Apple butter whoopie pies

I have a new blog I am enjoying. The blog is cookies and cups. A couple of weeks ago she posted a recipe for Apple butter Whoopie Pies. I made them and WOW, my husband said that these are definitely the best ever. I used my friend Melly's homemade apple butter. Then when I ran out of apple butter it dawned on me. I could make these using my homemade pumpkin butter and guess what they were still WOW. This is definitely my favorite cookie of the season. The recipe was really easy to follow.
1/2 cup room temp. butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 cup apple butter or pumpkin butter in my case
1 t. baking soda
1 t. baking powder
1 t. cinnamon
pinch nutmeg
1/2 t. salt
2 cups all purpose flour
Preheat oven to 350
bake 15 minutes, She recommends using parchment paper and I agree. But mostly because I am lazy and do not want to clean a pan.
The frosting is super easy too.
1/2 c. room temp butter
1 t. cinnamon
3 c. sifted powdered sugar
2 T. milk
1 t. vanilla
Cream butter in mixer until smooth.
Slowly add powdered sugar and cinnamon.
Beat until combined.
Add vanilla and milk.

Potato Candy

Have you ever heard of it? Have you tasted it? If not let me just say I am sorry because you are missing out. I was introduced to potato candy by my mother in law. It is so yummy and so easy and cheap. Oh and the best part, it uses left over mashpotatoes.
Mix 3 tablespoons and 1 teaspoon mashed cooked potatoes, 1 tablespoon and 2 teaspoons butter, 1-3/4 teaspoons milk, 3/4 cup and 1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon confectioners' sugar together. Roll out like a pie cinnamon rolls. Then spread
1-2/3 cups peanut butter over it and roll up like cinnamon rolls. Put in fridge and let chill. Then slice and serve and EAT. oh man this is the yummiest thing ever. No baking or heating the house.

Pumpkin butter

I froze 195 pounds of pumpkin this year and am thrilled about it. I have made a ton of pumpkin butter. I have made pumpkin muffins and pumpkin whoopie pies. I made pumpkin cheesecakes which flopped. Last year I made pumpkin syrup and forgot about it until recently. I also made pumpkin rolls that were awesome.
Today I want to show you the yummiest pumpkin bread. It is so simple and can easily be made into muffins. I love to make jumbo muffins so I do not have to feel guilty about eating 2 (or ten) regular muffins.

I love making fudge but honestly it does not always come out great. When I saw this recipe I had to make it. Of course I doubled it and of course I got distracted and forgot the second bag of white chocolate chips but guess what it still came out amazing.
Cookies and Cream Fudge
2 c sugar
2/3 c evaporated milk
1 (7 oz) jar marshmallow cream
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 c butter
2 c white chocolate chips (oops, I only used 1 cup)
1/2 c Oreo cookies, finely crushed (I used generic oreo's, it did not hurt it one bit)
1 c Oreo cookies, crumbled

Line 13x9 pan with foil and butter the foil.

Combine sugar, butter, and milk in medium saucepan. Bring to full rolling boil; stirring constantly. Boil constantly for 3 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in morsels, cream, crushed cookies, and vanilla. Pour into prepared pan. Sprinkle with crumbled cookes and press down lightly or gently swirl into fudge with knife if desired.

Refrigerate until firm. Lift from pan. Remove foil and cut into pieces. I found this recipe on Lamp unto my feet, you can find the blog by clicking on the link above.


Have you tried the potato candy my mother in law taught me to make. Oh man, if you do not like baking or maybe your oven is full this is a awesome thing to make. So easy and a great way to get rid of those left over mash potatoes.

Christmas Cakes

This past summer I found a amazing blog with the neatest cakes on them. You basicly take a plain cake and then dress them up. I have to say honestly these pictures do not give Texas Monkey's justice and this was not one of my best but one I threw together this afternoon. I encourage you to go to her blog and find out how you can dress up a cake.

Hot Chocolate

On a cold day like today who does not want yummy hot chocolate.

hot cocoa
4 cups dry powdered milk (wow this stuff is more expensive than I realized)
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup hershey cocoa
pinch of salt
put all ingredients in blender (food processor for me) to make it more of a powder.
To drink:
add 1/3c cocoa "MIX" to 1 cup water WOW it is so good
I make up a double batch and keep in the cabinet ready for when we need it. Or at least I try to. This morning when we woke up to freezing weather and snow guess who did not have hot chocolate made. Luckily I had everything I needed and could make it. I think we may try to make snow cream later. I tried to put this silly dog out this morning to go potty and he wanted nothing to do with it. But as soon as the kids went out he would not leave them. I made him come in because he was shivering but as soon as I took the leash off he ran back out. Silly dog, at least he protects my babies

pizza casserole

I may have showed you this recipe before but it is worth repeating.
1 bag egg noodles cooked and drained
1 pound sausage-cooked and drained
pepporoni and any other pizza topping you like
1 can pizza or spaghetti sauce
Combine in 9*13 pan, cover with your favorite cheeses and heat in oven for 10 minutes. The kids love it and it is super simple.