Moved

Well after spending most of the day yesterday I finally got everything moved over. To join me go to www.muddy-creek-creations.com. I can’t wait to see you!! Plus I have some good things coming up.

Changes….a new location

I am making some changes around here. One is I am leaving wordpress and going back to blogger. The new address of the site will be www.muddy-creek-creations.com I will keep this one active, until I can get thing exported to the new site.  I have been having issues for awhile and wordpress and we just don’t get along very well.  At this time I can’t export these files to blogger, but when I do I will get those over there but until then anything in the past you will have to look up here. Sorry for any problems this causes you.

Have a fabulous day!!

Family Traditions

We all have family traditions, be it big or little. Ones that we look forward to, and ones that we think not so much. When Hubby and I got married, we struggled to make some traditions of our own. That continued a few years until C came along, I thought hey I have a baby now, we need to step it up, and we tried to do some of our own things but it was still hard. Then K came along,  and we started to do more. By the time that M came along, we had things figured out. We try to involve our families as much as we can, but there are many things that we do just for us.

The first weekend of December we get our Christmas tree. The next we take our trip on the Polar Express. I go shopping with my Mom, on another day I shop with my Mother-in-law, we go to a cocktail party that my beautiful friend G puts on.  We have a dinner with my Dad’s family a week before Christmas. we go to Hubby’s parents every year on Christmas eve, then on Christmas day we stay home, until it is time to make the short trip to my parents house for dinner.

This year we added a few things, we are hosting Hubby’s family Christmas party (we will see if we do that again next year), I am hosting a cookie decorating party and I think it will be something that we do every year. Another thing that I am working on is New years. I know we haven’t it Christmas yet, but for the last few years we have had one of our friends over (with kids) for dinner and last year they brought fireworks. I am hoping to continue that and possibly add a few more people over the years. It is family friendly and while it would be fun to do a cocktail party, it is great for the kids to be in on something too, who knows what it will turn into someday.

Sorry if this is rambling, it happens……what are some of your families traditions?? Are you looking to make some of your own still or you do have it down already??

Gingerbread Whoopie Pies

Okay, I lied. I know I said I was done with cookies, but really I couldn’t help it and I made these. Then they were so so good that I knew I had to share. Sorry I hope you can forgive me. Though if you make these I’m sure you will.

I watched Throwdown again the other night, and when I saw it was whoopie pies I knew I would be making them the next day, and I did. I made these friday morning and they were awesome. I didn’t use Bobby Flay’s recipe. I used the one out of my Whoopie Pie cookbook, and it is perfect. Moist on the inside, and just a bit of crunch on the outside. Exactly what you would expect from gingerbread. I also filled mine with a cream cheese frosting, I thought it was much more classic, and it is what I would expect to find with gingerbread.

Gingerbread Whoopie Pies
From the Whoopie Pie Cookbook
1 stick unsalted butter
4 tablespoons vegetable shortening
3/4 cup buttermilk
1 egg
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup molasses
4 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons ginger
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

Preheat oven to 325, line baking sheets

Mix all dry ingredients together and set aside.

Cream butter, shortening and sugar in bowl until just combined, add egg and mix well, then add molasses and mix well again. Scrap down bowl as needed. Add in 1/2 of flour mixture and 1/2 of buttermilk, mix until just incorporated, add the remaining flour and buttermilk mix on low until combined then beat on medium until light and fluffy up to 5 minutes.

Using your medium cookie scoop, scoop out whoopie pies and bake for 10-12 minutes, rotating sheets half way through. Let cool completely then add filling.

Cream Cheese filling
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons cream cheese
1 pound powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
heavy cream

In your mixer cream butter and cream cheese, scrap down bowl and add in sugar and vanilla, mix on low after it starts to look a bit crumbly start adding in heavy cream very slowly until it just comes together. Beat on medium until light and fluffy.

Take one cookie frost the flat side then sandwich with another one.

Enjoy!!!

Cookie week……

Cookie week is over and my diet is grateful. I know it went on for 11 days, but really what harm is there (besides me putting on weight). I hope you had a good time and that you found something new.  It was so much fun for me to revisit recipes that I hadn’t used in a while, I tend to make the same things over and over again, so this was nice.

I’m not sure what is in store for you this next week, but I am sure I will come up with something. Tomorrow is my cookie decorating party, I baked 200 cookies for it. I am hoping that is enough. I will let you know how it turns out and hopefully we won’t all fall into a sugar coma.