Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Falling leaf pancakes for Thanksgiving morning

I saw a picture of these pancakes somewhere
and wanted to give it a try.... here we go 
 
start with your favorite pancake batter and a squeeze bottle




 using squeeze bottle draw an outline of a leaf on your pan
cook until edges are brown
 
 fill in the spaces with pancake batter and flip immediately



 beautiful fall leaf pancake
 
 
 serve with butter and syrup
 
Happy Thanksgiving from our house to yours

Pumpkins in the mist

After a rain shower we visited our local pumpkin patch and corn maze.  The corn maze was tricky to maneuver and very slippery.   The fog and mist on the camera lens  produced some interesting pictures. 





hiding from her daddy

scoping out the maze

we only took a couple of wrong turns


a tired little girl

A spooktacular day

The next two posts should have been posted in October but time has slipped away.  So here are our fall October festivities

The weather here was extremely warm for October but that did not prevent us from having a Halloween get together.  The most fun was creating these cute egg Ghostbusters.  They were so easy to make and the girls loved them. 

hollow out eggs, wash, dry, and add baby powder, glue wax paper on the top

throw on the sidewalk and the baby powder explodes with a puff of smoke



spider web cupcakes


Donut Tree a tradition from England


Hard part was getting the string not to cut through the donut

Friday, November 22, 2013

Deliciousness at Trader Joe's

Trader Joe's recently opened and of course we had to go and check it out.  Baking now in the oven is the  Truffle Baking Mix - they smell "delicious."  We shop at Trader Joe's for the baking mixes and the Cookie Butter --- oh and the kettle corn.  The baking mixes are 16 ounces of pure delight and only $2.99 a box.  The cookie butter is a decadent jar of spreadable goodness - worth every spoonful!





My favorite baking mixes

Delicious Pumpkin Muffins made in October