"Wonderfully Made"

Monday, May 8, 2017

Kitty's Chocolate Crackles

If you are looking for someone who can really bake (and who has some really cute helpers!) you must visit my new friend Kitty at Kitty's Kozy Kitchen. Now I have NEVER been able to make those chocolate crinkle cookies . . . and get them to actually CRINKLE. When I mentioned this to Kitty, she led me to this recipe on her blog for Chocolate Crackle Cookies. And yes . . . I was FINALLY able to get crinkled and crackled cookies thanks to this super easy recipe that uses just a cake mix as it's base ingredient.

One tip I followed was to use a mixer to combine the ingredients rather than a wooden spoon -- it went much quicker.

A few suggestions I have are to use a small cookie dough scoop and drop balls of dough directly into a bowl of powdered sugar. The dough is wonderfully gooey and sticky.

Once in the sugar, I just used a teaspoon to 'bathe' the balls in sugar. Then they could easily be picked up and rolled in my hands for nice, round cookies.

I baked mine as Kitty suggested for 10 minutes and I practically did a dance when I saw they had crinkled! (I know, it's the little things . . .)

After cooling on the cookie sheet for a few minutes, I moved them to a rack to cool. I was pleasantly surprised that these are not super, super sweet. To me, they are just perfect! I know these will be a great addition to my Christmas cookies but they really are great for any time as far as I'm concerned! Thank you Kitty for this outstanding recipe!

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Friday, May 5, 2017

Kitchen Sink Taste & See Transfer

I've been a bit busy the past few weeks as hubby is on his second neck surgery in two weeks so I thought I'd go back and do a few posts on some details I did when I re-did my kitchen. Since the cupboards were all white now, I wanted to add something decorative to this board/panel under my sink.

Typically I use graphite paper to do transfers but when I used it on this, the graphite made a mess of the white paint. SO, after re-painting this board, I went with the good, old pencil-on-the-back-of-the-paper method. I still had to be a bit careful to not press my hands on the paper while transferring but it was a much cleaner result.

I had already printed out the words on the paper with my computer so after 'coloring' the back with pencil, I taped it onto the wood piece and traced over it with a pen, transferring the words onto the wood.

Once that was done, I just used craft paint and an very, fine tip brush to paint the words in black.

I liked it but I felt it was a bit of a 'stark' contrast to all of that white so I decided to lightly sand over it to distress/lighten it a little and I liked that much better.

Any place that I was not happy with, I was able to clean up with white paint. Any place that I had some of the pencil rub off onto the wood I was able to clean up with a Q-tip dipped in white paint.

I definitely preferred the lighter, sanded version.

There were so many little 'projects' in this makeover and since I'm unable to do any new projects right now, I'll be posting on a few of those. The overall effect of lightening everything in the kitchen has made such a difference!