Peanut Butter Nutella Cookies

I've officially gotten on the Nutella band wagon.  I had never had Nutella until this past weekend I finally decided to buy some and hope it would be as good as all the hype makes it out to be.  And... IT IS!!!  I LOVE the stuff.  I first tried it on a fresh strawberry. Oh, I fell in love at that very first moment it touched my deprived taste buds. I then searched one of my favorite recipe sites Tasty Kitchen for a cookie recipe.  And found this one from The Goddess of Baking, which eventually led me to this perfect recipe.  Okay they are both the same recipe but I wanted to give credit where credit is due and I really like how she created this recipe and used "3 giant spoon fulls" of Nutella.

If you look at the original recipe you will notice that I have doubled the recipe here.  With it doubled it probably made about 36 or so cookies.  I also used less flour and more Nutella on baked it for 2 minutes less in hope of a really soft cookie.  They weren't quite as soft as I was hoping for but they are chewy so I'm happy with my modifications.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup flour

2 cups old-fashioned or quick-cooking oats

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup sugar

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup peanut butter creamy or chunky

2 egg

2 tsp vanilla

4 giant spoonfuls of Nutella (My guess is about 1 1/2 cups?)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.  Set aside. Mix butter, sugars and peanut butter. Add egg and vanilla and mix well. Add flour mixture and stir. Slowly stir Nutella into the mixture.  Place large tablespoon sized balls on lined cookie sheet, smash down a bit, and bake for 8 minutes.

So... you really need try Nutella if you've never had it.  Try it with a strawberry or a banana or toast or a Ritz cracker or a cookie or ANYTHING.  And then make these amazingly incredible cookies.

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Lark's Country Heart Cream Puffs

I want to share with you all this cream puff recipe...  Who doesn't like cream puffs anyway?

Don't they just look incredible? 

Check out this link to Lark's Country Heart to see how simple these are to make.

Hoot-N-Nanny Pancakes

These fun delicious pancakes have several different names... My husband's family calls them Hoot-N-Nanny Pancakes. I call them Magic Pancakes, well because I could never remember what my in laws called them and I had no idea they had any other name AND because they really really are MAGIC.  Apparently they are also called German Pancakes. No offence to any Germans (my ancestors are German) but this is a little boring compared to the later options. 

This is by far one of my favorite breakfasts.  BY FAR!  I also love it for dinner too but my hubby doesn't necessarily like breakfast for dinner.

Are you ready for the MAGIC???




No. Really, are you ready?





Okay,  I warned you!

 Isn't it B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L???

 LUSCIOUS?

 Okay, the finger just ruined it...

 OH, NO... I'm SO sorry!  This is the kind of crap I have to put up with... all - of - the - time!
This is my brother in law trying to get his face on my blog... It worked.

And here is the recipe cause by now I know your mouth is watering.

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

For a 9x9 baking dish you will need:

• 4 tablespoons of butter
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• Maple Syrup & Powdered Sugar (Optional)

When I took these pictures I made it in a 9x13 baking dish and doubled the recipe so if your amounts of ingredients look a little different don't worry.

Place butter in a microwave safe mixing bowl.

Melt it in the microwave.  It only takes about 20 seconds or so.

 Crack eggs into the butter and whisk.  Then add the dry ingredients.

 Now the milk and vanilla.  Now beat really well.

 Spray your baking dish well and dump the very thin and runny batter into dish.  Place in oven for about 30 minutes.  Be sure the middle isn't too jiggly when you take it out of the oven.

 NOW, MAKE SURE YOU LET THE KIDS SEE THIS!  IT IS MAGIC YOU KNOW~

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Yes Oh Yes... I am the winner of these awesome awesome items from Lark's Country Heart.  Check out her super cool blog and give her some love... Oh, and check out the Jello Popcorn I just saw this recipe and I'm so going to make it tomorrow night!

Please Bare With Me...

I am trying to change the look of Meal Makin Momma.

As I am still fairly new to this whole blogging thing and really don't know too much about what I am doing.  It's really a crazy mess that I have gotten myself into.  But I am learning a lot about html .  SO, if you see some unusual WEIRD things going on here, just know that I am in a process and one day I will be happy with the way things look, and that I'm learning.

Toasted Pecan Rice

I've really been wanting to add a little spunk to a side of rice for a while, Plain rice just isn't cutting it any longer.  And this Spunked Up Rice is good!

Preheat oven to 400.

Servings: 3

To adjust the serving size go by the directions on your rice.

Ingredients:

2 Tablespoons Butter

1/2 cup Chopped Pecans

2 cups Chicken Broth

1 cup Rice

Melt butter in a small sauce pan.

 

 Dump chopped pecans in butter and stir around.  

 Then spread over a lined cookie sheet and bake for just a few minutes, you will begin to smell the nutty aroma... this means they are done.

 Dump onto a few paper towels to cool.

Prepare rice as directed on rice packaging using the same small sauce pan without rinsing.

When the rice is cooked mix in the toasted pecans and serve with this "Gourmet" Salmon.