It takes a pandemic for companies to reveal top-secret recipes like the Doubletree Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. My mom shared this recipe with me, so now I have to try it. The fact is since I’m staying at home I have more time to try new recipes. If you remember being handed a warm, chocolate chip cookie – then you were probably staying at a Doubletree. I remember eating one when I stayed in Hoboken, New Jersey for work.
Do you have a cookie recipe I should share on my blog? Please share it with us by leaving a comment with a link to the recipe!
I made these Strawberry Pistachio Cupcakes as a fun spring treat! I made this treat easy to make by using cake mixes and Wilton decorating supplies. The PEEPS® look like they want to sit in a nest, so I made a nest with some blue and green edible Easter grass. I’d love for you to Pin It to your Easter or Recipe board! Here’s how I made these cupcakes:
Spring flavors make these cupcakes a favorite for Easter!
Ingredients
Yellow Cake Mix
Strawberry Cake Mix
Pistachio Instant Pudding (3.4 oz)
Water (as needed for 2 boxes of cake mix)
Oil (as needed for 2 boxes of cake mix)
Eggs (as needed for 2 boxes of cake mix)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray two cupcake pans with no-stick cooking spray with flour.
Follow cake mix directions to prepare Yellow Cake Mix in one bowl and Strawberry Cake Mix in a second bowl.
Pour half of the Yellow Cake Mix into a third bowl.
Beat in the Pistachio Instant Pudding into the third bowl.
Drop spoonfuls of cake batter into the cupcake pans, alternating between the three flavors.
Bake for time indicated on the cake mix directions.
Cool then decorate.
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I used Wilton products to help me decorate my Strawberry Pistachio Cupcakes. I used edible Easter grass for the PEEPS® to nest in. I used a Wilton 1M decorating tip to apply green and pink frosting to my cupcakes. It was my first time to use the Wilton Royal Icing Mix and Wilton Icing Colors and I loved that the icing dries hard and it’s easy to get just the right color using the concentrated gel colors.
My photo below shows how I spooned each of the three cake mixes into the cupcake pan to achieve the marbled cupcake above. Next time I won’t fill the cupcake pan as full with batter because my cupcake tops baked right into each other. I didn’t use baking cups in my Wilton cupcake pan because they release so easily after baking it’s just not needed! But I did put my cupcakes in pink and green baking cups after I baked them so I’d get a pretty contrast to the Wilton Cupcake Wraps that look like white picket fences.
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Since I can no longer buy bread at the grocery store, I found an easy Great Everyday Bread recipe that I’m going to try. I don’t have instant or rapid yeast and my local grocery store is sold out but I was able to order some online. I wanted to share it with you in the hopes you have yeast in your pantry so you can start making your own bread too!
Do you have a bread recipe you love? Please share it with us by leaving a comment!
I told my mom I’m waiting to receive the yeast I ordered so I can make bread, and home ec genius that she is she recommended making an Irish Soda Bread recipe since I already have all of the ingredients. Hopefully you do too or I’m guessing you’ll have no problem finding buttermilk at your grocery store. If you don’t have one egg, you should be able to substitute 1/4 cup of applesauce or mashed banana for the egg. I decided to save my eggs (because they are precious right now) and used 1/4 cup of applesauce as an egg substitute.
Do you have a bread recipe you love that uses ingredients most of us have in our pantry? Please share it with us by leaving a comment!
It’s time to share some holiday cookies! I made Country Crock Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies using Country Crock from Meijer. Take advantage of this current mPerks offer at Meijer to: Buy one (15 oz.) Country Crock Spread, Get a FREE Country Crock Spread (thru December 25). Find your closest Meijer store and sign-up for mPerks so you can get this deal too!
I shopped at Meijer for Country Crock and the ingredients to make Country Crock Holiday Cookies. I enjoy baking at this time of year so I can deliver treats to our neighbors. Baking with Country Crock is easy because it adds delicious flavor to your baked goods. Country Crock Spread is made from simple ingredients: delicious oils, purified water and a pinch of salt.
I enjoyed making these cookies from the basic Country Crock Holiday Cookies recipe and adding these mix-ins: dried julienned cranberries, white chocolate baking chips. My kids helped me deliver these cookies to neighbors to wish them Happy Holidays.
During the hectic holiday season, this is an easy recipe you can whip up as a gift for friends and neighbors. Don’t forget to pick up your free Country Crock Spread when you buy Country Crock Spread at Meijer thru Dec. 25.
What kind of Holiday Cookies will you make?
Leave a comment on my post to tell me what mix-ins you’re using for your Holiday Cookies?
It takes a pandemic for companies to reveal top-secret recipes like the Doubletree Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. My mom shared this recipe with me, so now I have to try it. The fact is since I’m staying at home I have more time to try new recipes. If you remember being handed a warm, chocolate chip cookie – then you were probably staying at a Doubletree. I remember eating one when I stayed in Hoboken, New Jersey for work.
Since I can no longer buy bread at the grocery store, I found an easy 
I told my mom I’m waiting to receive the yeast I ordered so I can make bread, and home ec genius that she is she recommended making an 
