No Bake Nut & Oat Balls

Good morning folks!

Today is going to be a good day, I just know it. I have my morning off work, so I plan on going to the gym, and catching up on my favorite show. I only work two hours this afternoon, and then I will go into town to get some shopping done. Like I said, this day sounds sweet.

Lately I have been trying out all sorts of healthy granola bar, and snack recipes for Dan. Here is the latest, and I love how it turned out. I hope you guys love it too! This recipe makes 24 and each ball has only 58 calories!

All you need is:

• 1 cup of pitted, dried dates
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup of peanut butter
• 1/4 cup chopped, unsalted peanuts
• 1 tsp coco powder
• 1/4 cup milk
• 2 cups quick oats

Step one:

Process the dates and water in your food processor until it becomes a paste.

Step two:

On your stove heat up the peanut butter,date paste, chopped peanuts, coco powder and milk on medium heat. Heat it for a few minutes and continue to stir so it doesn't burn.

Step three:

Remove from heat and add the quick oats. Stir until everything is combined. Spoon out small balls and place on wax paper to cool. Enjoy one for me please :)

Have a wonderful day!

-Britt xo

Orange Cranberry & Chocolate Scones

Hello darlings!

How are you doing today? Well, my day started out a little crazy. My car wouldn't start this morning due to the -30 weather, and the car wasn't plugged in properly so it was frozen. Dan came home from work with a friend to boost me and that took about 30 minutes to get the car going. Because of all the craziness, I missed my morning shift and I think I got frost bite. 

Seeing as I was stuck in my home all morning, I made some of these yummies. They are basically cookies, but whatever we will call them scones ;)

Here is what you need:

• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1/3 cup flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 cup softened butter (olive oil works as well. The consistency will be slightly different, but still delicious)
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup dried cranberries
• 1/4 cup or less of chopped semi sweet chocolate
• one orange grated with the juices squeezed 

Step one:

Mix up all the dry ingredients. Flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar.

Step two:

Make a little hole in the dry ingredients and add the wet ingredients there. Add the egg, milk, butter, orange peel and squeezed juice.

Step three:

Mix in the chocolate and cranberries.

Step four:

Bake the scones at 425F in a preheated oven on a greased sheet. Bake for about 10 minutes. This recipe makes one dozen.

Enjoy this yummy treat! I know I enjoyed one too many.

Here are some pics from our weekend. The weather was so mild that we were outside the whole weekend!

 xo

Peanut Butter Chocolate Coconut Cookies

Can it get any better than this?
I am not sure, because these are pretty darn amazing.
A week and a bit ago I made these cookies & they were eaten pretty fast. Please don't judge, it's not just me who eats all the cookies although I wish I could. Dan & I loved these cookies so much that I decided to make them again but with peanut butter. Of course peanut butter makes everything better!!

Also, Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends! Most of my readers are from the states so I figured I should give a shout out to you guys! Canada celebrates thanksgiving in October. Enjoy your time with your friends & family.  It is always good to take time & be thankful for the wonderful lives we have. I hope you all enjoy your turkey dinners! :)

Here is the recipe :)

In a medium size pot on medium to high heat put:

• 1/4 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar (not super packed down)
• 1/4 cup of skim milk 
• 2 tbsps cocoa powder

Bring it to all to a boil. Set your timer & let it boil for a minute. Don't forget to stir ;)

Once it is done boiling take the pot off of the heat. 

Add these ingredients into the pot. Combine well:

• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/4 cup of non sweetened coconut (you can use sweetened if you want)
• 1 1/2 cups of quick oats (you can add a little bit extra if you feel it needs it)

OPTIONAL:

• add some raisins
• add some chocolate chips
• add nuts of your choice

SPOON out the cookie dough & place them onto wax paper to cool. Once they are cool they should harden up a it & look like little macaroons/cookies. This recipe makes 12 cookies.

Enjoy!

I promise you will!

xo

{Easy No Bake} Oatmeal Coconut Chocolate Cookies

Hello folks!
Today I am in the mood to blog. By that I mean, I want to blog a lot. I want to redo my blog, post a few recipes & I want to check out all of my favourite blogs. So be expecting some new recipes in the next few days! This recipe was created last night, when I was on the phone with my friend Kelly & I was craving something sweet. The only problem was I didn't have eggs, and I didn't have at least one ingredient in each recipe I was finding online. Therefore, I created my own recipe. I kept saying to Kelly " I don't think these are going to turn out.. I don't think they are going to work." BUT they DID WORK & I am so happy about it. This recipe makes 12 cookies.

In a medium size pot on medium to high heat put:

• 1/4 cup margarine (or butter)
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar (not super packed down)
• 1/4 cup of skim milk 
• 2 tbsps cocoa powder

Bring it to all to a boil. Set your timer & let it boil for a minute. Don't forget to stir ;)

Once it is done boiling take the pot off of the heat. 

Add these ingredients into the pot. Combine well:

• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/4 cup of non sweetened coconut (you can use sweetened if you want)
• 1 1/2 cups of quick oats (you can add a little bit extra if you feel it needs it)

OPTIONAL:

• add some raisins
• add some chocolate chips
• add nuts of your choice

SPOON out the cookie dough & place them onto wax paper to cool. Once they are cool they should harden up a it & look like little macaroons/cookies. They have an ooey-gooey center. mmm.

Eat one right away ;)

Enjoy!

What are you all up to today?
As of right now I am enjoying a bowl of my newly created Carrot & Lentil Curry soup. It is super good & it is totally hitting the spot right now. I will post the recipe later this week.
My day is a get stuff done around the house  kind of day. Laundry, vacuuming, mopping, clean the bathroom, you get the picture. You know, all of the good housewife kind of stuff ;). Then later today I am going to finish putting together the 6  Operation Christmas Child boxes that our youth group help do. I am looking forward to that. It's a great ministry & it made me so happy to see our youth group pull together & fill the boxes. I will share some pictures of that later.
I hope you all have a fabulous day!

xo
-Britt

Oatmeal Pumpkin Raisin Cookies (NO EGGS)

Recipe time!

saaaaaayyyy what?

I have about 5 recipes up my sleeve ;) I have just been too lazy busy to put them online! But here I am!
These cookies were my creation yesterday! I was about to start making pumpkin spice muffins, but then I remembered I had no eggs. Sad, sad day. So I decided I would come up with something else. Let me just say that Dan is a fan :) They are like half gone!

These cookies are a bit lighter than a normal ooey gooey cookie. Here is Quebec they would probably call this a "galette" rather than a cookie. This recipe will make 1-2 dozen cookies, depending on how big you make them.
Here is what you need to do to make these babies:

Mix together the wet ingredients in a large bowl:

• 1/2 cup of brown sugar
• 1/2 cup of pumpkin puree
• 1/4 cup of oil (I used olive)
• 1/2 tsp vanilla

Now mix together the dry ingredients in a separate medium sized bowl:

• 1/2 cup of white flour
• 1/2 cup of oats
• 1/2 tsp each of baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon & nutmeg
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp ginger

Mix the dry into the wet ingredients & add 

• 1/2 cup of raisins

Separate your batter onto a greased baking sheet to make the size of cookies you desire.

BAKE at 350F for 12-15 minutes (or if you make larger cookies, bake for longer)
Yuuuuummm.

xoxo

Candy Cane Oatmeal Cookies

The other night I decided to make a bunch of yummy food for when Dan and I set up the Christmas tree. I had a bunch of candy canes in our kitchen so I decided to do something with them! I thought about making cupcakes.. but I knew we would only eat one each and then I would have to freeze the icing..and blah blah blah. So cookies sounded much easier and they freeze well! So cookies it was! The cookies turned out great..probably because its pretty hard to mess up an oatmeal cookie! Here is what you do:

1- Preheat oven to 350F
2-In a bowl beat 1 cup of butter with an electric mixer on medium for 30secs.
3-Add 1 cup of brown sugar and 1/2 cup of white sugar
  -1 tsp baking soda
  -1 tsp cinnamon
  -1/2 tsp salt
Beat until combined, scraping the sides of the bowl.
4-Beat in 2 eggs and 1 tsp vanilla
5-Stir in 1 1/2 cups of flour
6-Crush and add 3 candy canes to the batter. Mix.
7-Stir in 3 cups of regualr or quick cooking rolled oats.

see the pink candy cane?

8-Time to scoop your desired cookies and place them on a greased baking sheet.

9-Bake for 8-10 minutes (longer if you made large cookies)
VOILA> YUMMY COOKIES...with a christmas-y touch!

xo

White & dark chocolate, pecan, & cranberry oatmeal cookies

The name is long but  needed to include all of the goodness of this cookie into the title! The other night before Dan and I sat down to watch discovery channel with our teas I decided that I should make cookies! I found a great oatmeal cookie recipe and I added all of the yumminess that I could find in our cupboard to the cookies. Also, I had just bought a new cookie scooper and I was super excited to try it out! I brought a plate of these cookies to our youth group and everyone LOVED them! They were all eaten up! I hope you guys enjoy this recipe as well!
Here is the link to the basic oatmeal cookies recipe:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/the-best-oatmeal-cookies/detail.aspx
It's a good recipe! I know I have been ad for giving you guys links..but it is so much easier to give you guys the link directly than to re-type it all. Also its nice to give credit to the person who made the recipe rather than myself who just copied it! haha
For this recipe I cut up peices of dark chocolate and also come white chocolate. I added about a handful of craisins to the recipe as well.

Cookie factory!

 Who doesn't love cookies!
 Happy monday everyone!
Enjoy...xo

Best Ever Molasses Sugar Cookies

Dan had a craving for these cookies so I went out and bought the molasses. I wasn't in a rush to make them so the molasses sat in the cupboard for about two months. Seriously, do not let your molasses sit in your cupboard any longer..these cookies are AMAZING! so soft and chewy, and delightfully delectable! Make them today, you will be so happy you did!

THIS RECIPE MAKES 4 DOZEN. 

Here is what you will need!

1 1/2 cups shortening (MELTED)

2 cups white sugar

1/2 cup molasses

2 eggs

4 cups all-purpose flour

4 teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground cloves

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1 teaspoon salt

Step ONE

-Preheat your oven to 375F.

Step TWO

-In a medium bowl mix the shortening, sugar, eggs, and molasses. Beat well.

Step THREE

-In a separate bowl mix the dry ingredients together. Flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, ginger and salt.

Step FOUR
Add the dry ingredients to the wet.

Step FIVE
-Roll the dough into walnut size balls and roll them in sugar. Place them on a greased baking sheet about 2 inches apart.

Step SIX

-Bake for 8-10 minutes..

xo enjoy!

Three Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

Three Ingredients, HOW EASY IS THAT? I love this recipe, its so easy and quick! This will probably be my last cookie post for awhile... I've been making TOO many! hahah. Lets begin!
-1 cup of peanut butter
-1/2 cup of sugar
-1 egg
MIX EM ALL TOGETHER, AND VOILA!

Mixer in action!

Put cookies on a greased pan. Cook at 375F for about 15 minutes. Let cool, then EAT! mmm

xo