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Soft Snickerdoodle Recipe
This is the unbelievably scrumptious, perfectly chewy, super soft snickerdoodle recipe that will have your friends BEGGING you for the recipe! This is the ONLY recipe I will ever use for snickerdoodles! It is a family favorite and a must have cookie for every occasion! Super easy snickerdoodles are possible with this simple recipe! Just look at this simple cookie recipe! It speaks for itself! This truly is a super simple, easy-to-follow cookie recipe that even the most amateur of bakers can master! Let’s start with what you will need for this soft snickerdoodle recipe: EQUIPMENT INGREDIENTS Snickerdoodle Dough: Cinnamon Sugar Coating INSTRUCTIONS Substitutes for this soft snickedoodle recipe: Margarine:…
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Brown Sugar Pancakes
These brown sugar pancakes are everything you want in a pancake. Super fluffy, soul warming and full of flavor! Filled with brown sugar and cinnamon, if you top these brown sugar pancakes with a powdered sugar icing or cream cheese frosting, they taste just like a cinnamon roll! But you don’t have to go that direction, as these pancakes are super versatile! Topping with nuts, maple, apple, peaches, bananas, or streusel are just a few fabulous topping ideas! See what you come up with! I LOVE big, fluffy restaurant pancakes but have never been able to recreate them UNTIL NOW! This brown sugar pancakes recipe is everything you LOVE about…
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3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies with Brown Sugar
These 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies with brown sugar are the EASIEST and most flavorful cookie that bakers of every level can easily master! When I am crunched for time or just don’t want to make a mess of kitchen baking a dessert, THIS is the go-to recipe! They are always a crowd pleaser and never disappoint! As a mom of two girls that LOVE their sweets this is my favorite recipe to make for them! I know that they are at least getting a LOT of protein when they are eating these peanut butter cookies! You may have made peanut butter cookies similar to this with granulated sugar but…
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Snowball Cookies Recipe
This snowball cookies recipe is one of those treasured passed down recipes that will forever live in the heart and souls of those that make and eat these traditional cookies. This recipe has been in my family for generations and is still my absolute favorite Christmas cookie recipe! Now that I have kids, I am excited to keep the tradition alive! I am teaching my 4 year old this year how to make these family favorites! What kid doesn’t LOVE a cookie COVERED in SUGAR?! So…how do you make this snowball cookies recipe? Let’s start with what you will need… Equipment needed for snowball cookies: Yes! That’s really all you…
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Crisco Chocolate Chip Cookies
Do your chocolate chip cookies always come out flat? The problem is most likely your butter! Substituting Crisco for butter will change your life! No more flat cookies! Hello soft and chewy, uniform, perfectly chunky cookies! So throw out your chocolate chip cookie recipe right now and adopt this one! These Crisco chocolate chip cookies are everything you ever dreamed of in a cookie and more! If you’re like me, then you might have seen a can of Crisco in your mothers pantry but had no idea what she did with it. As you got older maybe you tried to make a recipe that called for it so you went…
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Happy Hangout | Indoor Play Cincinnati
A true treasure on the west side of Cincinnati! Happy Hangout is a magical world for little ones to explore and play indoors. There is a whole little town scaled to kid size to spark your child’s imagination and pretend play. A huge climbing/sliding indoor play structure fills a corner of the space. There is also a play area just for the babies! For the parents, there is a huge space filled with tables, couches and chairs. There are tons of outlets and it’s well lit to allow parents to get some work or reading done while they are within feet of their children playing! We started going to Happy…
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Chicken Kabob Marinade Without Honey
This simple chicken kabob marinade without honey results in the most tender and flavorful kabobs! You can also make them with honey but if you have young kids, allergies or just don’t have honey on hand, then this is the chicken kabob marinade for you! A little bit of heat and a little bit of sweet makes these kabobs irresistible! I made kabobs recently for my book club and they were so raved over that I just HAD to share my recipe! One of the ladies in our book club is gluten free and so chicken and veggie kabobs over brown rice was a perfect meal that she could not…
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Joshua’s Place | Families Serving Families
Joshua’s Place is a Cincinnati, OH based, volunteer driven, church supported organization focused on helping families overcome instability. They not only help/serve those in our city that are currently struggling, impoverished, and/ unstable, but they get involved, educate, and aid these families in a way that teaches them that they can rebound and rebuild. My whole family has been serving at Joshua’s Place for over a year now. I had first heard about Joshua’s Place at our church, Rivers Crossing, as our church is one of their primary supporters. I learned of the mission and vision of what Joshua’s Place was and knew immediately that I wanted to get involved…
Motherhood Refined
