52 Reasons I love you.

So I know I haven't updated in some time now, but life has been crazy! In my previous post, we were getting ready for our cruise which was so much fun! We celebrated our first year of marriage together. I can't believe it's already been a year! The time has FLOWN by. Anyway, for our celebration of our first year we wanted to keep our gifts traditional - So for the first year, it's paper. Ha! So funny to me. I got creative and used the help of pinterest and made this little happy for my sweet, sweet husband. 

Poppy Seed Chicken

Okay, so I realize I've done WAY too many recipe posts and this will maybe be the last one for a while. What can I say, I have found a love in cooking. I look forward to cooking - strange I know! I guess getting married and knowing I'm the one who provides the meals, is important to me. I love cooking for my husband! I get nervous cooking for other people, but I've not heard any bad comments yet, so that's a good thing.

Whoopie Pie Filling.

So I'm a huge slacker on this post because I didn't get a picture to show how awesome these whoopie pies looked in the end. I decided to go with the chocolate chip cookie dough (no eggs) rather than a butter cream filling or even a marshmallow cream only because I was craving some chocolate. Anyway, super easy to make and super yummy to eat! 

Whoopie Pies.

I'm obviously in some type of cooking/baking mood this morning and it's only 10a.m. So far, I have made pancakes for the hubs, before he left for work and now I'm currently working on Whoopie Pies! Like most of the recipes on here, I've never tried anything like this. We're going on a little road trip this afternoon and I wanted to take something special for the trip. So this past week I ran across the recipe Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Whoopie Pies and if you follow me on Pinterest you saw I had pinned the recipe from Cookies and Cups. I've been dying to make it since I pinned. If it's not any good, then I'll delete the pin and move on with my life. I know, sounds weird but I've been known to do it in the past... 

Anyway, on with the recipe.... I haven't made the filling yet, but the actual pie is to die for! So yummy. A little  richer than I expected but none the less, delicious. 

For the Whoopie Pie: 

I made my recipe a little different than the original. 

It's Official.

WE'VE BOOKED IT AND WE'RE LEAVING IN 18 DAYS!!!!!!

The Monster.

Many of you know already, husband and I have a precious 4 legged child... TERK! 

Cinnamon Sugar Pull Apart Bread

A couple of weeks ago I got on a homemade bread kick... I was bound and determined to make a delicious, sweet, desert-type bread. My first recipe was Cinnamon Sweet Bread - it was eh. My sweet husband said it was good and ate most of it along with his brother, who complained that it continued to rise in his mouth! I obviously didn't let it rise long enough... 

Then I came across another recipe called Cinnamon and Sugar Pull Apart Bread, also known as Elephant Ear Bread. It was awesome!!! And it only took me two recipes for the bread to turn out right!! (I was slightly proud of myself!)

Anyway, here's the recipe for the pull apart bread... 

per http://www.foodsnots.com/2012/03/cinnamon-and-sugar-pull-apart-bread.html