3rd Store to Sell Grainbow

Hey Everybody,

I am pleased to announce that Grainbow Hot Packs are now being sold on http://www.madeinusaforever.com. You can purchase them along with over 4,300 products that are made in the United States of America. These particular hot packs that I have made for them are made from sky blue, organic cotton, that is also made in the USA.
So, if you would like to purchase any hot packs, and you don’t live near the other two stores that sell Grainbow, you can purchase them on http://www.madeinusaforever.com.

Here is the link:

http://madeinusaforever.com/grhotpamainu.html

Mert

Grainbow Hot Packs

Hello Everyone! I haven’t been posting as much lately because when I have free time, I am using it to build my company. I am starting a company where I make Hot Packs and sell them to stores. My Hot Packs are filled with rice and lavender, and I’m pretty sure that everyone could use one. I have gotten my product into two stores currently, The Stones Throw in Bayfield, and Apple Wellness in Fitchburg. I am working on emailing more and more stores everyday, who I think might be interested in selling my product. The Hot Packs that are in stores now, are six inches and cost $12.

Don’t worry, I’m still baking! In fact there is an apple cinnamon cake in the oven right now for my aunt.

Baking with my best friends

Yesterday my friends were over and we made chocolate chips cookies. My sister also helped and they turned out pretty good. It’s always fun to make something together, and we had a great time.

Mert’s Blueberry Almond Cookies

Yesterday I tried to make my own recipe for the first time. I took a basic almond cookie recipe and added chopped frozen blueberries and altered a bunch of things and even lowered the fat content. They ended up turning out pretty good, so I am posting these cookies, as my first original recipe made by Mert (me).
Here you go!:) I hope you love it:)

Makes around 30 cookies
Ingredients:
3/4 cup shortening
1/3 cup white sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract
1 3/4 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup frozen, chopped blueberries (of course if you have fresh blueberries that you want to use, you can throw them in the freezer for an hour)
For topping:
1/8 cup sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice (optional)

Preheat oven to 350°.

Beat shortening, white sugar, and brown sugar. Add egg and almond extract and beat until combined. Slowly mix in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix until everything is combined.

Fold in the chopped frozen blueberries.

Roll dough into 2 teaspoon sized balls. line up on a cookie sheet. Bake for 9-11 minutes. Halfway through cooking, take the cookies out of the oven and dust the top of each cookie with your sugar mixture. Continue cooking until they are tan/brown around the edge of the cookies.

Let me know in the comments how your cookies turned out!:)

Monkey bread

I recently got a chance to try monkey bread for the first time. It was really good, and I wondered if I could make some myself. So I found a good looking recipe from melskitchencafe.com. I liked that the recipe was from scratch and not from a pre-made biscuit dough.

Here is the finished monkey bread mini loaf with frosting.

Here is the monkey bread right after it came out of the oven.

These are the dough balls that are covered in butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon. I used mini loaf pans because I didn’t have a great bundt pan. It made three mini loafs

 

 

 

 

s its fairly easy recipe to make, and it turned out great!

Buttercup Squash Coffee Cake Now Being Served:

This is the squash that I picked from the garden to use in this Coffee Cake.

This is the Coffee Cake right out of the oven, but later I added frosting to the top;)

About 3 months ago, I planted a big buttercup squash plant in our garden. Within a month and a half I had a teenie tiny squash startling to grow on the plant. Another month and a half later (5  days ago) it was ready to pick, and had a plan to make a recipe I found of this Coffee Cake. I made it and it turned out very good I thought, and I gave 6 pieces away to neighbors. One perticular neighbor told me that it was the best thing I had ever made for her. I was happy about that comment:) Here are some pictures of this Buttercup Squash Coffee Cake that I took:

Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Bars

The crust

Cream cheese

The cheesecake batter in the pan.

The cooked cheesecake right from the oven.

The cheesecakes last few steps.

The completed Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Bars!

Yesterday I made these Cheesecake Bars, and everyone seemed to love them. The recipe is from a really great blog that I love (bakedbree.com). Here are some pictures of the Cheesecake Bars.

Coming up tomorrow:

Tomorrow I will be making a some Peanut Butter Cup Cheesecake Bars. They are not my own recipe, so I will just be posting a picture. But wish me luck that they turn out great:)

Mert

Welcome!

For my first post, I want to tell people what this blog will be about. I will be posting recipes that I have created, and I will post great tips for other bakers, to make their baking life easier. By the way, I am “Mert”. I love to bake things, and give some of my desserts to my neighbors. I love to decorate cakes, and I will be giving you some advice to make beautiful cakes. I hope to make “Mert’s Desserts”, a place that you can keep coming for new and great recipes.