Christy's Coop

See the new baby chick hatched today! That is not its "real" mother but just one of the hens that sat on the batch of eggs. Four total hatched today (so far)!!

This recipe was given to me about 25 years ago by a co-worker at KPMG from Montana. As excellent now as it was then! Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup shortening 1 1/2 cup sugar 4 eggs 1 tsp. vanilla 1 tsp. almond extract 3 cups flour 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1 large can pie filling (whatever flavor floats your boat) Glaze: 1 cup powdered sugar 2 Tbsp. milk Instructions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream together butter and shortening. Add sugar and beat well. Add eggs, vanilla and almond extract and mix well. Add flour and baking powder and mix until blended. Spread 2/3 of the dough in the bottom of a rectangular jelly roll pan lined with parchment paper. Spread pie filling on top. Dot with remaining dough. Bake 35-45 minutes. Combine powdered sugar and milk mixing well. Drizzle over the top of the coffee cake and enjoy!!

These cookies are amazing! They stay soft (at least for 36 hours - haven't had one last longer than that yet), and are super easy to make. Ingredients: Dough- 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter 1/2 cup shortening 1 cup white sugar 1/2 cup light brown sugar 3/4 cup unsweetened pumpkin puree (1/2 can) 1 large egg 3 1/4 cups flour 2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp cinnamon To roll in- 1/2 cup sugar 1 Tbsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground ginger Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix together the butter, shortening, sugars, pumpkin, and egg, beat well. Add in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon and mix until well-blended. Chill dough for about 30 minutes (or cheat like me and throw it in the freezer for about 10 minutes). Roll into balls the size of small walnuts. ** I use a small scoop instead of rolling by hand. MUCH faster and easier. ** In a separate bowl, mix 1/2 cup sugar with 1 Tablespoon cinnamon and 1/2 tsp ground ginger (do not leave out t...

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Here is Erin with her first place green Bantam eggs and her second place dark brown Cuckoo Maran eggs.

Here is "Elvis in Concert"!