Food, Crafts and Fun
Note – this recipe isn’t for an ordinary Oreo Brownie. Oh, no. They don’t have “Oreos” in them at all. So why are they called Oreo Cream Filling Brownies? What’s the best part of an Oreo? It’s the cream filling, right? Well, this brownie has the Oreo cream filling on top of it. Like a […]
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These are just like our Two Tone Heart Cookies that we made for Valentine’s Day. The only thing we did differently was we used a shortbread recipe (the same that we used for our Clover in Clover Butter Shortbread Cookie) and we covered the backs of the cookies with melted milk chocolate. Because isn’t everything […]
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A friend of mine told me about 7 Up Biscuits awhile back and I’ve wanted to make them ever since. Then a co-worker brought some to work and that sealed it for me. They were delicious! They are all over Pinterest, mostly with no link to a website. But here’s a site that does have […]
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I just loved our Two Tone Heart Cookies that we made for Valentine’s Day. Then I got to thinking…. how much fun could we have with these? I just love shortbread cookies so we went with a buttery shortbread cookie recipe rather than a sugar cookie. But you could use either. You can add as many […]
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I’ve been wanting to make these bars for some time now. Apparently pretty badly because when I looked at my “super secret TO MAKE board” on Pinterest I noticed I’d pinned them four times! We opted to not put nuts in them since we’re not nut people and we used milk chocolate chips (because I […]
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It’s Secret Recipe Club time again. Where did the month go?! With our freakish snow storm this month, everything is now goofed up for us. Plans were cancelled, events were rescheduled and now life seems to be a giant scramble to fit everything in. But I do love the 3rd Monday of the month where […]
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I was pretty sceptical about how this fudge would turn out. It just sounded too easy. But I had a tub of Caramel Apple frosting in my cupboard and was intrigued enough to give it a try. And we’re still on the hunt for the best fudge recipe out there. It was so easy! Only […]
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Show of hands – who hasn’t heard of Minecraft? Now, of those of you who hands up, lower your hands if you don’t have children. How many of you are out there with your hands still up in the air? I’m guessing not many. This who Minecraft thing has taken off and kids love it. […]
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I’ve decided I’m going to try to learn how to decorate sugar cookies. If you don’t decorate sugar cookies yourself, you’re probably thinking “what do you mean ‘learn’?” If you haven’t tried it, you won’t understand. Because decorating sugar cookies is HARD! Hard, I tell you. But… you have to start somewhere. Right? So here’s […]
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For the first time in years, we have snow! SNOW! I know you all are thinking that snow is no big deal. But for us in the Pacific Northwest, we don’t get it very often, so when we do… it’s awesome! The kids are outside playing for most of the day, coming in long enough […]
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I love Halloween! Have I mentioned that? Yep, love it! And how could I not when this is what decorates my kitchen? Cool, right?! Dirty Q-Tips! Ha! I saw these over on Pinterest too. Along with the Bloody Band-Aid Cookies that we made. It originally came from Katherine Marie Photography. Super simple but the […]
My daughter saw these wonderful looking treats in her Fancy Nancy Tea Parties book. (Did I mention we LOVE Fancy Nancy?!) Her books are stupendous (that’s fancy for great!) I did an earlier post from this book as well. Click here to see it. So Ellie saw these and said to me “oh, let’s make […]
Are these the cutest cookies EVER?!?! Not to toot my own horn. Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t invent this recipe. I just stole it =o) But how could I NOT steal it, right?!?! After I saw this cookie on Raina’s blog The Garden of Yum I knew this was the next cookie I was […]
Normally when I look at Sue’s blog I sit back and think “Man, why can’t I do that?!” She is amazing and so talented when it comes to baking and decorating the cutest cookies ever. Then I saw this post and thought “holy smokes, I can do that!” I was so excited! I’m always looking […]
Happy 4th of July everyone! What are you doing tonight? I’m going to hope I don’t fry my eyebrows while I watch the amazed looks on my kids face as the fireworks go off. They love fireworks. Well, not the loud ones. =o) When I saw these adorable Corn Dog Cookies over on Sue’s blog, […]
This may not look like much but let me tell you… it is delicious! My kids and I love root beer floats and have seen a lot of homemade popsicles out there that claim to be rootbeer floats, but they are imposters. Thanks to Almost Unschoolers for this amazing find because here is a real […]
I’ve decided I love my food markers. I mean seriously. Who ever came up with that idea is a genius. Because we’re having so much fun with them. Who wouldn’t love a cup of this hot chocolate in the morning?! My kids thought it was great. They thought I bought the marshmallows like this. […]
To continue our April Fools Day fun food extravaganza, we have a simple but fun one for you today – Peanut Butter Potstickers. They don’t totally look like potstickers, but my kids didn’t care. They loved them. And they were so simple to make. Thanks Party Pinching for this great idea. What you’ll need: * […]