See how to make vanilla extract in the instant pot! It's quick and easy to make homemade vanilla extract with just 2 ingredients. Instant pot vanilla extract is the perfect homemade gift idea - especially during the holiday baking season. Homemade vanilla is delicious and can last for years properly stored in the pantry! Vanilla lasts longer when stored away from light. Use brown glass bottles to store homemade vanilla. The darker glass ...
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Easy Snacks For Kids: Peanut Butter and Graham Crackers
My kids have been back to school for a couple of weeks now. Last week, I started volunteering to help out with my son's Kindergarten class at morning recess. Let me tell you, these kids are starving by mid-morning! They have been working hard and their little bodies and brains are ready for a healthy snack. Children need wholesome snacks to make it through the long hours of a school day. At home, my kids can snack whenever they feel hungry. At ...
Cobb Salad Recipe
A Cobb Salad recipe is easy to toss together with crowd-pleasing ingredients including crumbled bacon, shredded Cheddar, diced avocados, and sliced hard-boiled eggs. This easy Cobb salad may be a little different from other ones you have seen, but I made it just the way we like it at my house. Cobb Salad Ingredients Cobb Salad ingredients usually include shredded lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, bacon, hard-boiled eggs, and avocado. The ...
Easy Fruit Desserts: Chocolate Berry Bowls
Fruit desserts like chocolate berry bowls make a lovely dessert display. You won't believe how simple it is to make edible chocolate bowls out of melted chocolate chips. Chocolate bowls filled with your favorite fruits and berries are easy summer desserts. Visit my other blog post for the step-by-step directions about how to make chocolate balloon bowls. Easy fruit desserts like chocolate berry bowls are perfect for parties! Summer desserts ...
Pumpkin Parfait Recipe
There's got to be a direct connection between the autumn leaves turning colors and my sudden inexplicable cravings for pumpkin pie! Fall flavors are the best, aren't they? It seems like I just can't get enough of the warm spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves. A delicious snack that covers all the best Fall flavors is a Pumpkin Parfait. This no bake recipe can be made in minutes with canned pumpkin, maple syrup, pumpkin pie spice, ...
Free Printable Pumpkin Bread Recipe Card
One of my website's most popular recipes is for a delicious Classic Pumpkin Bread recipe. Now it comes with a printable pumpkin bread recipe card! I have finally gotten around to making printable recipe cards for the homemade pumpkin bread recipe! See below for a couple of 5x7 print size design options. One recipe card design is full of fall colors. It looks really pretty printed on white or light brown Kraft brown paper or cardstock. ...
Easter PEEPS Marshmallow on a Stick
I can't imagine an Easter basket without Easter PEEPS. We are excited to tell you about them, plus share our sweet PEEPS on a stick edible craft. Yummy Candy Coated Sparkle PEEPS on a Stick. ...
DIY Lip Scrub (Dark Chocolate and Coconut Sugar Scrub Recipe)
This delicious DIY Lip Scrub inspired by this Pin is sweet enough to eat! Raid your pantry for the simple ingredients in this homemade lip scrub recipe. You'll need sugar, dark cocoa powder, coconut oil, vanilla and almond oil. Perfect for your lips, you can also use this as an all over body scrub. It only takes about five minutes to make, so it's easy treat yourself to a chocolate-scented at home spa experience. Have you made ...
Halloween Punch For Kids: Worm Juice (Please do not use live worms.)
Last year's Worm Juice Halloween Punch recipe was such a big hit, I decided to go back to my Book of Potions and concoct another version. The best part about this punch is the worms. But please do not use real live worms in this recipe. That would taste really gross. Your kids will not want to drink it. Pick up a bag of the sugary, gummy kind of worms instead. Those taste much, much better. Kids love them. And they ...
