Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Makes about 4 dozen

• 3 Cups All-Purpose Flour
• 1 Tsp Baking Soda
• 1 Tsp Salt
• 1 Cup (2 sticks) Butter (room temperature)
• 1 1/2 Cup Light Brown Sugar (tightly packed)
• 1 Cup Sugar
• 3 Tsp Vanilla Extract
• 2 Eggs (room temperature)
• 1 Bag Chocolate Chips (sem-sweet, milk, dark, your choice)

1. Adjust baking rack to top rack and preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Mix flour, baking soda and salt together in a seperate bowl
3. Cream the butter and sugars together on low speed with a stand mixer (using a paddle attachment) for about 3 minutes. Make sure you scrape the sides of the bowl as you go. 
4. Add the vanilla and eggs and beat on low speed for 15 seconds until just blended. (don't over-blend)
5. On low speed, add the flour mixture. Add a 1/2 a cup at a time and beat until blended, still scraping the sides as you go.
6. Add the chocolate chips and mix together using a thick spatula or wooden spoon.
7. Using an air-bake cookie sheet or a regular cookie lined sheet with parchment paper or silicone mats, spoon the dough, using a large cookie scooper or a tablespoon, 2 inches apart onto the prepared baking sheets.
8. Bake for 11-13 minutes or until golden brown around the edges but still soft, almost underdone-looking, in the center. To ensure even baking, turn the sheets front to back and switch racks halfway through.
9. Remove the sheets from the oven and carefully slide the parchment or silicone mats directly onto a work surface. When cookies are set, remove them to a cooling rack. Wait at least 5 minutes before serving or 20 minutes before storing in an airtight container for up to 3 days at room temperature.

Side notes

These are the world's best homemade chocolate chip cookies, hands down. Any time I make a batch I have to make at least 4 batches because everyone wants some. My coworkers, my honey's coworkers, some for the neighbors, etc. I hear I'm famous for my cookies. Seriously. 

Weed your Garden with a Screwdriver! (The Easy Way!)

What You'll Need:

Weeds
Long Flat Head Screwdriver

How To:

1- Plunge the screwdriver into the dirt about 3-4 inches deep at a 30-45 degree angle aiming towards the group of weeds you're looking to pull up

2- Wiggle the screwdriver in an up and down motion until your dirt starts to pull up in a clump

3- Pull out the screwdriver

4- Grab the dirt surrounding the group of weeds you're looking to pull up and twist up, bringing the weeds up with you. Doing this will pull up the loosened weeds along with the root! Shake the excess dirt off the weeds and toss them into your yard waste bin!

Mini Chicken Pot Pies

Mini Chicken Pot Pies

Yields: 16 pies
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 14-17 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 Cans Jumbo Flaky Biscuits (the kind that make 8 biscuits each)
• 1 Large Chicken Breast
• 1 1/2 Cups Frozen Mixed Vegetables
• 1 Can Cream of Celery Soup
• 1/3 Can Chicken Stock
• Shredded Cheddar Cheese
• 1/2 Tbs Butter
• Garlic, Salt, Pepper (to taste)
• Non-Stick Cooking Spray

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Cut Chicken breast into small cubes. Cook thoroughly in a pan with butter and garlic.
3. Heat soup and chicken stock in a saucepan until blended into a gravy consistency.
4. Mix chicken, vegetables and soup/stock "gravy" together in a bowl.
5. Flatten biscuits and form into cupcake tins
6. Spoon filling into each cup, fill to the top and even out.
7. Top with cheddar cheese
8. Bake in preheated oven for 14-17 min

Enjoy!

Mason Jar Candle Holder

How cute are these candle holders? Mason Jars. Twine. Lace. Daisies. Fabulous. They look amazing at night on the front porch. Ahh. I love adding a little south to my house! 

Wanna see how I made them?

DIY:

1- Grab a mason jar! (Or spaghetti jar)

2- Grab some pretties! (Lace, ribbon, flowers, twine, rocks, beads)

3-Grab a candle!

4- Light and enjoy!

How I made mine:

 1- Hot glued ribbon around the jar

2- Wrapped twine around the top and tied into a bow at the front

3- Hot glued a daisy scrapbook embellishment to the front of the bow

4- Added some beads to the bottom of the jar and dropped a candle in

5- To light the candle I lit the end of a piece of uncooked spaghetti 

DIY Wedding Cupcake Toppers

Mr. and Mrs. Cupcake Toppers

(Tutorial)

Makes 12

How To:

1- Cut out (24) 1 1/2 in circles using a cricut cutter (I used Elegant Edges {Circle 4}

2- Cut 6 Cake Pop sticks in half

3-Embellish your circles (This can be done before or after step 4)

4- Hot glue one half stick to the back of a circle, and dab hot glue on the front of the stick and a dot above, to the right and to the left. Add a second circle on top of your glue

Done!

Stick in your cupcakes and enjoy!

Regrow Vegetables From Kitchen Scraps

You can regrow nearly anything with just a little bit of love and water!

Romaine Lettuce

When you're done preparing your lettuce for your meal, make sure you save the very end part (the bottom of the heart) and place it in a glass of water. Set it on a windowsill near some sun. In just about a week you should see some new baby lettuce sprouting up! Make sure you change the water every few days or so. 

Green Onions (Scallions)

When you're done preparing your onions for your recipe, save the end part (the white 'root' part) and place them in some water and set the glass on a windowsill near some sunshine. Make sure the roots are facing down. Green onions are about the easiest food to regrow, and will sprout up in about a week. Again, just like the lettuce, make sure you change the water every few days or so as well.

Tips from my kitchen:

You can regrow vegetables (or any kind of plant, really) in water alone. However, it is always best to give plants nutrients through the soil. I like to start my plants or veggies in water on the window sill then take them outside into soil once they start sprouting (or rooting)

Hope you enjoyed! Thanks for reading! Please share if you think your friends might like this too!

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes
Yields: 24 Cupcakes

Ingredients

• Chocolate Cake Mix
• 1 Cup Butter, softened
• 1 Cup Creamy Peanut Butter
• 2 Cups Powdered Sugar
• Peanut Butter Chips (to taste)

Directions

Prepare chocolate cake mix per box instructions, adding peanut butter chips to the batter. Fill your cupcake tins and bake accordingly.

Frosting

Beat butter and peanut butter together with a mixer. Gradually mix in the sugar. Beat for at least 3 minutes or until fluffy. (You can add additional butter, peanut butter, powdered sugar, or even milk if the frosting is not to your liking.)