When people mention homemade banana ice cream they are usually not referring to real ice cream. Some creative person thought it would be a great idea to freeze bananas, then blend them and call it “ice cream”. Now, the dessert is delicious and a lot healthier than real banana ice cream but it definitely doesn’t… Read More Homemade Banana Ice Cream
These vegan Oatmeal “Cookie” Treats saved my life while I was participating in a Daniel Fast a few years ago. The Oatmeal Cookie Treats were my go to dessert when I wasn’t allowed to eat anything with added sugar or flour for 3 weeks. I love desserts and carbs so fasting them for 3 weeks… Read More Healthy Vegan Oatmeal Cookie Treats
Jam is one of my favorite ways to compliment the flavor of biscuits or a piece of toast. I grew up eating breakfast sandwiches and biscuits with grape or strawberry jam on them. Most of my life I’ve eaten Smucker’s brand jam. My husband loves buying homemade jam and he asked if we could try… Read More No Sugar Added Jam
Chia Seed Pudding is a healthy dessert, snack or breakfast dish. The pudding can be made the night before to eat the following day. I’m getting ready to enter a 12-week health and fitness program with the No Excuse Moms group called the “Pot Challenge”. Everyone pays $25 and then based on weight loss and… Read More Easy to make Chia Seed Pudding
Ice Cream Cupcakes are a play on a traditional cupcake, using melted chocolate as the holder and ice cream as the “cupcake”. I was challenged on my Facebook page to re-create the Food Network Ice Cream Cupcake to see if it was possible. I followed the steps in the Food Network video below and was… Read More Ice Cream Cupcakes
A fun and simple project to do by yourself or with your children is to take markers and turn them into water colors. On my Facebook page, I was challenged to see if Crayola Markers with a plastic bag and water could be used to create a watercolor background. For the experiment, I colored a… Read More A Simple Way to Turn Markers into Paint
Unicorn cakes are very popular right now. People are having unicorn themed birthday parties and at all the parties there are unicorn cakes. My 6-year-old daughter has asked me to make her one several times. I usually avoid decorating cakes. Baking is something that I love to do but I’m only “okay” at decorating and… Read More Extra Steps for Your Unicorn Cake
I first learned about string art while watching a Buzzfeed Nifty video. During the video, I watched a person wrapping a string around nails to make beautiful patterns. I instantly fell in love with the idea of using string to make art and added it to my project “to do” list. Months went by and I never… Read More String Art Challenge
So, last week I made my first button bowl! The goal of this blog is to provide inspiration, tips, and instructions. I'm currently taking craft and recipe challenge requests from my Instagram and Facebook followers. I want to show that with some inspiration, instructions, and lots of practice we can do MOST things we set our mind… Read More Button Bowl Challenge
Naked cakes have been a popular trend over the last 5 years. Naked cakes are cakes with only icing on top and no icing on the sides. It is what the cake looks like before the baker adds icing to the sides. One thing I like about naked cakes is it has less icing!… Read More 3 Layered Naked Cakes
