Salted Caramel Sauce

I tried this delicious Salted Caramel Sauce recipe, shared by my friend Sasha at LMM,
love this lady and she gave me the thumbs up to share it here with you guys.

Step 1.  On medium heat, melt butter in a saucepan, when butter is completely 

melted add the sugars, stir constantly,bring it to a boil and then add whipping cream, 

stirring constantly. Bring it back to a boil for about 2 minutes, keep stirring.

Step 2. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract stir and add sea salt.  

Let it cool completely, otherwise like this lovely lady said, it will be all over you and 

your kitchen.

 

Ingredients:

1/4 cup of butter

1/4 cup tightly packed brown sugar

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup of whipping cream

1/2 teaspoons sea salt

2 drops of vanilla extract

Yumminess!!  Thank you Sasha this was so delicious!

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Best Pumpkin Cookies

Do you remember when I mentioned autumn spices in this post?

I finally baked some pumpkin cookies yesterday and their amazing fragrance 

has been lingering in our home since.  Ah, the warm scent of cinnamon and other
spices fills my mind with cozy images of flannel blankets, falling leaves and a warm
beverage at hand on a cool fall day.  These cookies are so delicious!

While I removed the freshly baked cookies from the oven, Mr. M and little man followed
the autumn aroma to the kitchen, and let me just say a few cookies were already
missing from the batch on the baking sheet. 
After the cookies were completely done, the boys enjoyed a few more, and so did I.
They were completely scrumptious!

I have added the recipe to the end of this post for those who wish to try it.
To make these delicious cookies, you need to do a few simple things.
First preheat your oven to 350 degrees and prepare two ungreased baking sheets.

•  Step 1. In a large mixing bowl add cream butter, white sugar, & brown sugar then mix it until fluffy.
•  Step 2. Add pumpkin puree, egg, and vanilla extract and mix. 

• Step 3. In a separate bowl, stir in together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, pumpkin spice and salt.
• Step 4. Combine flour mixture & butter-sugar mixture together & mix well.  Then, add tablespoons 3 inches apart on the ungreased baking sheets.

• 5. Bake cookies for 10-15 minutes until golden around the edges.
• 6. Remove warm cookies and transfer to racks.

• 7. Let the cookies cool completely for at least one half hour, then frost with glaze.

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, room temperature
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 cup can pumpkin puree (for those who prefer fresh pumpkin puree, click here for puree recipe)
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

      Glaze

• 3 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 1/2- 2 cups confectioners' sugar

Direction for Glaze

In a medium saucepan, heat butter and brown sugar over medium heat until bubbly.

Cook, stirring constantly, for one minute or until slightly thickened.

   Beat in the milk, blend in confectioners' sugar until the glaze is smooth and spreadable.

Using a brush or butter knife, spread the glaze on the cookies.

NOTE: The glaze will harden fairly quickly, it is recommended that you keep the saucepan

over the lowest setting heat possible to prevent it from hardening.

Another way to make this glaze is by mixing all the ingredients before heating.
Then pour your mix into a saucepan and heat.
This prevents it from getting too hard in your pan,

but make sure to rinse it immediately in very hot water to remove left over glaze.
Enjoy your cookies, I know I will.

Happy Baking!

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Oversized Ruler Growth Chart

Hey there, I hope that you are enjoying your day.

Today I'm sharing with you the tutorial for this oversized ruler, 

it was inspired by this one and this one. 

This giant ruler that you see here, was somewhat of a challenge to photograph

only because it hangs in a very narrow, dark hallway, 

but you get the idea as to what it looks like.

I wanted to have one of these babies for the sole purpose of using it as a growth chart 

for my son.  The boys like to make marks on my wall when measuring little man's growth 

process, you know the dad and son.  I am not a big fan of pencil or pen marks on the 

wall, so I decided to make one of these darlings for our son.

What I love about it is that you can take it with you if you move, 

unlike a wall. Another great thing is that you can use it for all your kids.

Okay, so let me begin by adding the supply list.

Supplies:

• wood board
• pencil
• sand paper
• ruler
• sharpie
• wood stain
• vinyl numbers

1. Mr. M purchased a six foot wood board at a super low price.  We didn't have to cut it, which was great.

The only thing we did was sand the edges a bit to smooth them out.  The width is really your preference, ours is 7 inches wide,

2. After the sanding, I stained it with oak natural wood stain that I had on hand.

3. When the stain was dry, I used a ruler to mark my lines with a pencil,  

I measured them to be one inch apart.  For each inch, I made a line an inch long.  

When I reached a foot (12 inches), I made the lines two inches long to mark a foot.

Then I went over the lines with a sharpie marker and to keep my lines straight, I used my ruler.

4 & 5. My hubs stopped by the hardware store and purchased these sticker vinyl numbers.

6. I placed the numbers 12 inches apart from each other.

There you have it, a giant ruler for measuring height.
This was really fun to make!
Hope that you enjoyed and Happy Crafting!