Baking Adventures and Puppies!

So yesterday was a day full of baking fun! My parents were having company over so I told them that I would make the dessert - since I had a couple of recipes from Pinterest that I wanted to test out. This recipe was a modified apple pie, with the apple being used as an individual shell. It was rather easy to make - once you got past the initial hollowing of the inside. There has to be a better way of doing it because we couldn't use any of the apple that was scrapped out, so all of that just went to waste - if I make this again we need to look into something to de-core them so we don't have to throw out so much apple! Another little mistake we made was the crust. As you can see from the picture we had to make something up because we didn't have actual pie crust to cut into strips - but all in all they turned out nicely and everyone reported that they tasted delicious, so I'll count it as a success!

Individual Apple Pies pre-baked 

Another thing that I did yesterday was catch-up with one of my good friends from home, Kelsey. Whenever we are together we make the most amazing and different flavoured scones (one of my favourite pastries). Yesterday, as we were standing in the grocery aisle, trying to decide what combination to make, we both looked at the graham crackers and it hit us - S'more! So we bought semi-sweet chocolate chips (which I ended up munching on the entire time we were baking - so good as a sweet snack), mini marshmallows and of course graham crackers! The recipe turned out pretty good, but to modify it for next time we would add more graham crackers and a little more marshmallows because the predominant taste was the chocolate chips for sure - but still they tasted amazing!

Rolling the dough

The finished product! YUM

Today we celebrated my uncle's birthday! After church this morning we headed to my aunt and uncle's house for lunch and family time. We had tomato soup with meatballs (which my aunt makes and is one of my favourite soups), some fresh buns with assorted meat and cheese, coffee, and of course birthday cake! I skipped most the meal (except the soup) because I ate my pumpkin overnight oats before we left our house - and let me tell you it was worth it. They were soooo good! The finished oats had pumpkin puree, fat free vanilla yogurt, oats and then in the morning I added cinnamon and raisins. I will definitely be making those again this week! I think I could eat overnight oats every morning for breakfast without getting tired of it!

Pumpkin Overnight Oats 

The other half of the title of my post is explained with the adorable picture below. My cousin's dogs just had puppies a few weeks ago. This was the first time that I have seen them with their eyes open. They are so cute! In total they had 10 puppies, which is a lot for a first litter! The mix is cavapoo (a king charles cavalier and a poodle). They have 3 adult dogs in their house so it's a little crazy right now with the puppies - making it a total of 13 dogs under one roof! It's gonna be interesting when they're big enough to run around!

"Lucy" one of the girl puppies that isn't sold yet (and that my Rah wants to take home)

That pretty much sums up the past 2 days! I'm still a little full from all of the goodies I had this afternoon so I think I'll wait to have my dinner until a little later - I'm planning on cooking up some sort of squash - acorn or spaghetti I haven't decided yet. Squash is one of my favourite dinner's, I'm just not sure what I feel like flavouring it with - I think I'll have to browse the internet a bit to come up with something. The rest of the night will probably just be more relaxing before I have to snap back to reality a little bit and start some homework tomorrow - as well as a good workout, and some healthy eats! 

AliwS