A relief society service auction was coming up in our ward. The young women got to take part in it, so Rose and I signed up to bake cupcakes to auction off. We decided to make devil's food cupcakes with peanut butter frosting. yum.... 

 

Starting the batter for the cupcakes

Jill couldn't get enough of the peanut butter frosting!!!

 

 The final product

Devil's food recipe(from the Martha Stewart's cupcakes book)

• 3/4 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder
• 3/4 cup hot water
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 1/4 teaspoons coarse salt
• 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter
• 2 1/4 cups sugar
• 4 large eggs, room temperature
• 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup sour cream, room temperature

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line standard muffin tins with paper liners. Whisk together cocoa and hot water until smooth. In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
2. Melt butter with sugar in a saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring to combine. Remove from heat, and pour into a mixing bowl. With an electric mixer on medium-low speed, beat until mixture is cooled, 4 to 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until each is incorporated, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Add vanilla, then cocoa mixture, and beat until combined. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture in two batches, alternating with the sour cream, and beating until just combined after each.
3. Divide batter evenly among lined cups, filling each three- quarters full. Bake, rotating tins halfway through, until a cake tester inserted in centers comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Transfer tins to wire racks to cool 15 minutes; turn out cupcakes onto racks and let cool completely. Cupcakes can be stored overnight at room temperature, or frozen up to 2 months, in airtight containers.
4. To finish, use a small offset spatula to spread cupcakes with frosting.

Peanut butter frosting recipe

Prep Time: 10 minutes
1 cup confectioners’ sugar
1 cup creamy peanut butter
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
¾ teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
1/3 cup heavy cream

Place the confectioners’ sugar, peanut butter, butter, vanilla and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Mix on medium-low speed until creamy, scraping down the bowl with a rubber spatula as you work. Add the cream and beat on high speed until the mixture is light and smooth.

Chocolate Chip Cookies!

  

We love these chocolate chip cookies. They are the all time favorite. We made these cookies for our young womens president, our former young womens leader, and their family. They had many little kids over at their house and all the kids kept asking to have one or two. The adults really enjoyed them as well. It was a good promotion opportunity for us.
"Homemade lovin' from the oven" - Rose&Jill 

Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup Crisco                                                            2 cup flour

1/2 cup sugar                                                          1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup brown sugar(packed)                                          1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla                                                            2 cup chocolate chips(as much as you want)
2 eggs

Cream shortening, sugars and vanilla until light and fluffy. Add dry ingredients, stir in chocolate chips. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes

This recipe came from Rose's Grandmasita Jones

(Final Product)

Sugar Cookies

The first recipe on Rose & Jill's are moist and sweet.....SUGAR COOKIES! These sugar cookies are very easy, fun, and delicious to make. These cookies are great to make with family and friends. The thing I love about sugar cookies are you can be creative and decorate them any way you want. In this batch of cookies there were flowers, stars, hearts, BYU-Ys, circles, gingerbread men, and much more. We decorated the cookies with colored frosting, and sprinkles. You can never go wrong with sprinkles!

SOUR CREAM SUGAR COOKIES

1 cup butter                                                1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 cup sugar                                                 1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs                                                       1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon vanilla                                          1/2 cup sour cream
3 cups flour

Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well. Add dry ingredients and mix. Add the 1/2 cup sour cream in thirds, beating after each. Chill 3-4 hours. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 minutes. Frost and decorate.

p.s. this recipe came from my aunt Stacy's friend Cari Savage