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100 Great Cupcake Ideas. Child Hunger Ends Here. Brain Food Selector. Parenting Tips 365 » How to Avoid Artificial Food Colorings and Find Natural Alternatives. I recently shared with you the dangers of artificial colorings, especially for children.

Parenting Tips 365 » How to Avoid Artificial Food Colorings and Find Natural Alternatives

By now, perhaps you’ve seen how prevalent artificial colorings are, especially in non-food items. How to Make a Doctor Who Gingerbread TARDIS. So you have occasion to celebrate, and you want to do something special.

How to Make a Doctor Who Gingerbread TARDIS

Wanna make your event a little “wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey”? Why not build a gingerbread TARDIS? Granted, it won’t take you through time and space, but it’d be a baking project worth bragging about and showing off to your fellow Whovian friends. I wanna know where tha GOLD at!!! Ok. ok. ok.....

I wanna know where tha GOLD at!!!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes. Soft-baked Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups piled high with egg-free cookie dough frosting!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes

I’m sorry for doing this to you. Really, I am. I took my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe in the world and combined it with a chocolate chip cookie dough FROSTING. The frosting is egg free and completely safe necessary to eat. 3 Ways to Make Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes. You can make your cupcakes from your favorite recipe, or follow the steps below to make cupcakes from a boxed cake mix. 1Preheat the oven to 350°F/180ºC.

3 Ways to Make Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes

Put 24 paper liners into 2 12-cup muffin tins. 2Beat the eggs with a whisk in a large bowl. 3Add the cake mix, water and oil to the beaten eggs. 4Continue to beat the mixture for several minutes until the batter is smooth. 5Spoon the batter into the cupcake liners. Fill each holder 2/3 full. 6Remove the cookie dough sheet from the freezer. Place a frozen cookie dough ball on the top center of each cupcake. 7Bake both trays of cupcakes at the same time if your oven is large enough to accommodate 2 pans. Otherwise, bake each muffin tin at a time for about 20 minutes. 8Test for doneness by inserting a toothpick in a cupcake. 11Remove the cupcakes from the pan. Lime & macadamia Pinata cake - Happy Birthday to me! - Claire K Creations.

Lime & macadamia pinata cake For at least a week I had the same after work routine.

Lime & macadamia Pinata cake - Happy Birthday to me! - Claire K Creations

Come home, change into something more comfortable then mix up another batch of flour and water and carefully apply the newspaper strips to my craft project. Cinco de Mayo piñata cookies. Video how-to: Pinata Cookies Ingredients: 1 cup sugar1 cup powdered sugar1 cup butter1 cup vegetable oil2 eggs1 teaspoon cream of tartar1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon almond extract1 teaspoon baking soda5 cups flour1 tablespoon vanillaMini M&M candies1/2 cup powdered sugar (frosting)2 teaspoons milk (frosting) Directions to make piñata sugar cookies: Cream sugars with butter.

Cinco de Mayo piñata cookies

University of Cookie: How to PAINT on cookies! {a video tutorial} Shortbread Cookies. This is the basis—a Part One, if you will—of so many delectable dessert recipes, some of which we’ll discuss in the next post.

Shortbread Cookies

Crisp and flavorful, these shortbread-style cookies, while totally delicious in and of themselves, shouldn’t just be eaten alone. They’re meant to be a conduit, a liaison between cream and fruit…or with ice cream…or in any number of other shortbread-type applications. Note that these aren’t sugar cookies. Simple and Delicious Peppermint Meringues. Photo by Romulo Yanes Recipe by Gina Marie Miraglia Eriquez, Bon Appétit For step-by-step photos that show how to pipe these swirled meringues, see How to Pipe Meringues.

Simple and Delicious Peppermint Meringues

Ingredients 3 large egg whites, room temperature 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt 1/3 cup sugar 1/2 cup powdered sugar 1/8 teaspoon peppermint extract 12 drops red food coloring. Homemade Peppermint Patties Recipe. In the realm of knock-off candy recipes, peppermint patties are one of the easiest candies to make.

Homemade Peppermint Patties Recipe

With just a few ingredients, you can make smooth, creamy patties with a refreshing mint flavor–just like the store-bought variety! Unlike store-bought peppermint patties, though, these don’t contain corn syrup, artificial flavors, or something mysteriously called “PGRP.” Homemade Butterfingers. I don't eat a lot of candy, but I l♥ve Butterfingers. Salted Caramels. Homemade Salted Caramels I’m finding it hard to believe that it’s already February. Where the heck did the first one-twelfth of 2012 go? This past month has been a whirlwind of working, cooking, dining out and re-discovering free time after the last nine months of writing the book. I never truly appreciated the beauty of parking myself on the couch on a random Tuesday night and watching Real Housewives, Lockup, House Hunters, and Dance Moms (join the addiction!)

Marathons until my mind went numb. Homemade Hot Fudge Sauce. When I was a kid, we briefly resided with my great grandmother, Lottie. She was a magnificent woman and an incredible cook. Extra Chocolatey Chocolate Milkshake. The Easiest (And Most Delicious) Way to Make French Fries. Photo by Marcus NilssonBy Adam Rapoport, Bon Appétit Slow-Fried French Fries There are certain foods that are better when not made at home, like french fries. To achieve golden-brown perfection, you have to fry them twice: first at a low temperature, to poach them; then at a high heat, to crisp them up.

Very tasty, very much a pain in the neck. A few years back, I read about how French chef Joel Robuchon supposedly does it at his house: He puts sliced potatoes in a pot of cold oil, turns on the heat, and lets them go. Grand Cayman & No Bake Cookies and Cream Bars. Grand Cayman & No Bake Cookies and Cream Bars Yesterday we arrived on the third leg of our June trip.

After traveling from Miami to Key West to Cape Cod, we are now enjoying eight days of laying on the beach, scuba diving and great food in Grand Cayman. I love this place! Three years ago Andrew and I were married in the Cayman Islands on Seven Mile Beach.