Monday, May 21, 2012

Crescent Cinnamon Rolls: Perfect Breakfast After a Crazy Night

I don't know about you guys, but I am loving that people are learning how to turn all my favorite foods into cinnamon rolls. I've seen cinnamon roll cake and cinnamon roll pancakes and now there's this, cinnamon roll crescents! My sister Courtney showed them to me and I have been meaning to try them for a long time. When my friends decided we were going to have a sleepover Friday night I knew I had to make them for breakfast.
This picture doesn't make them look super appetizing but I like to show people exactly how they look when they bake so that you know you didn't do it wrong. Here's the recipe from the original site with great step by step pictures. I'll just give the simplified version.

Crescent Cinnamon Rolls:

Ingredients:
1 tube of Pillsbury crescent rolls (8 count, buttery or regular kind)
6 T softened butter
1/4 C white sugar
2 1/2 t cinnamon
2 T melted butter
1/4 C powdered sugar (the original calls for 2 T more but I was too lazy to add them)
1/2 t vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 375
Place unrolled crescent rolls on cookie sheet (I greased mine but the recipe says not to... I just about always grease mine though)
Mix together softened butter, white sugar, and cinnamon for the filling
Spread filling on opened rolls and then roll them up (embarrassing confession: I just learned that there is a wrong way and a right way to roll up crescent rolls. No worries, I figured it out after only two failures!)
Bake 10-12 minutes and while its baking start on glaze
Mix together melted butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla. *If it hardens a bit before you have a chance to put it on your rolls just heat it for a few seconds in microwave and stir*
While rolls are still hot, pour or spread or drizzle your glaze on them. *Don't worry about putting too much or too little, you can't mess these rolls of deliciousness up!*
EAT IT HOT! Just don't burn yourself.
Delicious and hardly any work at all! I just wish they were bigger. I definitely always eat two.


Now that I've given you a delicious recipe, I've got some life lessons I learned from my sleepover that I feel I should pass on.
1. Although jumping into the lake at evening time when its chilly isn't a great idea, rolling down your newly mowed hill with the sprinklers on is an even worse one.
2. Fanny packs are very useful when you're army crawling around.
3. Actually, fanny packs are always useful. Go buy one.
4. Using glitter in a prank may seem fun and magical... Because it totally is. Yes it's somewhat impossible to clean up but let's be honest. Everybody loves glitter.
5. If you're sneaking around and a motion light suddenly catches you off guard, running as fast as you can away from it isn't necessarily your best choice. On the bright side however, it will give everyone a good laugh.
6. Never underestimate a boy on crutches.

I hope you take all this advice to heart because it will no doubt save your life one day.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Andy's Mint Cookies

Do you love cake mix cookies? Do you love Andy's Mints? Do you love having a super delicious, super adorable treat that takes no effort at all?! Then you will love this!!!

This is a recipe from Six Sisters' Stuff. I love my family but I think I'd give them up for a chance to be one of these six sisters... Check out the married sisters' perfect family pictures and you'd agree with me!

Andy's Mints Cookies

Ingredients:
1 box devil's food cake mix
1/2 cup oil
2 eggs
1 package of Andy's Mints


Preheat oven to 350

Mix cake mix, oil, and eggs. Make into balls and cake for 8-10 minutes. Usually once the cookie has tiny holes in it, you can take it out. But really you probably shouldn't take my word for that because I tend to under cook things... While its cooking unwrap enough Andy's Mints for every cookie. The best part is next. Once you pull your deliciously warm cookies out of the oven, drop a mint right in the middle of it. Let it sit there for a minute or two and then just swirl it around with a spoon to get a deliciously melted mint frosting. And yes, it is fun swirling it around!

Random notes:
These are delicious warm or set, rain or shine.
I used a German chocolate cake mix since I was too lazy to head to the store. They were still good!
A lot of times my melted mint would slide to the edge of the cookie as I swirled it. Didn't even make it look bad. That's what I call a good recipe!

An Introduction

I have these friends who decided to start blogs so that we could stay up to date with each other's lives as we head to college. Apparently they forgot the reason they have a Facebook... Whatever their thought process was, they have asked, no begged! They have begged me to start a blog. They said things like "Kendall you're life is so fantastic there needs to be a blog about it!" and "Please start a blog so that I can read all about you because that it is all I want to do every day!!" even "You are the coolest person I know!" Now I may have gotten these quotes a little off due to the fact that, as my mom will be more than happy to attest to, I tend to ignore people. Anyway, the point is I was definitely asked to start a blog. And since I like to keep my fans happy, a blog they shall have.
Since this last senior year has actually been the best time of my life and college will no doubt be a slippery slope down to boring regular people life, a blog about my life would be less interesting than hearing another speech on why big pots and pans aren't allowed in the dish washer. So in between posts about my super crazy/almost definitely disappointing first year of college life, I will be posting new recipes I try and reviews for books I read. And I guess whatever other dandy secrets of life I feel my followers need to know.
So this is my blog. You're welcome world.