Need a smile today?
These mechanics recreating Renaissance paintings, and photographed by Fabris Photography, certainly made my day.
What? No “Birth of Venus”?
And……your’e welcome,
Need a smile today?
These mechanics recreating Renaissance paintings, and photographed by Fabris Photography, certainly made my day.
What? No “Birth of Venus”?
And……your’e welcome,
NO, we are NOT moving to Waco, TX to “fix up” $89,000 houses with original ship-lap.
Trust me, no one wants to live in Waco.
Actually, we’re featured on HGTV.com,
At least, our garage is.
Cool, right?
It’s been a while since we coolified our garage space.
Need a refresher? (other than the HGTV teaser) Check out the right side here...and the left side here.
Who ever would have thought that our uber-cool garage would be the internet’s gain one day?
This guy,
That’s who.
“Don’t buy those. I can make better ones at home.”
Usually, I’m the one saying that.
But this time, it was Jamie…..and he was preventing me from buying Red Velvet Oreo’s.
Here’s exactly how he made them better,
For starters; he cut them into heart shapes.(All together now…”AWWWWWWW”)
For the cookies:
Shift the dry ingredients together. In a mixer, mix the butter, sugar and vanilla ’till smooth. Slowly add in the dry ingredients until completely combined, then add the food coloring. It’s a pretty dry dough, so press it together with your hands, roll it in wax paper, and let it chill for about 2 hours in the ‘fridge.
When it’s cooled, roll the dough to about 1/4 inch thick and cut out the heart shapes with a cookie-cutter. Lay them on Silpats (or parchment paper) and bake at 350 for about 8-10 minutes until crisp.
For the filling:
Mix everything together in an electric mixer until smooth. Pretty easy.
When the cookies are completely cooled, spread the filling on a cookie and press another one on top to make a “sandwich”.
Then simply share them with someone you love.
Jamie was right.
Crispy & creamy at the same time.
They are much better than the store-bought Oreo’s.
…..and not just because they were made with love.
or out of spite.
Happy Valentine’s Day, Y’all