Eggnog Cookies

This delicious recipe I came across during one of my many Pinterest marathon sessions and it has since become a staple in my holiday because what says Christmas like eggnog and cookies mixed together?!

What You'll Need

Cookies:

1 1/4 cups white sugar

3/4 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup eggnog

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 egg yolks

1 teaspoon nutmeg

2 1/4 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

 

Eggnog Glaze:

1 ½ cup powdered sugar

3 tablespoons eggnog

 

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 300°F (150°C)

2. Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg.

3. Cream sugar and butter until light

4. Add eggnog, vanilla, and egg yolks; beat at medium speed with mixer until smooth.

5. Add flour mixture and beat at low speed until just combined.

6. Do not over mix

7. Spoon onto un-greased cookie sheets or parchment paper and make the dough balls rather small, they will spread generously in the oven. 

8. Sprinkle lightly with nutmeg.

9. Bake 15 to 18 minutes or until the edges barely start to brown.

10.  While cookies are in the oven, make the eggnog glaze by whisking together the powdered sugar with 3 T eggnog.

11.  Gaze your cookies warm or cooled and top with cinnamon.  

let cool and enjoy in excessive amounts because you will not be able to stop at just one!

My Favourite Things

I decided to make a list of all the things that happen in the winter that make me feel warm and fuzzy

1) Everything looks like a snowglobe
2) Hot chocolate and apple cider
3) Soup season (I have a serious soup passion)
4) Comfy sweaters
5)  Christmas decorating
6) Christmas music
7) Baking cookies with mumsy (recipes to come)
8) Leggings as pants (one of the few life lessons I don't agree with Blair Waldorf on - I could live in them)
9) Snowmen/ tobogganing/ snow angles/ everything snow
10)

#wellwoodsantaselfies

Looking for a great organization to support this holiday season? Wellwood Cancer Center is a great cause. I had he pleasure of orchistrating a fundraiser with a group of lovely students to raise money this selfless organization.

Wellwood is a community-based, non-profit organization which provides information, programs and peer support to people who have received a diagnosis of cancer, loved ones, caregivers and healthcare providers. Working with existing community agencies and cancer care providers, Wellwood aims to provide integrative supportive care.

For our fundraiser we organized a booth at Mohawk College where students could make a donation and get their picture taken with Santa. We coined our project #wellwoodsantaselfies and encouraged participants to utilize the hashtag on social media. It was a great success and lots of fun! However, they could always use more donations to be able to continue to carry out the great work they do. Spread the holiday spirit!

Slow Cooker Tomato and Roasted Red Pepper Soup

Now that Octobers over and winters impending, it's that time of the year that we look towards our favourite comfort foods. My favourite has always been and (always will be) tomato soup, so yesterday I decided to try a new slow cooker roasted red pepper and tomato soup recipe. It's an easy, light, and fairly quick recipe to try out next time you feel like cozying up on the couch with some soup and Netflix (aka pretty much everyday for me)

Ingredients:
4 red peppers
1 onion
1 celery stalk finely chopped
2 fresh basil leaves
1 can Italian style stewed tomatos
2 cups chicken broth
1 tbsp tomato paste
2 tbsp sugar
salt
pepper

1) Cut peppers in half, seed, place face down in oven and broil until skins are black/bubbling (I found this happened within 10 mins)
2) Place peppers in a paper bag to steam (if you don't have a paper bag, creating a bag out of foil worked for me)
3) Once peppers cool, peel skins off and chop into chunks and place in slow cooker
4) Add the rest of the ingredients and cook on high for 2-4 hours or low for 4-6
5) Transfer into blender and blend until smooth
6) Keep in slow cooker on low until ready to eat

enjoy!

Pumpkin Everything

I tried to suppress the urge to be a complete stereotype... But I am unable to deny my love for all things fall, and with that comes all things pumpkin. If you are like me (just embrace being basic) you can't wait to try all the limited time pumpkin drinks, and that's where I come in. As opposed to dropping serious cash on the delicious pumpkin spice latte a la Starbucks, make your own in the comfort of your own home!

Pumpkin Spice Coffee Creamer
Special thanks to Debi at thespringmount6pack.com for sharing this with the world



Ingredients

14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk

14 ounces of milk

3 tablespoons pumpkin

3 tablespoons maple syrup

1 tablespoon vanilla

1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

Instructions

Start with a can of sweetened condensed milk and regular milk.

Add in pumpkin, vanilla, maple syrup and pumpkin pie spice.

Shake until you can't shake no more

Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. Enjoy.

Simple as that! Now you can start every morning with that delicious pumpkin kick and not feel guilty about bankrupting yourself in the process.Now all that's left to do is add an instagram filter and #PSL (kidding.. kinda)