Jumbo cookie- oops! almost forgot!

Don't forget the 3/4ths cup brown sugar also in the jumbo cookie, that makes it sweet!

JUMBO CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE!!!! YUMOLICIOUS!!!

EVERYONE! THIS IS MY FAVORITE CAKE RECIPE! (I made this for our New Years Eve Party & my mom also made this for me for my 11th b-day cake!)

Use a xtra large pizza pan OR a very large flat baking sheet (but not a standard cookie sheet because that is not wide enough for the circle to grow)!

1 cup butter

1/4 cup sugar

3/4 light brown sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

2 1/4 cup flour

1tsp. baking soda

1 (3 1/2 ounce) box vanilla pudding mix - instant

12 oz. chocolate chips

1-2 cups walnut pieces

Frosting of your choice!

With an electric mixer blend together, butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs

Add flour, baking soda, and pudding mix

Stir in choco. chips. and walnuts

form into large cookie on your baking sheet with lots of room to expand!

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until it smells yummy and starts to get golden in color!

Remove from oven and cool completely decorate with frosting and slice like a pizza! Enjoy!

(P.S. I recommend serving with VANILLA ice-cream. - We did it with coffee ice cream at my b-day party and you could not taste the cookie as much because the strong coffee flavor of our ice -cream over powered the cookie)!

Thai Iced Tea

I love this thai iced tea recipe! It is soooo much better than in the restaurant! It is also not made with any food coloring like the ones you buy.

I use Numi Decaf Black Vanilla tea as the base

First bring 5 cups water to boil (as a grown up to help)

Add 1/2 c. sugar

Add 5 whole star anise pods (See Photo above)~ Call your grocery store to see if they have these first! Hard to find.

When the water boils, turn off the burner & add 8 black tea bags.

let steep for 1 hour and cool to room temperature. Discard the tea bags and whisk in:

3/4ths of a can of condensed milk

Add fresh mint sprigs to garnish

Refrigerate for 1 hour and pour over ice! Enjoy!

Cinnamon rolls! yum

Making Cinnamon rolls is actually a lot easier then you may think. All you have to do is buy one package of Pilsbury reduced fat crescent roll refrigerated dough. Then roll out the dough so that it is the size of a regular piece of computer paper (don't worry if you think you don't have enough - it is suppossed to roll out very thin) use a little flour on the table and on your rolling pin. Next, spray canola oil, or butter spray on the surface of your dough (about 16 sprays). Then, in a seperate bowl mix filling:

1/4 c. brown sugar

1/4 c. splenda

1 tbsp. teaspoon cinnamon

Then from this mixture sprinkle it out amongst your dough!

Also, sprinkle pecan pieces all over (about 12 pecans broken up into little pieces)

Now, if you want to add more deliciousness to your cinnamon roll here is the

easy icing recipe to go on top of your rolls!

1/2 c. fat free cool whip-thawed

6tbsp. "1/3 the fat- Philly cream cheese" (or it is also yummy to use maple-cream cheese- which is in my earlier cream cheese post- check it out!)

1 tblsp. Splenda

Mix it up!

Then cook on 300 degrees for 10-15 minutes, and top with icing when they come out!

Yummy Cream Cheese

People buy different flavors of cream cheese, but why..........when you can make you own flavors.

Just buy regular cream cheese then add what ever you want.

This is what I made- Brown suger ,cinniman cream cheese

strawberry jam with fresh strawberrys cream cheese, but you can use any jam

you want. y But you can add really what ever you want

A very yummy Pesto recipe

2 handfuls of basil (pick leaves off stems)

1 bunch of cilantro with stems! (stems on cilantro are edible)

3 large mint leaves, or 6 small mint leaves (spearmint leaves NOT peppermint)

4 large cloves of garlic

process in the food processor

Next add 1 lemon into the food processor

(I use one juicy myer lemon- a good way to squeeze out the juice is to first, roll the lemon on a table surface back and forth, then cut it open in half, then hold the lemon over your hand and squeeze the juice out! Your hand will be there to catch all the seeds! It is a good trick!)

Then add 1/2 cup Nutrional Yeast flakes

1/2 parmasean cheese (if you are vegan you can leave it out)

1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

Process again, scrape down the sides (add another 1/4 cup olive oil if it is super thick)

1 -2 Tablespoon low sodium tamari sauce (add more if you like salty flavor)

1/2 cup walnuts

1/2 cup slivered almonds

Grind everything again for about a minute

yum de aleah

Yum.......... I have just created something so Delicious! I call it Creme De la beget. It consumes the following: triple cream brei cheese

beget

basil

walnuts

olive oil

first cut beget to thin slices well not to thin....

then spread cheese

next add walnuts and basil leaves on top (i like to rip the leaves to small pieces

and finally.........put out a bowl of olive oil with a spoon so that you can drissle it ontop of the cheese baisil walnut bread.

HOPE YOU ENJOY

hot-cocoa

This Morning I made my self the most Delicious Hot Chocolate. I took a regular nestle hot cocoa packet then added cinnamon and vanilla. It tasted SO good. another way to make fantastic hot cocoa is to add any extract you want(peppermint and hazelnut works best). And if you like spice you can add Cayenne or chilly powder, I know it sounds gross but if you do add cayenne you can add some cinnamon and it tastes like Mexican Hot Chocolate.