"Zipped away like a popped balloon!" ... I'll take "Where did 2014 go?" for 500!
But seriously?! 5 years ago I couldn't believe I was 18 years old, graduating high school, and seeing off so many friends on their LDS missions. Now, I can hardly believe I'm 23, 3 kids & a husband, and going to my childhood friends' weddings and baby showers! What is going on. I remember being 14 and begging my mom with 'well thought out' highly detailed scenarios of me moving out and getting my own place.
You know, cause I was grown and all.
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| Touche, Adkins. Touche. |
Time seems to flow, whether it's a year, month, week, day, moment - passing moments keep passing and it's beautiful and breath taking at the same time. It's here and gone, but nothing is really missing because there is always a new moment.
You can call me Fortune Cookie.
Speaking of cookies..... remember when I blogged in December about posting a week of healthy recipes during the week of Christmas? Yeah, me neither. We made these bad boys instead:
I introduce to you...... drumroll, please...... Cookie Crack!
Yes, I invented them in a rage of midnight hunger in college. And yes, I named them Cookie Crack.... so don't call them something else because I am really sensitive to my creations and it's kind of a big deal.
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| Behold! |
It's a very delicate, super simple, but strangely exact, and conscively formulated recipe...
Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F
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2 bags Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip Cookies dry mix
1 bag of Hershey's White Chocolate Chips
1 bag of Nestle's Butterscotch Chips
1 bag of Heath Toffee Chips
2 sticks of room temperature butter
2 eggs |
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| Cut 1/4 of the stick of butter off one of the butter sticks and toss it |
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Dump the 2 bags of dry mix
1/2 bag of all the chips
2 eggs
1 3/4 butter sticks
into the bowl and mix
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Use a melon baller to scoop and plop onto a CLEAN cookie sheet. Don't prep the sheet with sprays or non sticks. The butter in the cookies act as the non-stick agent
Bake in the oven for 9 minutes. Not 8. Not 10. But 9.
Remove and place on counter to cool for 2 - 3 minutes
Before they are completely cooled, lay out paper towels, use a spatula to transfer the warm and seemingly doughy cookies to the paper towels where they will finish cooling down and hardening.
If the cookie is falling apart while you're spatualing them, they weren't cooked long enough or they are still too warm.
Give them a couple more minutes and if they are still falling apart, place them back in the oven for 1 or 2 minutes |
Now you know my Secret Recipe
Now I have to keel you
The holidays were a blast and these cookies were a hit! We packaged up the dry ingredients into mason jars and handed them out as gifts with homemade fired bowls these munchkins drew on.
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| Queen B |
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| Princess Jojo |
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| Mr Hagen |
I am so grateful and blessed for these beautiful souls I call family to spend holidays, successes, trials, and joys with. 2014 was a year of growth, healing, and transformation for myself, Cade, and our beautiful family! SO excited for what 2015 holds, and every passing moment!
Time to Take It On into 2015!!!!
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| xoxox With love, the Taylor Gang |
