My family is huge on cooking and baking so I’ll share various recipes of the food I made…. I recently baked an apple pie for the first time; below I shared the recipe and hopefully you can make your own!!!

Recipe makes 1 - 9 inch pie

Ingredients

1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch double crust pie

1/2 cup unsalted butter

3 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1/4 cup water

1/2 cup white sugar

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1 tablespoon of cinnamon

8 Granny Smith apples - peeled, cored and sliced

Directions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Stir in flour to form a paste. Add water, white sugar, cinnamon, brown sugar, and bring to a boil. Reduce temperature and let simmer.
Place the bottom crust in your pan. Fill with apples, mounded slightly. Cover with a lattice work crust. Gently pour the sugar and butter liquid over the crust. Pour slowly so that it does not run off.
Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F. Continue baking for 35 to 45 minutes, until apples are soft.

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Best Friends Forever

Everybody needs one of these

a BESTIE!!!!!!!!

This is my BEST FRIEND BRITTANY!!! We've been friends for nine years now!!! I can’t believe in another year we would have been best friends for a solid ten years!!! I’m determined to take a vacation for a ten year anniversary (no homo lol). Time to get our passports ready!!!!!

Britters is a great friend and you can’t get any better than her even when she gets on my nerves hehehe.

Crazy enough she’s the one who inspired me to create this bloggers page… Not necessarily to get readers or viewers but simply to give me an outlet to express myself Ashley Nicole.

But everyone needs a friend like her we’ve been through everything together from love to heartbreaks, lakefront trips to popcorn and cookie dough nights, family trouble to family functions, high school to college, and then the real world TOGETHER. Lucky for us it’s only the beginning! We still have to get through finishing our education, becoming successful career women, being each other brides’ maid, becoming godmother to our future children and whatever else the future entails. But that is what it’s all about…. Friendship that will never end!!!