My new favorite cookie!!! You must try it!!!

Hey All,

I wanted to devote this non-makeup related post to a recipe I found for the PERFECT holiday cookie! I swear theyll be more makeup posts coming soon though :) Anyhoo, ever since I moved out I have been cooking and baking like crazy! Ive had my share of hits and misses in the kitchen but this was such a HIT I had to share. They are called Melting Moments and they LITERALLY MELT in your mouth!!! Since theyre so soft and crumbly be sure to have a napkin ready when you eat one! Trust me, its worth the mess :) You can find the recipe by clicking here but heres some of my personal pics of when I made them.

What you need...
(makes 2 dozen cookies, more or less)

1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1/4 cup of powdered sugar
1 cup of unsalted butter (room temperature...I had 2 sticks and to make it room temp I put it in the microwave for 10sec)
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

extra powdered sugar for dusting

How To Make...

1. Start with two bowls:
       - Bowl 1: Sift and mix together FLOUR, CORNSTARCH & SALT
       - Bowl 2: Sift SUGAR the add butter

Bowl 1

2. Take Bowl 2 and cream together the butter & sugar with a mixer (I used a hand mixer) until light and fluffy then beat in the VANILLA EXTRACT

Bowl 2 mixed

3. Cover and refrigerate overnight or at least an hour. Before I put mine in the fridge I took a spatula and gathered all the dough up so it would be easier to piece off later. I only refrigerated mine for 2 hours

How it looked when I took it our of the fridge

Now we're ready to start baking!!!!

4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees w/ rack placed in the center

5. Spray cookie sheet w/ non-stick spray

6. Form cookies into a 1inch ball shape and place on cookie sheet 1 inch apart

this is all you need for 1 cookie!

7. Bake for 12-14 minutes

Almost finished product!

This is how brown its supposed to be on the bottom

8. Cool on wire rack for 5 min

This is how fragile they are! As I was transferring them to a wire rack one fell and completely crumbled! ...and this was when they were cool enough to transfer by hand!

9. After  cookies have been cooled slightly, roll them in powdered sugar, you dont want them too cooled or else the sugar wont stick as well. They should be slightly warmer than room temperature

I put mine face-down in a container of powdered sugar, closed the lid and shook it up

~ Enjoy!!! ~

I think next time Ill try to add some chopped pecans to this. Hope you guys enjoyed this post! If you have any yummy recipes please share!!! I love trying out new recipes :)

♥ Leah

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Milani Infinite Liquid Liner...MAC liquidlast dupe?

I'm on a MAC dupe roll! ...kinda :). I recently purchased Milani's Infinite Liquid Liner from cherryculture as a part of a haul you can check out here. This was in efforts to save me a couple bucks from always purchasing MAC's liquidlast liner. I swear I go through that MAC liner like a baby goes through diapers. I love it! MAC's liquidlast is the perfect liner! Its very black, and stays that color for as long as your wearing it! Also, it lasts a LONG LONG LONG time (hence the name) through sweat, humidity and even tears!!! Although not recommended, you can sleep with that liner, toss and turn, rub your eyes, and wake up looking EXACTLY THE SAME. Its amazing. The only negative about it is that its $16.50 for .084 oz. Using this almost everyday, one tube will last me about 2 months or less. Towards the end of of usage the consistency of it gets really goopy and hard to work with as well.

So Ive read a lot of raves about Milani's Infinite Liquid Liner and I thought at $5.99, its worth a shot. Oh and if your interested in it as well or any other Milani products, cherry culture is having a %15 off sale!!!

Back to the liner...as you will see in pics, Milani's eyeliner doesn't have a true black color to it, Its sort of a really really dark charcoal. This doesn't bother me though as Ive used this a few times and it looks just as black.

The Breakdown

Can you tell I need a job? LOL. So basically Milani's Infinite liner fufills EVERYTHING that I was raving about on my rant above for the liquidlast liner. It last through whatever, has a very black color and  its less than half the price!!!

One thing to note is that Milani has a more limited color selection than MAC. Again, this doesn't bother me because I only use black. Also, Milani's liner takes a wee bit longer to dry (maybe 5 seconds at the most). 

	MAC’s Liquidlast Liner (point black)	Milani’s Infinite Eyeliner (everlast)
Size	2.5ml/0.084 oz	5ml/0.17 oz
Price	$16.50*	$5.99*
Color Selection	8 available	5 available

* Prices from www.maccosmetics.com & cherryculture.com

 Milani's Infinite Liquid Liner in Everlast

 MAC's Liquidlast Liner in Point Black

 Brush comparisons

Point Black on left, Everlast right

 Swatches, with and without flash

Everlast is in the left, Point Black right. You can see that Point Black dries in a matte finish

 Rubbed after 15 seconds. I think I rubbed the Milani one too quickly, Since the Milani one takes longer to dry, it smeared easy. I will say that I've worn the Milani liner and the lasting power proved just as strong as MAC's

Where to buy

You can buy Milani's Infinite Liner here

You can buy MAC's liquidlast here

Has anyone tried Milani's Eye Tech Liquid Liner? I want to try that one because I like the felt applicator but I wonder if it has the same lasting power as the Infinite one...

Well, thats all folks!

♥ Leah

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