Heart Shaped Valentine Pancakes!

 Heart Shaped Valentine Pancakes! This is the perfect breakfast for the people you love!  Make a batch of pancake mix. Usually you keep it kind of lumpy...but for this you need to make sure it's not lumpy. Then use a funnel and fill up an old squeezy bottle. (we used a chocolate syrup bottle)  Grease your griddle and then squeeze out heart shapes...  Let them cook and flip them over!  I found that everyone liked the taste of the heart shaped pancakes better than any pancake I ever made!  They are crispy and toasty! Serve with butter, syrup or our favorite--fruit and yogurt! This post published on Doodlecraft first

Chopped Kitchen At Home Game!

 Today is my 34th birthday! ...I can't possibly cook myself...so I'll be letting the kids cook! They are really good and one of our favorite games is: Chopped Kitchen At Home Game! Have you seen Chopped? It's on Food Network.  There are 4 chefs...they begin by making an appetizer with their mystery basket ingredients.  Usually bizarre stuff like squid tentacles and greek olives... Then one of them is chopped and goes home. The next 3 make dinner with another basket of mystery weirdness...and one is chopped. The last 2 compete in the dessert challenge...and the winner gets $10,000! Awesome show.  We love it. So we decided to recreate it at home! First up...I have to clean the kitchen...and I prepare the baskets...or in this case, covered plates.  My chefs chill in the chef's lounge until I am ready. This is the funnest family night game!  I explain the rules and the time limit, 30 minutes. Also, because this is their dinner too....

Hostess Apple Cinnamon Donut Turkeys!

This post brought to you by Hostess Cakes . All opinions are 100% mine.  Here's a fabulous treat we made for pre-Thanksgiving! Hostess was kind enough to send us a coupon for yummy  Apple Cinnamon donuts so we could try them out!   The Hostess Apple Cinnamon Donettes variety were perfect! Not only are they a light shade of brown...perfect for our turkeys,  But it was a flavor that everyone in my family loved! Nothing says Autumn-time better than apples and spices! We took some scraps of paper...in hot dog colors. Brown, yellow and red. We cut out body shapes, beaks and a gobbler thing. Actually called a WADDLE. We glued the pieces together and taped them on to half of a toothpick! Stuck them into our donuts...and ta da!  A Turkey Donut!  They would be so cute as name tags on the dinner table!   Hurry to the store and get your donuts before they are gone forever! They were so yummy, they dis...