pause, savor and keep close to my heart.

If you are inspired to do the same–leave us a link in the comments.

Happy weekend everyone.

Baby Cave Dweller

I read once that if an adult tried to follow a toddler around and mimic all of the things that they do…

in one 12 hour period, that the grown-up would only last about 45 minutes…

then drop into an exhausted heap on the floor panting and gasping for air.  Oh, I believe it all right.

Our little pixie is flitting from one thing to another at positively lightening speed–but what I don’t get is…

how do they fit all that energy into so many tight little spaces?


Never mind.

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