I love snow, do you?

The sun has come out a couple of times now in the last few days, for my husband that means he can go outside with less layers of clothes, for my friends it means we can get together more often, for the world it means Spring it's on its way... For me it means saying good bye to the snow...

That actually makes me sad.... I love cold days (when you can stay inside, of course), I love the feeling that I can stay in my bed a few extra minutes to enjoy the warmth of it, I love the fact that when I'm finally ready to come out of my bed, a beautiful scenary is waitng for me, I'll look outside my window and see everything is covered in white. I love watching snow fall, I enjoy watching it float in the winter's sky.... But winter is coming to an end soon, and I'll have to say good bye to those magical mornings when you could see nothing but fresh fallen snow. Little did I know I would have one last magical morning to enjoy. As if the snow knew we needed one last time to say good bye. So, on a beautiful, sunny morning in the middle of march, we said our good byes.

My mom is visiting us for a couple of weeks and I'm so happy she got to see snow!!

Bye, Snow! See you next winter! :)

Yummy Oatmeal Cookies!!

I disappeared again!! I'm so bad at keeping my resolutions.... but I'm back!! That's something, right??

I baked some more yummy stuff :) I was invited to my friend's house the other day to have Afternoon Tea! so, I decided to bake some cookies to take with me.

Yummy Oatmeal Cookies!!

3/4 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
3 cups rolled oats (I just use Quick Oats because that's what I have around but rolled oats have better texture)

First things first! Always preheat the oven before you start, this time preheat it at 375 degrees F.

Then, put the butter (at room temperature) and both sugars and put them in a large bowl, beat them with a hand mixer until they are throughly combined. Add the eggs, one at the time, and the vanilla.

After that just add the flour, baking powder and baking soda and combine. If you do this in two batches you might find it easier to do so.

Last but not least, add the oats one cup at the time. Since this mixture is so dry, each cup of oats will be harder to add to the mix than the last, but just keep at it! You can do it!
You can also add just 2 cups of oats if you prefer, I do 3 because I like it with lots of oats in them!

Once the cookie mix is done, grab a cookie sheet and spread some butter on it and then a thin layer of flour on top. That's just the way I do it, you can do your own method here, the important bit here is to make sure the cookies won't stick to the cookie sheet.

With a 1/2 tbsp measuring spoon scoop some cookie mix from the bowl, then with your hand roll them to a ball, place it on the cookie sheet and flatten it just a bit. Keep scooping and moulding until the sheet is full, place the cookies two inches apart from each other.

It's time to put them in the oven!
Bake them for 8 to 10 minutes, until they're golden on the bottom, just lift one with a spatula to make sure. Let them cool for a bit before you take them from the cookie sheet so they won't break.

Scoop more mixture and repeat until you have bake it all! or you can freeze whatever you feel like you want to save for another day.

This recipe will be enough to make around 48 cookies on a good day!

You can also scoop the cookie mix with a tablespoon to make them bigger, with a teaspoon to make them smaller, or make them the size you prefer!

Hope you like this recipe!

See you soon! (I promise :P)

Bye Bye~!!