Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts
Hello friends! I wanted to share a quick and easy gift idea for your favorite teachers or even friends!


Have you ever heard of 3-2-1 cake? So simple and easy to make. You take a box of cake mix, any flavor, and a box of Angel Food cake mix (has to be Angel Food!!).


You dump both boxes in a large ziploc bag, close it, and mix it together really well. That's it. When you want a piece of cake, you take 3 tablespoons of the mix and place in a mug. Then mix in 2 tablespoons of water and microwave for 1 minute. Bing, Bang, Boom you've got a 3-2-1 cake!! So simple and delicious.

My favorite is red velvet. Though we have made chocolate cake before and dropped a dollop of peanut butter in the batter before microwaving. You can also make single serving frosting using 2 tablespoons butter, 2-3 tablespoons powdered sugar, and 1 teaspoon of milk.

So I found these adorable jars at Walmart in the Christmas section up front. You know, the area where they have all the boxed gift sets and cookie cutters and candy-stuff like that. Not the area near the garden with the trees and ornaments. Anyway, it had a cookie cutter tied to it with a ribbon but the jar was precious! I kept the cutter for another time.

I mixed up a red velvet 3-2-1 cake mix and filled the jar. Tied a Tablespoon to the jar in place of the cutter (found tablespoon at Dollar Tree!). Also found a mug at the Dollar Tree that would make a great addition to the cake mix.

I made these "Piece of Cake" tags to give out to teachers. Just look how cute it turned out!



Grab your own set of Piece of Cake tags HERE.

Happy holidays!




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Freezer meals are the number one best way to get ahead of things in your life. They are super simple to make and easy to prep as well. If you've had a super busy week like me, these are a life saver!

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Hi guys!! I am having such a fun October so far! Enjoying pumpkin spice and flavored everything.

Loving that Mardi Gras is upon us! I've been crazy busy getting things ready  for next week since we've only got three days of school. And I'm heading home so I've got packing to do as well! Phew! Time sure flies when you don't want it to! I made some cookies for the parade.
Learn how to make the masks at the end of this post :)
And Valentine's Day.

In a different twist to my usual posting, I wanted to share my fantastic cookie recipe with you. It's been the BEST SUGAR COOKIE IN THE WORLD. No lie. Seriously. The. Best.

Now I've been making cookies for quite some time now, and I've tried many, many, many recipes but the trick comes from what works for YOU. Weather has a crazy effect on food, heating, cooling, opening the oven door too many times, etc.

Anyway, here is the recipe I use that I have perfected over the years: This makes about 3 dozen cookies, depending on how thick you roll the dough.

1 1/2 cup butter, room temperature (3 sticks)
2 cups sugar
2 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup sour cream
5 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
First, cream the butter and the sugar. Add in the eggs, vanilla, and sour cream. Sift together the flour and baking powder and baking soda. Then blend in the dry ingredients.
Roll dough to desired thickness. I roll to about 1/2 inch because I love how thick and soft the cookies look and taste!! Cut into shapes. Place cookies on un-greased cookie sheet or cookie sheet with a layer of parchment paper. Bake for about 20 minutes or until the cookies look slightly golden.
And that's it!
You'll have some delicious cookies after this recipe! 

I have used Royal Icing, Color Flow, and Glaze icing. I like glaze the best, even though it makes the biggest mess in the history of the universe and ever, but it's yummy. Check out Cookie Crazie's Glaze recipe and tutorials. 

Awesome sauce! 

To make the Mask Cookies, cut out hearts from dough. Bake and cool. Choose your icing color and load into a decorating bag with a straight tip. Outline the cookie like the diagram below. 

Flood inside outline with icing. Let dry for 10-20 minutes and add details with other icing colors and let dry. 
Same thing with the Valentine hearts: outline, flood, detail. 

Like this: 



Ta-DA!!!!!



For my kiddos, I made these adorable Valentine Science Kits from Teach a Roo!
FANTASTIC find on Teachers Pay Teachers and her blog is amazing! 

Don't forget to check out my posts on Mardi Gras Math and Mardi Gras Madness, both math activities to add some carnival to your school day!










Happy Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, and Teaching!!
Happy Sunday y'all!!! I have had such a busy week that I've barely had time to sleep let alone blog.  Carly Summer has been sick, I've been trying to tie up all the loose ends at school, getting stuff ready for our training at LSU the last week of May, and for some unknown reason I've applied to graduate school again to continue my education and get my Ed Specialist degree, or Ph. D, depending on how much sanity I want left in my life. But tomorrow starts our last week of the 2013-2014 school year :( Sad to see my firsties leave me but we are having our end of the year party tomorrow and it's a LUAU!!! Hawaii baby!!!


In honor of this wonderful party I've made a sand cake. It's like a dirt cake but made with Golden Oreos!!! Yum!!
This is what you will need: 
2 packages golden Oreos
2 3.4 oz packages French vanilla jello pudding
3 1/2 cups milk
1 8 oz package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened 
8 oz. Cool whip
1/2 cup powdered sugar 

First, throw the cookies in a food processor and pulse until sandlike. 

Then, cream together the cream cheese, butter, and powdered sugar. This is also a great base for icing!! 

In a separate bowl, mix the pudding, milk, and cool whip. Let sit until thickened, about 5 minutes. 

Add the pudding to the creamed mixture and blend until fully incorporated.  I use my stand mixer with the whisk attachment and scrape down the sides of the bowl periodically. 

Now here is the fun part!! Layer the cookie crumbs and the filling in a fun sand bucket (that of course has been thoroughly washed!!).
Start with the cookies, then some filling, then some more cookies, and so on making sure to end with the cookie crumbs. If you can find edible candy seashells to garnish go for it!! I used fruit slices from Walmart that looked like shells.

Enjoy!! Aloha for now!!

Jessica 
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