Frozen Lemonade Cupcakes For Mothers Day

As a little girl I would often visit my grandparents home and outside of their home was this huge   Lemon bush in which I  loved picking the lemons from and eating them just as I would an orange this must have been the beginning of my love for lemons.

Now I enjoy finding recipes that are lemon flavored especially baked goods. Here is the most recent one I found from Nestle and I think would be a perfect Mothers Day dessert.

Frozen Lemonade Cupcakes

from Nestle

You can have your lemonade and eat it too! Individually-sized pound cakes are dressed with a flavorful whipped topping and garnished with fresh lemon peel. Serve frozen for a refreshing anytime treat to stay cool this summer.

Ingredients:

• 1 can (14 ounces) NESTLÉ LA LECHERA FAT FREE Sweetened Condensed Milk or NESTLÉ CARNATION Sweetened Condensed Milk
• 1 container (6 ounces) frozen lemonade or limeade concentrate (about 2/3 cup), partially thawed
• 1 tub (12 ounces) frozen light whipped topping, thawed
• 1 (10.75 ounces) frozen reduced fat or fat free pound cake
• Grated lemon peel (optional)

Instructions:

PAPER-LINE 18 muffin cups.

CUT pound cake into 18 slices. Using 1 3/4 inch-round cookie cutter or appropriate size to fit into paper liners, cut slices into rounds (discard cake scraps or save for another use). Place cake rounds into paper liners.

COMBINE sweetened condensed milk and lemonade concentrate in large bowl; stir well. Stir a large spoonful of whipped topping into mixture. Fold in remaining whipped topping. Spoon evenly into liners. Freeze for 2 hours. Cover; freeze for several hours or overnight before serving. Garnish with lemon peel.

What To Do With All That Easter Candy

My home is now filled with empty plastic eggs, empty Easter baskets, half eaten bags of candy and sugar overloaded kids which only means there must be a few piles of candy around my house. So, now what will I do with all of this leftover candy?

Option #1 - Let my kids continue to overload on the sugar or Option #2 use a few of the creative ideas below:

Left over chocolate bunnies and eggs –

Melt them and create a yummy Fondu'

Melt them and create chocolate dipped strawberries.

Chop them up and use in your Chocolate chip cookie recipes.

Melt them over ice cream

Chop them up and add to a batch of brownies

Bake a batch of chocolate muffins

Shave the chocolate and use on top of other desserts and sundaes

M&M’s

Add into your cookie recipes

Add into your next batch of cupcakes

Add into brownies or Rice Krispie treats

Make a Brownie pizza

Add to your morning pancakes

Use in decorative jars for Spring

Peeps

Make microwave S’mores

for more leftover Peeps recipes click here

Jelly Beans

Jelly Bean Guess - During your next party or event place a jar full of jelly beans out allowing everyone to guess how many are in the jar. Winner gets to keep the jar.

National Jelly Bean day - April 22nd is National Jelly Bean day celebrate it.

Bingo Fun - Use jelly beans as bingo markers.

Trail Mix add in - Put some jelly beans in your trail mix. The added sugar will give you a boost or sugar high. Mix one part each of peanuts, pretzels, and jelly beans and any other yummy items you like in your trail mix.

Math Beans- Have your children create graphs with jelly beans sorting them by colors.

Creative Cupcakes - Use jelly beans to decorate cupcakes. With the variety of colors the decorating ideas are endless. Easy addition to making your cupcakes FUN.

Holiday Fun - Save your jelly beans in a zip lock bag to use on your Christmas Gingerbread houses.

Recipes - Create a Yummy dessert with Jelly Beans. Click here for recipes.

What are you doing with your left over Easter candy this year?

Spring Cupcakes For Easter

Who knew that Tootsie Rolls could be shaped into bunny heads and Starburst candies could be chopped into chick beaks and rabbit noses? With a little bit of know-how and creativity, dash assistant editor Shannon McCook shows us how anyone can transform everyday candies and snack foods into adorable cupcake adornments.

Check out the how to instructions and videos on dashrecipes.com: Click here to go there now.

PEEP Rice Krispie Treats On A Stick

Simple and Fast to create these fun PEEP Rice Krispie treat pops on a stick ( we used pre-made Rice Krispie treats) that we found over at Love From The Oven.  Click here for instructions.

Featured on 24/7 MOMS Live webcast.

6 Krispie Easter Treats

 

Easter Chocolate Crispy Treats

These classic cereal and marshmallow treats are made perfect with chopped up Nestlé Nesteggs. Click here for Nestle yummy recipe.

 

 Snap! Crackle! Pop! Cheep! Cheep!

 

Create fun and yummy Snap! Crackle! Pop! Cheep! Cheep! rice krispie treats from She Wears Many Hats. Click here for recipe and how to instructions.

 

Chewy Gooey Rice Krispie Chicks

 Fun Chewy Gooey Rice Krispie Chicks from  Cute As a Fox Creations.  Click here for recipe and instructions.

  Chocolate-covered egg shapes with sprinkles

Mold these egg shapes and dip them into chocolate and brightly colored sprinkles with your kids for extra-special Easter basket goodies from Rice Krispies.  Click here for recipe.

 Hidden Surprise Easter Egg Treats

Egg shapes with chocolate candies hidden inside. Give these Easter egg-shaped goodies a shake to hear the tasty surprise inside – M&M'S® candies! From Rice Krispies.  Click here for recipe.

Easter Rice Krispie Nests

Fill a nest shape with jelly bean "eggs"This cute snack is so much fun to make with your kids in springtime. They can help shape the nests and top them with their favorite jellybean "eggs." Click here.

for recipe from Rice Krispies.

Easter Bunny No-Bakes

 Easter Bunny No-Bakes

Make a batch of these Super simple, super yummy no bake bunny treats from Craft Buds.  Click here for complete recipe

Decorate It Yourself Easter Cupcake Buffet - 5 Simple Cupckaes

 Create simple Easter cupcakes that every kid and adult will love for your Easter celebration.


MOM Tip: Create a DIY Cupcake Buffet - Make a sample of each cupcake then place out the Supplies for a DIY cupcake buffet ( decorate it yourself).

Kids will love having the opportunity to create one of these simple cupcakes.

Fluffy Bunny Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 1 box vanilla cake mix and ingredients to make cupcakes per box instructions.
• 1 can vanilla/white frosting
• 1 bag coconut
• Pink sugar sprinkles
• 1 large marshmallow per cupcake
• 1 small marshmallow per cupcake
• Black cake decorator gel
• Cake decorator candy confetti sprinkles

Directions

1. Following directions on box of cake mix to make cupcakes.

2. Frost the cupcakes using the canned frosting.

3. Place desired amount of coconut into a bowl and dip each cupcake into it to create a fluffy look.

4. Cut the ends of a each marshmallow. Squeeze each end slightly to give it an oval shape, then decorate the sticky side of each one with pink sugar sprinkles and put a tiny bit of frosting on the back side then place on cupcake for the ears.

5. Add a candy confetti for the nose and two pieces of candy confetti for the eyes, and cut each mini marshmallows in half for the cheeks. Then draw the whiskers using the decorators' gel.

Easter Basket Cupcake


Ingredients

• 1 box vanilla cake mix and ingredients to make cupcakes per box instructions
• 1 can vanilla/white frosting
• 1 bag coconut
• Green food coloring
• Jelly beans
• Green pipe cleaners

Directions

1. Following directions on box of cake mix to make cupcakes.

2. Frost the cupcakes using the canned frosting.

3. Place desired amount of coconut into a zip bag and mix with 3 to 4 drops of green food coloring. add more if needed. mix well.

4. Place one teaspoon worth of the green coconut in the enter of each frosted cupcake.

5. Place 3 -4 jelly beans onto the coconut.

6. Bend the pipe cleaner fin to an arch or the handle ( cut to desired length) . Push each end to the sides of the cupcake to form a handle as seen in the picture.



Strawberry Surprise Cupcake

Ingredients

• 1 box vanilla cake mix and ingredients to make cupcakes per box instructions
• 1 can vanilla/white frosting
• Colored sugar sprinkles
• 1 Small fresh hulled strawberry per cupcake
• Fresh mint leaves

Directions

1. Following directions on box of cake mix to make cupcakes.

2. Remove the liner from the cupcake.

3. Cut and remove a portion of cupcake from the top/center of each cupcake, ( size of strawberry) leaving about 1/2 to 1-inch of cake in the bottom. Stuff each cupcake with a strawberry .

4. Frost each cupcake by spreading icing over the top of the cupcakes. Sprinkle colored sugar. Top with small mint leaves .

Fluffy Easter Chick Cupcake

Ingredients

• 1 box vanilla cake mix and ingredients to make cupcakes per box instructions
• 1 can vanilla/white frosting
• 1 bag coconut
• Yellow food coloring
• Orange gum drops or spice drops
• Black cake decorating gel or chocolate chips

Directions

1. Following directions on box of cake mix to make cupcakes.

2. Frost the cupcakes using the canned frosting.

3. Place desired amount of coconut into a zip bag and mix with 3 to 4 drops of yellow food coloring. add more if needed. mix well.

4. Dip frosted cupcake into yellow colored coconut

5. For eyes use black decorator gel or chocolate chips

6. For beak -cut orange gum or spice drop into desired shape.


M&M Spring Flower Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 1 box vanilla cake mix and ingredients to make cupcakes per box instructions
• 1 can vanilla/white frosting
• Colored sugar sprinkles
• Easter M& M's
• Confetti candy cake decorations
• 1 piece green fruit-by-the-foot

Directions

1. Following directions on box of cake mix to make cupcakes.

2. Frost the cupcakes using the canned frosting.

3. Sprinkle colored sugar. Place M& M's on top in a flower petal pattern. Press a confetti cake decoration candy in the center of the flower. Cut the fruit-by-the- foot to make the flower stem, press onto the cupcake

6 Eggstra Yummy Treats To Make and Eat

 Easter Bark
Easy to make Easter bark   is a great treat to make with the kids and a good way to make use of all the candy around the house with this recipe from World Eats.  Click here for complete recipe.







  Bunny and Duck Cake Pops
Create these adorbable Bunny and Duck Cookie pops from The Idea room using Oreo Cakesters.  Click here for complete recipe.

Fluffer Bunnies
These Fluffer Bunnies add the perfect touch to your Easter desserts and fun for kids table settings from Family Fun.  Click here to get instructions.

Carrot Patches
For a healthy and yummy snack serve these Carrot patches to bring smiles to your kids faces from Family Fun.  Click here for instructions.

Toll House Easter Basket Fudge
We think of making fudge during our Christmas baking why not for Easter with this added yummy twits adding colorful Easter candy from Nestle.  Click here for recipe.

Chocolate Chip Easter Baskets
These little Easter baskets  are sure to delight everyone in your Easter celebration from Nestle.  Click here for details.

Bisquick Cookie Recipes For Spring

Spring Has Arrived and it's time for some new cookie recipes  - On the shelf in my pantry sits this ginormous box of Bisquick that I buy almost monthly from Costco. Why? Because I am a Bisquick girl, raised on pancakes, waffles and shortcake made straight from the Bisquick box.  A couple years ago  I learned a baking secret about Bisquick that might surprise you.  That you can actually make homemade cookies using your box of Bisquick. So ready to try a few Springy Cookie recipes using your box of Bisquick?

Here are three recipes I found on the Betty Crocker website.


Monster Cookies

Monster cookies appeal to the cookie cravings in all of us. These monsters shout oats, chocolate, raisins and nuts.
Prep Time:50 min
Start to Finish:50 min
Makes:About 1 1/2 dozen 3 1/2-inch cookies


1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 cup shortening
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups Original Bisquick® mix
1 cup old-fashioned or quick-cooking oats
1 cup candy-coated chocolate candies
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped nuts, if desired

1. Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, beat brown sugar, shortening and eggs with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in remaining ingredients.
2. On ungreased cookie sheet, drop dough by 1/4 cupfuls about 2 inches apart. Flatten to about 1/2-inch thickness with bottom of glass that has been greased and dipped into granulated sugar.
3. Bake 12 to 16 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 3 minutes; carefully remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.
High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): Bake 11 to 14 minutes.

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Chocolate Candy-Peanut Butter Cookies

One plus one equals delicious! Chocolate and peanut butter are a perfect match in these classic cookies.
Prep Time:20 min
Start to Finish:50 min
Makes:3 dozen cookies
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1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
3/4 cup peanut butter
2 cups Original Bisquick® mix
1 teaspoon vanilla
Sugar
36 Hershey®'s Kisses® milk chocolates, unwrapped

1. Heat oven to 375ºF. Mix milk and peanut butter in large bowl until smooth. Stir in Bisquick and vanilla.
2. Shape dough into 1 1/4-inch balls. Roll in sugar. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
3. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until bottoms of cookies just begin to brown. Immediately press 1 milk chocolate candy into top of each cookie.
High Altitude (3500-6500 ft) Bake 9 to 11 minutes.

Quick Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cookie baking with Bisquick® mix eliminates the additional measuring that comes with scratch baking.
Prep Time:1 hr 20 min
Start to Finish:1 hr 20 min
Makes:About 4 1/2 dozen cookies


1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 egg
2 3/4 cups Original Bisquick® mix
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (6 oz)
1/2 cup chopped nuts, if desired

1. Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, mix butter, brown sugar, vanilla and egg. Stir in Bisquick mix, chocolate chips and nuts.
2. Onto ungreased cookie sheet, drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart; flatten slightly.
3. Bake about 10 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.
High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): Heat oven to 400°F.

Have you ever used Bisquick to bake cookies? Do you have a recipe to share with the 24/7 MOMS?

Gluten Free Snicker Doodle Cookies Using GF Bisquick

I have been serving Gluten Free Bisquick pancakes to some of the members of our family and I am so excited to have just discovered that there are more recipes using the GF Bisquick including this yummy sounding Snicker Doodle cookie recipe.

Ingredients

2	eggs
1 1/4	cups sugar
1/4	cup butter, softened
1/4	cup shortening
2	cups Bisquick® Gluten Free mix
2	teaspoons ground cinnamon

Directions

1. 1 Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, mix eggs, 1 cup of the sugar, the butter and shortening. Stir in Bisquick mix until dough forms.
2. 2 In small bowl, mix remaining 1/4 cup sugar and the cinnamon. Shape dough into 1 1/4-inch balls. (If dough feels too soft for shaping into balls, put dough in freezer for 10 to 15 minutes.) Roll balls in sugar-cinnamon mixture; place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
3. 3 Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set. Immediately remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks

Rainbow Angel Food Cake

This would be a FUN dessert to serve on St. Patrick's day - You could even change the cake top decorations to green sprinkles and gold coins to go with the St. Patrick's day theme. Click here to get recipe from Table Spoon.

Shamrock Krispie Treats For St. Patrick's Day

Who doesn't love a marshmallow Krispie treat?  this St. Patrick's day you can whip up a quick batch and create a fun GREEN treat.  Click here for complete instructions we found over at The Party Works

Mint Green Cookies For St. Patricks Day

During December my two daughters took a trip to California to visit their grandparents while their my mom taught my girls this simple recipe that quickly became a favorite for them. When they told me about it I thought it would make a perfect St. Patrick's day recipe - Simple and Yummy just what the 24/7 MOMS love.

Mint Green Cookies

from Betty Crocker

1	pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix
1/2	cup butter or margarine, softened
1/4	to 1/2 teaspoon mint extract
6	to 8 drops green food color
1	egg
1	cup creme de menthe baking chips
1	cup semisweet chocolate chunks

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1. Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, stir cookie mix, butter, extract, food color and egg until soft dough forms. Stir in creme de menthe baking chips and chocolate chunks.
2. Using small cookie scoop or teaspoon, drop dough 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
3. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until set. Cool 3 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Serve warm or cool completely. Store tightly covered at room temperature.

Dr. Seuss Cupcakes For Fun Eating

Celebrate Dr. Seuss Day with these yummy cupcakes.



Cat in the Hat Cupcakes from Kara's Cupcakes. Click here for instructions.





Dr. Seuss Hats Cupcakes from the Pioneer Woman. Click here for simple instructions.

Thing 1 and Thing 2 Cupcakes! from Kitchen Doughdough. Click here for complete instructions.

Three Dr. Seuss Cupcake ideas from Cuppie Cakes. There were no instructions but looking at these great pictures I'm sure you moms can figure out how to create them.

Irish Trifle Dessert For St. Patrick's Day

Having a easy to put together dessert is essential for a busy Mom, especially on the holidays when other household tasks are calling your name. Stop by Hoosier Homemade blog for full recipe and how to create this perfect St.Patrick's day dessert.

Click here to go to Hoosier Homemade blog.

Scrumptious Banana-Ginger Cookies

I love cookies so when I saw this recipe today I decided this will be the next NEW cookie recipe I will bake for my family. A littel nervous it may be addictive.


Banana-Ginger Cookies
from : Parents.com

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup packed light-brown sugar
• 2 medium-size ripe bananas, mashed (about 3/4 cup mashed)
• 2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• Lemon Glaze (recipe follows)

Directions

1. Heat oven to 375°F. Coat 2 baking sheets with nonstick cooking spray.

2. In medium-size bowl, stir together flour, salt and baking soda.

3. In large bowl, beat butter, sugar until light and fluffy, 2 minutes. Beat in banana, ginger and vanilla. On low speed, slowly beat in flour mixture.

4. Drop mixture by rounded tablespoons onto prepared baking sheets, spacing the mounds about 2 inches apart.

5. Bake in 375°F oven until lightly browned around edges and set, 8 to 10 minutes. Let stand on baking sheets 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire rack; let cool.

6. When completely cooled, frost and decorate with Lemon Glaze.

Lemon Glaze: In medium-size bowl, whisk together 2 cups confectioners' sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, 2 teaspoons grated lemon rind, 1-1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice and 1/8 teaspoon salt until good glazing consistency. Reserve 2 tablespoons. Frost tops of cookies with the remaining glaze, leaving the edges of the cookies unfrosted. Add 2 drops of yellow food coloring to the reserved glaze. Stir in a few drops of milk for a good drizzling consistency. Dip a fork into thinned glaze and drizzle over the frosted cookies.