Sunday, February 18, 2018

Jello Cookies with Jello Frosting

Every summer my Auntie Lisa hosts a family trivia game while we're in Chelan. She often goes to this variety store that Chelan has to get a smorgasbord of prizes that we get to choose from (winners get first pick, etc). A couple summers ago I chose two boxes of Jell-O gelatin that have since been sitting in my pantry as I'm not a regular Jell-O eater. Thanks to Pinterest (and food bloggers in general), I found another way to use these up: frosted cookies! The Jell-O cookies came from I Save A to Z and the Jell-O frosting came from Coleen's Recipes.





Easy Homemade Pretzel Croissants

This year for Thanksgiving my mom had me make a couple appetizers. One was the pepperoni pinwheels (it's become my specialty. Plus Nonni loves them so I don't mind making them). The other was up to me but Mom suggested something cheesy. So I started looking for a baked brie recipe since I love brie cheese and figured I'd be able to finish the rest at home (which wasn't much - it ended up being a bigger hit than I had expected). A baked brie recipe tends to include a sheet of puff pastry, which only come in pairs at the grocery store. However, I already had an idea for how to use the other one: when I finished my dinner rolls, I could make the pretzel croissants recipe I'd found on Pinterest. It consists of both a yeast dough (which I've become really good at making and am possibly an expert at) and a sheet of puff pastry and comes from the blog Plated Cravings.





Saturday, February 17, 2018

Mixed Berry Scones

When it comes to breakfast, I'm a waffle person. I even left my waffle iron out on my counter after making waffles last summer because of how frequently I've made a recipe from high school cooking class. But I haven't just stuck with waffles: there's a hack (if you want to call it that) for cooking a tube of cinnamon rolls (like Pillsbury) in a waffle iron. Since it was something I've wanted to try for a while I did that last fall. Once those ran out, though, I started looking for a non-waffle recipe. With Lent on the horizon I decided to look for something with berries. I focused on scones since my last attempt had been a failure and I wanted to try again. I eventually found Mixed Berry Scones on the Averie Cooks blog.





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