Hooty Hoo!

I'm so excited! My sister sent me a fabulous link this evening where you can print out your own OWL CALENDAR!

http://www.myowlbarn.com/p/owl-lover-2011-calendar.html

I can't wait to print mine out!

Pumpkin Cookies

I have had several people ask me for the recipe for the pumpkin cookies, so here it is:

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

1 cups QUICK oats

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup butter

1 cup packed brown sugar

1 cup chocolate chips

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup packed pumpkin

Directions:

1) Preheat your oven to 350

2) In a medium bowl, combine flour, oats, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.

3) In a large bowl, use your electric mixer to soften butter. (hint: whenever a recipe calls for softened butter, it's best to use cold butter softened with your mixer instead of softening it in the microwave)

4) Add sugar and brown sugar to the softened butter and beat until light and fluffy.

5) Mix in your egg and vanilla.

6) Alternate beating in dry ingredients and pumpkin

7) Fold in chocolate chips

8) Drop rounded Tablespoons of the dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes

9) Once cookies have completely cooled, frost with cream cheese frosting (cream cheese frosting recipe is below if you're feeling especially productive, but Betty Crocker works just fine too!)

Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter (softened using your mixer)

8 oz cream cheese room temp

3 cups powdered sugar sifted

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Directions:

1) Beat the butter and cream cheese together until creamy and smooth

2) Slowly beat in the powdered sugar

3) Beat in the vanilla extract

Enjoy!