Tres Leches Recipe

Recently, I've become addicted to tres leches. I don't know why. It's just so good all of a sudden. Like the sugar cookies, I never liked this dessert before. This is probably the strangest cake recipe I've ever made, but it's good.

Tres Leches Cake (Three Milk Cake)



2 cups pancake mix (like Bisquick etc.)
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup coke
1 cup vegetable oil
6 medium eggs (5 if large)

Pour into greased 9X13 pan and bake at 325 for 25-35 minutes, until just golden. Poke holes with a fork into while warm.
Mix together:
1 can evaporated milk
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 can "media crema Nestle" (in the Spanish food section)

Pour over cake. Served with fruit of your choice, such as sliced strawberries.

I like to refrigerate the cake overnight and then serve. Yum!

Sugar Cookie Recipe (Softest & Best)

I never used to like sugar cookies. I thought they were just okay. Then I had these cookies. Super delicious! Thank you Kristin's grandma! And thank you Kyrsten for making them and bringing them to work. If you are looking for a good recipe for make for Halloween goodies, this is it! It makes a good batch and the secret is really the buttermilk!! Make sure to buy real buttermilk.... don't just substitute lemon juice in milk.

Super Delicious (Soft, Chewy) Sugar Cookies

2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup butter (2 sticks)
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
5 cups flour (+more as needed)

Beat sugar eggs and butter. Add buttermilk and the rest of the ingredients; add flour last. Roll out dough with additional flour and cut into desired shapes. Bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes. Frost and enjoy!

Apple Dip Recipe

This apple dip is super delicious! If you love caramel apples, you'll love this creamy dip.I had it last year at a Halloween party and had to get the recipe. And if you haven't tried Honey crisp apples yet, you are missing out! They are seriously the perfect apple; better than any other variety we've tried (gala, jona gold, red delicious, granny smith, etc) They are super crunchy and just the perfect sweet. So even if you don't try this apple dip, try a Honey Crisp apple! Seriously so good!!!!

Apple Dip



1 8 oz package cream cheese softened (I use low fat)

3/4 cup brown sugar

3 heaping tablespoons caramel topping

2 tsp vanilla

Mix all the ingredients together. Serve with sliced apples (to keep them from browning, douse them in pineapple juice) Enjoy!

(also I love our apple corer; it a lot better than those ones that slice the apples and core them, because sometimes I just core the apple for my lunch and I can eat it without slicing it)

Even Penny loves Honey Crisp Apples!

We're Back!

Yay! We are back in the blogging world again. Back and as spiffy as ever! Let's see, mostly we didn't blog, because we are so cool, we didn't have time. Okay, okay. Not really. We really don't have cool things to blog about....like children. Because let's face it, children are cool. But my dear friend (ahem, Katie) told me I should blog about yummy food I make, and I figured that was something I could do. But the hardest part is remembering to take pictures of food you're making. So far, I've only succeeded in taking pictures of some desserts. But fear not! These desserts are perfect for Fall!. So I hope you like them. I highly recommend any recipe I post! :) As for what we've really been up to here's the recap. Also, we'll try to blog more twice a year. Really. (Believe it Alicia!)

July: Enjoyed the 4th of July holiday and watched the parade in Provo. It was fun. Took Rusty on the scooter to the parade. Bad idea. Here he is enjoying his 4th of July pirate hat.



August: Went to Germany for 3 glorious weeks to visit my family. Wish we could have stayed longer. Got to travel to beautiful places and even dip our feet in the North Sea. I turned 25 and am officially older than Buddy. Here's a cute picture of us in the cable car in Rudesheim.



September: Buddy started graduate school. He's really enjoying his cohort and classes. He's already like 50 billion times smarter than Jenny, which is quite a bit. I debated about going back to culinary school (seriously) and even got accepted somehow into the UVU culinary program (really, I didn't even apply, just talked to them one day and I got a letter saying I was accepted....which I heard was hard....but apparently not)

October: Officially wore my winter boots for the first time today, which means it's finally cold. Fall is one of my favorite times of the year. Buddy and I went and hiked up a little hill at South Fork park in the canyon. It was beautiful. The puppies loved hiking. So far the month has started off great. Excited for Halloween where we are going to be something really, really cool. (almost as cool as this costume: http://www.coolest-homemade-costumes.com/coolest-mona-lisa-and-leonardo-costume.html)

A New Addition....

No, we aren't having a baby. We got another puppy! (Just call us crazy.) Penny has joined our home and she's a doll. She's about twice the size of Rusty (11 lbs) and cute as can be. She loves to sit on your lap and lick. Buddy found her online, and it was either the pound or our home and we chose the latter. She's got floppy ears, snuggly soft fur, and a heart of gold. She's adjusting well and we sure love her. Better pictures to come soon.

Coupons

So lately, I have become addicted to using coupons. I like saving money (I know weird). Every year when the Money Saver coupon calendars come out, I always get a bunch of them from the BYU dorms, since none of the silly freshman care about using coupons. My new favorite site is http://hip2save.blogspot.com/

I have gotten so many great deals from this site! I check it quite frequently. I'm not a crazy couponer that rings things up in multiple transactions and has billions of coupons, but I do like to save a few bucks here and there and definitely love free stuff. Anyhow check it out!

Graduation

As promised, only a little late, a new post.

Buddy walked in the April graduation at BYU. It was a perfectly sunny day, even though the rest of the week had been rainy. The speeches were really good, and it all went by really fast. Buddy still has 2 classes left, which he'll finish in the next 2 months, and then in Fall he'll start his masters (Ed.S) program at BYU. Way to go Buddy!!! (can you spot him in the crowd??)