Beautiful Flowers

Spring has arrived in the Big Woods.

My Sewing Sister helped it arrive by adding some lovely flowers to my screen porch.

 Very few flowers will bloom in the Big Woods, 

so it is nice that my Sewing Sister shares from her beautiful cut flower garden.

Monster Cookies

I made these monster cookies today, and my family cannot stay out of them.  

The recipe is super easy, and they fall apart when you are eating them.

The recipe came from a blog that I can't wait to spend a little time looking through,

Sally's Baking Addiction .

There are several recipes on this blog that I hope to try soon.

Enjoy.

Spring Flowers

 Snapdragons...

I remember playing with snapdragons when I was a kid.  If you've never opened the mouth of a snapdragon, you haven't lived.

I love spring flowers.



Violas are some of my favorites.

And buttercups are always fun.

Ice Cream Cake

This is the ice cream cake that I normally make for my daughter's birthday. 

This year, it is my birthday cake. 

Lucky me!!!

I have included a link to a video of this cake being made in a previous blog post, but I thought I should blog about it myself for my children to have as a future reference.

 You will need:

12 ice cream sandwiches

1 tub cool whip

1 small box chocolate instant pudding mix

1/2 cup hot fudge sauce

8 crushed Oreos

Warm the hot fudge sauce; then mix with

1 cup cool whip. 

Add the instant pudding mix and Oreos.

Mix well.

 Place 4 ice cream sandwiches on foil and cover with 1/2 of the fudgy topping.

 Repeat with a layer of sandwiches and the rest of the fudgy topping.

 Finish with a layer of ice cream sandwiches.

 Now cover the sandwiches completely with cool whip.

Yum...

 Now, you can add colored sprinkles, chocolate sprinkles, or cover with crushed Oreos.

 Wrap completely in foil and place in the freezer until ready to serve.

I usually make this at least a day before I serve it.

That's all there is to it.

This is one of the easiest and most delicious desserts ever!!!

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentines Day!!!

This plant was given to me by my Nashville brother on Christmas Day.

I am proud to say it is still alive and is blooming beautifully.

I have really enjoyed it in my kitchen.

Hot Chocolate

My children each got a basket of hot chocolate goodies for Christmas this year.

I think this may have been their favorite gift.

 The baskets contained a glass mug, a variety of hot chocolate mixes, fun shaped and flavored marshmallows, sprinkles, rolled wafers, and whipped topping.

Each day since Christmas has been a new day to create a special hot chocolate drink.

Rice Krispie Peanut Butter Balls

Every Saturday morning, you will find me ironing clothes and watching Trisha Yearwood on the Food Network Channel. 

She comes on right after my other favorite,

the Pioneer Woman.

Last week, Garth Brooks shared his recipe for a Krispy peanut butter ball.

I realized that his recipe was very similar to my Special K cookies.

So, I decided to use my recipe, but I added 5 cups of rice krispies instead of the Special K cereal.

I also coated my hands in butter and shaped the cookies into balls.

I also used crunchy peanut butter.

The result was great!

I will make these again.

You can find my Special K cookie recipe here:

http://littlefamilyinthebigwoods.blogspot.com/2010/01/special-k-cookies.html