Happy Halloween!!

Let me just start by saying I hope everyone that was affected by Sandy has a fast recovery. We lost power for almost two days but luckily that was all we experienced. Plus, our boys were able to have a somewhat normal Halloween. This was their first time trick or treating.

Ok.. so they didn't actually go house to house and ask strangers for candy. We went to familiar houses and people THEN asked for candy... but it was the first time they realized that just by saying three little words they got a ton of free candy. Ah to be that little again...

Our boys went as Men In Black. Although most people thought they were the blues brothers. Either way they looked adorable :) I wish I could have gotten a better pic but they were antsy and already half full of sugar by the time the cameras came out.

Now that I got to show off my boys Halloween costumes.. onto baking. When our power was out I had never wanted to bake more. I was even debating making some no bake cookies but realized I was missing one ingredient.. and I WASN'T going to try and find an open supermarket right after a hurricane. So, I was left to sit and think about ALL the possible things I could make once we had power.

Torture.

The power came back on super late at night and the giant urge to bake disappeared. Not because I could actually do it now, but because the lights have now shown me the MESS that was left behind by my two 4 year olds and husband. Apparently when the lights are out they forget where everything goes and think "right here" is an appropriate spot for almost anything.

We have had power for almost 24 hours now and the only thing that was accomplished was some light cleaning and dragging the boys all over the place to trick or treat. Well worth it. But now that giant urge to bake is back again.

This is when living in an apartment complex is REALLY annoying. I know the second I turn on my mixer my "lovely" downstairs neighbor will knock on my door. So I now have to wait until tomorrow morning to start baking.

Torture.

I WILL be making some cookies tomorrow.. and hopefully a cake. I hope to post alllll about it tomorrow as well :) Just to get things started I'm going to share my favorite basic sugar cookie recipe from The Sweet Adventures of Sugar Belle. I do tweak mine a little bit but the basic recipe is fantastic as is!! So while you wait for my next post take a look at her page.. I promise you won't be disappointed!!

Thanks again for reading!!

~E