There's a man in the kitchen!

On the fifth day of Christmas I gave the Beef:

Awesome Metallica magnets. 

So on the 6th day of Christmas he gave me....

When I saw this I was really confused, it's just a recipe on an index card. For a moment I thought his present to me was that I had to make him treats. Treasured childhood recipe or not I don't think I would have been ok with that. 

It actually turned out to be a wonderful evening where he did dishes and then baked the recipe himself and let me take pictures so I could blog about it! 

So here we go, The Beef's Mom's Magic Cookie Bar Recipe!

1/2 cup Butter

1 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs

1 14oz can sweetened condensed milk

1 16oz bag chocolate chips

1 cup chopped walnuts

1/1/3 cup shredded coconut 

9x13 baking dish

Preheat oven to 350.

Melt butter in baking dish.

Spread Graham cracker crumbs evenly over butter.

And if you're like the beef and also have a crooked counter prop hot plates under the baking dish so it's completely level to the point of OCD. 

Pour condensed milk over graham crumbs.

Spread chocolate chips evenly over milk.

Spread walnuts evenly over chips.

Spread coconut evenly over walnuts.

"it's like cheese!"

Bake for 30 minutes.

Let cool and enjoy!

Super Easy Cookies

There's a bake sale at work today that I chose to participate in so I decided go with the easiest cookies I could think of. Cake cookies. 

I ended up with 3 different flavor combinations. Strawberry cake with white chocolate chips, funfetti cake with chocolate chips and chocolate cake with peanut butter chips. I figured I would share the recipe since I actually remembered to take some pictures. 

1 box cake mix

1 12oz bag of chips

1/2c vegetable oil

2Tbsp Water

2 eggs

Gather your ingredients and preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Combine everything into one bowl and stir like crazy, don't forget the water like I did for this picture.

Use a spoon to plop mixture on cookie sheet. Or what I realized later because of the large amount of chips rolling dough into a ball is a better way to go and it makes the cookies look cuter. 

Bake 8-10 minutes and you're done! In no time you can have a gigantic collection of cookies like this!

And then wrestle some of them away from the beef so that you can package them up for the bake sale. 

And then bust out your cricut to make little flavor tags to go along with the ribbon you curled because you're an over achieving little snot who other people like to call Martha Stewart in a mocking tone. ;)

These cookies are so moist and delicious if you ask the beef. I feel like most of them are way too sweet but that's just kind of my reaction to cookies. I had wanted to make something more ambitious but there just aren't enough hours in the day this time of year. 

What kind of holiday treats do you like to make?