Fruit Pizza

It's been awhile since I've made a new post, and honestly I almost forgot to take pictures of this before we started scarfing it down...

There are tons of easy recipes for fruit pizza online, and (at least in my house) you don't have to worry about the fruit spoiling because it's all gone in a day!

And here is an unrelated link to my Etsy Store: Adorkable Doodles!

Orange Cupcakes!

I made cupcakes! This is probably my favorite cupcake recipe.

 
Here's some pictures of me being funny with my cupcakes!

And I got lazy and took a picture of the recipe instead of typing it all up:

If you don't like orange flavor, I've also tried this recipe with lemonade, grapefruit juice, and apricot juice with good results.

Check out my unrelated Etsy Store! Adorkable Doodles

Christmas Cookies!

Since I have been drawing a lot lately, I figured I should switch it up a little today. I made sugar cookies and frosted them Christmas style!

I know baseballs aren't Christmas-y but that one is my favorite.  :)

I used this recipe for the sugar cookies. I changed it a bit though, only used 6 cups flour (I never even got to the 7th cup of flour because my beater's motor sounded like it was going to die), and I never chilled it. This recipe is huge, I think I had about 6 dozen cookies, if I use it again, I will definitely cut it in half.

And I used this recipe for the frosting.

Obviously, I also used a LOT of colored sugar and a couple kinds of sprinkles.

Happy Holidays!

Chocolately Pretzel Bites

My mom found a recipe online for these really simple chocolate pretzel treats and since she's thinking about taking them for a dish to pass at one or both of our family Christmas gatherings we decided to experiment with them to make sure they were actually as easy and good as they sounded.

Ingredients:
A bag of your favorite Pretzels (they sell Christmas tree shaped ones)
Hershey's Kisses (we used chocolate stars)
M&M's (we tried chocolate covered raisins too but the M&M's tasted better)

We threw 10 pretzels in a circle on a paper plate covered in wax paper and topped each with a chocolate star. After that you stick them in the microwave (we experimented for awhile before we found the right amount of time for our microwave) the recipe said 30 seconds we ended up doing 77 seconds. Pull them out of the microwave and shove an M&M into the melty chocolate star.

 

We ended up needing to put them in the fridge for a while to get the chocolate to harden up again (not that all of them made it that far ;P). They were indeed easy and tasty.
The cooks:

No Bake Strawberry Creme Pie and the Side of a Mountain

This is what I made this weekend. No-bake Strawberry Creme Pie, and let me just say, it was as delicious as it looks. You can find the recipe here: http://noblepig.com/2010/07/26/nobake-strawberry-cream-pie.aspx

I made this over the weekend too but it didn't taste as good :)