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Recipe: Simple Kid Friendly Mini Oreo Cheesecakes

Toni-Lynn — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 20:38:15 +0000

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#Recipe: Simple Kid Friendly Mini Oreo Cheesecakes

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Recipe: Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookie Cupcakes

Toni-Lynn — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:00:13 +0000

It is that time of year again where we all stock up on yummy Girl Scout cookies. I ended up with 15 boxes and had to find something to do with them other that grabbing 15 boxes and a gallon of milk The boys and I were making cupcakes and Royal asked if we could put cookies in them. I have had cupcakes with Oreo’s in them so I figured why not! The cookie get a little soft after baking and they were awesome.

Theses are so easy to make. Get the children involved and have a blast!

Simply make a box of white cake mix as directed and drop some green food coloring in the batter. There is no right amount to add, just keep mixing it until you get the desired color.
Fill your cupcakes liners about half full
Drop a Thin Mint on top of each
Cover the cookie with just enough batter to cover the cookie.
Bake your cupcakes as directed on the mix box
Frost and eat!

My boyfriends 9 year old daughter also made these. I have never met a kid who likes to cook and bake so much. She used chocolate cake, chocolate icing and dropped a Tagalong in the middle. She did a great job and they were delicious!

If you have some Thin Mint and want to give these delicious treats a little extra decoration, enter my giveaway below to win some items from McCormick to make them a little more fun! There will be 5 winners!

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Baking with McCormick (#Giveaway)

Toni-Lynn — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:00:08 +0000

I am so ashamed to say that I am so late getting this post up that it’s not even funny! the emails just kept getting buried until I forgot about it …..BUT, I still wanted you guys to have to have the opportunity to win some great McCormick stuff that I am posting it now!

Halloween is one of my absolute favorite holidays! Normally it is Christmas cookies that we are making but my nieces were in town and it was to cold to spend the day at the park so, we made cookies! I wasn’t able to get any pics of the complete project because the kids were just going nuts with frosting and sprinkles.

We used McCormick food coloring to color the frosting black, candy corn to make cat faces. My Mother-in-Law is always so happy when I bring her McCormick Black Food Coloring. It’s so hard to find around here for some reason (so she tells me) and for all of the baking she does, it’s a pain in the butt to make it. I think she is good for a few holidays now!

Enter our Giveaway!

Your giveaway prize pack will contain…… (Some items may be substituted duh to my craptastic job of posting so late!!)

McCormick Assorted Food Color, Black Food Color and Pure Vanilla Extract
Cupcake Liners
Silicone baking sheet
Le Creuset spatula
Mu Kitchen Oven mitt
Assorted Halloween Candy
“Tricks for Your Treats” Halloween decorating ideas

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Wilton goes back to the 3rd grade

Toni-Lynn — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:00:20 +0000

Since my son’s birthday is in July, he misses out on celebrating it at school. The teachers usually let them pick any day they want during the year to be there “school birthday”. This yea Royal decided he wanted it to be on the last day of school. As if this time of year is not crazy enough lol

I decided to just do cupcakes. It was the least mess and hassle for the teacher and I of course am a considerate mom The only thing about this is I hate to frost them and I am still in the learning stages with pastry bag. I took a few classes for it this year so while I am not horrible at it, there is still plenty of room for improvement.

I didn’t want to do anything to time consuming but I also wanted them to be cute. I had a bunch or Wilton Cupcake Wraps left over from a previous project so I figured I would just use those up. I also knew that I wanted to fill the cupcakes just for a little fun. I had never filled a cupcake before so I was a little nervous but it turned out being very simple.

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First I prepared one box of Duncan Hines Swiss Chocolate Cake Mix and one box of Duncan Hines French Vanilla Cake Mix because he wanted chocolate and vanilla cupcakes.
After baking and cooling, I filled my pastry bag with icing. Using a No. 230 round Decorating Tip I filled the cupcakes. It was VERY easy. Just stick the tip in the center of the cupcake about 3/4 of the way down. Gently squeeze the bag as you pull the tip up.
For my first time, I thought I did a pretty good job filling them.
I used a Pastry bag to put the icing on. I wasn’t sure which tip would be a good choice. I bought the Wilton 12 Piece Cupcake Decorating Set. It is a great starter kit for under $10. I used the Round tip 12 for the white icing which was a little smaller than I would have liked I used the 1M Star tip for the chocolate. This was a good size but uses a lot of icing.

To decorate the cupcakes I used the following Wilton Products:

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