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Snowball Cake Recipe from Taste of Home Cake Mix Treats Feb Issue INGREDIENTS 1 (16 oz) package angel food cake mix 2 envelopes unflavored gelatin 1/4 cup cold water 1 cup boiling water 20 oz can crushed pineapple with juice 1 cup sugar 3 Tablespoons lemon juice 1/4 teaspoon salt...

My 7 year old son has recently become wise to the Easter bunny scam. Of course, this is the same child who believes that Spiderman defends the city of New York, so why a giant bunny delivering candy is such a far leap for him is beyond me.  But regardless, he creeps him out, is...

When I was a kid, we used to dye eggs and leave them out for the Easter bunny to hide. The bunny would hide them, we’d find them in the morning, and then I’d sit and peel a few and eat them for breakfast. Dude. That is disgusting. Eating hard boiled eggs that sat out...

  Frozen Peanut Butter Butterfinger Pie INGREDIENTS Chocolate or Oreo Pre-made Crust 8 oz block cream cheese, softened 1/2 of a 14 oz can of sweetened condensed milk 1/2 cup peanut butter 1/4 cup powdered sugar 8 oz tub Cool Whip, thawed 8 fun size or 3 full size...

Malted Rocky Road Brownie Cupcakes INGREDIENTS 1 box Duncan Hines Chewy Fudge Brownie Mix 3 eggs 1/4 cup water 1/2 cup vegetable oil 7 oz jar marshmallow creme (0r fluff) For Almond Bark: 2/3 cup almonds, roughly chopped 16 oz milk chocolate candy coating (I used CandiQuik) For...

Root Beer Float Fudge (adapted from Chocolates and Confections at Home with the Culinary Institute of America) INGREDIENTS 4 cups sugar 1/2 cup light corn syrup 1/2 cup heavy cream 1 cup whole milk 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste (or vanilla extract) 3 teaspoons...

One thing about marriage that is not so romantic is that you run out of things to talk about.  Especially me, because I stay home all day, so it’s not like I have annoying co-workers or super important business lunches to discuss.  There for awhile, my husband would come...

  Do you drink hot chocolate in the Winter?   While drinking said hot chocolate, do you ever think “Gee, I really wish I had a giant stick of peppermint marshmallowey chocolate to stir with right now!!”?   I figured you did.   For the full...

  I used to really love the fact that every year after Halloween, I could use Santa as leverage to get my kid to do whatever I said.   Promptly.   But over the years, the fear of Santa has waned because  is he REALLY going to leave coal and reindeer poop as...

  Don’t you think it’s really strange…     …that my husband never answers my texts?   I should have had “answering texts” written into our marriage vows.   Anyways.   Remember last week how I shared those easy...

  Some of you may remember that I used to live out in the country across the street from a field of cows.  And then over the Summer we moved to a bigger city with a real neighborhood with people and driveways and stuff.   Well.   Things have not been like I...

  I was recently contacted by Candy.com and asked to create a fun treat using some of their products for the Candy Crafts section of their site.   And I said,” do you mean to tell me that your website is named CANDY DOT COM??”  And they said “why,...

  Anyone who knows me knows that I love my husband dearly.  He’s a bit older than me (6 years) and puts up with a lot of immature shenanigans on my end.  And as sure as I am that marrying him was one of the smartest things I’ve ever done and I will love him to...

  Here at home, my sweet baby Jon David has been going through what I call “a phase”.   It’s called the “Even though I’ve only been on this earth for 7  years, four of which I was still having accidents in my pants, I now know everything...