LilyBean's Paperie

July 01, 2009

peanut butter and chocolate...

Who can resist? I hope you are a fellow p-nut butter lover....I know you're a chocolate lover....it's a staple here at Sierra's house :) And...this is our new favorite cookie....daddy loves 'em most I think. I made these the other day and had to hide a few in order to snap a shot for you. I'll post the recipe at the bottom.

Busy and hotsie here....pheeew....having a lot of fun swimming with my little fish....and creating my little heart out as CHA is creeping right up on us. For Tattered Angels....the cute wooden crown base, thanks to Kim Hesson, and then lots of Regal Glimmer Chips and Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels.

A peek or two at a new product from Tattered Angels called Glimmer Chip Tiles....Oh I love 'em.

And lastly a card... Made with Melissa Frances tag, Prima bling, Little Yellow Bicycle paper and Papertrey Ink Sweet Blush Swiss Dots ribbon, Sweet Blush cardstock, Flower Garden and Remember stamp sets, and Hibiscus Burst, Ripe Avocado, and Fresh Snow ink.

Congratulations to Brenda Weaver....she is the random winner of Card Creations 7 magazine from Paper Crafts!

Now for the recipe....I tweaked Martha's Stewart's original version a bit and added a few things.

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

Ingredients

Makes 36.

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup packed light-brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 Tbs. milk
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/3 cup granulated sugar, for rolling dough
36 mini peanut butter cups, chilled and unwrapped

Happy July!

Melis

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Using an electric mixer, cream peanut butter and butter in a mixing bowl until smooth. Add brown sugar; beat until combined, scraping down bowl as needed. Add eggs and vanilla, and beat until incorporated.
In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. With mixer on low speed, gradually beat in flour mixture in two batches. Add in 1 Tablespoon milk and mix in chocolate chips.
Scoop off dough by the tablespoon; roll into balls. Place granulated sugar on a plate; roll balls in sugar, coating completely. Place 2 inches apart on a nonstick insulated baking sheet.
Bake until cookies begin to puff up slightly, about 7 minutes. Remove from oven. Press one peanut butter cup in center of each cookie. Return to oven; continue baking until cookies are golden brown and chocolate has begun to melt, about 6 minutes more. Let cool at least 10 minutes on baking sheet before transferring cookies to rack to cool completely.

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June 27, 2009

every little thing...

needs to be loved...isn't it amazing what any act of love has the power to do? Imagine a child who has never felt it before to suddenly be treated with love....to experience an act of love by someone else...love is magical, transforming, essential. I had a night to myself last night and so I watched The Secret Life of Bees....ohhh what a sweet movie....now up there as one of my all time favorites. It had me crying within the first 15 minutes and then here and there throughout....sometimes sad tears, but more often tears of awareness and the desire to try harder to love or find those who need to need to be loved. I hope you'll watch it and see for yourself.

So...a warm embrace for you today as I share a couple of cards and then set off on Saturday errands. Created with Melissa Frances papers and vintage image, Papertrey Ink Mega Mixed Messages, Life, and Beyond Basic Borders stamp sets, Rustic Cream cardstock, and Spring Rain and Chamomile Tea Dye inks, and a beautiful chipboard frame from Tattered Angels Regal Alpha Framed Fonts collection coated in a new Glimmer Mist color for fall called Caramel Apple....one of many beautiful new colors they're coming out with for CHA...and speaking of Tattered Angels and new CHA products...here is another peek at something new and fun... I bought this cute wooden dress form from Kim Hesson and covered it with a new Bingo card from Tattered Angels....it is also coated in a new Glimmer Mist color called Creme de Rouge and embellished with Creme de Chocolat Regal Glimmer Chips and Embossed Regal Chips.

And lastly...this little card was created for the CPS blog. Our sponsor this week was My Sentiments Exactly....coupled with Melissa Frances paper and resin, Webster's Pages trim, and a 7gypsies shabby, painted chipboard tag.

I'm off to get supplies for my cookies....hope to share them with you tomorrow.

Enjoy your Saturday.

Melis

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June 26, 2009

calapitters, black gwidows, and quilts....

Oh how I love the language of my little one...her silly, innocent phrases and words make me smile and I've been trying to store all of these adorable snippets away in my mind for a rainy day. I'm sure you know what a calapitter is and perhaps a black gwidow too? But a quilt for those of you who may not know is a baby horse...yep...just so ya know...adorable...I adore her...she is my smile.

Sooo....today I'm having a Thank You party for all of you...you have no idea how much your notes meant to me on my rainy day :) I'm not very good about sharing my feelings or emotions...I'm kind of a low-maintenance kind of girl....steady as they come...my husband thanks my daily :) I'm almost certain it has to do with being raised with 3 brothers (whom I love dearly and if they happen to read this...always remember I love you) and no girly-sisters to call my own....but I have learned from each of you that when you share your heart...your ups and downs, that others draw nearer....I have learned from past experiences that our love for one another grows when we are there for each other good times and bad....and part of that comes from sharing what is in our hearts and on our minds...so thank you my sweet, good, lovable, thoughtful, wonderful friends :)

Celebrate with me today as I am taking part in a huge Paper Crafts Card Creations 7 blog hop...with big, old, juicy giveaways of the paper-crafting variety :) There are 10 prize packages up for grabs, and 15 copies of the newest Card Creations...it's so beautiful...I peeked at mine just the other day...but this sweet lady needs to be lovingly admired over and over again...and she will...perhaps I'll even dog ear her pages...something I have never been able to bring myself to do...but she's different...

I get to share one of my cards published in this issue with you and share a little bit about the story behind it. I'm a lover of all things fall-ish...the colors, the smells, the names of things such as Jack-O-Lantern, pumpkin pie, apple cider, cinnamon stick, apple crisp....you get the picture...so some of my most favorite cards to create are those celebrating the warmth and coziness associated with this season...I used my Melissa Frances goodies on this...and coated the spooky cat with Doodlebug Beetle Black glitter...have you tried black glitter yet? Gotta...you just gotta. I'd love for you to try it on your own, so I wanted to share with you an example of using glitter other than white or clear...it's a lot of fun.

So.....here is the beautiful cover of the newest Card Creations issue....it's tantalizing, don't ya think? Check out that adorable elephant from Kim Hughes....and the apron!!! Good NIGHT Sally...I adore that card...Miss Kim Kesti's creation...so much to love in this issue. I will be trying my own apron card....I dream about it at night :)

Please leave me a comment with a link to your most favorite recipe site or food blog....I'm a wanna be foodie who love to read recipe books front to back and back to front...so do share :) I'll be sharing my most favorite cookie recipe with you in a day or so...I need to bake some up so you can see what I'm talking about.

Once you've left me a comment you are then eligible to participate in the random drawing to win one of these issues along with 1 of 10 prize packages from Paper Crafts Connection and the Moxie Fab World blog...you can increase your chances of winning by visiting each of these blogs and leaving a little love behind.