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Project: DIY Dollar Store Tray
Why would you want to make a tray out of items from the dollar store? Here’s why: Attending a holiday work party and want your items to look attractive, presentable, yet you don’t have time to ‘guard’ your favourite dish? Or, perhaps, you’re attending a wine night at a friends and you don’t want to worry about bringing your platter back home, yet you don’t want to sacrifice the presentation. These are reasons to spend the 2$ (oh, and maybe another 0.25$ for the glue)…
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Recipe: White Hot Chocolate
This white hot chocolate recipes has a special treat – candy cane cool-whip. So festive and delicious. Ingredients 2-3 cups of cool-whip 1/2 cup of crushed candy cane 1/4 cup of white chocolate chips 1 cup of milk 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla First, you’ll want to start the candy cane cool-whip a few hours before. Spoon the cool-whip into a bowl and add in 3/4 of the crushed candy cane. Stir well. In a parchment paper lined flat dish, I used a cake round, spoon…
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Project: Halloween Treat Bags
It’s Halloween! halloween Treat Bags Time for treat bags. Last year I made loot bags and they were a big hit. This year, I wanted to do something similar, yet I wanted to keep within the same price point. The soda pop – each can was 0.25$…a 4 pack was a dollar. It’s a pretty funky old school pop can, I think it’s neat and very retro. Get this – Walmart was selling Halloween full size chocolate bars, 8 for 6.77$, or if you went…
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Recipe: Caramel Shortbread Cookies
Caramel shortbread cookies – with Dulce de Leche flavoured Eagle Brand Sauce. So good – the recipe (I only made a few adjustments) is adapted from the Eagle Brand site – the directions are below. Ingredients Shortbread 3/4 cup of flour 1/2 cup of cake flour 7 tablespoons of icing sugar 2 1/2 tablespoons of cornstarch 1/2 teaspoon of salt 3/4 cup of salted butter, softened Caramel 2 large eggs 1 can (380g) of Eagle Brand Dulce de Leche Caramel Flavoured Sauce 2 1/2 tablespoons…
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Recipe: Chewy Homemade Brownies
We have snow here on the ground in Northern Alberta…what better way to stay warm than to turn on your oven. It’s time for chewy homemade brownies! If you wish, you can make this recipe in one bowl, minimizing your dishes – or you can dirty 3 like I did. You pick! Ingredients 4 ounces of semi-sweetened Baker’s chocolate 3/4 cup of butter 2 cups of sugar 3 eggs 1 tablespoon of vanilla 1/2 cup of flour and cake flour First – gather all of…
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Recipe: Chocolate Banana Donuts
A few weeks ago I purchased about 12 bananas and let them rot. This is one recipe I was excited to try – chocolate banana donuts, or well, sort of donuts. This was my first time using my donut tin and I leaned a lot! Tip one, don’t fill them too full (or very full at all, for that matter). Ingredients 3 medium large ripe bananas 1/2 cup of melted salted butter 3/4 cup of brown sugar 1 large egg 1/2 cup of peanut butter…
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Recipe: Easter Cake Mix Cookie Cake
Easter is less than 2 weeks away – what does that mean? Time for Easter treats! Let’s bake up this Easter cake mix cookie cake. Ingredients white cake mix box 2 eggs 1/2 cup of canola oil 6 vanilla girl guide cookies 2/3 cup of pastel peanut m&ms First – get all your ingredients together and mix the first 3 in a large bowl. Next – chop up your girl guide cookies into 4-6 pieces. Mix in 2/3s of the cookie chunks. Mix in just…
