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Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts

Gingerbread Houses!

 We got together alongside or together with therefore friends and 
made gingerbread houses!
It was sooo much fun!
This is an activity that small-scale kids to 
adults volition simply LOVE!
Seriously, candy therapy!

Start alongside a structure.
We used Royal icing...as the glue.
The kids made uncomplicated houses.
I cheated together with made a bigger house.
PS...go to your grocery butcher together with inquire for some 
styrofoam meat trays...I got them free 
and they were perfect for this!
 Add Candy.  Eat some.
 I wished nosotros had or together with therefore Necco's, but couldn't
uncovering them at whatever closed stores.
So, I opted for a scalloped roof.
the kids used smarties...
 I powerfulness hold out obsessed alongside the pump shaped candy canes.
I did it on both ends of my house.  
I am kind of a symmetrical snob.
 Oh yah, Rock candy is awesome too!
Spice drops are a must.
Happy Holidays!


go to your grocery butcher together with inquire for or together with therefore Gingerbread Houses!

Superb Apple Tree Pie!

This is Superb Apple Pie!
My sis inwards law's recipe.  Thanks Sheri! 
It has a buttery sugary crumble on top, too thence it's like to cobbler.
 This is, yesteryear far, the best apple tree pie ever!
Here's the recipe!
it's iii parts:
Crust: ii C. Flour too i tsp tabular array salt mixed.
add together 3/4 loving cup crisco too cutting into pea sized pieces
add together 1/3 loving cup COLD water.
Roll into sparse circle.
Put into 9" pie crust

Filling: four cups sliced too cored apples (about 7-9 apples)
1/2 loving cup sugar
ii tbsp flour
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Combine too pour into unbaked pie shell.
It volition endure quite full.

Topping:
1/2 loving cup flour
1/2 loving cup butter
1/2 loving cup sugar
Mix amongst fingers until crumbly.
sprinkle over overstep of pie.

Bake 350* for i hr too 45 minutes.
Put a tray lined amongst foil on the rack 
beneath the pie for spillage.

These are slap-up pie dishes!


Love them.
 Serve warm or mutual frigidness amongst vanilla H2O ice cream!
Even amend amongst H2O ice cream!
Apples are amazing!  They are too thence skillful for you.  Maybe non inwards pie, simply still.
Here's a slap-up article well-nigh 34 Science-Baked Health Benefits to Apples!
And banking concern check out my other fun recipes here!
 loving cup crisco too cutting into pea sized pieces Superb Apple Pie!  loving cup crisco too cutting into pea sized pieces Superb Apple Pie!

 loving cup crisco too cutting into pea sized pieces Superb Apple Pie!

Pita Chips!

I wanted some pita chips to dip 
in my reddish pepper hummus!
My sis-in-law had made some before...so I tried!
 I had this pita breadstuff inward the freezer...I defrosted it...
cut it into strips together with pieces...
 drizzled nearly a tablespoon of olive stone oil on them, 
stirred around...sprinkled garlic and
garlic tabular array salt on them...and broiled for
about 3-4 minutes on each side!
 They are great!
and all three of my kids LOVED them!

drizzled nearly a tablespoon of olive stone oil on them Pita Chips!

Pumpkin Chocolate Muffins!

 Super uncomplicated Pumpkin Chocolate Muffins!
I got this "recipe" from my mom.

i large tin forcefulness out of Pumpkin
two boxes of Spice cake
(in theory if I had a pocket-size tin forcefulness out of pumpkin in addition to i box
of spice cake it would endure only equally great!)
two Bags of chocolate chips...
(yes, that is a lot.  I dear them that way.)
 Put said ingredients into mixer.
Mix.
(no added eggs, crude oil or water!  hooray pumpkin!)
Spoon into mini cupcake trays.
I baked 350* for xv minutes
or until when pressed the muffin piece of occupation past times bounces back.
Yum!
in theory if I had a pocket-size tin forcefulness out of pumpkin in addition to  Pumpkin Chocolate Muffins!

Cupcakes!

 I a calendar month long celebration of my 
birthday (which is genuinely today) nosotros convey done it all!
We got this cupcake mix for Christmas from
a neighbor...and decided to bust it out.
The best business office was the frosting.
Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting!

1/2 block of cream cheese (4 oz.)
1/2 loving cup of peanut butter
3-4 cups of powdered sugar
(I didn't measure...I simply added it until it looked right!)
two TBSP milk
two tsp vanilla

Happy Birthday to Me!
And Happy Chinese New Year!
 We got this cupcake mix for Christmas from Cupcakes!

Celebrating Life!

One twelvemonth agone exactly...
I had a ectopic pregnancy outburst my correct tube.
I idea it was major indigestion...
but no, I was internally bleeding.
I suffered silently for half dozen hours earlier going to the ER.
I had bled out 1.5 liters...
4:00 a.m. emergency surgery...right underground removed.
I am HAPPY to study that I am alive!
To celebrate, the kids together with I had an H2O ice cream party!
with HOT FUDGE!
Hot Fudge sauce:
1/2 loving cup Butter
1 loving cup sugar
2 TBSP unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 loving cup Milk

Boil inwards saucepan until reaches SOFT BALL...
Remove from heat.
add 1 tsp vanilla
Stir similar a maniac.
Pour over H2O ice cream.

(you tin pour onto a platter together with permit it cool 
and together with hence consume yesteryear the spoonfuls too!)

Here's to celebrating life!


I had a ectopic pregnancy outburst my correct underground Celebrating Life!

Chillaxin' Sundae!

Hope you lot are having a relaxing Sunday!
I am.
Also, perfected around chocolate lava brownie sundaes!

Simple:
1 box ghirardelli browine mix: double chocolate
I Bake inward a large muffin pan for xx minutes
Mine is basically similar this one...
(not mini bundts...you don't desire that "post" matter inward the middle)
Let them sit down for ten minutes...then carefully scoop out into bowl.
It's the perfect crispness on the exterior together with fudgy inside!
I ever add together H2O ice cream!
:)
 perfected around chocolate lava brownie sundaes Chillaxin' Sundae!

Pumpkin Seeds!

I {heart} roasted pumpkin seeds!
 
They are a hassle to operate out of the slimy insides 
of the pumpkin, simply super worth it!
{I pose mine inwards a colander...and a larger bowl.
Fill amongst warm water.  And the seeds volition float to the top.
Still takes some fourth dimension to take away whatsoever connected strings...}

Rinse the seeds.  Pat dry out amongst towel.
I conduct maintain virtually 2-3 soccer ball sized pumpkins.
I pose 1-2 tbsp canola stone oil on my cookie sheet.
pour on the seeds, stir or too then to coat them.
Sprinkle amongst tabular array salt too garlic salt.

Bake inwards oven 350*
stir every x minutes for virtually xl minutes
until golden brown.

They are a hassle to operate out of the slimy insides Pumpkin Seeds!

Candy Sushi!


We made Candy Sushi for a household unit of measurement black treat!
Start amongst swedish fish, fruit roll-ups in addition to rice crispy treats! 
(we made the rice crispy treats ourselves)
 
 Place a "log" of rice crispy treats on the fruit curlicue up.
Lay fish on overstep of the rice...
Roll it upwardly tight in addition to cutting into 1 inch pieces...
Then, because they expect gross...top them off amongst a fish.
Better, even in addition to hence weird, precisely better.
Tastes great!

We made Candy Sushi for a household unit of measurement black process Candy Sushi!