Oreo Truffles

Taken with my iPhone

I love these things! They are super rich, but for the holidays who can really tell with the overload of sugar in our systems. You can find the original recipe here or if you keep scrolling you can see my tweaked version.

Ingredients:

1 package of Double Stuffed Oreos
6 oz. cream cheese
1 package vanilla candy coating (store brand works just fine)

Directions:

Place all but 6 cookies in a food processor and blend (if you don't have a food processor you can use a blender or crush them in a bag with a rolling pin). Dump crushed cookies into a mixing bowl.

Place your 6 leftover cookies in a plastic bag and crush with rolling pin. Set aside for later

Combine cream cheese to crushed cookies in the mixing bowl and mix well. This should form a large cookie ball

Roll mixture into smaller balls (smaller than a cookie scoop) and place on wax paper

Melt your candy coating per instructions on the package

Dip each rolled ball in candy coating and set back wax paper

Sprinkle your 6 leftover crushed cookies on top of wet candy coating and let dry for 30 minutes

Store in an airtight container in the fridge

Notes: The more cream cheese you use the richer they will be. I think next time I am going to try 4 oz of cream cheese, but 6 oz did work great! You can also use other types of Oreos such as the candy cane ones during Christmas for a minty taste.

Enjoy!

Fudge Fail

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My brother's girlfriend made some awesome peanut butter fudge for us for Christmas. It was so yummy that I wanted to try and make it myself...

Things went wrong quickly...

First of all, I didn't have a candy thermometer, but the recipe on the marshmallow puff jar said to stir it on medium for 5 minutes so that's what I did...

Second thing to go wrong, as I'm stirring it on medium I can start to smell the sugar burning so I turned it down a bit... I didn't really think anything of it because our stove tends to be hotter anyways...

Third mistake, I didn't know what soft ball form meant...

I stir the butter, sugar and milk concoction for the full 5 minutes, take it off and add the marshmallow puff, peanut butter and vanilla...I stirred until it was completely mixed/melted and poured it into my dish...

After 3 hours of cooling in the fridge it was still really soft...it felt like I was cutting through cream cheese. My mom and I decided to try a piece anyways. When we tried to get the piece out it just turned into a gooey mess and stuck to the wax paper like cookie dough sticks to the plastic it's wrapped in...

My mom and I decided to stick it in the freezer overnight to harden and come 6:30 am it was still soft

So that was that...I ruined 3 pounds of fudge! Luckily it was still edible and my brother took it with him New Year's Eve so it wasn't completely wasted.

After all was said and done the following conversation occurred...

Me: Next time I'm definitely using a candy thermometer
Dad: We have one already
Me: I asked you if we did and you didn't say anything
Dad: Oh...well we have one

Men never really listen to us do they?!?! 

p.s. I think I might have to try the recipe from the picture at the top of this post

Mission: Impossible Ghsost Protocol

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I kicked off the new year with an action packed movie! Woo Hoo! Actually I kicked it off with 4 action packed movies since I had never seen the first 3 (I know shocking right?)


This is by far my favorite of the series. To me this one was pretty funny and the stunts that were done off of the building were CRAZY! Oh and does Tom Cruise age? I swear movies 2-4 he looks the same...maybe it's an illusion (or botox...jk...but seriously).


Did y'all go see any movies over the holidays?

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year! I hope everyone has a happy and prosperous 2012. Remember to eat your black eyed peas today for good luck!

Oldies but Goodies

Get ready to be shocked...I haven't been to the movies in over a month!!! It's crazy, I know, but hopefully that will change soon. In the mean time, I finally got around to watching some classics!

Yep...I had never seen either of these movies before...sad but true. Back in October I went with one of my Aunts to see a production of Steel Magnolias and like it so much I had to watch the movie. She told me if I liked this one I would also like Fried Green Tomatoes and she was right.

If you cry easily, I could see you not wanting to watch Steel Magnolias, but if you haven't seen it I suggest renting it or buying it out of the discount bin. FGT to me was hilarious. The things that Kathy Bates did in this movie cracked me up and of course there are lots of other funny parts with the flash backs. 

Ornament Wreath 2011

I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas! I wanted to share one last Christmas DIY project! I was inspired by all the ornaments wreaths I've seen around this season I just had to make one for myself! I got the low down on how to make one from this pin. Please excuse my bow...it's a work in progress...

The light really bounces off the the "disco" ornaments...ha ha. I did all gold since that's mainly what our Christmas color is and since I used gold ornaments I also used a goldish/brownish wire hanger to string them on. I had used white at first but it was too noticeable.

My favorite are the "disco" and glitter ornaments...I used two different sizes (I would describe them as small and normal I guess) of shatterproof ornaments. Let me tell ya, shatterproof is the way to go. Even though I glued the tops on, a couple still popped off...ahhh. Luckily there was enough wiggle room so I could get them back in place...woo hoo!

Merry Christmas Y'all