chocolate crinkle cookies... and a boot!

I'm competitive.  Like crazy insane competitive. I try to keep it under control, but sometimes it just eats me alive.  One reason why I cook is for the love that people give that comes along with it.  So when I go to a party and someone else has brought something tastier than my dish, I get less love.

My friends had a little get together a couple of months ago and this tramp (not really, she was super nice) brought these sexy good chocolate crinkle cookies, which totally trumped my... I don't even remember what I made!  ha!  But I remembered the cookies.

so I looked up a recipe on Pinterest.

they were just as I remembered.

delicious.

here's the pin.

In other news, I developed a stress fracture last night.  ugh.

It is located in the 4th metatarsal of my right foot and I can hardly put any pressure.

Phooey!!!

I was really hitting my running stride!

okay now let's take another look at those beautiful cookies.

mm, mm, mm.

apple cobbler cookies

recipe here.

They taste more like an apple crisp than cobbler, but who's asking all these questions when all a girl wants to do is eat cookies.  It's basically oatmeal cookies with chopped up apples instead of raisins.  Why do people ruin oatmeal cookies with raisins anyway?

and of course you could eat these and call it meatless monday!

can't. stop. making. treats.

I know I've been really delectable lately.  I can't help myself.  I pinned this pin several weeks ago based solely on the fact that it just looked so freakin' tasty.  So the mister was wanting a treat the other night and I had all the ingredients on hand to make it...

awesome because you don't dirty up dishes really.  it's all done in the skillet.

fresh from the oven.

no vanilla ice cream.  I guess we just eat a little extra cookie to make up for it!!

rejection stinks.

this week I have submitted food pics to foodgawker, craft pics to craftgawker, and my wedding pics to Ruffled.  All three sites declined my submittals.  what a way to kill a girl's ego!

So feeling a little dejected, I opted to make cookies instead of go to the gym this morning.

chocolate chocolate chip... I feel better already.

BIRTHDAY!!

yesterday was my birthday.  it was a nice day.  I woke up super early so my sweet oscar and I made some lanterns out of more mason jars. 

 here's one hanging on my front porch.  LOVE!

my sweet husband eventually woke up and we went to brunch.  We both ordered french toast with sliced strawberries on top.  I ate the strawberries before I took this pic.

so yummy!

at breakfast I opened my birthday present from my husband...  

a manduka yoga mat!  yay!  I've been wanting one for quite a while.

later on... we spent some time preparing for our 4th of July party on Monday and then took some time to relax.  Then some friends came over, we had dinner, went to a movie, and then came back to our kitchen...

 I always end up making my own birthday treat since I'm the sweets maker.  We baked cookie dough in these little souffle dishes and scooped ice cream and chocolate syrup on top.

SUPER YUM!!

and so easy... and I can make a single serving for the husband when his sweet tooth beckons.

witch fingers... yikes!

Tonight my friend Ashlee Jean came over and got me to help her make a Halloween treat for her to take to work tomorrow.  We decided to make witch fingers.  They taste similar to a sugar cookie or a tea cake but they have almond extract in them.  yum!

here's our creations...

fingers ready to bake... creepy!

baked... ready to serve.

grab a band-aid, our witch started bleeding!

more bangles and the cookies I hate.

My weekend consisted of a woodburner, bangle bracelets, decoupage, and David making no bake cookies.

We'll start with the cookies... I'm sure to many they are delectable. Not my favorite treat...

I bought a woodburner to try some things out on the bracelets... for the ones I screwed up, I just decoupaged on top! you can't go wrong with decoupage.

woodburner... Zoe was interested but I wouldn't let her sniff it.

unfinished bracelet on my knee.

my bracelets for the weekend!
woohoo!