How To: Starbucks Pumpkin Sugar Cookie

Hey guys! I have been loving the pumpkin sugar cookie at Starbucks so i thought i would try to make it. Now they didn't look the best, they looked quite horrible actually, but oh my goodness did they taste amazing! So of course i had to share this recipe with you guys, so let's get started.

Cookie Ingredients:

5 Cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 Cups soft unsalted butter
2 Cups granulated sugar
4 eggs

How to make the Sugar cookies: 

1. Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth in a mixing bowl.
2. Add all 4 eggs at one time. Continue to mix. -Add the vanilla.. Continue mixing.
3. Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together.
4. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture. Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
5. Wrap the bowl in plastic wrap.
6. Put the bowl in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
7. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
8. Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a little.
9. Put flour out on a cutting board or counter, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into the batter.
10. Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using your Pumpkin  cookie cutter and start to make your cookies.
11. Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper. 
12. Move the cut cookie to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
13. Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes.  Check to see if the cookie are thoroughly baked.
14. Let the cookies cool completely.  (About 10 minutes).

See like i said they looked horrible but they tasted amazing! I'm sure you guys could make these like ten times better haha. 

Next you are going to want to melt your chocolate. Add butter and chocolate in your pan. Put the stove on about 4 or 5 and continue stirring till completely melted. Get a icing tool and start spreading the orange chocolate on your cookies. Next melt the dark chocolate and put in a Ziploc bag, cut the tip and use this for your lines and stem. Let the chocolate cool completely so it can harden. Then enjoy you super good Pumpkin sugar cookie! :)

A Day Out On The Town

I decided to head out and spend the day on the town and have some fun. So i thought i would show you guys what i did today. Lets get started.

First off i had to stop at whole foods because i needed a few things and this is by far my favorite grocery store. I got some boxed water, cause why not haha.

Afterwords i decide to do some window shopping at one of my favorite stores that i can't actually buy anything from because well i don't have that kinda money haha, but i sure do love looking at all the gorgeous things. I was there for a while, I'm pretty sure they wanted to kick me out because i wasn't buying anything haha.

Mirror selfies cause duh lighting was amazing. A little OOTD, My Shirt is from Old Navy, My Hat is from Target, My Jeans are from a thrift store, and you can't see my shoes but i was wearing my White Converse.

After some window shopping i decided to end the day with a cupcake from Georgetown Cupcake, and i had there Halloween one and it was so good, and with some hot coco of course because it was cold.

My beautiful sister being silly while we were waiting for our cupcakes haha. So that was a liitle taste of my day, i hope you enjoyed following me around. :) 

DIY lemon sugar scrub

I love making gifts for people especially around Christmas time. Here's a quick and simple gift you can make.

First here's the list of ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups of sugar
• 1/4  Cup of coconut oil
• 1 Lemon

Melt your coconut oil and pour it over your sugar, then mix.

Zest 1 lemon and put aside.

Juice the lemon and then strain into a bowl to get ride of the pulp.

Add your lemon zest and lemon juice into the bowl of oil and sugar then mix.

If needed add more sugar until you are happy with the consistency. 

Then add your scrub into a cute jar and decorate as you please:)

See that wasn't so hard:) And it smells absolutely wonderful.

                                  -Liv