Kooking with Kayleigh ~~Christmas Edition~~

Making a Ginger Bread Man is a tradition we started three years ago

• GINGER BREAD COOKIE
• 3 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons Ground  Ginger
• 1 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon, 
• 1/4 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg
• 1/2  teaspoon All Spice
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter, softened1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoonPure Vanilla Extract

Baked and ready to be "DRESSED"

Adding all the piping...I'm glad she enjoys I have NO patience for it! 
Lil bro waiting to add the spice drops

She does good work!!

He's so YUMMMMMmmy!

Do you make a gingerbread man...house... or

 have a cookie you bake every year????

Kooking with Kayleigh

While K has been mostly keen on sweets this week she gave a slow-cooker meal a try.

Creamy Chicken Chili

2 or 3 chicken breast
1/2 cup of instant potato flakes--garlic or loaded potato flavors work best
2 cans of northern white beans
1 sweet red pepper chopped
3 spinach leaves chopped
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
3 cups of chicken stock

Cooking Directions

Put the chicken breast in the slow-cooker with 1 cup of the chicken stock. Cook on high for 3 hours.

After its been cooked, drain out stock into separate bowl,  pull chicken a part in another  bowl, take the stock bowl and mix in the instant potato flakes, like a rue.

Then put all the remaining ingredients back into the slow-cooker on low for 2 more hours--

Dinners on!!

-WW-Kooking With Kayleigh ~~cute cupcakes~~

Over the weekend we had very little planned--WOW that hardly EVER happens...so my daughter wanted to bake. She was more in a DECO mood so we took the EZ way out and used box cake mix and spent more time on the toppers.

After getting a few ideas from FamilyFun  she started baking.

  carefully working on the details

Kayleigh's above and the pix from the website below--Turned out pretty good  I think.

Bro thinks they taste pretty good too =)

NOW someone just need to do the dishes!!!!

Kooking with Kayleigh

With the start school and soccer on the weekends our cooking  time has been cut ...but my daughter and her friends found some time this weekend to try out these new muffins from Betty Crocer!

 working together     

LICKING THE SPOON--ALWAYS THE BEST PART OF BAKING!!!!! 

fresh out of the oven

right into our tummies!!!!

These are a HUGE hit as you can see...will be a nice treat to bake up in the coming cooler months.

KOOKING WITH KAYLEIGH SWEET TREAT

Kayleigh decided to make a berry trufle inspired snack.  Berry trifle is made with frozen berries or preserves, purchased short bred cookies, and vanilla pudding.

Ingredients:

• 1 pack of Shortbread cookies
• 1 package  frozen (or fresh if in season) raspberries, blackberries or  strawberries
• 1 package  vanilla pudding
• milk or in this case we used Almond Breeze
• sweetened whipped cream or whipped topping

She whipped up the pudding  and set it in the fridge to

settle...then called some friends to come over and enjoy the goodies too.

They made layers of the short bread...she smartly though putting the cookie in a baggie and

smashing it to bits--REALLY she just like the though of pounding the - out of something! ~ LOL~