Coconut-Lime Bars

•1 cup Butter
•1-¾ cup Flour
•⅔ cups Powdered Sugar
•¼ cups Shredded Coconut
•¼ cups Chopped Pecans
•1-½ cup Sugar
•¼ cups Flour
•1 teaspoon Baking Powder
•4 whole Eggs, Slightly Beaten
•½ cups Lime Juice
•2 tablespoons Extra Coconut For Garnish On Top
Preparation Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Grease and flour a 9 X 13 pan

To make crust:
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour and confectioner’s sugar. Cut in butter until combined and crumbly. Add in pecans and coconut. Press mixture into bottom of pan. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden.

To make topping:
While crust is baking, prepare topping.. In a larger bowl, add sugar, flour, and baking powder. Then add slightly beaten eggs and lime juice. Mix well and pour on top of warm baked crust. Bake for 20-25 minutes. When cool, dust with confectioner’s sugar and refrigerate.

Optional: Put 2 Tablespoons coconut on baking sheet and toast for 5-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Sprinkle over top.

Cut into bars and chill! Best served cold!

Summertime...where the living is easy..

Boy, am I sad to see August quickly approaching. The boys & I have had such a wonderful summer so far. We havent gone on any fancy-schmancy vacations..we've just stayed around home. We go to the pool about every other day, we've been to the lake a few times and just enjoyed our time together. It's so nice. I dread the day when its not "cool" to hang out at home anymore..I love the age they are. Okay, so I better quit talking about this before I tear up..oh well..too late!


We went bowling with the kids from church this morning. It is so nice to go to a church that wants the kids and youth to blossom. So many churches here in the "bible belt" have an old school way & dont have many programs for the children. The boys love love love our church & It makes me so happy.

I've been looking around at some new recipe sites! Like this one founded by none other than The PIONEER WOMAN!!! She has the most yummy looking meals! (Yes, I love pictures of yummy meals!!) you should check her out for sure! You wont be sorry!


I probably wont be around much the next week, as I have a lovely class I must take. Should be fun!


Now I will leave you with some pictures from the past few weeks. The last two are from a cookout we had for my mom's surprise birthday party & the others are just poolside!!

For all you Nutella Freaks...

Like ME!!!

This sounds heavenly:

Nutella Frosted Cupcakes
1 1/2 sticks (3/4 cup, 12 oz) butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3 large eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups sifted all purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
Nutella, approx. 1/3 cup

Preheat oven to 325F. Line 12 muffin tins with paper liners or grease the cups with some butter. Alternatively, butter an 8-inch round cake pan.

Cream together butter and sugar until light, 2 minutes. Add in eggs one at a time, until fully incorporated. Don’t worry if the batter doesn’t look smooth. Add vanilla. Stir in flour, salt and baking powder until batter is uniform and no flour remains.

Fill each muffin cup about 3/4 full (or pour all the batter into the cake pan). The batter will be thick. Top each cake with a dollop (I used about 2 tsp per cupcake and about 1/3 cup dolloped in tablespoon measures for the cake round) of Nutella. Swirl Nutella in with a toothpick, making sure to fold a bit of batter up over the nutella.

Bake cupcakes for about 20 minutes and the round cake for 25-30.

Remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
Makes 12 cupcakes or 1 8-inch round cake.


http://carmencooks.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/nutella-self-frosting-cake/