A Halloween Treat: Spider Cupcakes

I'm working on a baking project and my post for tomorrow's French Friday with Dorie.  So, today, I bring you a redux!  Yippee!!  But with Halloween just around the corner, this post is worth redux.

Chocolate Chunk Cookie Cupcakes

{Thank you, Martha!}

Makes about 2 dozen cupcakes

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened

3/4 cup granulated sugar

3/4 cup packed light-brown sugar

3 large eggs

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1/3 cup whole milk

8 ounces semisweet chocolate, cut into 1/2-inch chunks

•Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line 2 standard 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners; set aside. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl; set aside.

•Put butter and sugars into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, and mix on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy. Mix in eggs, 1 at a time, and vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture in 2 batches, alternating with the milk. Stir in chocolate chunks with a rubber spatula.

•Spoon 1/4 cup batter into each muffin cup. Bake until pale golden and a cake tester inserted into centers comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Transfer cupcakes to wire racks; let cool completely. Cupcakes can be stored in airtight containers at room temperature up to 3 days.

Getting to Know You with Dorie

On our French Fridays with Dorie website, all of us who are cooking along filled-out a "Getting to Know You" questionnaire:

Name: Frolicking Night Owl

Hometown: Gilbert, AZ

How you pay the bills: Ahhh… I rely on my husband to drill lots of teeth!

How many in your household? 5 … me, hubby, & 3 young kiddies

What is your favorite comfort food? Spaghetti with marinara sauce

Favorite dessert to whip up at midnight? Anything with Chocolate! … chocolate cheesecake, chocolate bread pudding, brownies, etc.

The best restaurant you have ever been to? (and what did you have?) I don’t get out to many restaurants, but I love the grilled Mahi-Mahi at Cheesecake Factory or NY style pizza is always a fave or Primanti Bro’s sandwiches in Pittsburgh

Worst habit or vice? Coke … with chocolate.

If you were a biscuit, which would you be? Not much of a biscuit girl, but I like ones with cheese in them. I like homemade dinner rolls!

What is your mother’s best dish? Homemade pizzas on the grill

What is your motto? “Anyone who has been lifted to a plane of excellence is never again content with mediocrity”
 – Thomas S. Monson

Which kitchen gadget do you use the most? My knives, but that’s kinda boring, so I’m gonna say Williams Sonoma’s rubber spatulas

The soundtrack to your life is? You’ve Got Mail

Any last words? I’m obsessed with YUMMY food!

More Young Women Blogs & Online Personal Progress

I have added two blogs to my sidebar under "YW Helps".

My Place for YW Stuff has lesson ideas, handouts, etc.

Steadfast & Immovable offers free handouts & digital scrapbooking supplies for YW.

I also came across an exciting discovery on Monday ... Online Personal Progress!!  Young Women and their leaders can now do all their personal progress online!  Very exciting!!!  The girls can link to scriptures, track progress, submit plans and report completion, and keep their journal securely online. When finished, they can print the entire book, including their journal. Their parents and leaders can approve and track their work.

My Girls

Recently, I've been trying to learn a new scrapbooking or Photoshop technique with each new page that I make.  It's been challenging, but always fun.

A Work of Art & A Halloween Treat

Because I'm a wee bit obsessed with food & currently trying to learn about French food, I found this quite interesting:

As for my own "art" pieces ... when I saw these, I was excited to find an opportunity to make the with my kiddies:

If you'd like to make some with your little ghosts & ghouls, here are some simple instructions ...

Needed Ingredients:

1 1/2 C Creamy Peanut Butter (I used Extra Crunchy & they turned out just dandy)

1/2 C Butter, at room temperature

1 pound (about 4 cups) Powdered Sugar

1 teaspoon Vanilla

1 (12-oz) package of Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

2 Tablespoons Solid Vegetable Shortening (I only used about 1 T)

Mini M&M's

1. Blend peanut butter, butter, powdered sugar, & vanilla together in a bowl.  I found it easiest to use my hands for this step.

2. Line a baking sheet with waxed paper.  Roll PB mixture into small balls (good job for the kiddies) and place on baking sheet.  Freeze or refrigerate for about 1 hour so the balls get firm.  (I froze mine.)

3. Melt chocolate chips & shortening in microwave.  Check & stir every 30 seconds.

4. Remove your PB balls from the fridge or freezer.  Using a fork or toothpicks, dip each ball into the chocolate, leaving a round or oval opening of undipped peanut butter on top.  Return chocolate-PB balls to waxed paper, cornea side up.

5. Place an M&M in the center of each PB cornea to make an iris.  Refrigerate or freeze again for at least an hour before serving. 

*Store in fridge or freezer & serve chilled.

Gourgeres: Part 2

Tonight for dinner, we had leftover potato soup.  After seeing every one's brown-er gourgeres online today,  I decided to try my frozen cheese puffs for dinner tonight.  These ones were smaller ... closer to the recommended 1 Tablespoon of dough.  They held up their shape a tad better, too.  When I put them in the oven, I kept the oven at 425* for 5 minutes before turning it down to 375*. (Recipe says to turn the oven down to 375* right when you put the dough into the oven.)  And then I baked them longer as well. 

The verdict: I liked them even more!  The flavor was the same, of course, but I liked the outside of them better when they were a bit more crispy.  They definitely weren't hard, but more like a nice crusty bread.  The insides were still just as moist.

French Fridays with Dorie: Gougeres

Update:  I tried my frozen cheese puffs.  See my results HERE.

Today is the day all of us Dorie followers have been anxiously awaiting.  All over the world, we are posting our results of our first recipe from the new cookbook, Around My French Table.  I have been looking forward to this week for quite sometime.

Our first recipe (chosen by Dorie), is/are Gougeres.  I don't know the first thing about the French language, so please don't ask me to pronounce that G-word!  I grew up in Arizona, so I can speak a little Spanish, but French ... none, nada, nothing.  I've actually found myself calling them the "cheese rolls".  Much easier.

As soon as this recipe was announced as our first recipe, I knew that I wanted to use it as part of a dinner for my family of five.  I thought about a fish dinner with some lightly steamed, fresh green beans or asparagus as well as several kinds of soups.  I finally settled on our favorite potato soup and thought that I could garnish the soup with leftover cheese from my cheese rolls.  The creaminess of the soup with a nice roll appealed to me and I knew that I could make the soup earlier in the day, let it simmer all day, and make the rolls right before dinner.  This way I'd be able to focus my attention on the new recipe.

One of our French Fridays with Dorie (FFwD) rules is that we are not allowed to share the actual recipes on our blog, but I'll give ya a little hint ... Go to FFwD & there is a PDF file available for the October recipes that Dorie has chosen to keep us busy this month.  Maybe your interest level will be peaked and you'll decide to spend the $25 to buy your own copy of the cookbook so that you, too, can cook or follow along.  (October is the only month that recipes will be available on the FFwD website.)

With young children & my pocketbook in mind, I chose a sharp cheddar cheese from Trader Joe's.  In the future, I would not go with anything less sharp if I was going to use a cheddar cheese again.  The recipe calls for 1-1/2 cups or 6 oz of cheese.  I had my bowl on the scale as I measured out my cheese and after 1-1/2 cups of cheese, I was only up to 4-something oz.  Knowing that weighing is usually the better way to go, I added another scant 1/2 cup of cheese to get up to 6 oz.

My daughter had a ballet class the night that I chose to try my recipe.  So with my soup simmering away, I prepared & measured all my ingredients with the intent that as soon as we walked in the door from ballet, I could start my cheese rolls.  After making this recipe, I would highly recommend having everything measured and ready to go before you start any cooking.  Things move fast and you won't have time to stop and look for an ingredient or spend lots of time measuring.  You especially want to make sure your cheese is grated and ready to go before you begin.

I used a Wilton 1M cake decorating tip to pipe my dough onto my cookie sheets.  Possibly because of the softness of the cheese (????), my rolls had almost no resemblance of my star-shaped tip before they even got into the oven.  They still looked very beautiful and almost rustic when they came out of the oven.

Immediately after taking them out of the oven, I tried my first cheese roll.  I was shocked.  I don't think I expected such a simple little cheese roll to be SOOOO delicious!!  It was soft and delicate and had just the right amount of cheesiness.  Maybe I didn't bake mine quite long enough, but the insides were almost kind of creamy ... maybe from the cheese.  I will definitely be making them again.  They were quick & simple to make, but I almost felt like I was eating dessert as I devoured a few while they were still warm.  I also found myself daydreaming about how I could incorporate chocolate into the dough.

I ended up freezing about 20 small cheese rolls, so I'm looking forward to seeing how they turn-out after being frozen.  Next time I make my cheese rolls, I'd like to try Parmesan cheese ... anyone gone down that road???  This recipe is definitely a keeper for me!!  I urge you to also try this recipe the next time you are looking for a roll to go with your dinner. 

To read about other bakers' experiences with Gougeres, please visit this site.  One of my favorites, so far, is the post by Soup Addict.  It looks like she baked her rolls longer than I did (which I'd also like to try in the future) and she has beautiful photos!!  I tried so hard to get a photo of the inside of a roll, but after making several adjustments on my camera and taking tons of photos, nothing was working.  Not sure if it was bad lighting (I was taking photos at 10:30pm in a poorly lit kitchen) or if I need a different lens.  I can never get as close as I'd like to food-type subjects.

P.S.  While I have the attention of a lot of foodies ... anyone tried or have opinions/reviews for Blommer chocolates???

Lego Boy

I'm enjoying my quiet afternoon by doing a little scrapbooking ....

To make it quick & easy, I made it similar to the last page I made.  Hey ... once I finally get a book together, the two pages that I made this week will be years apart.

I'm excited to start working on my first post for French Fridays with Dorie now ....

Conference: Fun Printables

Check out Sugardoodle's website for packets ... they come in a few varieties for all ages of kids.  I think I'll be printing a couple copies of the nursery packet for my youngest 2 kiddies as well as the Sr. & Jr. primary packets for Penguin.  If you have a few minutes, follow some of Sugardoodle's links for Conference activities ... there are endless ideas for games, activities, worksheets, family fun, etc.

My mother-in-law sent me this packet (which I believe is also available on Sugardoodle's website):

Ultimate General Conference Packet Oct 2010

I found this page of "stickers" to go with the above packet.  You can print them on a sticker paper or I'm sure most kids won't be opposed to being allowed to use some scissors and a glue stick.

Stickers Prophet Apostles Oct 2010
Finally, good food is a must for conference.  I haven't even thought about what I'd like to make, but I've usually made crepes or cinnamon rolls in the past.  Maybe an apple tart or something that's somewhat acceptable for breakfast. What are your favorite conference yummies?

Just Blogging

Rather than working on my own blog today, I spent several hours this afternoon helping Penguin set-up her own blog.  Part of her schooling during the week is going to be blogging.  And it's also an incentive for her to finish her "required" work quickly so that she can do fun things ... like blog.

I did finish another scrapbook page tonight ... another one with old photos. :)  I'm in the mood for fall & some cooler weather!!

And I thought I'd share a little something with you, for you.  A blank circle tag.  Use it as a gift tag, for a short note, or whatever your heart desires.  Personal use only, please.

Young Women Manual 2 Lesson 37: Maintaining Chastity through Righteous Living

The following are some of my ideas and other helps I came across for lesson 37 in manual 2: Maintaining Chastity through Righteous Living.  There are so many directions that can be taken and a wealth of information and ideas available on this topic.

I started my lesson by reading blog posts from a girl who got pregnant before she was married.  She made the decision to place her baby for adoption. Her blog posts are very honest and I felt like she said a lot of things that I really wanted my laurels to hear.  The author of the blog talks about how the guy who got her pregnant can hide the fact that he's having a baby while the world sees that she is pregnant, how she has to sit at home on the weekends while he continues to date & go out with friends, how her choices have effected so many people in her life, etc.  And then after she places the baby for adoption, you can feel her pain & misery as she heals from her lost ... at times she talks about how she just wants to die.

I think this part of my lesson really made an impression on my laurels & they commented that this was their favorite part of the lesson.  You could have heard a pin drop in the room as I read the girl's words from her blog.   The following is the Word document that I made with the blog posts.  Please let me know if you have questions, but hopefully it's fairly easy to figure out who people are that she's referring to, etc.

Young Women Lesson Manual 2 Lesson 37 - Maintaining Chastity through Righteous Living

I used portions of the following two talks for part of my lesson:

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland's devotional address given at BYU in 1988:  Of Souls, Symbols, and Sacraments.  If interested, you can purchase a DVD of this talk or download the audio through Deseret Book.  One of my favorite parts of this talk is when Elder Holland talks about how the two most important commandments deal with how we enter & leave this world.  We don't go around killing people, holding guns to their heads, etc....

Another great talk.  Also by Elder Holland:  (from this talk I used the three reasons for choosing chastity)
LDS.org - Ensign Article - Personal Purity

Other Ideas:

Cute Story

Fun Cupcake Object Lesson

Handouts:

I used gold sequin headbands from Forever 21.  I can't find them now packaged with just the gold headband ... but maybe you can find something similar somewhere else.

SKINNY SEQUIN HEADBAND

Or there are other options on the Forever 21 website like these:


SWEET FLOWER BOBBY PIN SET

Some of the hair accessories come in other colors than what is pictured ... look for ones with "more colors" and maybe you'll come across something in gold.

First I made the following handout.  It ended up not being what I was after, but I thought I'd post it in case someone else can use it.

Then I came up with this:

{a single handout}

{a page of 6 handouts}

If you want a handout that doesn't have to be attached to a hair accessory and just uses a quote from the lesson, use these:

{a single handout}

{a page of 4 handouts}

Please feel free to right click, save, and use any of my handouts for your Young Women lessons.

French Fridays with Dorie

Did you see the movie Julie & Julia?  Pretty cute flick.

{You can watch it on your instant stream
if you subscribe to Netflix.}

Do you want to be the next Julie? Over on my sidebar ... to the right ... → →→→...

Click on the "French Fridays with Dorie" if you'd like join nearly 700 bloggers to cook your way through Dorie Greenspan's newest book, Around My French Table.  (I found the book for a bit cheaper than Ebay, Amazon, etc & with free shipping through Barnes & Noble.)  Participants will start blogging about recipes on October 1st.

They are hoping for some Pittsburghers to join in on the fun ... see this article that was published in the Post-Gazette.

Time's Up!

Haven't done a home-schooling post in a while.

Thought I'd share another website that we use on a daily basis.

Online Stopwatch

You can use the stopwatch feature or our favorite (cackle-cackle) is the countdown timer ... great for all those timed-tests in math!

If you have a young musician, you can also use their metronome.

It's free.  It's great.

Facts on Vanilla

My interest in vanilla extract was sparked.

I did some online research.

Did you know....

• that you are not always getting a bargain on your vanilla extract when you buy it outside of the USA? (ie across the Mexican border)
• that some vanilla extracts are not even made from vanilla, but from a different plant that contains coumarin, which has been banned from the USA because of it's potential toxic side effect?
• that coumarin tastes & smells like vanilla?
• that "bad" vanillas are still imported illegally and can be found in many ethic grocery stores and Mexican restaurants?

When buying vanilla, look for "vanilla bean" as one of the ingredients.  If the vanilla is labeled "extracto de vainilla" or "vainilla", you may want to pass on that particular brand.

In the USA, if a vanilla extract has been made with something other than vanilla beans, it must be labeled "imitation".  Imitation doesn't sound very appetizing to me. 

More fun facts:

Thomas Jefferson is credited with introducing vanilla to the United States in the late 1700's. While serving as Ambassador to King Louis XVI of France, he became familiar with vanilla beans and brought 200 vanilla beans back with him when he returned to the United States.

There is no alcohol in your Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Extract. The term Bourbon is a geographic reference to the Bourbon Islands, Madagascar, Comoro, Reunion, Seychelles and Mauritius, off the east coast of Africa. In the 1800's, they were ruled by the French, whose ruling family at the time were the Bourbons.

A few drops of vanilla in a can of paint will help eliminate unpleasant odors!

A vanilla bean under your car seat gives a fresh aroma and helps eliminate musty odors.

The United States consumption of vanilla beans is approximately 1,200 tons per year!

Vanilla beans are hand-pollinated, on family plantations.

The entire vanilla cultivation process, from planting to market, can take from five to six years!

I use Molina vanilla which I buy here in AZ at the Mexican grocery stores.  I believe I was able to find it in Pittsburgh at Reyna Foods down in the Strip District.  I've Googled "Molina Vanilla" to try to learn more about that particular brand, but the jury is still out.  As far as I can tell, it's safe & authentic.  If you want to try Molina vanilla, it's available on Amazon as well as many other websites.

I love vanilla extract and I usually use it in place of other extracts ... like almond.  I often use more than what most recipes call for, but I'm not typically excited to deal with vanilla beans, vanilla paste, and other variations of vanilla.  I found this little conversion chart:

1 vanilla bean = 2 t vanilla extract

1 t vanilla paste or vanilla powder = 1 t vanilla extract

Or just dump in some vanilla!

Anyone out there done any comparisons of vanilla? 

News Update

So, I wasn't the winner of the "Funny" photography contest, but I did win a $75 gift card to B & H ... one of my fave stores!!  I'm excited to spend some money there ... or maybe I'll save up and put it towards a more expensive item.  We'll see.

PW's final thoughts: "I almost can’t stand to look at this photo. It’s so adorable and funny. The glasses! The suit!"

In other news ....

Have you seen this?

I need a Thanksgiving gift.

Young Women Manual 2 Lesson 36: Honesty

Yesterday I taught lesson 36: Honesty.  I was really worried about having too much time leftover at the end of class because it looked like a somewhat short lesson in the manual, but we had some good discussions and ended up running out of time and not being able to finish the lesson.  I used the following talk in my lesson: 

LDS.org - Ensign Article - We Believe in Being Honest

I printed copies of it for each of the girls and went over a few different parts of the talk that I had highlighted and felt were the most important parts for my laurels to hear and discuss.

These are the handouts that I used.  I have them available for you in two different forms.  A page of four handouts for easy at-home printing:

Or a 4x6" copy of the handout for printing at a photo lab:

{Please use matte or lustre finish!}

We were at Target late Saturday night and saw some Halloween goodies in the bakery section.  Nothing had spiders, so I decided late Saturday night that I wanted to bake a goodie to go along with my lesson ... something with a spider on it.  If you're not up for baking, check around with your local bakeries or I think anything with a Halloween theme could be fun & cute.  I also wanted an excuse to try a new cupcake recipe and my laurels always make good guinea pigs. :) While I was at Target, I grabbed some candies that I used to make spiders for the tops of my cupcakes. {Why is it SO hard to find black shoestring licorice??} I had some leftover chocolate frosting in my fridge from Turkey's truck party, so I went with a chocolate chip cupcake recipe because I thought it would go nicely with the frosting I already had.  Other options would be to buy some fake, plastic spiders ... maybe even some spider rings ...  or that fake spider web stuff ... to go with your printed handout.

Chocolate Chunk Cookie Cupcakes

{Thank you, Martha!}

Makes about 2 dozen

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed light-brown sugar
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/3 cup whole milk
8 ounces semisweet chocolate, cut into 1/2-inch chunks

•Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line 2 standard 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners; set aside. Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl; set aside.

•Put butter and sugars into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, and mix on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy. Mix in eggs, 1 at a time, and vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture in 2 batches, alternating with the milk. Stir in chocolate chunks with a rubber spatula.

•Spoon 1/4 cup batter into each muffin cup. Bake until pale golden and a cake tester inserted into centers comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Transfer cupcakes to wire racks; let cool completely. Cupcakes can be stored in airtight containers at room temperature up to 3 days.

family day

This past week we braved the heat and spent 3 or 4 hours at the Phoenix Zoo.  It was actually not too bad.  We drank lots of water and cooled off in misters and splash zones several times.  I don't think I came home from the zoo with any photos, but I was in the mood to make a scrapbook page before bed tonight, so I pulled out some photos of a previous trip to the zoo....

Coming Soon from EVMCO

If you were able to attend one of the Lamb of God performances on Friday or Saturday night (or one of our other past concerts) & you liked what you heard, please mark your calendars for the 2010-2011 Season EVMCO concerts!  If you haven't been to see an EVMCO concert yet, you are truly missing out!!  *Note: there will be two performances each night for our next three concerts.

All the Bells on Earth Shall Ring

Saturday, December 4th

5:00 & 7:30 pm

*Featuring Christmas classics for choir, symphony, and bell choir.

We will be doing this arrangement of I Saw Three Ships:

Bring the World His Truth

Saturday, March 5th

4:30 & 7:30 pm

*Featuring Messiah in America: an oratorio composed by Brett Stewart, depicting the story of Christ's visit to the people on the American continent.  Showcases preeminent and professional LDS soloists from across the USA.

Amazing Grace

Saturday, May 21st

5:00 & 7:30pm

*Featuring country music sensation Collin Raye.

All performances are at the Mesa Arts Center.  For more info, visit http://www.evmco.org/ or http://www.mesaartscenter.org/

Tickets for our Christmas concert go on sale

Friday, October 1st.

I am so thankful for the opportunity that I have to be a member of the EVMCO Orchestra.  Performing The Lamb of God was an amazing experience.  Two sold-out shows (I had friends trying to get tickets a week before the Saturday concert and they were told it was already sold-out), awesome soloists, lots of support in the audience from family & friends, countless comments afterwards, & my testimony of Christ has been strengthened in a way I never imagined possible.  For three weeks, I submerged myself in music concerning the Atonement & Resurrection of Christ. The best compliment we got was early Saturday morning ... an email sent to the entire orchestra saying that our Friday night performance was just as good and sometimes better than the London Symphony recording.  WOWSERS!!! 

AZ Republic story about our concert.

If you are interested, CD's are available HERE.

I was kinda stuck behind a soloist's stand for the concert:

Meant for Each Other: An Adoption Story

Or read the story HERE.  Very nice interview that puts adoption in a positive light.  I don't know that I agree 100% with everything Scott says, but I really enjoyed the article & interview, so I wanted to share.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but  please do not leave comments with profanity!

I also came across this blog today.  Check it out if you have been involved in or are interested in trans-racial adoption.

Truck Party

For nearly two months, everything in my boy's world revolved around his "truck party".  He had no problems deciding what kind of party he wanted for his birthday and he was one excited little guy.  I never imagined that I'd have so much fun planning a truck party.

 

The Invites:

 

{Sorry - had to scratch out all the personal info}

 

 

 

The Menu:

Sandwiches - mini ones made with homemade rolls

Car shaped cheese

Pasta Salad with wheels

Potato Salad

Chips

Truck-shaped watermelon with grapes as the wheels.

Desserts

 

 

 

 

For dessert we had chocolate cupcakes with ice cream & truck shaped cookies:

 

I had more cookies than cupcakes, so that's why we put some cookies in a pail.  (For a tutorial on how to make the lollipop cookies go HERE & HERE.)

 

 

At Ikea, I found a very large plant pot that was the same shade of green as my polka-dotted green tablecloth, so we used the pot for sodas & waters.  Centerpieces for tables were easy cause I just used trucks from the toy room.  If you happen to be in the market for cones, I checked around online and the best deal on cones was at Target.

 

 

 

Oh, almost forgot .... Disney's Car movie fruit snacks in a dump truck:

 

 

My hubby had the job of making truck music CD's.  Here are some songs that we included on our CD's in no particular order and possibly a lot of un-official song titles, but I think you get the idea.

• Drive my Car - The Beatles
• Freeway of Love - Aretha Franklin
• Fun, Fun, Fun - Beach Boys
• Greased Lightening - John Travolta
• I Get Around - Beach Boys
• Bicycle - Queen
• Last Train to Clarksville - The Monkees
• Let's Go - Cars
• Little Honda - Beach Boys
• Life in the Fast Lane - Eagles
• Life is a Highway - Rascal Flatts
• Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys
• Magic Bus - the Who
• Mud on the Tires - Brad Paisley
• Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
• No Particular Place to Go - Chuck Berry
• Pink Cadillac - Jerry Lee Lewis
• Real Gone - Sheryl Crow
• Roadhouse Blues - the Doors
• Come Go with Me - Beach Boys
• Route 66 - John Mayer
• Sh-Boom - the Chords
• Shut Down - Beach Boys
• Take it Easy - Eagles
• Ticket to Ride - Beatles
• Trampled Underfoot - Led Zepplin
• Truck Driven Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Where the Blacktop Ends - Keith Urban
• 409 - Beach Boys
• Big Yellow Taxi - Counting Crows
• Car Crazy Cutie - Beach Boys
• Cement Mixer - Alvino Rey
• Drive - Alan Jackson