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Chocolate Dipped Shortbread Hearts
This weekend I made the chocolate dipped shortbread heart recipe that I featured on YumSugar last week. My friend Jon was over so he was working as my sous-chef/photographer while I was making these cookies. They came out really good (I dipped some in white chocolate which the recipe doesn't call for) and while I was making them my dad kept saying how he wasn't going to eat any and that he didn't like shortbread and blah blah blah."Scotch" Shortbread Cookies
"SCOTCH" SHORTBREAD COOKIES I don't know about you, but I have done way too much eating this holiday...especially when I'm supposed to be in race training! Ugh! I do know, though, that I have a horrible sweet tooth, and I just am not willing to give up some of my goodies...unless my arm is twisted!Turtle Shortbread Cookies
Turtle Shortbread Cookies (from the Argostarch.com)
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 25 to 30 minutes
Yield: 3 -1/2 dozen cookies
1 cup butter, softened (no substitutions)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 squares (1 ounce each) semi-sweet chocolate, melted, cooled 5 minutes
2 cups flour
1/4 cup Argo® or Kingsford's® Corn Starch
1 package (14 ounces) caramels
2 tablespoons light cream
6 ounces (1-1/2 cups) pecans, chopped
1. Preheat oven to 300°F. Mix butter, brown sugar and vanilla thoroughly using an electric mixer.
Pansy Shortbread
Pretty Purple Pansy
A recent post (http://yumsugar.com/503997) by YumSugar reminded me of a recipe that I'd seen in the Simply Homemade Food Gifts book. At the time, I decided that it simply looked absolutely gorgeous, but it had one minor detail that made me decide to strike it from my memory banks.
Where do you find edible pansies?
Goatbread Cookies
Goatbread Cookies From YumSugar 6 oz (1 1/2 sticks) goat butter (cut into 1" cubes) 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 tsp salt 1/3 cup rice flour 1 cup all-purpose flour- Preheat oven to 300F. Move oven rack to top 1/3 of the oven.
- In large bowl, or stand mixer, whisk salt and sugar together.
- Add butter, mix well. I mixed in stand mixer on medium until butter was completely blended and creamy (about 2 minutes via mixer).
Charlie Brandts, White House carpenter turned beekeeper
A new type of visitor came to the National Mall this year, flitting past monuments and museums in favor of trees, flowers and plants. But this wasn’t just some horticultural tour; no, this was work. Each day they were abuzz, gathering and pollinating before returning home to modest quarters with tremendous security near Lafayette Park.
Surviving Girl Scout Cookie Season: Can you enjoy Girl Scout cookies without blowing your diet?
Surviving Girl Scout Cookie Season: Can you enjoy Girl Scout cookies without blowing your diet? By Elaine Magee, MPH, RD http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/surviving-girl-scout-cookie-season?ecd=wnl_wmh_030909 It comes but once a year, that time when a few bucks will buy you a stroll down memory lane. As we speak, girls dressed in green are knocking on doors across America, carrying boxes filled with everyone's favorite treat -- Girl Scout cookies.Scotland
Fast Facts - Part of the UK - Capitol is Edinburgh - Speaks - English, Gaelic, Scots - Stereotype - Red Hair, Pale Skin, Eating Haggis and Deep Fried Mars Bars while in Kilts - Flag - blue with a white St Andrews Cross - Patron Saint - Saint Andrew History Of Scotland The history of Scotland begins around 10,000 years ago, when humans first began to inhabit Scotland after the end of the Devensian glaciation, the last ice age. Of the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age civilization that existed in the country, many artifacts remain, but few written records were left behind. The written history of Scotland largely begins with the arrival of the Roman Empire in Britain, when the Romans occupied what is now broadly England and Wales, administering it as a Roman province called Britannia.Ewan McGregor Revs Up His Reality Show
Ewan McGregor hypes up his new reality TV show, Long Way Down, during the FOX Reality Channel 2008 Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Friday in Beverly Hills, Calif. In Long Way Down, the 37-year-old actor and his pal Charley Boorman ride motorcycles from Scotland to South Africa to raise money for charity. The travel adventure show will premiere on the Fox Reality Channel on Saturday, August 2nd.Crockpot Pumpkin Pie Pudding
Okay, so I can't seem to stop thinking of pumpkins since we have two huge ones to cook and one to decorate. I was looking for a good pumpkin soup recipe and came across this desert. It sounds pretty good so I thought I'd share it.
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