I absolutely love carrot cake !!! I always make my mom make it for me any chance I get. But look a here I made my own and it was so good I cant stand it I even took a piece to my mom for her taste test she approved. This is the perfect cake with the perfect icing !

What You Need:

Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients:

How To Create:

Cream Cheese Frosting Directions:

If you don’t want to be hooked to another treat then don’t make this !! HA-HA at least you had a warning. These are truly amazing and a unique treat. My sister makes these all the time for her meeting and I finally tried them and WOW. Now it’s my  turn to make this greatness all the time.

What You Need:

White Cake mix

½ cup Orange Juice

1 orange for zest

3 eggs

½ cup water

½ cup oil

Vanilla ice cream

Marshmallow candy melts

Orange food coloring

-need small spring form pans- (Cheap on Ebay)

How To Create:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare cake with cake mix, eggs, oil, water, and food coloring. Bake for 24 minutes. Cool cakes and cut in half. Place top half of cake back into springform pan. Place one scoop of ice cream on top of cake in pan and spread evenly. Place top layer over ice cream and place in freezer. Prepare candy melts in microwave. Take cakes back out and spread candy melts on top. Sprinkle with orange zest. Place back in freezer for at least 45 minutes before serving. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.

THE PERFECT SUMMER HOT DAY TREAT.

This is pure 100% bliss ya’ll and finally a new unique treat the whole family will love ! Please ask me if you have any question at all… and if you make this I want to see !!

Good Morning !!! I love doing something a little special for breakfast on the weekends. And I did this yesterday and my husband and kids had them ALL gone in about 10 minutes. YAY !!! They are so easy and good and the kids also think something a little different is cool.

Looks amazing right? It Is!

What You Need:

18 hash brown bites

6 eggs

½ sharp cheddar cheese

4 slices of deli ham chopped

Salt & Pepper

Onion Salt

*Need mini spring form pans*  (I got mine on Ebay for so cheap)

How To Create:

Preheat oven at 375 degrees. Take out crispy crowns and defrost. Once defrosted, place 6 round hash brown bites in each pan. Bake in oven for 5 minutes. Smash crispy crowns into bottom of pan to make a crust. Sprinkle with onion salt and salt and pepper. Put desired amount of cheese in. Sprinkle in ham. Crack egg on top of each pan. In a separate bowl, separate yolks from whites. Take yolks and divide up into the 3 pans to fill in top. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake in oven 20 minutes. Unlatch spring form pan and serve! Recipe makes 3 cakes.

Hope ya’ll love it !!! We do and will be making these all the time ! As Always please let me know if you have any questions I love answering them !

Ya’ll I’m loving doing some fun stuff in the kitchen can you tell ??  Yes I’m normally a crafter not a cooker but the fun things I have been making lately in the kitchen can almost be considered crafty !! And of course it’s all easy and budget friendly I don’t do hard and expensive.

And valentines day at mu house is FUN for me and the kids it doesn’t have to be just a LOVE holiday !! I do fun stuff for weeks in advance. crafts, food, gift baskets for the kids etc…. You can be anti V-Day and still love this stuff !!

What you need:

Strawberries

JELL-O

Milk

Nutella

Optional graham cracker crumbs.

How To + Details:

1 quart strawberries
1 box JELL-O No Bake Cheesecake Dessert Mix
1-1/3 cups milk
1/2 cup Nutella
(optional, reserve the bag of graham cracker crumbs from the box for another recipe or sprinkle over the finished filled strawberries)

Directions

In the bowl of an electric mixer, whisk cheesecake filling powder with milk for 30 seconds on low. Increase speed to medium-high and whisk for 3 minutes. Add Nutella and whisk for 30 seconds. Refrigerate filling for 1 hour.

Cut the greens off each strawberry to create a flat bottom. Stand all of the strawberries up and use a knife to cut an X 2/3 of the way through the strawberry, careful not to cut through the bottom.

Fill a piping bag with a large star tip and the chilled cheesecake filling.

Use your fingers to open the center of the strawberry where you cut it and press the piping bag tip inside. Squeeze the bag to fill the strawberry allowing some to come out of the top.

Refrigerate until ready to serve.

SO EASY & PRETTY + GOODNESS !!!

Please let me know if you have any questions I try to be VERY detailed on all creations !! Thanks so much for coming by definitely more Valentine and foodie related post coming !!!

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Happy Weekend !!!!

LACI – XOXO

FOOTBALL FOOD

Smoked Salmon Cream Cheese Stuffed Pepperoncini

Holy amazing !!!! Your taste buds will score a touchdown !!! This is the perfect creation for game day !!! I live in GA so football is huge !!! We make it a gathering, party and even play cards in between sometimes. Yep and all the wife’s and girlfriend’s hogs the TV for the 1/2 time show !! Why not make it fun & create something amazing and eye catching ? Yes, beer and wings are AMAZING but have some good girl food the guys will love it to but won’t admit it !!

This is so easy and so good it’s almost to good to be true !

Ingredients:

Mezzetta Peperoncini

Lemon

Dill

Smoked Salmon

Cream Cheese

Greek Plain Yogurt

(I bought the cream cheese & yogurt already mixed)

Balsamic Glaze (Optional)

Directions:

• 1 (24-oz.) jar whole pepperoncini peppers drained and patted dry with paper towels.
• 12 ounces cream cheese, VERY soft
• 1/4 cup full-fat Greek yogurt
• 2 tablespoons fresh dill, finely chopped
• 2 teaspoons lemon zest
• 1 pound smoked salmon, cut into long, thin strips

1. Make a small incision – lengthwise – on the side of each pepper. Very carefully remove the seeds and discard them. Thoroughly dry the peppers with paper towels; set aside.
2. In a large bowl beat together the cream cheese, Greek yogurt, dill, lemon zest, salt, and pepper; mix well until completely combined… I got mine already mixed and it was so easy you can do either way.
3. Use a small spoon to scoop 2 teaspoons of the filling into each pepper. Wrap a thin, long strip of salmon around each pepper and secure with a toothpick. Garnish with dill and lemon zest *optional*. Serve at once or keep cold in the fridge until needed.

Tips:

I added the lemon zest (outside of lemon the peel) to my mix it was perfect for a extra kick.

Use a tiny spoon so easy to get it in the pepper.

Wrap salmon all the way around with a bit extra then secure with toothpick etc… I used mini forks.

You can make this up to 3 hours in advance just out in fridge.

#MostValueablePeppers.

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