Recipes, Crafts, Travel & Family Advice for Moms
Who doesn't love a peanut butter blossom cookies?!?! Well this Peanut Butter Blossom Cupcake take a fun twist on those yummy cookies. These Peanut Butter Blossom Cupcakes have a thicker peanut butter buttercream so it holds the shape of a cookie and gives it the amazing texture. Just looking at this picture makes me want another one RIGHT NOW with a big glass of milk! This Peanut Butter Blossom Cupcake is made with homemade chocolate … [Read more...]
These Chocolate Covered Strawberry Cupcakes taste just like a Chocolate Covered Strawberry! Made with Strawberry cake mix and amazing chocolate frosting. Finished off with a delicious chocolate covered strawberry! All of my friends tease that my daughter is just too fancy for words. She's the type a girl who has to have her hair done and her nails done. Now by the sound of that, you might think she's a typical teenager but in reality, she's … [Read more...]
These Elf On The Shelf Sugar Cookies are sure to be a hit this holiday season! All kids who love their Elf on the Shelf will love these adorable cookies! These Elf on the Shelf cookies are made with homemade sugar cookies and homemade royal icing Forget Santa knowing whether you’re awake or asleep. With help from the elf on the shelf, he doesn’t need to keep track of every boy and girl to see if they’re being good or bad. At my house, the kids … [Read more...]
Fresh bread is something I love having in the house. Everyone loves it and it makes a great snack or breakfast. I am always making bread and recently the top pick has been this Zucchini Bread Recipe. This Zucchini Bread never lasts long in our house and it is one I normally double the recipe of so I can stick a loaf in the freezer. The Best Zucchini Bread Ever! This Zucchini Bread Recipe is moist and delicious! Seriously you are going to want … [Read more...]
If you are wanting an amazing muffin then you need to make these Blueberry Streusel Muffins. Seriously they are amazing and they are perfect for when you find blueberries on sale or go blueberry picking and have a TON of blueberries that you do not know what to do with. They will remind you of those amazing muffins that you get from a bakery. Anytime I make these Blueberry Streusel Muffins they do not last long, so I find myself making double … [Read more...]
This Orange Cream Cake recipe is super simple and super YUMMY! With only 2 ingredients it is a great cake to make with the kids! Really the kids can make it themselves and then you put it in the oven :) A friend of mine told me about using coke to make a cake so we tried using orange soda and the kids loved it! This 2 Ingredient Orange Cream Cake is one that you can make with out needing eggs, oil or anything else that you normally need to make … [Read more...]
The school year is almost over and for some parents, you are starting to plan your child's graduation party. Whether your child is graduating from kindergarten, high school or college these Easy Graduation Cap Cupcakes are sure to be a hit. They are very simple to make with the addition of some candy to the top of the cupcake flavor of your choose. Here are some yummy cupcakes you could use to make your graduation cupcakes - These are some … [Read more...]
There is just something so classic about a vanilla cupcake. It is so versatile that you can mix so many different fillings and toppings to change the taste. Vanilla cupcakes have a more of a mild flavor unlike chocolate cupcakes, it pairs well with lots of different flavors. Yet if you don't have that great vanilla cupcake recipe it can ruin all of your hard work on any other items you made to put on them. Now the classic cake that I had learned … [Read more...]
Pie, one of those amazingly tasty desserts that has soo many different varieties that you could make a pie a day and still have something new to eat! Then you have the addition of ice cream on top of a nice warm slice of pie and it is heavenly! There are different ways to make a pie crust, you can make a pie crust in a food processor or using the traditional method to make a pie crust, or if you want to get fancy make a lattices pie … [Read more...]
If you are wanting to make a homemade Spiderman Cake then you are in luck with this Step by Step tutorial on how to make a Spiderman cake! You will be able to use these simple directions on how to make a Spiderman Cake and have your Spiderman fan super happy! For this homemade Spiderman cake, you can use any filling and cake you would like. I made the caramel turtle cake. You can also use this Boxed Cake Bakery Cake Recipe as well for other … [Read more...]
When making sugar cookies there are so many recipes out there. Sure they taste good but decorating them is a total pain in the butt because they spread when baking. Thankfully I went to baking school so I can teach you all the trick to having No Spread Sugar Cookies, and you can WOW everyone! This No Spread Sugar Cookies is a total showstopper when you decorate them with Royal Icing. Check out my favorite royal icing here, its perfect and you can … [Read more...]
These are the perfect cookie to leave out for the Grinch to distract him from stealing your Christmas joy on Christmas Eve. You can change up the colors to match any theme you have. This is a great take on a yummy sugar cookie. The Whoville sugar cookies are fun, festive and easy to make, but they look like they will take forever ;) Don't tell your friends they don't take forever when you bring them to your parties :) If you love these … [Read more...]
Hey everyone I hope you enjoyed my little video on how to make a lattices pie crust. Here are the recipes I used to make this video for this amazing tasting Lattices Crust Apple Pie. Seriously you will want this in your dessert line up for Thanksgiving! If you have not seen the video yet, scroll down to check it out! Pie crust Recipe Apple Pie Filling Egg Wash Lattices Crust Apple Pie Lattices Crust Apple Pie Tools Rolling … [Read more...]
If you have a sweet tooth this Caramel Buttercream Frosting is just right for you. It is sweeter than a lot of buttercream frostings because it has the addition of caramel sauce which is very sweet on its own. Caramel Buttercream Frosting does not have as firm of a texture as a classic vanilla buttercream because it has less powder sugar but it is still pipeable. You can totally use this to make amazing cupcakes and cakes! Check out here for my … [Read more...]
When I grew up I knew I was doing something right when I opened my lunch box to find a peanut butter and fluff sandwich. I always got them as this special treat since it is a marshmallow sandwich and not the healthiest of options. Now that I have kids of my own I like to be able to do the same thing for them. Only it ends up be this big mess for my one year old but I can see it on his face how much he loves it so it is well worth it. Now one big … [Read more...]
My friends are always having us over for smores in their backyard. So when it came to figuring out what flavor cake to make for his birthday it was kind of a no-brainer. I knew I wanted to come up with some kind of smores cake. One thing I would need for this cake would be a marshmallow component. I thought a marshmallow butter cream would be perfect. It is just like my classic homemade buttercream Frosting that tastes like a Bakery but I would … [Read more...]
Making & Decorating Perfect Sugar Cookies These little cookies can make such a wow factor as gifts for friends or a center piece at a party. The only thing is they can take some time to get all of the details to look just right. With this article I will walk you though all my tips on home to make professional looking cookies without having to spend $20 a dozen. Making & Decorating Perfect Sugar Cookies Tools: Rolling pin Rolling … [Read more...]
My husband is in love with the store bass pro shop. We stopped there on out way home for our last vacation and spend three hours there! To make it up to me he bought me my first cast iron skillet and I am so in love with it. I have now been wondering how I ever lived without it. The first thing I wanted to try it out with was something baked. I just knew my yummy fall apple carrot cake would be great in it, if you don't have a skillet you can … [Read more...]
Perfect! Open it up. Quickly! Its the nightmare before Christmas sugar cookies! How jolly are these Jack Skellington Homemade Halloween Sugar Cookies. To make Jacks face I used these edible markers but you are more than welcome to pipe some black icing on top of the edible marker face to make Jacks face pop. Go ahead and make these cookies and you will find yourself saying," Isn't that wonderful? It couldn't be more wonderful!" Check out here on … [Read more...]
These Mummy Nutter Butter Cookies are super easy to make. You only need a few ingredients and you will have a treat the kids will love. I also love the Twinkie Mummies, but sometimes the kiddos do not need that much sugar so these Mummy Nutter Butter cookies have the same idea but they are smaller and have less sugar. Plus if you are having a party with a lot of kids, these might be a better option then making a ton of twinkies! Looking for … [Read more...]
