Peanut butter, banana, oat meal cookies

My Dad found a recipe from  http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/banana-oatmeal-cookie/detail.aspx      which he printed out for me. Instead of using shortening I used Peanut butter so I had to use a little bit more flour  since peanut butter is a bit more liquidy than shortening. I never like to mash bananas, because I would make banana bread with my Dad and so I would always be the one to mash the bananas. I would go really slow because you can't have any chunks in it so I would go slow so I would get all the chunks out, but I would also have to do it pretty fast  though. So I would either go fast and leave some chunks or I would go slow and leave no chunks. One day my Dad told me if you just go one way and then the other way, with the fork two different directions, it works a lot better. I really love the taste of them and I had a blast making them. You really should try it there not just fun to make but also super good tasting. They are a good way to use old bananas instead of banana bread.

Original Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies

Recipe for Original Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookies

My sister moved away to college and she likes to check up on my blog and so she sent me a link to this recipe. I decided to try it and send her a package of cookies at Alabama.  When I had made them I only had used only one and a quarter cup of flour but It should of been two and a quarter cup of flour.  My dad had tried a little bit of batter and he noticed I probably didn't put enough flour in. The cookies were already in the oven, but they had only been in for 30 seconds and the chocolate chips had started to melt and so my mom and I scraped the cookie sheets into the bowl and I added 1 cup and so they were much darker than they should of been but they were still great. They were like chocolate cookies with chocolate chips in them instead of the regular kind of chocolate chip cookies. I got to send my sister a container of the cookies I made. You should make them too. Just be careful with the measurements!

Pigs in a blanket

I used a can of Vienna sausage and wrapped in croissant dough and baked.

When I made pigs in a blanket I had used mini sausages and the little dough of croissants instead of frankfurters  and the biscuit but they were still good. My family ate them for dinner. My brother and sister liked the the croissants a lot so I had ended up eating their little sausages and the little can my mom had bought when I opened it there was a bunch of goop in it.  When I went over to look at my recipe I noticed that I had the wrong things so I told my sister and mom and my mom said to just use what we had gotten. I think you should try it too! Little sausages in croissants are fun to make.

Fruit Float

At first, I wanted to make a Root Beer Float but then I  decided to make a different beverage because I have made Root Beer floats before. So I was flipping through the Betty Crocker Cookbook for Boys and Girls when I came to Fruit Floats. I read what I would need and so I asked my Mom if she would get the ingredients I would need the next time she was at the store. A couple days later my mom got the ingredients  that I needed. My older sister was excited about the float recipe too. I made them for a dessert when my sister wasn't there  so when she got home I made her one. When I got to make the Fruit Float I was so happy because I got to cut the fruit.  I didn't I use all the fruit it suggested in the recipe I only used strawberries and bananas. I think this is a great beverage for Summer! Try it!

Fill a Tall glass with  fruit such as raspberries, blueberries, banana slices, strawberries, or any fruit you like.
Pour in chilled ginger ale
Top with 1 scoop lime sherbet

Potato Salad

The potato salad looked kind of funky because the eggs were dyed for Easter. But it was a good way of using up my Easter eggs. The reason I picked this is because my sister wanted me to make this. I saw a picture of a recipe I wanted to do, but it took too many ingredients, and my sister was hungry for potato salad. At first I didn't really  want to make it, but now I'm glad I did. I really enjoyed the cutting. It made me feel like I'm a real chef. Slicing hard-boiled eggs and boiled potatoes is a lot of fun! Squeezing the relish was also fun. This is one of the more healthy recipes I've made because I usually like to make desserts. We had sloppy joes with this for dinner. My Mom doesn't really like sloppy joes, but she loved my potato salad and she ate almost half the bowl! I used my Betty Crocker cookbook for this recipe. The ingredients are 4 medium potatoes, 1/4 t. salt, 1 cup diced celery, 1/4 cup minced onion, 1/4 cup pickle relish, 1/4 cup French dressing, 3 hard-cooked eggs, sliced, and 1/2 cup mayonnaise.

Bunny Salad

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday. We celebrate when Jesus rose from the dead (Resurrection Sunday). In my family we have a lot of traditions for holidays and other things. We will have an Easter basket hunt in the morning. Me and my brothers and sister will have a basket full of treats. My parents will hide them at night or early in the morning. My Dad hides them really good. My sister can never find them. Last year her basket was industrial zip-tied to the curtain rod. Every morning my Mom and my sister have a cup of tea, so my sister is too sleepy to find it before she gets her tea. After we find our Easter baskets we have to get ready for church. There is a special service where we go to church. After church we will go to my grandparent's house. We will have a very nice dinner. All the kids will go on an Easter egg hunt in their backyard. I made these bunnies today because they're kind of like Easter bunnies and I'm going to take them to the special dinner tomorrow. I made these bunnies by using pear halves, cottage cheese, red hots, almonds, and instead of raisins I substituted dried blueberries. The recipe is in my Betty Crocker Boy's and Girl's Cookbook.

Confetti Pie

Getting my ingredients together

Confetti pie recipe

The finished pie

This is a quick and easy recipe to cook. Because you don't have to use the oven. Once you have cooked the Confetti Pie you can eat it right away. Once you have made the pudding you kind of need to make everything even faster. That's because the pudding will start to get hard. I like to cook with mini marshmallows because they look so cute, especially the colored ones. I used the Betty Crocker Girls and Boys cookbook for this recipe.

Grapefruit Cake

For this cake recipe I took a break from the Betty Crocker Cook Book. My family just got back from Florida. In Florida we went to a restaurant called the Hollywood Brown Derby in Disney World Hollywood Studios. We got a slice of grapefruit cake there and all of our family really liked it. On our way home, we picked up some Florida grapefruits. My sister found a recipe for the Hollywood Brown Derby cake when we got home, and I decided to try making it.
I got to separate eggs for the first time on my own when I baked this cake! When I separated the eggs I went back and forth with the egg shell halves. It was tricky and I had to be careful not to break the yolk and not ruin the egg white by mixing them together. It is my first cake from scratch too without a mix. I used a hand-mixer to make meringue too. I never knew that the skin of a grapefruit was kind of edible-ish and if you kind of grate it or shave it you can use it in a recipe. 
It was fun to make this cake but a little bit hard. Mine wasn't as good as the professional chefs at the Brown Derby, but it was my first try. Usually you don't get something on your first shot. And don't put all your eggs in one basket. This is an idiom I learned in school.  I had lots of fun making the cake but I couldn't stay up long enough to make the icing so my sister made the icing.
Here is the recipe if you want to give it a try.

http://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2010/03/03/grapefruit-cake-recipe-from-the-hollywood-brown-derby/

Hot Fudge Pudding

Before I started, I had to find all the things I needed for the cake. Once I had everything I needed,I got started on cooking. When I poured the water on the batter, it looked like I put too much water on. When my dad walked in, he said, "It looks like you made a mud pie." Then my mom came in and said, "No, it looks like a chocolate Volcano." I kind of thought it looked like a pan of mud, but after it cooked it looked kind of better than before, but it tasted a lot better than it looked. Before I started I put on my apron and chef's hat.