How to Make Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

 

These delicious little cookies will have all your holiday party guests impressed. Not only do they look like little tarts, but they are the perfect bite size dessert for after Christmas dinner. 

Ingredients: 

• 2 1/2 cups (325 grams) all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (226 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 3/4 cup (160 grams) light brown sugar
• 3/4 cup (150 grams) granulated white sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Directions:

1. First, preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Next, spray non-stick vegetable spray over 48 miniature muffin tins.
3. In a medium bow, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt.
4. Next, using a hand mixer, beat the butter until smooth and then add in the white and brown sugars and mix until light and fluffy.
5. Once mixed, add in the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. 
6. Next beat in the vanilla extract and add the flour mixture. Beat together all ingredients until evenly mixed. 
7. Fill each miniature muffin cup with a tablespoon of batter.
8. Bake cookies for about 8 minutes or until lightly browned. 
9. Remove the cookies from the oven and then gently press on miniature peanut butter cup, unwrapped, into the center of each cookie. 
10. Return the cookies to the oven and cook for another 3 minutes. 

***Recipe courtesy of Allrecipes.com 

Give back to Nature with Your Leftover Jack-o'-Lantern

While many people just throw away their jack-o'-lantern come November 1st, why not re-purpose the pumpkin for other uses. If you live close to nature and some wildlife, old pumpkin always makes a tasty snack for a furry neighbor. Cut up good ol' Jack and leave pieces strewn outside, away from your yard. If you're feeling exceptionally generous, you can always decide to share some pumpkin seeds with the birds. Place any unwanted pumpkin seeds in a container and let the birds have a tasty snack. If you're in the mood for some gardening, then use your old jack-o'-lantern as a planter for some fresh flowers or bulbs. Simply fill the hollowed out pumpkin with dirt and place your bulb of choice inside. With a little love and water, you will have flowers blooming in no time. The great thing about using the pumpkin as a planter, when it rots it will just decompose into the soil and become fertilizer. 

How to Make Peanut Butter Pumpkins

 

 

Have your own pumpkin patch right in your kitchen with these delicious peanut butter pumpkins!

These Halloween recipe is so easy and delicious, it's scary! Not only will this spooky dessert have your taste buds tingling, it will have you screaming with delight.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 1/2 cups peanut butter
• 1 (16 ounce) package confectioners' sugar, sifted
• red food coloring
• yellow food coloring
• green decorators icing

 

 

Directions:

1. Melt butter in a large bowl and add a few drops of yellow and red food coloring, until mixture has a nice orange color.
2. Add the peanut butter and confectioners sugar and mix together until a dough-like consistency is reached. (This means that when the dough is nice and stiff and it gets hard to add any more sugar, to let it go at that).
3. Shape dough into small balls shaped like pumpkins; make ridges on the pumpkins with a toothpick.
4. Add a small amount of green decorators icing to the top of each pumpkin for a stem.
5. Refrigerate, if desired, to allow pumpkins to firm.
6. Serve on a plate lined with toasted coconut and Halloween decorated cookies, if desired; these also look good on top of cupcakes.