Category: Recipes

Jungle Animal Cupcakes Recipe!

I recently took my kids to our local Zoo and they loved it! They asked for a fun animal-themed recipe, so I think that I’ll make these cupcakes! If your kids love zoo animals, as much as mine, then check out this adorable Jungle Animal cupcakes recipe! Let us know what you thought of this recipe and how yours turned out, we’d love to know! You’ll need:

Cupcakes and Frosting

• 1 box Betty Crocker™ SuperMoist™ yellow or devil’s food cake mix
• Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box
• 1 1/4 cups Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy chocolate frosting
• Black food color
• 2 1/2 cups Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting
• Yellow and red food color

Lion Decorations

• 1 1/2 cups caramel popcorn
• 12 brown miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits
• 12 pretzel sticks
• 12 pieces Cheerios™ cereal (any flavor)

Tiger Decorations

• 12 brown miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits
• 12 orange chewy fruit-flavored gumdrops (not sugar coated), cut in half crosswise, top halves discarded

Monkey Decorations

• 12 brown miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits
• 6 miniature marshmallows, cut in half crosswise, pieces flattened
• 12 small round chocolate-covered creamy mints

Zebra Decorations

• 6 round vanilla wafer cookies
• 24 brown miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits
• 6 black chewy licorice-flavored gumdrops (not sugar coated), cut in half vertically

For additional details on how to make this tasty treat, click here!

Bacon, Bacon, Bacon, Bacon!!! That is what the commercial says and that is what this post is about.  Always and forever bacon will be a crowd pleaser.  Here are a handful of recipes that are surely going to get the crowd amped for mealtime. Let me know if you have had these, or if you are going to try them. I’d love to know your feedback!! I can personally attest to the jalepeno poppers, and I’m dying to try.. well.. everything else!! Enjoy!!

Bacon Pancakes Recipe

• 12 slices of bacon
• 2 cups prepared pancake batter (from a mix or from scratch)
• softened butter
• maple syrup
• Here’s a recommended recipe for making pancake batter from scratch.

Instructions:

1. Prepare the pancake batter with slightly less water or milk than instructed. A thicker batter will help prevent the pancakes from flowing into each other.
2. Set your griddle to medium-high.
3. Fry the bacon until crispy. Remove the bacon from the griddle and lay slices on stacked paper towels to remove excess grease (and to get more crispy).
4. Carefully, wipe down the griddle with wadded paper towels, leaving only a very thin layer of grease to cook the pancakes.
5. Return the cooked bacon to the griddle with at least two inches of space on both sides of the slices. (You’ll probably have to work in two batches.)
6. Slowly pour batter over each bacon slice. After one minute, check the bottom side of the pancakes. Once browned, flip the pancakes and cook the other side to golden brown.
7. Serve immediately with softened butter and warm maple syrup.

Bacon, Egg and Toast Cups
Serves 6 or more

Ingredients: 

• Cooking spray
• 6 slices white or whole-wheat sandwich bread
• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 6 slices bacon, preferably thick cut
• 6 large eggs
• Coarse salt and fresh ground pepper

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 375^o F. Spray 6 standard muffin cups with cooking spray.
2. With a rolling pin, flatten bread slices slightly and with a 4-1/4″ cookie cutter, cut into eight rounds. (Now, most of us don’t have a cookie cutter that large.
3. Flatten your bread and place your largest round cutter on the bread and use as a guide to cut that size hole. 4-1/4″ is pretty much what a piece of sandwich bread will measure when flattened.
4. So, you are essentially cutting the largest round you can minus any crust.)
5. Cut each round in half, then press two halves into each muffin cup, overlapping slightly and making sure bread comes up to edge of cup.
6. Use extra bread to patch any gaps on bottom or sides.
7. Brush bread with melted butter.
8. In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium, until almost crisp (I cooked my bacon in the oven for 6 minutes on 375^o F.)
9. The bacon will continue to cook in the oven.
10. Lay 1 bacon slice in each bread cup and crack an egg over each.
11. Season with salt and pepper. 
12. Place muffin tin on a rimmed cookie sheet to catch any bacon fat. 
13. Bake until egg whites are just set, 20 to 25 minutes.

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Easter Bunny Cups and Bunny Bait DIY!

Easter is right around the corner and my kids have already been looking for some fun craft ideas! Your kids will love making these Easter Bunny Cups and filling them with tasty treats! We will make our baskets this weekend and let you know what we thought! You’ll need the following:

• White paper cups
• Easter Bunny Ear Template
• Googly eyes
• Mini pink pom poms
• Black wire whiskers
• Cotton Ball
• Hot glue or glue dots
• 1 bag of popcorn
• 1 cup white chocolate melts

Let us know what your kids thought of this DIY project, we love to hear from our readers. For additional directions on how to make this craft, visit the Giggles Galore Webpage!

Recipe for BIRTHDAY CAKE POPCORN!

Check this recipe out! This would be perfect for a birthday party or even just a night in!

1 1/2 cups melted white chocolate or almond bark
1/4 cup vegetable shortening
1 1/2 cups white cake mix
6 cups of popcorn
1/4 cup sprinkles

Melt the chocolate or bark in a microwave safe container for 30 second intervals (stirring each time) until melted and smooth. Add the vegetable shortening to the warm chocolate and stir until combined. Add the cake mix into the chocolate/shortening mixture.

Pour the popcorn into a large bowl, pour the warm chocolate over the popcorn, and stir until evenly coated.

Pour the popcorn onto a cookie sheet covered in wax paper and immediately coat in sprinkles before the mixture hardens. Once the popcorn is totally cool,eat or store!

Recipe — DONUT MILKSHAKE!

So so easy!

In a blender, combine 4 scoops ice cream, 1 donut, and 1 cup milk. Blend and enjoy!

And you can always garnish with another donut!

Thanks to A Beautiful Mess for this sweet treat!