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Easy Patriotic Cookies | 4th of July

Stacy — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 02:22:00 +0000

The US Men’s National Team is heading to the round of 16 in the World Cup. Fourth of July is next week. Any day is a great day to show your patriotic pride and if you have 20 minutes you can make really cute Patriotic Cookies, promise! You just need a couple simple supplies, like SweetWorks Pearls and Sixlets, and you’re ready to go. Of course you can always substitute your favorite sugar cookie and buttercream recipes if you have a little more time, I just never seem to have much of it lately!

Supplies:

Ready to bake sugar cookies

Frosting

Various Pearls, Sixlets, and sprinkles

I love working with the SweetWorks pearls, they are a little smaller than Sixlets, not chocolate, and they come in every color imaginable! You can pick them up pretty much anywhere they have baking or party supplies.

Bake your sugar cookies per the directions on the package and let cool on a cooling rack. I like to place the pearls in ramekins so they are easy to access.

Once the cookies are cool to the touch you can frost them. The Easy Frost comes with a star tip already on the frosting, no need to transfer it to a pastry bag, or you can just smooth it on the old fashion way. Both make equally pretty cookies.

After you’ve frosted the cookies just start adding Pearls, sprinkles, and Sixlets! It’s really that simple. Just press the candies right into the frosting to create any design you can think of.

Don’t have time/patience/desire to design the cookies yourself? Simple solution: set out the supplies and you have an fun activity for your kids or guests! It’s a TWO-FFER! Ooooo, come to think of it this would be a great activity for a Captain American or any superhero party!

The possibilities are endless!

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Crafty in the Kitchen | Pillsbury Grands Pizza Bake

Stacy — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:00:00 +0000

We have now survived about 3 weeks of kindergarten, gymnastics, and dance. Surviving is about the correct description of how we are fairing, too. It’s been a tough 3 weeks trying to figure out buses, packing lunches, doing homework, taking baths, and when to go to bed. There doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day, especially for eating. We’ve had to buy lunch a couple times at school because I wasn’t prepared for lunch and we’ve probably eaten out for dinner more than I would care to share! If any of this sounds familiar and you’re looking for a way to get dinner on the table quickly with minimal ingredients I have a recipe for you! A Pepperoni Pizza Bake using Grands!® Biscuits.

When I was searching Pillsbury’s Easy Meal Recipes on their website I couldn’t believe that I had never thought to use the biscuits in any other way than as biscuits. I mean, we eat a lot of biscuits, we are Southerns after all So when I came across this recipe for Grands!® Pepperoni Pizza Bake I was intrigued. We love biscuits, we love pizza, so how could I go wrong? Plus, I already stock all of these ingredients, BONUS!

Ingredients: (the full recipe and instructions can be found here)

Grands! Homestyle Biscuits
Pizza Sauce (I made my own!!!)
Finely shredded cheese
Turkey Pepperoni (you can use regular)

Preheat the oven to 375 and spray a 9×13 casserole dish with baking spray.

Slice each biscuit into 8 pieces and then throw them in a bowl with the pizza sauce and half the cheese.

Place the biscuit and sauce mix in the casserole dish, sprinkle with the pepperoni and the remainder of the cheese.

Bake for 20 minutes (that’s less time than it takes for the pizza man to come!) and serve.

Yup, it’s as good as it looks, probably even better. If you don’t want to take my word you can just look at my plate.

I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective. The content and opinions expressed here are all my own and are not indicative of the opinions or positions of General Mills. Compensation was provided by General Mills via Clever Girls Collective.
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Crafty Kitchen | Cheesy Biscuit Bombs

Stacy — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:00:00 +0000

I missed it last week but I am back for a new edition of Things I do Thursday! This week it’s a quick kitchen edition. Three disclaimers – 1) This isn’t an original recipe, but an adaptation from this delicious recipe I found over at Oh, Bite It! 2) I am anything BUT crafty in the kitchen. I don’t really cook food, I just prepare it. If I didn’t have 3 people in my house that constantly expect to be fed, I would live off salad and popcorn! C) Food photography is it’s own kind of special craft, and I just ain’t that kind of crafty!All that being said here is how I make Three Ingredient Cheesy Biscuit Bombs.

As the name implies, you’ll only need three ingredients to make these yummies. Of course, you could make your own biscuits, but as I said before, my craftiness doesn’t pass over the kitchen threshold.

You’ll need cheese, canned biscuits, and some garlic & herb butter.

This is my new favorite finishing butter. It has a lot more flavor than just your ordinary garlic butter, but whatever you want to use will be just perfect for this recipe.

Preheat your over according to the package. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and spread out your biscuits.

1. Use your fingers to make your biscuit into a bowl 2. Fill your bowl with the cheese 3. Close the bowl encasing the cheese in the biscuit, pitch shut 4. Flip the biscuit bomb over and top with a sliver of your garlic and herb butter.

Bake according to package direction, but err on the sooner rather than later side.

You’ll want to serve these Cheesy Biscuit Bombs as soon as you can while the cheese is still ooey and gooey!

I should totally close this post with somethine CHEESY like these BISCUITS are the BOMB, but I would never do a thing like that! Enjoy!!linked up: tatertots and jello | Kids Stuff World

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