Susie's First Apple Pie!

So I baked my first apple pie this past weekend! We had all the ingredients but that good ole frozen pie crust...so I had to make one from scratch. What an adventure! My baking savvy mama taught me how to roll the crust up on the rolling pin in order to roll it out over the pie plate. How cool was that?! I also learned what a pastry blender was. All these years I had been using that thing to mash potatoes. Embarrassed! Anyways, here are the pictures from our baking adventure. PS - It was quite tasty.

Here is a pastry blender. You use it for pastries...not potatoes...

Thanks so much to Mom and Liz for helping me learn how to bake an apple pie!!!

                                                                     (me using the pastry blender correctly!)

 Happy Baking!
   Love, Susie

Red Velvet Cookies

Hey y'all! I felt the need to bake the other day and had an extra box of cake mix. So...I decided to try these red velvet cookies. They were delicious!

All you need:
1 Box Red Velvet Cake Mix
1/3 cup oil
2 eggs

Combine the ingredients and bake on 375 for 8-10 minutes. They would be great with cream cheese icing on top! It made about 45 cookies! So yummy :D

Happy baking!

Susie

Collaged Heart!

I just moved back into the dorm and was looking to brighten up the walls a bit. On pinterest, of course, I saw a girl who made a giant heart out of pictures. I tried. I failed. It was super tough to make the pictures look like they were arranged in a heart. So, I came up with this way to do it a bit easier.

 Lay out pieces of paper (I used card-stock to give it some weight)

 Duct tape them together and sketch a heart (then flip over)

Collage pictures on the non-duct tape side (using duct tape). Then, turn it over and cut out the heart you traced.

Enjoy!!!

Happy collaging!

Susie