Coleman's 10th Birthday

Coleman was the kiddo who requested a giant chocolate chip cookie that prompted me to start making these. When I delivered today and he saw it, he said - "This is EXACTLY what I wanted!!!"

Cake pops in BGA (Battle Ground Academy) colors!

Made a dozen of these cookies & wrapped them up for the favor bags.

Giant chocolate chip cookies are my latest thing...

I had a friend ask if I could make a giant chocolate chip cookie for her son's upcoming birthday. I said, "Let me research that." Sure enough, found a GREAT Emerl Lagasse recipe and voila - my latest popular item was born. I took my sample cookie into work for co-worker testing/approval (which included raves from non-cookie people), and promptly got another order! This one was made for my co-worker Maggie's friend late last week.

Strange pancakes...

I've made a lot of pancakes in my life but I've never had batter make "pointy" pancakes. We've been trying to utilize recipes we've ripped out of our Food Network magazines & I tried this recipe from Pat Neeley the other night. The wet to dry ingredients ratio seemed to be waaaayyy off and they were super thin and didn't cook up AT ALL like the picture - they were more crepe-like.

But, they tasted o.k. - I had added some fresh peaches to the batter. Needless to say, that recipe went in the recycling bin. :)

Peach Cobbler, Football Cookies and...Meatballs?

I made this peach cobbler earlier this week - it's one of Chris's favorites. We had picked up some fresh peaches at the Farmer's Market and they just had to be used!

Football cookies for the Steelers' season opener. Too bad they didn't show up for the game. Ugh.

I got Chris this meatball grilling basket for his birthday & he hadn't put it to use yet. So we broke it out for the Steelers' game & made meatball sandwiches. Delicious!

Honey White Bread

Tropical Depression Lee has settled over Middle TN for the next few days, so I decided to bake some bread on this cold, wet day - now the house smells great! This is Honey White Bread, recipe by Ina Garten. Turned out great! We are having it with some baked pork chops tonight.

Leftovers...

I collected up all the overruns from my very busy August baking & took them to work last week!

AKA Cupcakes

My co-worker Marie ordered these pink & green cupcakes for her daughter who is in AKA sorority at Vanderbilt.