Sunday, January 29, 2012

Black and Whites

Last week my lovely husband's lovely grandmother had a birthday.  She lives at the front of the farm, so made her some cookies and Myles delivered them on her birthday.

These cookies are black and whites.  I love them.  They are my favorite kind of cookie.  I hope Ma loved them as well.  These cookies are not overly sweet and they are very cake-like.  Here is the recipe:

BLACK AND WHITES

cookies
2 cups cake flour
3 cups AP flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 sticks butter (at room temperature)
1 3/4 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

icing
1/3 cup boiling water
4 cups confectioners sugar
1 oz bittersweet chocolate melted

directions
stir together flour and baking powder.
in mixer cream together butter and sugar
beat in eggs to butter and sugar, then add milk and vanilla
finally add flour mixture

for drop tablespoon to small ice cream scoop size onto pan sprayed with cooking spray (depending on how big you want your cookies- I like mine bigger, but for Ma I made smaller ones)

bake at 375 for about 20 minutes or until they just begin to brown.  Cool completely befor icing

To make icing stir water and confectioner sugar together, you may need a touch more water if it is too thick.  Split the icing in half and add the melted chocolate to one half.
Ice the cookies half chocolate, half white and allow icing to dry.

ENJOY

Saturday, January 28, 2012

A great wedding gift

As a wedding gift my sister made us these pictures.  I think they are so cool.  they hang over our couch in our living room.



Monday, January 23, 2012

Amazing photos



We got our wedding photos recently and I am so pleased with how they turned out.  The fun candid shots and the great group pictures.  I could not asked for more.  Our photographer was Amy from Your Still Life Photography, her husband assists her and takes pictures as well.  They did a great job!!

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

...a new year and a new puppy...

After Christmas my husband and I headed out to Texas to pick up a horse we sent out there when he broke his leg.  He is healed enough to get back to work riding horses so we figured while I was out on break we would go pick up this horse together.  She was at a horse trainer's place in northern Texas and we stayed for a few days to visit with some friends and see the area before we headed home.  We brought home a souvenier with us.  Meet Margaux, our new French bulldog puppy.