Showing Our Love/and Whoopie PIes!
We can show our love for our family by telling them so. Some people find it difficult to say three simple words, "I love you." Before my husband and I got married our pastor counseled us. One thing he said has always stood out to me. He said, "Everyday, say I love you, whether you feel it or not, because love is not a feeling." So, I have tried to make that a habit. I tell my husband I love him and I tell my children I love them. I am sure I have embarrassed them on more than one occasion by even telling them in front of friends, but that is who I am.
Sometimes we tell our family we love them by doing things for them, whether we feel like it or not, to quote Pastor Carstarphen. LOL. In today's society everyone is so busy that they often find it difficult to do the little things to serve. How did we get so busy when we have all this technology to make life simpler for us? I'll think on that, because that sounds like another blog posting.
Today, I made Whoopie Pies for the children and got them in the freezer. They'll all be home for Christmas, and I cannot wait to have all the family together, and this year it will be extra special because my husband I will be having our 40th wedding anniversary and one of our son's and his wife, will have their first. They love Whoopie Pies, but they are time consuming to make. I was in the kitchen for three hours making them, but they are made with love and lots of happy thoughts. I threw in some prayers for good measure too along with praises to a merciful Father in Heaven who gave my husband I these precious years.
I thought you might enjoy the family recipe so here it is and may you create some happy memories with these cookies
4 C flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
1 C Cocoa powder
1 Cup butter
2 Cups sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
2 eggs
1 1/3 Cup buttermilk
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Sift all the dry ingredients together and set aside. In large bowl cream the butter and then gradually add the sugar. (This will take about 5 minutes or maybe a little more.) Add the vanilla and beat well. Next add the eggs one at time, mix in well after each one. Add the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk beginning and ending with the flour. Blend well, but do not over mix. This is a cake-like mixture and not so much a cookie type dough. Cover your cookie sheet with foil. Use 1/4 cup for each cookie if you want 15 large cookies. If you want smaller ones then you can use about 1/8 cup for each cookie. Place one on each of the four corners and one in the middle, if making large ones, or place 6 on each side if you are making small one. Place in oven on top rack and bake for 6 minutes, turning the sheet around after 6 minutes, and bake for 10 minutes more. If you are making the small ones, then 4 minutes, turn sheet, and bake for another 8 minutes. They are done when toothpick comes out clean. You will make about 30 or so of these, which will make 15 or so whoopie pies. When cool fill with about 1/8 cup of the filling:
Filling: 4 Cups powdered sugar, 4 TBS. butter, 2 teaspoons vanilla, some milk
Beat until you have a good consistency for spreading on cookie. Spread on the flat side of the cookie, top with another cookie, wrap in plastic wrap and freeze. They taste best when at room temperature.
This was always a farm favorite.
Tomorrow I make mincemeat cookies, shop for birthday presents, and iron. In the midst of busy days, take time to think about how precious life is, how fleeting the moments with family and friends really are, and then all frustrations that come will melt away.
Every moment we spend worrying or fretting, is a lost moment of great potential.
Sometimes we tell our family we love them by doing things for them, whether we feel like it or not, to quote Pastor Carstarphen. LOL. In today's society everyone is so busy that they often find it difficult to do the little things to serve. How did we get so busy when we have all this technology to make life simpler for us? I'll think on that, because that sounds like another blog posting.
Today, I made Whoopie Pies for the children and got them in the freezer. They'll all be home for Christmas, and I cannot wait to have all the family together, and this year it will be extra special because my husband I will be having our 40th wedding anniversary and one of our son's and his wife, will have their first. They love Whoopie Pies, but they are time consuming to make. I was in the kitchen for three hours making them, but they are made with love and lots of happy thoughts. I threw in some prayers for good measure too along with praises to a merciful Father in Heaven who gave my husband I these precious years.
I thought you might enjoy the family recipe so here it is and may you create some happy memories with these cookies
4 C flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
1 C Cocoa powder
1 Cup butter
2 Cups sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
2 eggs
1 1/3 Cup buttermilk
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Sift all the dry ingredients together and set aside. In large bowl cream the butter and then gradually add the sugar. (This will take about 5 minutes or maybe a little more.) Add the vanilla and beat well. Next add the eggs one at time, mix in well after each one. Add the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk beginning and ending with the flour. Blend well, but do not over mix. This is a cake-like mixture and not so much a cookie type dough. Cover your cookie sheet with foil. Use 1/4 cup for each cookie if you want 15 large cookies. If you want smaller ones then you can use about 1/8 cup for each cookie. Place one on each of the four corners and one in the middle, if making large ones, or place 6 on each side if you are making small one. Place in oven on top rack and bake for 6 minutes, turning the sheet around after 6 minutes, and bake for 10 minutes more. If you are making the small ones, then 4 minutes, turn sheet, and bake for another 8 minutes. They are done when toothpick comes out clean. You will make about 30 or so of these, which will make 15 or so whoopie pies. When cool fill with about 1/8 cup of the filling:
Filling: 4 Cups powdered sugar, 4 TBS. butter, 2 teaspoons vanilla, some milk
Beat until you have a good consistency for spreading on cookie. Spread on the flat side of the cookie, top with another cookie, wrap in plastic wrap and freeze. They taste best when at room temperature.
This was always a farm favorite.
Tomorrow I make mincemeat cookies, shop for birthday presents, and iron. In the midst of busy days, take time to think about how precious life is, how fleeting the moments with family and friends really are, and then all frustrations that come will melt away.
Every moment we spend worrying or fretting, is a lost moment of great potential.
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