These adorable mice are made of candy and perched atop a cookie. The head is an unwrapped Hershey's kiss and the body is a chocolate-dipped maraschino cherry with the cherry stem serving as the tail. Pretty easy! Just dip the cherries and assemble with slivered almonds stuck in for the ears. You can use dots of frosting for the eyes. So cute! … [Read more...]
Chocolate Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
Imagine a dark chocolate cookie looking soft and chewy. You take a bite and are swept away with chunks of chocolate mint hidden inside. Oh, my. These cookies are an experience. Our family's best amateur chef made these wonderfully chocolate cookies for Thanksgiving and I haven't been able to get them out of my mind since. They have an intense … [Read more...]
Halloween Bat and Spider Decorations, Treats that Are Easy to Make
Bats made with painted pumpkins and hairy Daddy Longlegs cupcakes with licorice legs are just part of some very cool Halloween decor and treats you can make. (To make the spider cupcakes look more scary use red hots for eyes.)How about a Tootsie Pop as a venomous spider? The wrapped pop forms the abdomen and you leave a bit of the paper wrapper … [Read more...]
16 Ways to Save More Money on Food
Here's a back-to-basics list of ways to lower your grocery bill. I hope you find something useful in this list of things I've learned over the years. 1. Throwing out food is like throwing money down the drain. Check your fridge every day to see what needs to be used. To use up ingredients, do an ingredient search on allrecipes.com or use … [Read more...]
American Flag Cupcakes for 4th of July
Love cupcakes? How about a little American flag on the top of a cupcake? Very cute.Just frost any cupcake or muffin with while frosting, smoothing it out as much as possible. Then put some small blueberries to be the stars. Be sure they are dry when you put them on so they don't make a little puddle in the icing. You can make 3 rows of 3 … [Read more...]
The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
If you want a quicker chocolate chip cookie recipe just make them as bar cookies! This is the original chocolate chip bar cookie recipe from Nestle. Your kids might want to make these this summer.From the reviews:"Before putting in the oven [Mom] sprinkled approx. 1 cup of choc chips over the top of the dough in the pan, put it in the heated oven … [Read more...]
Graduation Party Ideas
The thing I like about graduation parties is that you can have them anytime after graduation, including anytime in the summer. When you have the party later in the summer it's becomes a little more precious to the grads. It becomes a farewell party as many of them leave for college.You can serve any food you like, but cookies (especially brownies … [Read more...]
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