Recipe Share- French Breakfast Puffs

Okay, these are SO good. I found this recipe on my friend, Amy's Frosted Bake Shop blog. Check her out! Let me just say that if Amy has blogged about it, with yummy pictures and all, it is a recipe you'll want to try. This quickly became an instant favorite at our house.

We enjoyed FHE {family home evening} tonight. Tanner gave the lesson, the whole family tried to sing a Primary song w/out ruining it & I made the treats. You guessed it, we enjoyed these French Breakfast Puffs as our FHE treats. The leftovers are being saved for tomorrow's breakfast. That's how yummy they are.

French Breakfast Puffs

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup shortening
1 egg
1/2 cup milk

topping
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
6 tbls. melted butter

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease your muffin pans. I made 24 mini-muffins, but you could make regular muffins instead.

In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. In a separate bowl, cream together the sugar and shortening. Add the egg and mix well. Stir the flour mixture into the shortening mixture alternately with the milk.

Spoon the mixture into your muffin pan. Bake the muffins for approximately 15 minutes, or until they are golden on top and a toothpick comes out clean. Just watch your oven.

While the muffins are baking, melt the butter in a bowl. In a separate bowl combine the sugar and cinnamon for the topping. When the muffins are done baking, remove them from the pan and immediately dip them into the butter...
and then into the cinnamon-sugar mixture.

Enjoy!!!

Applesauce Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 c. sugar
2 c. flour
1/2 c. shortening
1 egg
1 c. applesauce
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 bag of milk chocolate chips

Mix all of the ingredients together using electric mixer. Add choc. chips last & mix by hand. Drop by the spoonful onto cookie sheet. Bake @ 350 for 10 minutes.
Enjoy!!!

I think these cookies will always remind me of my Mom & my sister, Amber. It seems like they are always making a batch of these cookies for some party, friend, or neighbor. They scream Fall to me. I don't know if it is the applesauce/cinnamon combination-who knows??? I made them for the 1st time this week. I gave the plate of cookies away to a friend before I remembered that I needed to snap a photo for the family recipe book & for the blog. Enjoy!

what's for dinner?

Here is another family favorite. It's what we had for dinner tonight. It is one of John's favorite meals. This one is going in our family recipe book (that book that I still need to create)too! Enjoy!

Chicken Tetrazzini

1 pkg. (7 oz.) Thin spaghetti

2 cans (8 oz. each) mushrooms or 1 lb. fresh

1/2 c. butter

4 deboned skinned breasts of cooked chicken (can saute or boil)

2 cans of cream of chicken soup

1 1/2 c. sour cream

Grated Parmesan

Break spaghetti into 1 in. pieces, cook & drain. Butter the bottom a 9 X 13 Pyrex dish & place spaghetti in dish. Cut chicken into fairly large pieces. Saute mushrooms in butter. Then add chicken, cream of chicken soup & sour cream to the mushrooms. Pour chicken & sauce over the spaghetti & sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

Bake @ 300 degrees for 40 minutes.

Serves 8-12 people.

**John is not a fan of mushrooms. So... just for him, I use 1/2 of what it calls for. If you leave the mushrooms in bigger chunks, they can be picked out fairly easily.