Welcome to Day TWO of the CC&M Mega Blog Hop!

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you don't know, today is the second day of the Creative Cuts & More Mega Recipe Blog Hop which features the Apron Holiday Treats Recipe Kit. It is loaded with unique Apron pages for your album with coordinating Doodlebug Holiday papers and die-cuts. We have 24 designers who will be showcasing wonderful pages and yummy Holiday Treat recipes. As part of the celebration CC&M will be having a great sale. For the next six days, CC&M will offer 20% off the entire store. But act quickly, it is only for six days – this sale will end on Nov 14th. Make sure you enter this code recipebloghop2009 during checkout.

As a continuing part of the celebration CC&M will of course give away great gifts. Each day we will give away one kit. Here is the twist – go through the blog hop, leave wonderful comments for the great designers. After you have finished the blog hop, return to www.diecutdiva.com and instead of leaving a comment, you need to share a recipe to have a chance at winning the kit. Share the recipe on your blog and link it back and get another chance to win the kit. Help us also make this a great recipe swap! We can't wait to see all the delicious recipes...I am getting hungry already ;)

So if you are venturing along blog hop land, you will have come from Rachel's blog. After my blog, you will headover to Celicia's blog. If you get lost you can head over to the Diva blog.

AND if you weren't around yesterday...make sure you check out my post to see how you can follow along for yesterday's hop and the chance to win more goodies!


I printed the recipes directly on the front part of the apron. I just practiced on a scrap sheet of paper and the taped the cardstock on there and ran it through. My printer is an 8.5x11.

Here is a close-up of all the fun little die-cuts and trinkets you get in the kit. They are so fun and just the perfect size to add those fun little touches to your pages.

Here is the recipes for my Grandmother's Butter Cookies and the Hershey Kiss Cookies..they are a tradition in our house!

Grandma’s Butter Cookies

1 lb. real butter 2 tsp baking powder

2 c sugar 2 tsp vanilla

4 egg yolks ¼ cup milk

6 cups flour 2 tsp shortening

Cream shortening, add sugar, mix well. Add egg yolks,

Vanilla and mix well. Add dry ingredients to creamed

Mixture and alternate with milk. Separate and add food

Coloring. Press through cookie press. Bake @ 350 degrees.

Hershey Kiss Cookies

1 tsp salt 1 tsp baking soda

½ c sugar 1 tsp vanilla

2 tbls milk 1 bag of Hershey kisses

1 ¾ c flour ½ c real butter

½ c peanut butter 1 egg

½ c firmly packed br sugar

Blend all ingredients at one time at lowest speed on mixer.

Shape into walnut sized balls. Roll in sugar. Bake @ 375

10-12 minutes on a greased cookie sheet. When out of oven,

Press in a Hershey kiss on each cookie.