Thank you Robert Rose Publishing for sponsoring today's post. I love canning. I have salmon, apple pie filling, blackberry pie filling, and apple butter still from last year's canning. I cannot wait to do more! Did you know that there is more than canning you can do with a glass jar? Deserts in a Jar is all the rage now. So fun and easy. {More about that later in the post!} First here are 10 FREE printable canning jar labels that you can use for canning or for desserts in a jar: 1. … [Read more...]
Printable Bible Verse Cupcake Toppers
I installed Photoshop Elements onto my laptop and I am having such fun. My Princess and I made cupcakes again this last week for church potluck - just a simple cake box and tub or frosting but I decided to make some cupcake toppers. I searched my favorite site for crafty ideas - Pinterest - but could not find the ones I wanted for church. I wanted ones with Bible verses. So I opened my Photoshop Elements program and made 2x2 inch cupcake toppers. I then put them on a 8.5x11 inch file and here … [Read more...]
Baking With Grandma (Almost WordlessWednesday Linky)
This last week my Princess helped my mother, her grandma, make a dump cake for church potluck. My Princess loves making dump cake. This week's dump cake is my mom's recipe: Cherry Pineapple Dump Cake. Baking With Grandma: 1. Mix Cherry and Pineapple on the bottom of the baking dish. 2. Mix yellow cake mix with 1 stick of butter. My mom always melts her butter and then adds it. The mixing of the cake mix and butter is my Princess' favorite part. Top the fruit mix with crumbled cake … [Read more...]
Peppermint Sugar Cookie Kisses Recipe
I know Christmas is over, but we had such a great time this holiday season baking cookies. Family Christmas traditions are important and baking sugar cookies has been ours for quite some time. A sugar cookie kiss is always such a hit with family and friends of all ages. This year, we decided to make a bit extra and share them with our church family. I am a big proponent right now at this stage in our life to make semi-homemade things. So I purchased the sugar cookies ready to bake. It is … [Read more...]
Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls
For Father's Day this year, I made my husband one of his favorite desserts - cinnamon rolls. But while on the internet I found that you can make them using a cake mix. Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls? Really? How can I pass that up. I mentioned previously that I started Weight Watchers in June, but I also admitted to taking my "free", extra 49 points day on Father's Day. That was so I could eat 2 Cake Mix Cinnamon Rolls. (I promise, I really only ate 2!) This was only the 2nd time I made … [Read more...]
Memorial Day Food Ideas
Each year our family celebrates Memorial Day with a party. We have 3 family birthdays that weekend, and our community hosts a softball tournament at that time. As we celebrate we also remember those who died for our freedom. Does your family have any Memorial Day traditions? 12 Memorial Day Food Ideas Strawberry Shortcake Cupcakes Dipped Pretzels Strawberry Pineapple and Blueberry Vegan Ice Cream Memorial Day Cupcakes Star Spangled Sugar Cookies Patriotic Raspberry Coconut … [Read more...]
15 Decadent Chocolate Desserts For Valentine’s Day
With Valentine's Day coming up, it is hard not to think about chocolate recipes. {Well, at least it is not hard for me!} So as I was searching online for some great Valentine's Day food ideas. {No, I was not wasting time. Chocolate desserts are important people! Right?} Here is what I found: Chocolate Caramel Candy Berry Chocolate Bites Cake Mix ROLO Cookies Chocolate Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Parfaits Cake Mix Peanut Butter Stuffed … [Read more...]