What celebrity do you look like?

I found this on a blog I was reading and did it for fun...I'm the one on the far left :) I don't even know who some of those celebrities are...

Peanut Butter Cookie Candy Bars

My hubby was reading the Lincoln Journal Star the other day and just happened to see a picture of some bars, he wouldn't pass by anything with the words "peanut butter" involved. I don't bake too many sweets but I figured he was due for a treat. Beware, they are sweet sweet sweet but oh so gooey good!

Peanut Butter Cookie Candy Bars by Amy Wood

Cookie dough crust:
1 pouch (1 pound, 1.5 ounces) Betty Crocker peanut butter cookie mix
1 TBS water
3 TBS vegetable oil
1 egg
Nougat layer:
1 1/2 TVS water
1/3 cup light corn syrup
3 TBS butter
1 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
3 TBS peanut butter
bash salt
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
Caramel Layer:
1 bag (14 ounces)caramels, unwrapped
2 TBS water
1 1/2 cups dry-roasted unsalted peanuts
Topping:
1 bag (11.5 ounces) milk chocolate chips

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray bottom of 13x9 inch pan with cooking spray. Make cookie dough as directed on pouch . Press dough into pan. Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool to touch.
In large bowl, beat 1 1/2 TBS water, corn syrup, butter, vanilla, peanut butter and salt with mixer on medium speed until creamy.
Slowly add powdered sugar. When nougat is the consistency of dough, press evenly over cookie crust. Set pan in refrigerator.
Melt caramels in small sauce pan with 2 TBS water over low heat. Once melted, stir in peanuts. Pour the mixture evenly over the nougat layer. Cool in the refrigerator about 15 minutes.
When the caramel mixture is firm, melt mild chocolate chips in microwave on medium high for 1 minute. Stir Microwave for 20 more seconds until melted and smooth. Pour evenly over caramel layer. Cool completely until chocolate is set (bars can be refrigerated to speed up the cooling process). Cut into bars. Store covered at room temperature.


Enjoy & share some with a friend!

Mother's Day

Yesterday I got to celebrate being a Mother. It was a good day. We dedicated my son, Isaac, to the Lord at church. He is two now, we were suppose to do it a year ago but moved right before the service, now that we've moved back, we signed up again. The children's pastor made the comment that the dedication is more for the parents than the children. I agree. It is really about us as parents committing to following Christ and teaching our children what that means. I think the best way to teach is to actually live that out in our daily lives. To seek Christ with all our hearts and allow his love and grace to flow through us to our children. As I was thinking yesterday about my little blessings, I stopped to pray that down the road, when my children are grown, they will be able to look back and see that Christ was living in me and they will be able to "celebrate knowing Him more" because of the mother that I was to them. Funny thing is, I am becoming that mother "because" of them, because of the ways God uses my children and my husband to grow me, change me, mold me. So Thank You to my husband and children for the gift of Motherhood.