how to get starbucks minus the "bucks" || a (delicious) recipe

I while back I posted a recipe for caramel frappuccinos, and since then I've adjusted and changed it to be the best it could be. Let me just say, I could live off this thing. So, without further ado, I will share the #1 recipe for Starbucks Frappuccinos:

Ingredients:
1/2 cup of cold coffee
1/2 cup of milk
7-12 ice cubes
3 tablespoons of sugar
3 tablespoons of caramel or chocolate syrup

Step 1: Pour all of the ingredients into your blender

Step 2: Blend....
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.....Enjoy!

This drink will satisfy your taste buds, your body temperature (it gives you a brain freeze if you drink it too fast.... trust me, I know!), and your stomach. It's so delicious!

Have you found any other recipes for this (or any other Starbucks drink)? I'd LOVE to hear them!

-hannah

house to myself || baking

"Have a good game" I waved to my little brother as he scooted out the door, with his baseball bag slung across his shoulder.

I stood in the kitchen for a moment, relishing in the complete and total silence. The air conditioning coming from the vents on the floor brushed my feet, sending a slight tingling sensation up my legs. What to do when I have the house to myself? Read? Blog? Watch t.v? No, none of those were quite right. I looked around the kitchen.

A dusky room like this needed life, attention. Sure, it got plenty throughout the day, but I'm sure it missed the one and only Hannah whipping up something delicious in it quarters. It's been a while.

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Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies

//Ingredients//

1 cup of butter

1 1/2 cups of white sugar

1/2 cup of brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp of vanilla extract

3 cups of all-purpose flour

1 tsp of baking soda

2 tsp of hot water

1/2 tsp of salt

2 cups of chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

2. Cream together butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time and add vanilla. Dissolve the baking soda in hot water and stir that in the mix. Add salt and gradually beat in flour. Stir in chocolate chips.

Drop onto un-greased cookie sheets with a tablespoon.

3. Bake for 14-17 minutes (yes, that long) for a nice crispy cookie (not burnt though!)

4. Pour yourself a tall glass of milk and enjoy!

-hannah

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cinnamon muffins

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what do you do when you stay home from school with pink eye and have a whole day full of, well, nothing?
You post a recipe.

cinnamon mini-muffins


Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/2 cup skim milk
1/3 cup butter/margarine, melted


Topping:
2 tblsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 cup butter/margarine, melted


Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 400º. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon. In a separate bowl, combine egg, milk, and butter/margarine; mix well. Stir into dry ingredients until just moistened. Spoon batter into greased or paper-lined mini muffin cups. Bake for 9-11 minutes, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Brush melted butter on to muffin tops and dust with the cinnamon-sugar mixture.
Enjoy! I certainly did :) Oh, and you will probably be left with some flour-sugar-baking powder-salt-etc. mixture, because you're only supposed to add as much of it to the wet ingredients until that batter is the right consistency :/

And if you end up making these, post about it and leave me a link to the post, I'd love to see how it turns out for you and the pictures!


-hannah

Starbucks frappachino (YUM!)

Do you know what this is?

Its my first caramel-coffee frappachino (I'm not sure how you spell it ;) from Starbucks. Actually its my first anything from Starbucks *looks sheepishly at feet*.
Talk about heavenly. It was so good! What's your favorite thing to get from Starbucks?