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I'm Beth. I like making your eyes happy. I bake (because food is awesome) and make crafty things! (Which means the majority of photos here are my own.)

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A weekend with my niece: we made triple chocolate brownie cookies and had M&M pancakes for dinner (I taught her how to properly fluff up flour!).  We talked about a birthday party next month for my cat, and made him two presents (“Shhh!  We can’t let him hear!”), one a cloth version of him, and the other a trap made of string to catch any bad cats that might try to harm him.  We collected flowers and dyed cloth with them, and made a beach just for bugs, right on the back porch.  
My hips are still sore from our long swinging session…there should be swings for non-kid hips!  Oh, and I learned she goes #1 out of her armpit and #2 out of her mouth.

Cookie butter smells like gingerbread and tastes like cookies!  I was trying it out here on a slice of cinnamon raisin bread, but my favorite was eating it with pretzels.  I’m not so sure about it though, because it’s thicker than peanut butter which makes it hard to eat.  I’ll stick with Nutella!  Read about Biscoff Spread on Baking Bites

Cookie butter smells like gingerbread and tastes like cookies!  I was trying it out here on a slice of cinnamon raisin bread, but my favorite was eating it with pretzels.  I’m not so sure about it though, because it’s thicker than peanut butter which makes it hard to eat.  I’ll stick with Nutella!  
Read about Biscoff Spread on Baking Bites

Golden Oreo cookies & cream ice cream is now a favorite!  I previously realized that I like these Oreos more than the chocolate, and in ice cream?  Deelicious.

Golden Oreo cookies & cream ice cream is now a favorite!  I previously realized that I like these Oreos more than the chocolate, and in ice cream?  Deelicious.

designed-for-life: tea-bag biscuits! These are adorable…and, oh, the tea tags!  Get in my mouth please.Made by Trattoria da Martina

designed-for-life:

tea-bag biscuits!

These are adorable…and, oh, the tea tags!  Get in my mouth please.
Made by Trattoria da Martina

(Source: sandrakavital.blogspot.com, via chestchest)

Cookie guts! I started making the cookies at night when I realized we were out of eggs.  I had to wait to finish them the next day, so I occupied myself by chopping cookie ingredients. 

Cookie guts! 
I started making the cookies at night when I realized we were out of eggs.  I had to wait to finish them the next day, so I occupied myself by chopping cookie ingredients. 

Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies (without the whole wheat flour)Not the best chipsters I’ve made…maybe they needed salt.  I should have just added pecans to another chocolate chip cookie recipe!  

Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies (without the whole wheat flour)
Not the best chipsters I’ve made…maybe they needed salt.  I should have just added pecans to another chocolate chip cookie recipe!  

I like: illustrated recipes!

Cloud cookies.  Ice cream cake.  Cinnamon Swirl Cake.

Many moons ago I was craving s’mores but did not have graham crackers.  I tried out these homemade ones, but with a different texture than store-bought grahams, they didn’t quite work.  On their own, however, they are really great.  Chewy and full of flavor, regular grahams are tasteless to me now.  I made them for the second time last month, and they disappeared pretty fast!  Homemade Graham Crackers from Smitten Kitchen.Note to self: next time, take crackers out of the oven while they’re still soft.  They will be nice and firm once cooled. 

Many moons ago I was craving s’mores but did not have graham crackers.  I tried out these homemade ones, but with a different texture than store-bought grahams, they didn’t quite work.  On their own, however, they are really great.  Chewy and full of flavor, regular grahams are tasteless to me now.  I made them for the second time last month, and they disappeared pretty fast!  

Homemade Graham Crackers from Smitten Kitchen.
Note to self: next time, take crackers out of the oven while they’re still soft.  They will be nice and firm once cooled. 

Here’s a somewhat blurry picture taken on top of my washing machine of all the Christmas cookies together!  My mom made the almond cookies and the date-nut bars on the bottom of the left plate, and the chocolate and vanilla swirl ones.

Here’s a somewhat blurry picture taken on top of my washing machine of all the Christmas cookies together!  My mom made the almond cookies and the date-nut bars on the bottom of the left plate, and the chocolate and vanilla swirl ones.

More Christmas cookies!  We stopped making these sugar cookies years ago, but I had a craving to make them this year.  The recipe already called for nutmeg, but we added extra and also some cinnamon.  The dinosaurs I gave to my niece, who is in love with dinosaurs at the moment.
My sister and I had fun eating the chocolate chips with a bit of the green mint flavored frosting!

I decided to make some separate ginger cookies and snickerdoodles after making many of the combined gingerdoodles.  Three different-looking cookies from one recipe!  
Recipe from Bakergirl (again, I used butter instead of shortening.)

Christmas cookies!  I made these Gingerdoodles ahead of time and froze them.  They’re half ginger cookie and half snickerdoodle dough, placed together in one cookie.  Recipe from Bakergirl, though I used butter, not shortening.

Christmas cookies!  I made these Gingerdoodles ahead of time and froze them.  They’re half ginger cookie and half snickerdoodle dough, placed together in one cookie.  
Recipe from Bakergirl, though I used butter, not shortening.

creativeanchorage: Ranger cookies, only the best cookies EVER.They’re loaded with rice krispies, toasted coconut, and jumbo raisins! Recipe Made these again, twice!

creativeanchorage:

Ranger cookies, only the best cookies EVER.
They’re loaded with rice krispies, toasted coconut, and jumbo raisins! 
Recipe

Made these again, twice!