Flakey Cookies!

I saw a picture of cookies on Pinterest.

I am not a big pinterest girl, shameful, I know.

I visit it about once a month or so.

Don't hate me...

Last week I saw the above mentioned cookie picture and thought,

"I can make those! And sugar free to boot!"

 

I really like having conversations with myself....I can be quite pleasant!

OK, back to the cookies.

I bought a package of rolled out pie crust (the bottom of the picture said they used pie crust with a very big exclamation point)

and I also bought a bag of sugar free Reeses Peanut Butter Cups.

I left the pie dough out to get to room temp. I then cut it in strips and made 14 squares with opposite cuts.

 

Well, ok, 10 squares and 4 triangles.....blast those round pie shapes!

I next "squashed" the pie dough all around the naked PB cups.

I made them naked by taking off their little brown skirts.

Placed the balls on a parchment lined bake sheet and baked them at 350* until lightly browned on top.

After they cooled, I rolled them all in powdered "sugar" which was of course powdered xyltol which is an all natural sugar sub, a ground up plant.

The crispy crust on the bottom was wonderful!! I personally am not a peanut butter person but I liked these. I think it was that crisply crust!

This Is My Life

Right now, 

This

  Is

My

Life.

More about that tomorrow.

Today, a quick tutorial on a set of "blocks" I made along with a group of my favorite ladies.

I cut blocks from scrap wood laying in my garage

cause everyone has those, or is it just me? OK, it's just me right now.

Ranging in length from 7 inches down to 3 inches.

 

  The blocks were simply painted the desired color for the background. 

 

 
 
Then background paper of each of our choice were cut to fit within about 1/4 inch of all edges

and decoupaged (using modge podge) to the blocks. 

 

Another layer of modge podge was put over that and the cut out letters of each of our choices were pressed on and decoupaged over. 

 Dry time was given and then embellishing was done! I added a few snow flakes, many of us added sparkly tape around the blocks

and then I added some "snowy" glitter to mine.

 

 

 

 

 

Because girls can NEVER have enough glitter!!!