Housewife-ness

Alright, so I am sooo not a cook. I can't like decide to put things together on my own without someone or something telling me what to combine. So, cooking freelance....not so much. Following a recipe...finding out that I'm good at following directions! Thank you mom for always teaching me to follow directions:) I haven't been cooking dinners yet really, mostly because I haven't even organized our wedding gifts, but I HAVE been finding some pretty awesome dessert recipes on Pinterest! If you don't know what that is, go find out, it will take over your life facebook style. Lots of fun creative ideas to look at and try. I haven't tried anything TOO risky yet, but I have tried two of the dessert recipes. They both turned out! Like turned out well enough that I could share them with people besides my husband! SCORE! The first one I tried was the Smore's bars below. AMAZING. Super easy after doing the recipe once you pretty much know how it goes. They were a HUGE hit at Bible study and I even baked a whole other one to take to our boxing coach! (Weird taking a super rich dessert to a gym haha...but he asked so I felt I had permission!)

They are way good to eat right out of the oven because they are all gooey and melty, but actually the next day they are all cooled and you can cut them into bars that stay all together and are SOOO good. And not so messy to eat the next day. Anyway, here is the website I went to for the recipe: http://http://www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com/2010/07/smores-bars.html And here are a couple pics I snapped while in the process of making mine. I know I know...looks easy right? Well I still feel accomplished for not having someone standing there walking me through it:) So there!

Then I made these crazy sweet Oreo cupcakes...

Here is the website I stole the recipe from: http://annies-eats.net/2010/06/02/cookies-and-cream-cupcakes/ Not gonna lie, I can only eat like half of one of these. They are SO rich! BUT....hear me out. They are super fun to share because everyone loves them if they weren't the ones making them! ha:) NOOOO I don't make people desserts to make them like me .......gosh! This was a pretty ridiculous recipe of mixing things, adding half of other things, mixing more things but only partly mixing it, then adding more, then mixing all the way, etc....in other words, don't try to follow this with too much wine in you:) Super good batter too if I might add. I swear I would rather eat batter of ANYTHING than the real thing. No sign of salmonella yet! The surprise at the bottom is that you line the bottom of the cupcake liners with a half oreo, cream side up! Super fun and stays crunchy!

So here is what the batter looks like all mixed

And the inside obviously you can see that above in the picture from the website....these I was very proud of because I accomplished my second recipe from Pinterest as well as used a wedding gift from my sisters, Laura and Susan, for Chance to take them to work with!!! How cute am I having a cupcake carrier!??? Ha ok just kidding I'm getting too excited. Chance was so pumped to take them to his team at work and he would text me throughout the day with updates about compliments on them! I am so pathetic! I feed off of this! Please don't judge me.

One of the ladies at his work even came back for another one AND asked for the recipe!! WHAT???!!! From me!? Ya....no big deal. So here is the first ever Mrs. Haddon recipe that was shared with some lady at Chance's work:)

WOOT!!!! Okay so that is my cooking experience lately. Chance probably wishes I would generate some of this energy towards dinner.....oops!