Cooking
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Holiday Chocolate-Orange Biscotti
Holiday Chocolate-Orange Biscotti The weather is a bit cooler, the stores are buzzing with shoppers, Christmas lights shine, and our house smells of cookies. Chocolate-Orange Biscotti! Eric makes them every December. They. Are. Delicious! Click here for the recipe. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Love, The Rausin Family
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Easy, Inexpensive AND Delicious Homemade Holiday Gift
Easy, Inexpensive AND Delicious Homemade Holiday Gift I wanted to create a homemade gift for the holidays that was delicious and easy to make for a classroom or party. I searched online and found: Yummymummykitchen Check out her recipe, beautiful pictures and printable! Most everything you need to make these chocolate peppermint spoons can be found at the Dollar Store. I purchased the holiday tape from Home Depot. The spoons I used were soup spoons and didn’t fit into my popsicle mold so I poured the melted chocolate into a cupcake pan. Here’s all you need Plastic spoons Plastic cups or holiday mugs Chocolate bits (I used dark chocolate) Candy canes or peppermints Peppermint Flavor Mini…
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Snickerdoodles
I’m back! I spent a week in Charlotte, North Carolina at the most amazing writing workshop. If you’re a writer, I highly recommend Your Best Book through Free Expressions. Silly me, I thought I’d have time to write a post while I was at the workshop. What was I thinking? Every night there was a Craft Chat and even though I didn’t do much chatting – I sat, listened and absorbed until I felt like my head was going to explode. Meeting new people is difficult for me (notice I left out the word very!) but I was lucky enough to be amongst an amazing group of writers that welcomed everyone with an…
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Delicious Fall Dessert
Delicious Fall Dessert I first saw this idea on Pinterest. Thank you, Key Ingredient! I used their recipe for the chocolate cake and was pleasantly surprised with the taste. Adding pudding and chocolate chips to a box mix really makes a difference. Wow! I also followed the icing recipe except I added the juice of several clementines. Why, because they were sitting on the counter and I wondered what if? It made me feel like a baking mad scientist adding a secret ingredient. Well, the powdered sugar masked the orange flavor but at least I knew it was in there… Whaahaahaa! Then I got even more creative and decided to add candy corn…
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Pumpkin Bread
PUMPKIN BREAD I’ve been on a mission to actually bake some of the awesome recipes I’m finding on Pinterest. If they’re a success I’m pinning them on my Pinterest Success board. This recipe is definitely going up there! In fact when someone at Eric’s work saw my message on Facebook that I was baking he told Eric he was excited because Eric usually brings my goodies into the office. Well, when Eric tasted the pumpkin bread he threatened to hide the second loaf so he wouldn’t have to share. I then threatened to put a message on Facebook letting his co-workers know he ate their bread. It wouldn’t have been pretty. He begrudgingly took the pumpkin loaf to work. As…
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Fall Recipes
It’s my favorite time of year! Soon I’ll be able to turn off the air-conditioning and open up the house. I have my K-Cup pumpkin spice coffee and hot apple cider. My pumpkin candles are already burning. Now, I just need to find more fall recipes on Pinterest and begin baking and sharing. Meanwhile, here are some blast from the past recipes I love. Apple Crisp Pumpkin Pie Bites Pumpkin Bread Pudding Topped With Caramel Halloween Owl Cookies Jalapeño Grilled Cheese Chili Lava Cake Chocolate cake with a candy corn filling
