Giving Thanks...

Well, we haven't seen your lovely faces in a while! But we have good reason! We have been shoving our faces with yummy food, trudging in the snow and drinking hot cocoa. The highlight of this post is our Thanksgiving meal! (A little late. I know, sorry.) 

Before we begin the tour of our meal, we'd like to give you a short summary of what we are grateful for:

First, we are SO very thankful to our Heavenly Father for sending His only Son to die for us that we might be saved from our burden of sin!
 We are very grateful for our parents and how they sacrifice so much for us that we would be brought up to know the Lord as our Savior. We are thankful for how they love us and teach us.
We are thankful for our siblings who happen to also be our best friends. 
We are thankful for the wind that blows and the birds that sing. 
We are thankful for every single day that we live.

 We are also thankful for that delicious meal that we ate on that faraway day in November!
The yummy mashed potatoes and gravy, roast and carrots, green bean casserole, sweet potato souffle, cranberry sauce and biscuits!
      

(Please excuse the pictures, I had very poor light to work with...)

We also had Buttermilk pie and Pecan pie, as you can see them in the background of the photo above, but mom wasn't very proud of them so she requested we not post them...

But...

We'll show you something she is proud of!

 Because she wasn't proud of her actual pies, Mama wanted to try again.

So... she made delicious pecan pie cups!

My mouth is watering just thinking about it!

May I add that nothing came from a box or can?

We also ate it for breakfast and lunch the next day! 

What did you eat for your Thanksgiving meal?

What are you thankful for? We'd love to hear!

Blessings,

Layla & Hagen

Peanut Butter Cups

Hello dears! Today I have a recipe for you!
I had been craving these little cups of yummyness for forever, and couldn't stop thinking about them. So, I decided the best thing for me to do was to just make them!

Peanut Butter Cup Recipe

Makes 17 mini cups

3/4 cups chocolate chips

2 Tbsp. coconut oil

3 Tbsp. smooth peanut butter

1 1/2 Tbsp. coconut oil, melted
17 mini baking cups

I will say the more chocolate you have the better

 because the layers will be thicker....

1. Pour chocolate chips in a sauce pan along with the coconut oil. Put on medium heat. Stir until melted.

2. In a bowl, combine melted coconut oil and peanut butter. Stir until liquidy.

3. Place the baking cups on a cookie sheet. Pour a tsp. of the chocolate mixture in each cup. Put the cookie sheet in the freezer for the chocolate to harden.

4. When the chocolate is nice and hard, pour about a tsp. or tsp and a half of peanut butter mixture on top. Pop them back in the freezer to set-up.

5. Then simply pour another tsp of chocolate over the peanut butter, let harden in the freezer for about 6 minutes and voila! You've got yourself a delicious, melt in your mouth treat! 

Well let me know how you like them! Because....uh....we did... :)

Love,

Hagen