Next week I will start baking and painting turkeys!! Turkey sugar cookies that is…..no, not turkey flavor. Just yummy, buttery sugar cookies that look like the cutest turkeys ever. It’s a bit boring to paint them in the normal browns. So sometimes I dress em up…..get a little crazy with them. One year, my friend Patti……hi Patti…..and I baked a big batch of these turkeys. Well, we wanted color, so we painted pink and purple turkeys. Her hubby walked by the table a couple of times looking at the cookies with a puzzled look on his face. Finally he asked “are those turkeys??” Our turkeys looked like a bunch of floozies…like they were going out for a night on the town!!! We only did a few that way and then went back to a more traditional, BORING look. hahahhahaha. It was fun. Another time, I took a turkey cookie and put it between two pieces of white bread, slipped it into a sandwich baggie and gave it to a friend who loves turkey samiches. He got the biggest kick out of that.

Anyway, if you would like to order some turkeys, just let me know. My email address is on my About Me page. Give these little guys a good home. You will “gobble” them up. hahahahaha, get it?? gobble them up? Ok, I’ll stop. By the way, they come in chocolate or lemon/vanilla.

These pictures are last years cookies. If you order, don’t worry, you will get a fresh batch….not last years cookies. hahaahahah.

Hmmmm, sometimes even a normally good baker person can have a disaster in the kitchen. I am on a quest to make the perfect yellow cupcake. The one I made tonight….wellllllllll, not so perfect. They came out of the oven looking so heavenly…puffy, the perfect domed top, nice color…..ahhhhhh, smelling all nice and vanilla-ish. I left my pretty little babies  to cool off for a bit. It hadn’t even been 10 minutes and when I went to check on them, this is what I found:

Ugliness…..ugly little babies…shriveled….wrinkly….shrunken…..I have no idea what happened. Amazingly, they taste really good. They have a nice texture, not too sweet. But I sure wonder what could have happened. Big sigh….I will try another recipe tomorrow.

stay tuned……….

I took a day off from the office today. Spent the day with a good friend, starting with breakfast at the beach and another good movie. If you haven’t seen Last Vegas, it is hilarious. You don’t have to be “old” to see it. It is so funny. How can you go wrong with Morgan Freeman and Robert De Niro? Michael Douglas..welllll….eh, not so much. LOL. Anyway, it was my favorite kinda day…..coolish, overcast….I love it. We stopped a local bakery and had a slice of pumpkin loaf. I am not a fan of pumpkin, so I don’t really know why I even ordered this. It was “ok”. The only thing pumpkin that I like is MY punkin bread. I love this recipe and I only make it  at this time of year. The aroma of cinnamon and ginger fills the house. It is delicious. It is moist, full of toasted walnuts and raisins….m-m-m-mm-mm-mmmm. I had to come home and bake a loaf. Ahhhhhhhhh….it smells so good in the house right now.

I also made some granola with almonds, oats, cranberries, honey and sunflower seeds. It’s yummy and pretty healthy too. Just a litle hint of sweetness from honey. Has a nice little crunch, crunch, crunch.

If you would like the recipe for either, let me know and I will post it. My recipe index is taking longer than I had hoped. But it’s coming….

Happy weekend my friends….I survived the Halloween baking frenzy. I painted alot of cookies, dipped alot of mummy cake pops and baked some cupcakes. Whew…I am tired. Thank you to all of you who ordered treats from me!

I needed some relaxation, so what could be more relaxing than a great movie. I just have to recommend this movie. Everyone must see it….seriously, go now! About Time is one of the best movies I have seen in a very long time. It will make you laugh, laugh, laugh and cry a little too. It will touch your heart. I loved this movie. I was a little hesitant when I heard it was about time travel. It is, but not really. It’s not like the time travel movies that have been out before. Nothing like those. Trust me…seriously…please don’t be turned off by that. It is romantic, it is about family and friendship, It’s funny. I laughed so hard in one particular scene, that I almost peed my pants. hahahahahah.

Did I happen to mention that I loved this movie? I can’t recommend it enough. So, go! Go on…..go now….don’t just sit there…

ENJOY!!!!!!

Look for a new treat that will be posted tomorrrow….You will want to lick your computer screen, I’m tellin ya….YUM.

I bet you saw the word naked and it caught your attention, didn’t it? Well, this is not that kind of blog! That’s a whole different kind of site! But don’t go there!!! Stay here….where there is soup on the stove cooking and the smell of freshly baked lemon sugar cookies fills the house.  So comforting.  We finally have some cooler weather with a little rain. Ahhhhhh, my favorite kind of weather. Daniel, I can see you rolling your eyes now. My friend Daniel HATES this weather. I love these drizzly, cloudy days. I love to bake in this kind of weather. I love to make soup in this kind of weather. I love to even take a short little nap…but no time for that. Too much to do. I have Halloween cookies to paint , mummy cake pops to make  and some caramel apples to make.

So it seems a few of you have tried to “FOLLOW” my blog, but are having  a problem. Until I can figure out why this is happening, please leave a comment here to this post, or email me at sugarbundlebybetty@gmail.com

Well, I do hope you make this chowder. It is delicious. I suggest a dollop of sour cream and some broken tortilla chips sprinkled on top!! Enjoy!!

Recipe for Chicken Poblano Chowder

2 cups boiled shredded chicken                                                                    1 small onion, diced
2 cloves garlic                                                                                                     1 handful chopped cilantro
1 fresh jalapeno minced                                                                                 2 large fresh poblano chiles, chopped 
3 cups chicken broth (I used the broth that I boiled the chicken in)
1 cup milk or half and half                                                                             2 large potatos, cut in chunks
1 cup canned or frozen corn                                                                         1/2 cup of your favorite salsa

Put everything into a pot except the potatoes. Cook for about 30 mnutes. add potatos…simmer for another 30 minutes or so. Or you can do this in a crockpot too, Slurp it up!!!! yum yum

Naked cookies waiting to be painted. Stay tuned tomorrow……..