Holiday Wish List

[goodwitch323.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm Ashley. I'm a 20 year old from New York.  I participated in this community last year and it was so great, so I'm back again!

Here's my list:
 

1. Nail Polish- My sister is obsessed with painting her nails, sometimes she does them twice in one day.  So any cool color would be greatly appreciated.

2. Postcards- From anywhere in the world.  I love to travel and would love to collect more postcards.

3. Music- I love discovering new bands or songs. So, any downloadable music would be fantastic! (I like mostly Pop and Rock and Alt. Rock, etc)

4. Fanfic or Fan art- I love Harry Potter and Doctor Who so any fanfics or art just for me would be lovely.

5. Recipes- Especially for desserts. I love baking Christmas cookies and I want to make some new kinds this year.

6. Ornaments- I love decorating for Christmas and any cool ornament for the tree would be awesome.

7. Donations- Donate to any organization that is special to you.  Any amount of money will help those in need

Comments

[lylith.livejournal.com]

FoodDownUnder.com (http://fooddownunder.com/) is the biggest and best recipe site I've found. I love it and use it often.

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

5. Pumpkin Cookies

Ingredients

* 1 tsp. cinnamon
* 1 cup sugar
* 2/3 cup butter (suggestion: melted)
* 1 egg
* 1 tsp. vanilla
* 1 cup pumpkin (solid packed in can)
* 2 cups flour
* 1/2 tsp. baking soda
* 1/2 tsp. baking powder
* 1/2 tsp. salt


I also added dashes of ground ginger, ground nutmeg, and ground cloves. I would suggest mixing in everything but the egg, then
flavoring the eggless batter with the ginger, nutmeg, and cloves to taste (doesn't take too much and no egg means no worry tasting), then
adding the egg.

You can add goodies to the batter if you like. M&Ms work!

Preheat the oven to 350F, then spoon on cookie sheet, and bake 8-12 minutes.

Cream Cheese Frosting

* 1/4 cup butter
* 4oz cream cheese
* 1 cup confectioner's sugar (suggested 4x, but 10x works fine)
* 1 tsp. vanilla

The originally recipe called for 1 1/2 cups of conf. sugar, but I found that too sweet. I'd start with 1/2 cup and add more as desired.
The icing goes a long way, so you may want to halve this recipe.

I dyed the frosting according to instructions on the food dye box.

Note: You can easily double the recipe for the cookies. I made a double batch and spooned out large cookies; the double batch yielded 40 large (at least 5cm/2" in diam.) cookies.

Also:
Biscotti (http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/154/Biscotti)
Lemon Bars (http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/33/Lemon-Bars)
Peanut Butter Cookies (http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/58/Peanut-Butter-Cookies)
Flourless Chocolate Chip Cookies (http://recipetin.blogspot.com/2008/10/flourless-healthy-goodies.html)

7. Done. :)

Also, I sent you a PM. Happy Holidays!

[j98.livejournal.com]

I can send you a postcard and a mixed Hawaiian cd. But it will be in mid January is that okay?

And I can e-mail you a few recipes.