baking

I made some Amish Bread.

I gave one loaf to the neighbors, ate one,

gave away three starters and kept one starter for myself.

So I'll be baking more soon.

I made cookies for Emma to take to school.

I always wanted to make 'pretty' iced sugar cookies but

mine always look like a glob of ...er.something.

This time I followed a recipe from a new blog I found called  BAKE AT 350.

If you love baking and like me, pretend to be good at it, then you will love this blog.

I used her technique for icing my cookies, and they actually turned out kinda cute.

Note: In case you try her icing recipe, She insist that you must sift your powdered sugar,

me being the rebel that I am, did not sift *GASP*.  It turned out fine. Maybe it would have been finER if I had sifted, but I probably won't sift next time either.  She also has one of those fancy smancy electric mixer - I do not. I used a wooden spoon, spatula and my not so fancy smancy mixers and again it worked fine.

( I realize that picture is not staright, but I'm just happy to get it on here. Let's pretend.)

We have a fun friday full of friends today.

Here's my Photo Friday:

I did crafts in spite of this.

Oh, and you must check out Craft-O-Maniac today for a very cute idea!

Have a great Weekend!!

I'll be back with a craft post soon.

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