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Baked Desserts From That New Cafe

Posted on June 6, 2014 by LFFL

Toffee Cookie, Cinnamon Crumb Muffin, Brownie, Pumpkin Bread, Chocolate Chip Cookie, Maple Pecan Bar, Lemon Pound Cake, Chocolate Baby Bundt Cake

There’s nothing like stopping by my new hometown cafe for nothing other than loading up on a lot of baked desserts all for myself. I’ll tell you—that Corner Bakery Cafe isn’t getting rid of me anytime soon. Everything looked so fantastic that it was hard to choose—so let’s just start loading up with one of each so our brains don’t have to think that hard.

When I finally got home, I arranged them out all nice and pretty on a couple of plates so I could look at them for brief spell.

Ohhh, where to start, where to start???

So, if you have nothing else to do today, rise and shine early and go grab a variety of fresh-baked lovin’ straight from the oven from your local bakery, cafe, or diner.

Take-Away Life Lesson: There’s nothing like starting your day off right with fresh-baked desserts.

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No-Bake Cookies

Posted on March 3, 2014 by LFFL

Made with butterscotch chips, crunchy peanut butter, peanuts, and crispy rice cereal (Special K cereal or Rice Krispies).

So, I was craving the taste of something sweet and I started thinking of these no-bake cookies. I’ve made and posted about this particular cookie before—but, oh, how I had to make them another go round.

These took all of five minutes to make. The time-consuming part was sitting around the house waiting for them to harden enough so I could pick them up.

Naturally, I’m impatient when I’m hungry and had to have one straight away. So I had no choice but to use a fork to eat the last one I was scraping from the pan. That bad boy never even made it to the cookie sheet.

Have a little more class than I did, folks, and just wait for the hardening process to take effect.

Melt butterscotch chips & peanut butter.

Stir to creamy goodness.

Add peanuts.

Stir in crispy rice cereal.

Recipe for—Special K No-Bake Cookies

1 pkg (11 oz) butterscotch chips
1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
2/3 cup peanuts
3 cups Special K cereal

Melt butterscotch chips and peanut butter in a saucepan over low heat.
Stir until melted.
Mix in peanuts and cereal and stir until coated with mixture.
Spoon out into individual cookies onto a cookie sheet covered with wax or parchment paper.
Let sit an hour or longer until hardened.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, spend five minutes making any variety of assorted no-bake cookies. The best part is you don’t have to bake them.

Take-Away Life Lesson: It’s always better to wait for the cookie hardening process to take effect so you’re not holding a saucepan to your face while you scrape the last bits of cookie gump into your mouth. It’s not a good look.

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Cookies & Cupcakes From Love

Posted on February 14, 2014 by LFFL

Made with Pillsbury Big Deluxe Chocolate Chip cookie dough and Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip cookie dough; with sprinkles on top.

I had a beautiful and fun day today with my 5-year-old niece who spent the entire day with me baking her little heart out. I must say, this is all her handiwork. And we’re talking almost 50 cookies!

Though all she had to do was tear the pre-cut cookie dough from the package—she DID put the sprinkles on all by herself! This is a talent in and of itself. You’re either born with it or you’re not. After all, sprinkling is an art form.

She also had a tub of cookie dough which required using the mini-scoop, squeezing the scoop—which took all the strength she could muster from both of her tiny hands, and then dropping the balls onto the baking sheet.

Made with Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge cake mix, eggs, canola oil, and water; with sprinkles on top.

Here is more of her handiwork in these bite-sized mini-cupcakes. She whirled the cake beater till the batter was good and smooth, put the liners in the cupcake tin, poured the batter from a measuring cup into each individual paper liner, then strategically placed each individual sprinkle by hand one-by-one exactly where she wanted them to go.

And that’s three batches of 24—THREE! For a minimum of 72 mini-cupcakes that needed sprinkles.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, do some baking with your little nieces, nephews, or some random kids.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Allow a minimum of 13 hours for strategically placing sprinkles one-by-one for each round of cupcakes and cookies.

Danish Butter Cookies

Posted on October 23, 2013 by LFFL

I love this time of year when the Danish Butter Cookies appear outta nowhere.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, stock up on at least one giant container of butter cookies.

Take-Away Life Lesson: With 20 cookies in each layer, there’s gotta be at least a bare minimum of 100 in there.

It's Cookie Time

Posted on June 29, 2013 by LFFL

Well, these little darlings (or big, technically) came from Whole Foods Market yesterday. I usually walk right past the bakery area, but yesterday I was feeling a little daring. And since I’ve never tried their baked cookies before—I figured, eh, why not?

You just open the clear cases, take a sheet of thin paper they have there and grab your own cookies and other baked goods, put them into a sack or box, and be on your way.

So the first one, front and center, is the Cocoa Chewie Cookie—the only thing I can tell you is it’s full of the chocolatey loveliness that it looks like it is. It lives up to its name. Although its look and size made someone think I had a hamburger pattie on my plate with two cookies. (Apparently, my reputation precedes me.)

Top right is your basic Chocolate Chip Cookie—there was nothing special about it. Just a good chocolate chip cookie.

Aaannnndddd on your far left, folks, we have here what’s called the Vegan Crazy Jeff’s Cookie—yeah, he’s crazy alright whoever he is. I didn’t make it past the first bite on that one.

So, if you have nothing else to do today, try some fresh-baked cookies at your local health food store and see how you like them. Get up and experience different things. It’s better than doing nothing. Live a little! Even if you just live to learn that Crazy Jeff will no longer be a part of your life again.

Take-Away Life Lesson: There’s always some truth in the naming of a food product. Read between the lines.

And The Desserts Just Don't Stop

Posted on April 25, 2013 by LFFL

Made with gingersnap cookies, sweetened shredded coconut, melted butter, half-and-half, egg yolks, sugar, cornstarch, pure vanilla extract, and whipped cream.

I love a good coco pie! Who, in their right mind, doesn’t? Now, I’ve had some great coconut cream pies in my life before—like at The Capital Grille, for instance. Needless to say, theirs was so good I decided to try and make my own homemade coco pie to see how it’d turn out—and, I have to say, I’m proud of myself.

Let me tell you, I definitely deserve this kind of lovin’ in my life. When you have a hard time getting the kind of love you want from a decent human being—go straight to the coco pie, my friends! It’ll make up for it many times over.

Try making yourself this uber coconut cream pie and just set it on your lap and eat it while you watch a good action flick. And if you didn’t already know, I’m a big believer in—if you’re just going to go back for a 3rd and 4th slice anyway—just eat straight outta the pan and save yourself some time.

Recipe for—Coconut Cream Pie

Made with canned biscuits, sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, and melted butter.

I still haven’t figured out why this is called Monkey Bread, but whatever. All I can say is—it’s sticky. It’s just one big doughy, sugary, cinnamony (probably not a real word, but I can’t be worried about it) mess. Help yourself.

Recipe for—Monkey Bread

Made with butterscotch chips, crunchy peanut butter, peanuts, and Special K cereal.

You really need yourself some milk with these cookies—they are that sweet and good. But, once you have your milk in hand, you can easily just eat one right after the other back-to-back. Next thing you know, you look around and realize you probably should have tripled the recipe to begin with.

The simplest cookie you could ever make with only 4 ingredients:

butterscotch chips
crunchy peanut butter
peanuts
Special K cereal

That’s it! Aaaannnnnnd, we’re done. No baking, no nothing. Just warm, mix, shape into cookies, let them sit a couple of hours, then devour them. How hard is that?

So, if you have nothing else to do today, stuff that hole in your face with every one of these desserts after you’ve made them and make sure there’s ice-cold milk nearby.

Take-Away Life Lesson: Everyone at least deserves some coconut cream pie lovin’ in their life many times over. Ooooo and aahhh.

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