Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Tom, Leah, Ty, and Lexi

How to Make Donuts out of Canned Biscuits

"How to Make Donuts out of Canned Biscuits (a Quick and Easy Recipe)"

Do not let this title deceive you!

Lexi came home from school the other day and told me they had made donuts at school out of biscuits.  So we were at WalMart today and she grabbed a can of biscuits out of the refrigerated section and said she “thought she could remember how to make them”.  This is not great considering I am not a good cook.

So we start to make the donuts.  Lexi is not quite sure how to make them, so I figure I’ll look it up online.  I find a recipe that looks very easy and we start the process.  I thought "this is going to be so cute and easy so I’ll take some pics while I’m doing this for my blog".  

Click here for the recipe we found online. 

Lexi made holes in the middle of the biscuits

There are 8 biscuits in the can, so we cooked 4 at a time.  Lexi made the holes in the middle of the biscuits and I did the cooking with the hot oil.  My husband laughed while I was burning the first 4 and said make sure you take a picture of those ones!  Which I did….

They tasted like uncooked burnt biscuits.  Note the key word in the recipe was to cook on high.

Thankfully we still had 4 donuts left to cook.  I turned the heat way down to medium low and they turned out much better.  Lexi put the donuts in a brown bag and shook them in sugar and cinnamon.  My kids ate them and my husband said they “weren’t bad”.   Not too shabby since I hate don’t try stuff like this!

They didn’t turn out with the holes still in the middle though since I smushed them down in the pan to make sure they were cooked through.  I actually remade the hole in this one just for the picture above!  Haha!  I also dropped my iPhone on the plate after this so it was covered in sugar.  The things I will do for my daughter....and my blog!  :)

love this girl!

Happy Donut Making to you!

Leah 

Conversation between me, my husband Tom, and Lexi while I was finishing this post :

Me: "What's a good word for me at cooking?  Terrible?"

Tom:  "No, you have been trying out a lot of new things lately."

Lexi: "Yeah, but they turn out burnt or horrible!"

Soap and Rolos...

I am proud to say that I have actually completed one thing that I have pinned on pinterest!  The soap gift idea post from the other week has been completed!  :)

I initially saw the idea on pinterest, but when I was looking for a tag to make for the soap, I came across this blog with free printable tags.  Perfect!

Of course, I had to take a picture of my cute little finished product.  Such an easy gift!

Lexi and I also made Rolo pretzels last week.  A friend of mine had told me about them, and since it was such a simple recipe I figured I could actually make them!

The recipe is just pretzels, rolos and m&m's.  You just put the pretzels on your cookie sheet, then top each one with a rolo.  Then put in the oven at 350 for 4 minutes.  After they come out of the oven, put an m&m on the top of each rolo then push down gently and let cool.  They are so yummy.  They were gone very quickly!

Lexi also got a cake pop maker, but our first experience making cake pops is going to have to be a blog post in itself! :)

Leah

Home for the Holidays Surprise!

I love this! How awesome would it be to actually be in one of these places where they have a "flash mob"?

I hope your holiday is full of wonderful surprises!

Leah


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Egg and Soldiers

I have been wanting to get some egg cups to make "egg and soldiers" for my kids. I finally got around to it today! I grew up eating this for breakfast in England.

In case you are not sure what I'm talking about, it's a soft-boiled egg served in an egg cup. You cut off the top of the egg with a spoon, then add a little salt into the egg. Then cut some toast into strips and dip them in the runny yolk. The strips of toast are the "soldiers".

We had these for breakfast this morning. Lexi loved it, but Ty is not a fan of eggs, so he enjoyed the toast only.   I got these cute spiral egg cups!

It's the simple things in life, right? :)

Leah

Christmas crackers...

One British tradition I am passing on to my children is Christmas crackers at the dinner table on Christmas day. I have fun memories with my family wearing paper crowns as we ate our Christmas dinner together.  :)

Instead of me trying to explain what a Christmas cracker is, I'm going to let Wikipedia do it for me.....

"Christmas crackers are an integral part of Christmas celebrations in the United Kingdom. A cracker consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper, making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper. The cracker is pulled by two people, and, much in the manner of a wishbone, the cracker splits unevenly. The split is accompanied by a small bang or snapping sound produced by the effect of friction on a chemically impregnated card strip (similar to that used in a cap gun).

Crackers are typically pulled at the Christmas dinner table or at parties. In one version of the cracker tradition, the person with the larger portion of cracker empties the contents from the tube and keeps them. Typically these contents are a coloured paper hat or crown; a small toy, small plastic model or other trinket and a motto, a joke or piece of trivia on a small strip of paper."

Speaking of which, I need to go buy some of these this week!

Leah

Less cancer and more birthdays...

Cancer doesn't care how old you are.   My Uncle Denny was just 23 years old when his life was taken by stomach cancer.  My Uncle Tommy was only 56 years old when his life was taken by lung cancer.  This post is dedicated to their memory and the many birthdays they have missed.....



This post is sponsored by the American Cancer Society.

Leah