Smores.

Living in the city has been

an adjustment but it is going

well.  We do miss campfires

and smores.

So I decided to make

indoor smores.

Although there are a lot of recipes

I just made them

with what ingredients I had.

The bottom layer is

graham cracker crumbs,

butter and sugar.

Then I mixed up a batch

of box brownies

and spread it over the

graham cracker crust.

And baked it.

After they baked and

cooled 10 min.

I added the mini marshmellows

and broiled them till brown.

These bars were a mess

to cut and I think I

will make them in

muffin tins the next time

so I don't have to cut them.

They were yummy,

especially when they were

warm and gooey.

Indoor smores.

A little taste of home!

Have a great Monday!



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Cake in Costa Rica

Excited?  Yes!

I was so excited when one of

the missionary families needed

a cake for their daughter's 5th

birthday.  I was loving "playing"

with cake again.

I only brought a small amount of

my cake decorating supplies along from the US

and so I worked with what I had

and.... I found a cake store within walking distance of

our house.  Yes, I was excited!

It was a challenge to find all the ingredients

but with serveal trips to several different stores

I found all I needed and this is what I came up

with. 

Have a great weekend!



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My "baked" ice cream was featured here!



Coffee Break

If you were joining me for coffee today

we would be drinking some of the best

coffee in the world!

We would also be enjoying it in my

new "home"

with the mountians of Costa Rica surrounding

us. 

We are adjusting to life in Costa Rica and

are finding things to do like

walking to the mall and

walking to the grocery store and

walking to the park and

walking to our friend's house and...

...you get the idea.

Unless we take a taxi or the bus

we are walking because we have no car.

We have also been trying new fruits

even if we don't know the name of the

fruit.  Mostly they are sweet and yummy.

We have a couple weeks

until school starts and so in

our free time we are trying to bake some

brownies and cookies

so we will have them for lunches in a couple

weeks.  But it seems my family is eating

them as fast as I can make them.



My cheery kitchen.

So if you were joining me for

the best coffee ever

what would you tell me?

What are you adjusting to?

Can you believe school will soon be starting?

The hardest part is believing that I

will be sitting in school every day

and learning a new language.

WOW!!

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~"ICE CREAM"~

It started with a box of 200 cones...

and no ice cream to fill them.

So what is a girl to do?

Bake of course!

What seemed like a simple little project

turned out to be a bit

frustrating but still sweet in the end.

First I baked mini cupcakes...

 After they had cooled

I crumbled one and filled the

bottom of the cone...

Then my daughters added a

swirl of frosting...

And they added another mini cupcake

on top of the frosting swirl,

And then I added a swirl of frosting on

top and my little man

added the sprinkles.

Super easy to make but...

the hard part was getting them to the party.

I made holes in an egg carton to hold the cones

but with the frosting on top they became top heavy

and so every bump and turn along the way

was a potential disaster waiting to happen.

We did make it to the picnic without

any major frosting/cupcake disasters.

What I learned?

I learned that I should probably make

a neat little cone holder if I plan to make these

again and I learned that even though they

weren't perfect, the kids enjoyed them.

Sweet as can be!

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Costa Rica...

We have arrived in Costa Rica for our
year of language study.

More to come...

I really getting anxious to bake here in
my bright little kitchen.