Hi  everyone!  Thanks for stopping by.  I have some pics to upload and I hope to get them up shortly.  2014 is off to a slow start.  I have been filing my time with quilting in between orders.

Gluten Free - Peanut Butter, Oat, Banana Bread

*This recipe is from www.BakerBettie.com

http://bakerbettie.com/oatmeal-peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-banana-bread/

I apologize for the lack of posts.  Life just has me busy, busy.  I am trying to start an Etsy store for  quilts, kindle, ipad covers and lots of other things. Seems I just forgot to post these pics.


As some of you know, my daughter is not supposed to have white flour or white sugar. So this has prompted a daily search of recipes she can have.  Guten Free is just something I have to embrace for her even though its like fighting my inner being at times.

One night during my daily  search I found a great site called BakerBettie.com and although I have not made a lot of things from there yet I have made this Oatmeal, Peanut Butter, Chocolate Chip Banana Bread.

Most gluten free things I have made are bland or dry and I was hesitant to try this one too.  However, it was delicious!  I used all natural peanut butter and will probably use less chocolate chips next time, but it was  moist, chocolaty and my daughter ate it!  Hooray!

If you have a chance check out her site. You will be happy you did.

Trish

p.s.  I promise to work on my photos so they are better

Banana Nut Bread

I make this bread a lot.  It is my Grandma's recipe and my kids .. okay  just 1 of them loves it.  It freezes well too.  Also, try adding other things to your banana bread for a change .. chocolate chips, orange zest, or anything you feel like adding. Happy baking!

 Dr. Pepper cupcakes with  vanilla butter cream frosting.  Simple and pretty for a baby shower.  Topped it with a little white sprinkles and  glitter!  I love glitter.  It makes me smile.

Hi Everyone!  I was invited to a friend's B-day party  last night.  She hosted a wine and painting (on canvas) party with the local company The Social Canvas.  It was so much fun.  However, my hand painted cake cake out better than my canvas :)  

I made this cake as a surprise for my friend Jamie's b-day.  Since her party was a painting party I decided her cake should indeed be hand painted as well.    I made a marble cake with vanilla butter cream and  since she loves dolphins and her party theme was wine I used that as my cake inspiration.

This was a quick order this week so I kept it simple.  Edible image and butter cream on a red velvet cake.  The Army has a budget :)    If you  ever have issues using edible images pop them in the freezer for 30 sec to 1 min and they peel right off  so you can apply it to the cake easily.  Only thing I would change here is my handwriting ..  I think that will be the  to do improve list.

4th of July Sugar Cookies!

Happy Independence Day!! 

Another BBQ!  Yes really :)  tis the season to grill in the 100 degree weather. I didn't want to take cupcakes 2 weekends in a row since we were seeing the same group of friends.  So instead I made brownies and sugar cookies.  

I planned to decorate the cookies like fireworks but I was running out of time and in the words of my husband, "They look like a star."  Well, I didn't want stars, if I did I would have used a star cutter.  Instead I did really quick flags on the round cookies. They looked fine and tasted great.  Maybe I'll plan better next year.

Hope you all had a safe and happy 4th of July!