It Touches The Soul

May 31

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May 29

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smilingfork: Homemade Thin Mints Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆ (very easy) Ingredients: Cookies: 8 ounces butter 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 cup powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla ¾ teaspoon salt 1 ½ cups all purpose flour Coating: 10 ounces semi-sweet baking chocolate 1 ½ teaspoon peppermint extract Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter until light and fluffy, then add the powdered sugar and mix until combined. Stir in the salt, vanilla and cocoa powder. Mix until the cocoa powder is integrated and the batter resembles a thick frosting. Add the flour and mix just until the flour is combined, making sure to not over mix. Form dough into a ball. Knead a few times to bring together, then flatten into a disk between half an inch and one inch thick, cover in plastic wrap then place in freezer for 15 minutes. Remove dough from the freezer and roll it out really thin on a floured surface, about 1/8-inch. Cut cookies using 1 1/2-inch cutter. Place cookies on a baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes. Remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool completely on a wire rack. While the cookies bake, make the peppermint coating. Chop the baking chocolate into very small, thin pieces. Place in a glass measuring cup or similar container and microwave in short 15-20 second bursts. Stir in the peppermint extract. Feel free to add more peppermint as you see fit. Gently drop the cookies, one at a time, into the coating. Turn to coat entirely, then lift the cookie out of the chocolate with the fork and bang the fork on the side of the pan until the extra coating drips off. Place on a parchment or plastic wrap-lined baking sheet, and repeat for the rest of the cookies. Place the cookies in the refrigerator or freezer to set. I probably should have never seen this…. 

smilingfork:

Homemade Thin Mints

Difficulty:
★☆☆☆☆ (very easy)

Ingredients:

Cookies:

  • 8 ounces butter
  • 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 1 ½ cups all purpose flour

Coating:

  • 10 ounces semi-sweet baking chocolate
  • 1 ½ teaspoon peppermint extract

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Cream butter until light and fluffy, then add the powdered sugar and mix until combined. Stir in the salt, vanilla and cocoa powder. Mix until the cocoa powder is integrated and the batter resembles a thick frosting. Add the flour and mix just until the flour is combined, making sure to not over mix.
  3. Form dough into a ball. Knead a few times to bring together, then flatten into a disk between half an inch and one inch thick, cover in plastic wrap then place in freezer for 15 minutes.
  4. Remove dough from the freezer and roll it out really thin on a floured surface, about 1/8-inch. Cut cookies using 1 1/2-inch cutter.
  5. Place cookies on a baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes. Remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool completely on a wire rack. While the cookies bake, make the peppermint coating. Chop the baking chocolate into very small, thin pieces. Place in a glass measuring cup or similar container and microwave in short 15-20 second bursts. Stir in the peppermint extract. Feel free to add more peppermint as you see fit.
  6. Gently drop the cookies, one at a time, into the coating. Turn to coat entirely, then lift the cookie out of the chocolate with the fork and bang the fork on the side of the pan until the extra coating drips off. Place on a parchment or plastic wrap-lined baking sheet, and repeat for the rest of the cookies. Place the cookies in the refrigerator or freezer to set.

I probably should have never seen this…. 

May 28

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May 26

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omgthatdress: Dress 1876 The Victoria & Albert Museum

omgthatdress:

Dress

1876

The Victoria & Albert Museum

May 22

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omgthatdress: Ball Gown 1854 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

omgthatdress:

Ball Gown

1854

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

May 20

If only soon. 

If only soon. 

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May 18

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May 15

I am just so incredibly happy.

May 14

embracerevolution: A boy left his bike chained to a tree when he went away to war in 1914. He never returned, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around the bike. 

embracerevolution:

A boy left his bike chained to a tree when he went away to war in 1914. He never returned, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around the bike. 

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