I love you, Paula Deen.

Ingredients

• 1 (8-ounce) brick cream cheese, room temperature
• 1 stick butter, at room temperature
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 (18-ounce) box moist chocolate cake mix
• Confectioners' sugar, for dusting

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large bowl with an electric mixer, cream the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Beat in the egg. Then beat in the vanilla extract. Beat in the cake mix. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours to firm up so that you can roll the batter into balls. Roll the chilled batter into tablespoon sized balls and then roll them in confectioner's sugar. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet, 2 inches apart. Bake 12 minutes. The cookies will remain soft and "gooey." Cool completely and sprinkle with more confectioners' sugar, if desired.

The Best Cookie recipe EVER!!!

-T

baking bread

Yesterday, <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

We found a recipe for french bread in a magazine called the "Old School House" so my mom cut it out, and i baked it this afternoon. It only has 5 main ingredients Flour, Salt, Sugar, Yeast, and Olive Oil. It baked for 40 minutes, and then we downed a whole loaf in like 15 minutes!!!

~tay~

Zucchini Chocolate Cake!

OK so today I decided to make Zucchini chocolate cake while mom was napping.


Our ingredients
Grated zucchini

Wet ingredients combined

Dry ingredients combined

Clean up is a breeze

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OK so this is probably the moistest cake you'll ever eat it's also really chocolaty!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the recipe:

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 3/4 cups white sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup sour milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
2 1/2 cups grated zucchini
1/4 cup ground walnuts
1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS
Cream together butter or margarine, vegetable oil and sugar.
Add eggs, sour milk, and vanilla. Blend well.
In a separate bowl, sift dry ingredients together.
Blend dry ingredients into the butter mixture.
Add grated zucchini, and mix well.
Spread in a greased floured 9 x 13 inch pan. Sprinkle walnuts and chocolate chips on top.
Bake in a preheated 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) oven for 45 minutes.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chocolate-Zucchini-Cake-I/Detail.aspx

Enjoy

-tay

Baking

This morning I made Russian Tea cakes.

There super yummy and really easy to make. I made them for my Grandmother who was going to drive all the way down here from down town St. Pete. But she ditched last minute and now we're stuck with a batch delicious cookies.Awwwwwwwwwwe man!!

INGREDIENTS
1 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped walnuts
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar for decoration

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a medium bowl, cream butter and vanilla until smooth. Combine the 6 tablespoons confectioners' sugar and flour; stir into the butter mixture until just blended. Mix in the chopped walnuts. Roll dough into 1 inch balls, and place them 2 inches apart on an uncreased cookie sheet.
Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven. When cool, roll in remaining confectioners' sugar. I also like to roll mine in the sugar a second time