Thursday, October 27, 2011

Snickerdoodle Muffins

Nate loves snickerdoodle cookies, so I knew this was a no-brainer. The muffins were really good! The top was a little crusty (in a good way) and crunchy, so it reminded me of the actual cookie and then the inside was nice and moist. 



Here is the recipe:
2 sticks unsalted butter
1 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp cream of tarter
3/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1 1/4 cup sour cream
2 1/4 cups all purpose flour

1/2 cup sugar and 1 TBSP cinnamon mixed together for rolling

1. Cream the butter and sugar until soft about 3 to 5 minutes. Add in the vanilla. Add in the eggs one at a time and mix until each is incorporated.

2.In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cream of tarter, & nutmeg.

3.Add the flour mixture and the sour cream alternately to the egg-butter mixture in the additions. Start with the flour and end with the flour. Scrape the bowl occasionally.

4. Using an ice cream scoop, scoop out muffin batter one at a time and drop into a shallow bowl filled with the cinnamon sugar mixture. Roll the muffin around in the mixture until it is covered completely in cinnamon sugar. Place muffin into muffin tin. Depending on the size of your tins, you should get about 12 to 14 muffins. (I used the large cookie scoop from Pampered Chef and it made about 20 muffins) Bake them for approx. 20-22 minutes in a 350F oven or until they are golden brown.




Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Thanks Pinterest...

Ok, so I'm a huge fan of Pinterest! It's just like looking at this humongous magazine, that's FREE, and saving all of those great ideas and pictures to your very own pin boards. LOVE it! Thank you to the genius who came up with this great web site.

I have been wanting to put a wreath on our apartment door since we moved in (yeah, that was like 2 1/2 years ago...I'm just a little behind) and now, thanks to Pinterest, I put together a wreath that I really like!



 The "C" is a little bigger than I would've liked, but it will have to do :)

And the second thing I did this week was put together a new bow holder for Eliana's room. Poor girl has so many bows and flowers that there just wasn't enough room on her old bow holder. But can a girl really have too many accessories? Um, I don't think so.  

Thursday, October 20, 2011

30-Day Husband Encouragement Challenge

I know I don't encourage Nate like I should, so I would definitely like to take the "challenge." Anyone care to join me?! :)

I hope to keep track of what God has done in my life and in our marriage. So if you think about it...I'd love your prayers that I would love my husband the way that I should, and that I would keep God first in my life and in our marriage.

30-Day Husband Encouragement Challenge

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