Not a great picture of the slushies so go to the website where I got this recipe called That’s What We Said! and see the picture there which is so much cuter and also it is for a Strawberry Lemonade Slushie whereas mine is just lemonade slushie since I needed a yellow item to go … Continue reading
Another big shindig with the Young Women here yesterday! Our church has a goal setting program for our teenage girls that is called the “Personal Progress” program. We issued a challenge to the girls to set and accomplish 8 goals during the summer months and when school started back up again in the fall, their … Continue reading
Big shindig here on Wednesday night but I just haven’t had time to put in all the recipes until now. It was Girls Camp Wrap Up at my house so I got to spend the day cooking and baking and creating in the kitchen, it was a good day! We ate and reminisced about camp … Continue reading
So this post could also be called “Fun at the Dollar Store” since I bought all of the items for this project at the Dollar store. Some of my cute little neighbor girls just graduated from high school and I wanted to give them a little something to celebrate so I hit the dollar store … Continue reading
The blog has been a little quieter lately and that’s because I started working on a movie on Monday; it’s a movie for the ABC Family Channel and I’m doing wardrobe on this one from now until almost the end of March so posts will be a little less numerous for the next couple of … Continue reading
Here is whoopie pie recipe #2 from Wendy Paul’s “101 Gourmet Cookies for Everyone”. These came our rounder and firmer and smaller than the other ones. There were some of these leftover and they are delicious! cookies: 1/2 cup butter, soft 1 cup brown sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 tablespoons food coloring (she … Continue reading
Last night we had our Evening of Excellence for the young women and I was in charge of the treat so I decided to make whoopie pies. I found this recipe in a magazine (can’t remember which one). It was meant for Halloween as they had rolled the edges of the pies in orange sanding … Continue reading
So here are the Cupcake Haunted Houses that the girls made at Activity Night last night. They came out really cute! The idea and instructions come from the cookbook “What’s New Cupcake” by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson. The instructions are long, they take up 3 full pages in their cookbook, and I just don’t … Continue reading
I’ve got a quick and easy Halloween treat idea for you. I found these Reynolds shaped baking cups at either Target or Walmart; there are 24 of them and they are ghost shaped. Mix up a cake mix, any kind, (I did a yellow cake mix and mixed ghost, pumpkin and bat shaped sprinkles, which … Continue reading
Here are the finished cupcakes decorated in the camp’s beach theme. I frosted them with my homemade Vanilla Buttercream Frosting. For the sand, I crushed graham crackers in my food processor and then poured them on a plate and dipped the freshly frosted cupcakes in them, rolling around gently as needed to cover the tops. … Continue reading
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