I made some pepermint bark soap today. I just wanted to show you guys how I did it and how it turned.

I started out with one chunk of clear melt and pour, I am not sure how much a chunk weighs but I got it at Nature's Garden Candles. After I melted the clear soap base, I added about a teaspoon of cocoa, and mixed the two together. 

The chocolate part came out a little darker then I would have wanted.  If I do it again I will probably use a white base instead of clear, to make the chocolate look a little more like milk chocolate.

 Next I melted about a chunk and a half of white shea butter base. To that I added a little peperiment extract for smell and added it to the top of the brown.

Next I melted another chunk of white shea butter and added some more pepermint extract.  I poured that in a thin layer on top of some plastic wrap.

I then melted yet another chunk of white shea butter base and added some red dye.  Because I used a white base the red came out a little on the pink side, but it ended up looking really good. I poured the pinkish red in a thin layer on top of the white and let them harden. 



Then I pealed the white and pink off of the plastic wrap and cut it into small chunks

I melted a little more white and poured it on top because the first layer had already dried so the peperiment pieces would not have stuck. Then I simply sprinkled the pieces onto the bar of soap.  

 Tada!

Hebrews 4:12

   

"The word of God is alive and active.  Sharper than any double-edged sword.  It penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit joints and marrow, it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart"  Hebrews 4:12

Feeling Energyless??? (new word)

If you are feeling dull and bored THENNNN.......... Listen to this song, I have no clue what it means or where it came from.  If just makes me happy


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYgOlqinH7A&feature=related

Pumpkin Swirl Brownies

Well hello!  I just got a camera so I might be able to post more (don't cross your fingers).I always feel bad about posting when I don't have any picutres, it is just way more fun to read a blog post that actually has pictures to explain what my words are failing to do. 

 

 

Wellllllll, anyway last night I made some pumpkin swirl brownies, they did not turn out as amazingly beuatiful as I was expecting, I think that I put too much backing poweder in them.  They were still really yummy anways. 

 

Start with a 9x13 pan. 

 

 

The recipe that  I used said to put foil on the pan, I just decided to play it safe and follow the recipe for once.

 

Put three ounces of cream cheese and one tablespoon butter.  Whip it up until it is all smoth.

 

Add one half cup sugar and mix well.

 

Mix in one cup canned pumpkin, one egg, 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger (we didn't have any ginger, I used 1 teaspoon cinnamon so it still had good flavor and it turned out fine)

 

Mix it all up and put it in a seprate bowl and wash out your mixer.

 

Put six ounces of bittersweet chocolate and 3/4 cup butter and melt it all.

 Now you have chocolate butter, while you are melting it you can make up a camercial about chocolate butter, and practise on your family (that is what I did, my brother did not aprieciate the practising :) )

Put the chocolate butter into the mixer and add 2 1/4 cups sugar, mix well.

 Add four eggs, one at a time, mix well after each egg.   Add 1/4 cup milk and 2 teaspoons vinalla

 

I don't have a picture of this but add 1 1/4 cup flour 3/4 teaspoon baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt.     Pour the chocolate stuff in the pan.

Drop in the pumpkin stuff.

 

Swirl the pumpkin into the chocolate with a butter knife. DO NOT overswirl.

Bake on 325 for 60 minutes, I put mine in for and hour and 20 minuets.  This picture was taken after people got a couple samples :).  As you can see it is kind of crumbly on top, but the inside is really yummy and moist.

 

Enjoy!!!