Snowed In Coconut Cup Cookies

Snow ruined my Saturday night. I made the best of it.

Inspired by the wintery white stuff all around me and trapped in my apartment, I started out looking for recipes that involved one egg and no milk. I came across this neat coconut cup cookie recipe. It sounded easy, so I made half of it (there are no need for 12 cookies at a table for one).

The best part about this blizzard is that I learned how easy it is to make pie crust in my food processor. Seriously, really easy. I pretty much just tossed in a cup of flour and half a stick of butter, then pulsed the processor slowly adding water as I went. The results were fabulous.

After forming the cups in my muffin tin, I baked for 10 minutes and added the fillings. Seeing as I didn't have any gross marmalade like the recipe called for, I decided to mix it up. Two cups had guava paste, two had chocolate chips and two had blueberry jam. All were good, but it was hard to tell them apart!

Homemade "pop tarts"

I have never been a really big fan of the classic Pop-Tarts. To me, they taste like the unnatural-sounding ingredients that they contain. Of course, a jam-filled pastry is a great idea, but like so many things, it's more fun to make it yourself.

This idea comes from a really neat blog. I followed this pie crust recipe, and added my favorite fillings. That obviously meant blueberry jelly, but I also tried something a bit more exotic.


On a recent trip to Puerto Rico, I sampled some awesome pastries that contained guava paste and cream cheese. So when I saw guava paste at the store there, I jumped on it. These cream cheese and guava pastries are replicated here in my pop-tarts.

No matter the filling, these were delicious. You could try dulce de leche, or really anything else. Making the crust was hard; I used a wine bottle as a rolling pin. But you could have put one of these into a toaster, and they looked fabulous.