Saturday, January 7, 2012

DIY Project 2012

For the year of 2012 I want to make a "pin" every month. Atleast one. If my budget and energy provides more than that, yay for me! And when I say Pin I mean that wonderful website called Pintrest and any Pin I have added that I want to try out. So for January I made these flowers:
 http://www.michellamarie.com/2011/07/white-paper-peonies-tutorial.html. I wish wanted to type out the instructions, but...this link does it better!
 This wasn't a Pin but I thought it was worth sharing. These are weight watcher cookies (new years resolution-weight loss!!) But I seriously will make this recipe and just eat more of them even if I wasn't trying to loose weight they are that good. I think some major factors were the butter was at room temperature, I used a beater the whole time, didn't grease the pan, and used semi sweet chocolate chips. Not sure if those did make a difference, but I'm trying to figure out why these "healthy" cookies tasted so much better than any other un-healthy recipe I've made. And really they arn't healthy, weight watchers is all about portion control. These are mini.

2 Tbsp salted butter, softened
2 tsp canola oil (we used vegetable)
½ cup packed brown sugar, dark-variety
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/8 tsp table salt
1 Large egg white
¾ cup all-purpose flower
¼ tsp baking soda
3 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips, about ½ cup
Make like regular cookies (mix the wet, seperatly mix the dry, add together, bake at 350) but only cook for 4-6 minutes. And drop by teaspoons. Yeah they're little but so good! 1 point/2 points plus per cookie. Make them, you won't be disappointed!

2 comments:

Caryn said...

Cute flowers! I'm impressed that the month isn't half over and you already made a pin. And what an adorable dish your cookies are in!

Emily said...

I think that's a great idea to make a pin every month!! I can't wait to see all the things you make.