07 | December | 2011 | 4 little Fergusons

I got this recipe off of a site of one of my favorite bloggers, The Better Baker.

Mrs. Baker is an amazing cook, a dedicated wife & a child of God. She and I have become great friends over the good ol’ http://www. She encourages me and makes me smile with her sweet comments and kind words. Go check out her site soon! For now, check out her delicious and EASY cookie recipe below. It uses a cake mix, how fast is that?!?!

Easy Pecan Toffee Cookies

1/2 c butter, softened
1 (18 ozs) box yellow cake mix
2 lg eggs
1 Tbsp water
1 pkg heath toffee bits
1/2 c pecans, chopped fine

Preheat oven to 350. Mix butter, add cake mix, eggs & water. Mix well. Add toffee bits and pecans, mix by hand. Spoon onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 10 minutes. Transfer to cooling rack.

You know Toffee is one of my two weaknesses, (caramel is the other) and these are just straight AMAAAAAZING!

Enjoy!

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Welcome to Works For Me Wednesday!

I had a reader and friend ask me about my Saran Wrapped Christmas Tree and I realized that some of you weren’t with us last year for “The Big Reveal”.

I saran wrapped my Christmas tree for the first time in 2009, and had Dale haul it out to the shed, where it spent the next year sitting in the corner. Every time I saw it, I prayed that no spiders or mice were living inside it, waiting to spring out in my house next Christmas when I opened it.

So last year, 2010, when no spiders, mice, or other yucky creepy crawlers emerged with my lovely tree, from under the abyss of layer upon layer upon LAYER of giant restaurant quality Saran Wrap, I decided this was TOTALLY the way to do this “Tree with 4 kids thing”. Someday I imagine us all working as a family to decorate the tree, but until then, I’ll take this fast method instead! 🙂 They like to help with the other stuff better anyways, like decorating their rooms or putting out snowman figurines.

The only thing I did different at the end of Christmas last year, was I left ON all the breakables rather than removing them as we had done the year before, hoping none would get broken. AGAIN, it worked. I literally was done with my tree and the teeny bit of sprucing in 15 minutes this year. NICE.

If you can get your hands on some commercial size saran wrap and have a shed for storage, Saran wrapped, fully decorated Christmas trees are the way to go! (we have a skinny tree by the way, not sure how you’d carry a full size one out your door)