8 Sweet Treat DIYs

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Hello again everyone! Today I have eight delightful DIYs for you to help you with your baking. As always, let me know what you think in the comments below and lets get started!

Have you ever accidentally got an eggshell in your yolk? Don't worry, it happens to me all the time. Probably like 99% of the times I've ever cracked an egg in my life. I'm pretty sure I learned this DIY while watching some cooking show a while back. But anyway, dip your finger in water to have the shell stick to your finger when your trying to get it out. This trick is definitely the easiest way to snatch that stubborn eggshell! 

Have really tough butter? Need it softer for buttering a bagel or something? Don’t microwave it! Cover it with a warm glass, this trick perfectly heats things up real fast!

Anyone a little OCD like myself? While making cupcakes, I always use an ice cream scooper so all my cupcakes are perfectly the same size.

Ever been in a situation where you don’t have a muffin tin? My sister and I have been in this situation one time when we needed to make cupcakes for a girl scout event and completely forgot to bring one. What did we do you ask? We used the lids of mason jars to hold up the cupcake liners. This ended up working great!

Having trouble frosting? Make your cupcakes look slightly more professional with nothing more than a plastic bag. Just scoop some of your frosting to one corner of the bag, and then snip off a little bit of the corner with some scissors. Perfect piping tool!

Want to try something different than icing? Or maybe you're in a situation where you don't have icing at all? Use marshmallows! Literally put a marshmallow on a cupcake and bake for five minutes. The marshmallow will melt and form around the cupcake, looking like perfect and even white frosting! I found this on Pinterest, CLICK HERE to check them out, they have amazing hacks for just about anything! 

Have left over cookie dough? If you're like me you could just eat it. But if you need a way to easily store your cookie dough, put it into an ice tray in the freezer to save for later. Then you get little bites throughout your week of cookie dough snacks.

Best way to save your cookies? Before you put your container of freshly baked cookies away, cut an edge of an apple out and add that into your container. Make sure the skin part of the apple touches the cookies so the juices don’t get soggy. Anyway, this trick keeps your cookies nice and soft and never hard. Don’t believe me, try it yourself! 

So those are my eight DIYs for all the sweet treats you will be making for the rest of your life. Also, don’t forget to vote on my poll so I know what you guys want to read about, and I’ll see you guys next Saturday!

5 Genius Hot Chocolate DIYs

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Hello everyone! I wasn’t really sure what I was going to blog about this week, and as I was thinking about this I was drinking hot chocolate when I thought I could give you guys some DIYs to spice up your hot chocolate (even though its abnormally warm outside) Let me know what you guys think about these tricks in the comment section and I hope you enjoy!

Hot Chocolate DIY #1: Broil your hot chocolate with marshmallows on top in your oven at the lowest setting to give your marshmallows a beautiful color. I recommend doing this over microwaving it because microwaving it doesn’t give the marshmallows any crispness to it, it will just blow up the marshmallows making them look huge with no pretty color either.

Hot Chocolate DIY #2: Add some vanilla extract and hot chocolate to your french toast mix to create chocolate french toast! This honesty taste amazing! I made them a while ago for my sister’s birthday and she fell in love with them too. Hot chocolate is the best was to make chocolate french toast because the batter needs to stay thin and using other kinds of chocolate, such a chocolate syrup or melted chocolate chips will make the batter too thick for the bread.

Hot Chocolate DIY #3: Add very crushed and fine Oreos to your hot chocolate mix to bump up your Oreo hot chocolate! You have probably had Oreo hot chocolate before, where someone has cut up some Oreo junks into your drink. But if you grind the Oreos to and extremely fine consistency, you will be able to add it throughout the whole drink without all of the good stuff sinking to the bottom.

Hot Chocolate DIY #4: Add hot chocolate powder to your melted marshmallows when you're making rice crispy treats to make chocolate rice crispy treats! As I said before, hot chocolate is the best way to do this due to the consistency of it, since it wont affect the thickness of your chocolate rice crispy treats. 

Hot Chocolate DIY #5: Add hot chocolate powder to cashew butter and freeze it over night for a healthy and delicious fudge! I learned this from a nutritionist named Lindsay who came to my house and taught my sister and I some natural and healthy recipes. 

f you want to know more about Lindsay click HERE. She is an amazing nutritionist and is a very kind lady. She will come to your house and cook an amazing dinner with you and while she does it she teaches you how to cook the natural and healthier way.

Want some more hot chocolate recipes? Click HERE! This website has tons of recipes for any season and have so many more ideas than what I have come up with here. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed these and let me know what more you want to see by voting on my poll! I’ll be coming up with two more posts by the end of 3rd Quarter. 

7 Baking DIYs for Pros

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Hello everybody! Today I have seven easy baking hacks that I came up with, with the help of my grandma, who basically taught me everything I know about cooking and baking. She and I would always cook together whenever I was at her house when I lived in Pennsylvania. So I can approve that these DIYs came from an expert when it comes to the art of food. Let me know what you think in the comment section and I hope you enjoy!

Have you ever wanted to make your own whipped cream instead of using the cheap stuff from the can? Fill a jar with heavy whipping cream, close and shake for about three minutes for homemade whipped cream! Add some sugar to the mixture to make it sweet. This version tastes much better and natural in my opinion and is better than you then the stuff you can get at the store in a can.

Decorating cupcakes? Or a fabulous cake? Add jello packet powder to icing for color and fun flavors. Doing this trick allows you to only have to get one big thing of white icing then all you have to do is split it into all of the different colors you want! This is great for whenever you are baking with younger kids. 

In desperate need for a rolling pin? Use a wine bottle! My house currently still does not have a rolling pin because we always have a wine bottle and it works just as well. Just remember to add flour onto the bottle so nothing sticks to it. 

Have no icing for cupcakes? Put a cloth with a pretty design on the cupcake and dust on some powdered sugar, you should be left with a pretty sugar design when the cloth is removed! You can also just use a regular paper and add a design to it by cutting one out. This is also another fun project you can do with kids. You can also use this trick on top of icing to make your treats look extra fancy. 

Are you in desperate need of born sugar? Combine sugar and molasses to make your very own brown sugar! Just remember, one tablespoon of molasses to every one cup of sugar. I promise you it works just as well as brown sugar.

If your own brown sugar is as hard as a rock, microwave it for about twenty seconds to make it once a soft again. I remember puling out a bag of brown sugar in my pantry that was literally a rock. My sharpest knife wouldn't even cut through it. This DIY really solved the problem. 

Use a clean syringe for easy decorating with kids! Put some colored icing into a syringe and you can use it for decorating sugar cookies or cupcakes. It’s a lot of fun to do with kids. 

Want to learn more about the basics of baking? Click HERE! I hope this helped with your baking skills and don’t forget to vote on my poll so I know what you guys would like to see!

6 DIY Snacks From An Expert Snacker

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Hello everybody, I hope you are all having a wonderful Saturday! Feeling a little hungry? Today I have 6 DIYs that should help any snacker become an expert, obviously like myself. Please let me know what you think in the comment section and if these tricks help you and your snacking life! 

A fun fact about me is that I come from a family who has always loved Oreos. I mean I truly feel that the addiction for Oreos is in my blood. So I thought I could share a little trick with you when it comes to the art of dunking an Oreo into milk if you didn’t know this trick already. Stab a fork into the creme of an Oreo for better milk dunking and clean fingers. This is the much fancier way of dunking but is for expert snackers only!

My best friend and I love to split a pint of ice cream, usually Ben & Jerry’s as we watch a movie on Netflix. Since we both are truly expert snackers, we came up with an amazing idea to share the ice-cream. Literally cut the whole ice cream container in half for a perfect split! The pints made out of cardboard are easy to cut through and when you leave the lid on, they are perfectly used as bowls!

Another easy trick I have learned though out my wise snacking years, is to use another pistachio shell to open pistachios! This is much easier for people like me who basically have no nails to help get that stubborn shell open.

I personally do not like cherries, but if you are a fan, my cousin taught me to pit a cherry with a paper clip, because it's the easiest way to do it! All you have to do is bend the edge of the paper clip out so it turns into a hook, and then you just scoop out the pit from the top!

This next tip I saw at a party with all of this Mexican food. What they did was they slid the prongs of a fork on the side of a hard shell taco to keep it standing without any spill while people put the stuff inside the taco. I thought this was a really cool idea that also looked nice. 

My last DIY for today is for picking up pizza. Use a liter soda bottle to keep pizzas level in the car seat! Car seats are made with a slight incline which could squish your pizza to one side by the time you get home. Propping a soda in the divot of the seat will keep the pizza laying flat! 

Want some ideas for snacks after school? Click HERE for 50 After Snacks! They have a lot of cool snack ideas and I guarantee you will find at least one you like. Anyway, thanks for reading and don’t forget to vote on my poll so I know what you guys would like to see!