Slow and Steady

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cookies, ketchup, peanut-butter, tic tac toe

Apparently I took an unintentional hiatus from blogging. Back-to-school, family illnesses, technology woes, and a book binge occupied most of my time. This is just a short and sweet post to get my toes wet again.

While at lunch with a few friends, I spotted this interesting recipe on the back of the ketchup bottle.

Tic Tac Toe Cookies

Peanut-butter and ketchup cookies? Yes, you heard that right! Of course, my friends wanted me to make them for them to try, but I can’t seem to bring myself to bake with peanut butter and ketchup together.

What do you think? I’d love to hear your story if you’ve ever tried these!

XOXO
Young Wifey

Almond Butter Blossoms

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almond, almond butter, cookies, desserts, food, foodie, nut butter, peanut-butter, postaday2011, recipe, snack, sweets

Baking is always therapeutic, it’s just the dirty dishes that I don’t want to deal with afterwards. But despite the dishes, today required some baking begin feeling like myself again… Oh, and the Aleve helped too…

Hubster loves peanut-butter, I have a strong aversion to it (well, except for the occasional Reese’s Pieces). He always begs me to make peanut-butter cookies, peanut-butter no bakes, peanut butter brownies… you get the picture. At the supermarket a few months ago, I had an epiphany. Maybe I can appease his appetite as well as mine.

Almond Butter Blossoms

Ingredients:
bag of Hershey’s Kisses, 3/4 c. almond butter, 1/3 c. light brown sugar, 1/8 c. milk, 1 1/2 c. flour, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1/2 c. butter, 1/3 c. sugar, 1 egg, 1 Tbsp. almond extract, 1 tsp. baking soda, extra sugar for coating

Directions:
Unwrap Kisses and set aside. Preheat oven to 375ºF. Grease baking sheets. Mix together flour, salt and baking soda. Cream together, almond butter, butter, sugar, almond extract, milk and egg. Slowly combine flour mixture in to sugar mixture. Roll dough into 1″ balls, coat in sugar and place on cookie sheets. Bake for 8 minutes, remove from oven and quickly press one kiss into the center of each cookie. Place cookies on cooling rack.

Serve with a tall glass of milk and enjoy!

What activity do you find therapeutic?

Peanut-butter Frosting

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cake, cupcakes, dessert, dessert recipe, dessert table, frosting, icing, peanut-butter, peanut-butter frosting, peanut-butter icing, sweets table

As I mentioned in a post earlier this week, I lost my peanut-butter icing recipe. A friend gave me her husband’s recipe, which I though was too sweet. I was able to recreate my frosting recipe last weekend, and had a few requests to share it with you.

Peanut-butter Frosted Cupcake

Ingredients:
2 c. peanut-butter, 2/3 c. butter, 1 c. confectioner’s sugar, 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract, 1 c. milk

Directions:
Allow butter to soften. Microwave peanut-butter for about 30 seconds to loosen. Using an electric blender, mix all ingredients together until well combined. Frost cake and keep refrigerated until ready to serve.