Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Welcome to the World Wide Web...


Grandma has officially joined the 21st century and was visited by the Geek Squad to help her set up her new laptop! She was also savy enough to create a gmail account and set up her email. In case you haven't heard yet Gram's email address is ljbogenschutz@gmail.com



Start emailing!!!

Thursday, December 18, 2008

And the winner is......


Katie Bogenschutz...via Aunt Peg -- for theBEST COOKIE in the 1st Annual Kroger Holiday Cookie Extravaganza Taste-Off!!


I made Aunt Peg's wonderful "Snowball Surprise" Cookies for our office Christmas Cookie Competition and I won for Best cookie!!


In case anyone else wants to spread the goodness of Snowball Surprises, here is the winning recipe :)


Ingredients:
~ 1- package of regular Oreo’s
~ 1- 8 ounce brick of regular Cream Cheese
~ 1- package of Kroger White Chocolate Melting Bark (24 ounces)


Instructions:
1. In a food processor, grind the pack of Oreo’s into a fine dust
2. Add the brick of cream cheese to the Oreo dust and mix together until a dough is formed.
3. Roll the dough into little balls (Size = about the diameter of a quarter) and place on cookie sheet.
4. Refrigerate for at least an hour to let the dough firm up.
5. Melt the white chocolate either in a double boiler or in the microwave.
6. Using a toothpick coat the entire ball in white chocolate and set on wax paper to cool
7. Once the white chocolate has hardened, ENJOY!

*Note: Refrigerate cookies once completed because of the cream cheese in the recipe.



Thursday, December 4, 2008