Saturday's Sweets: S'morekies

I love stuffed cookies. There is something about taking a bite into a cookie and having an unexpected, and delicious surprise that just makes me want to keep experimenting with recipes. This weekend we have S'morekies-- S'more stuffed cookies. They are gooey and soft, they literally melt in your mouth. I'm still working on perfecting this recipe but, I couldn't wait to share this with you. So, here it is:

Ingredients:

1 cup butter (room temperature)

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 1/2 cup white sugar

2 farm fresh eggs

2 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Marshmallows or mini marshmallows

1.5 Hershey's chocolate bars

2.5 sheets of graham crackers

Instructions:

preheat the oven to 375 degrees

1. Cream together the butter and sugars in a mixer.

2. Add the eggs and vanilla to the mixture.

3. Then, add the flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Mix on low until combined.

4. Fold in the chocolate chips and refrigerate the dough while you set up the s'more ingredients.

5. Chop the graham crackers into small squares. I break them into their long strips and then cut them in half again. Break the chocolate bars into the small blocks of chocolate. Cut the marshmallows into fourths. I made some with 1/2 a marshmallow and there was too much marshmallow and it bubbled out of the cookie. So, either cut your marshmallow in half twice or use mini marshmallows. I stacked them together before I got the dough out so they would be ready. You should have graham cracker on the bottom, then chocolate, then marshmallow all lined up and ready.

6. Scoop out two teaspoonfuls of your dough. Put one on top and one on the bottom of your S'more stack. Then, add another scoop to the sides. I squished down the top and then added in the extra dough were it was needed. Once your dough is added, roll it lightly in your hand to make a ball. Then, set your s'morekie onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet. I fit 6 on a sheet.

7. Bake for 10-15 minutes, until golden brown. The marshmallow still oozed out of the top of the cookies so, they are not the prettiest cookie ever but man do they taste wonderful.

 Enjoy!


Now that I've made S'morekies and Pillow Cookies (stuffed with brownie), do you have any other suggestions to stuff cookies with?

Heaven Is For Real

Here is a quick little book review for all of you readers out there. This is my first book review in a while and I'm thinking about making them more of a focus this summer because I'm planning on reading many more books. I've read a lot of blogs where people post their perfect little summer reading lists for the whole summer. I've tried to make reading lists before and to be completely honest, they do not work for me. I never actually go to my list and pick the next book. So, I end up with a reading list a mile long with only one book crossed off, the one I start with. I like to find a book that sounds good, read it, then find another book that is inspired from how I feel after reading the first one. If I love it, I find a similar one. If I hate it, I read that new title that everyone is talking about or just start with a random one.

Now that I've gone through my little intro, here is my first summer reading book. This book is fantastic. I read it in about two or three days. It is written by a father, Todd Burpo, who tells the story of his son who nearly died and during surgery the son went to heaven. Now you may not believe this but, this child repeats things that there is no way he could know unless he actually went to heaven. I don't want to give anything away but, I highly recommend this one. 

This one is really special to me because the day before I found it, I prayed to God asking for help finding peace with the idea of Heaven. I always wonder what happens when you fall in love with someone and then die young, and they remarry or re-fall in love, what happens? I have this fear that I'm going to die early and wait in heaven for the one I love and find out that when he actually comes to Heaven, he is with somebody else and not me. I don't know. For some reason, this bugs me a lot. Regardless, I prayed for understanding and the very next day God put this book into my life. I'm even reading another one similar to this and exploring even further. Also, I guess I'm sharing this with all of you now, too. God works in mysterious and wonderful ways.

If you read this or have read it before: what do/did you think?

Farmer's Wife Friday: Week Two

Sorry for the late post! Life has been just keeping me busy since yesterday. I was going to post about this Friday night and ended up finishing a book and going to the movies instead. Alec and I saw Men In Black 3 and it was amazing. Then I was going to do it this morning but, we ended up spending all day at the lake and then I worked on a project that I will share with everyone when it is finished. 

Anyway, less about me and more about this farmer's wife. The letter for this week came from Furnas County, Nebraska and is titled "No Safer Road to Travel". My favorite quote in the whole letter is when she wrote: "To wake up in the early morning to the bird calls, the animal greetings, is better than the best symphony concert every played."  She then continues to write: "To see the sun climb out of bed and reach out rosy fingers to pick up the dew drops from field and meadow, and to watch the joyous greeting of all nature, in the summer time, is worth more than silver and gold can buy". I mean, wow. This is so completely true. In fact, I even wrote "completely agree" in the margin of my book. I absolutely love waking up in the morning and drinking my coffee out on the porch so I can enjoy the view and listen to the birds. Being a country girl myself, for this reason alone I would recommend being a farmer's wife...if it meant you could wake up to nature every morning.

This block is called Country Path. I really like the colors here because I am a browns, greens, and beige fan.   These are unlikely favorite colors for an 18 year old, I know, but my entire room is themed around those three colors. This block didn't turn out too awful and I love the checkered fabric.

Now this little block...this little block was quite the challenge. I do not paper piece, or know when to paper piece but, I feel like this block might have been one of those moments. Clearly, it turned out more than a little wonky. I love the fabrics though, and love the little pinwheel in the center. It gets a little crooked from there, though. This one is called "Silver Lane". I'm loving this quilt along and can't wait to read next weeks letter!