Friday favorite

Super Easy Microwave Caramels
adapted from: A Pretty Cool Life


5 Tbl. butter
1/2 c. light corn syrup
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. packed light brown sugar
4 oz. sweetened condensed milk (about 1/4 cup + 2 Tbl.)


Put all ingredients in a large microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 6 minutes, stirring every 2 minutes. Spray an 8''x8'' dish with cooking spray and pour mixture in. Let cool and cut. Wrap in wax paper.


Jenn's Notes: Seriously AMAZING! Eventually it will spread (it takes quite awhile for this to happen). If you individually wrap them and are planning on taking them somewhere, I would keep them in the fridge and bring to room temperature just before serving. They will hold their shape for several hours, before they start to flatten.

Friday Favorite

I went to buy groceries at WinCo this afternoon. While bagging my groceries, a nice woman was bagging her things across from me. I noticed she had a mondo bag of Rice Krispies and several bags of marshmallows. She said that I just had to get on a website named cookingclassy.blogspot.com and look at a Rice Krispie recipe. It uses one pouch of the Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie mix. She says it's divine! SO....I am totally going to try this recipe out and make them for my sweeties on Valentine's Day. TGIF!

Sugar Cookie Rice Krispie Treats


Ingredients:
1/3 cup butter
1/8 tsp salt
1 (10.5 oz) pkg miniature marshmallows
1/2 cup Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Mix (unprepared)
6 cups Rice Krispies Cereal
1 Recipe Sugar Cookie Frosting, recipe follows
Sprinkles (optional)


Directions:
Butter a 9 x 13 dish, set aside. Melt butter in a large nonstick saucepan over medium low heat. Stir in salt. Add marshmallows and stir constantly until completely melted. Remove from heat. Stir in Sugar Cookie Mix. Fold in Rice Krispies Cereal and stir until evenly coated. Pour mixture into buttered dish. Using a buttered spatula, spread mixture evenly into pan. Allow to cool slightly, about 2 minutes, then cut into 12 squares. Using your hands, round edges of squares by cupping your hands and gently pressing on corners (I also flattened them a bit but not necessary). Frost each "cookie" with Sugar Cookie Frosting and sprinkle with optional sprinkles. Store in an airtight container.


Sugar Cookie Frosting


Ingredients:
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 Tbsp milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
Pinch salt
2 cups powdered sugar
Food coloring (optional)


Directions:
In a mixing bowl, using an electric mixer, whip together butter, milk, vanilla, salt and powdered sugar until fluffy and smooth about one minute. Mix in several drops optional food coloring, stir until well blended

Goodbye to Grandma

It happens so fast. You are here one minute and then gone. It has been a whirlwind of a week. I am so grateful to have known her!
I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on her tombstone from the beginning...to the end.

He noted that first came the date of her birth and spoke of the following date with tears.
But he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.

For that dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth
And now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not, how much we own; the cars...the house...the cash.
What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.
--Linda Ellis
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WE LOVE YOU! It is always a good feeling knowing we will be together again. We will think of her often with special thoughts of fun times and wonderful examples of courage and service.