Another beautiful sunny, 36° day in The County for a ride over to see the log home.
When I arrived they were discussing the staircase.
Today I set up lunch on the trailer.
Another favorite, Mac & Cheese. The real Mac & Cheese. I’ve heard sometimes it comes in a box? Can that be true?!?
Sitting or standing, yummy either way.
These shorter pieces are for the eaves. I hadn’t noticed, I thought they went the whole length.
A valley that wasn’t finished the other day.
A little muddy, isn’t that what makes it fun?!!
Moving a large rock.
The neighbors.
Ephesians 4:2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
I almost forgot the dessert in the car. Oh no!! A rookie mistake!! I made these Oatmeal Whoopie Pies that I’ve seen the recipe shared on FB a lot lately.
Ingredients
2 cups brown sugar, packed
3⁄4 cup butter or shortening, softened
2 large eggs
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
2 – 2 1/2 cups flour
2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda, dissolved (in water below)
3 tablespoons boiling water
Filling
1 egg white, beaten stiff
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 tablespoons milk
2 cups powdered sugar
1⁄4 cup vegetable shortening *
DIRECTIONS
- For oatmeal cookie mixture — cream butter, sugar and eggs.
- Sift together flour, salt and baking powder and add to creamed mixture.
- Add cinnamon and oatmeal.
- Mix well. Add soda to hot water and add to batter — mix well.
- Drop by tablespoonful onto greased cookie sheet;
- Bake 8 – 10 min in 350° oven.
- For filling, beat egg white until stiff, add vanilla, milk and 1 cup of powdered sugar. Cream well, beat in mixing bowl about 10 minutes.
- Add rest of ingredients and beat an additional 2-3 minutes.
- Size-up the cookies. Put filling between 2 cookies.
- Wrap each whoopie pie cookie in plastic wrap. (I like ziplock bags.)
If there’s any left, they freeze well to be brought out later.
My Note*: the recipe online had doubled the filling recipe (I had a lot of filling leftover) and I thought there was too much shortening. I ended up adding more confectionery sugar to compensate. It should be 1/4 cup shortening when using one egg white. Later I looked online to compare recipes and it was too much shortening compared to similar filling recipes.
When I was teaching I always told my foods classes to ‘know your cookie sheets.’ I used three different cookie sheets this day for the Whoopie Pies, and, I had three different baking times!! I would have had several Snubbers if I didn’t know my cookie sheets because one cookie sheet tends to burn cookies, or whatever I’m baking.
Even a couple burnt Snubbers were delicious!!
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