Baking cookies from scratch can take a lot of time and effort, but you can make homemade cookies while skipping a few steps. Boxed cake mix contains most necessary cookie-making ingredients. You can prepare cake mix cookies with as little as three ingredients. You can also add your favorite ingredients, such as chocolate chips, oatmeal or raisins to give the cake mix cookies a personal touch.
Baking with kids around takes a lot of patience. Even if you give them baking tasks to do (e.g., mixing and pouring), they'll often get bored well before those cookies are out of the oven. With a bit of creativity and some fun baking games, however, entertaining kids while baking is a cinch.
Baking cake mix cookies gives you home baked cookie flavor without the effort of baking cookies from scratch. Using a cake mix as the base for cookie dough is a time saver because much of the measuring is already done for you. All that is left to do is mix the ingredients together and bake them. Try one of these recipes and the house will be filled with the aroma of freshly baked cookies in no time.
Here is an easy recipe for Dirt pudding. It is a big hit at birthday parties and baby showers even at cook outs!You can use other containers besides a baking pan. Be creative, use a flower pot (new and clean of course) put an artificial flowers or whatever you want in it and place some gummy worms on top of the pudding! You can also substitute the Oreo and whip cream with store brands, it taste just as good. Have fun and enjoy!
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Make Dirt Cake for a special someone on Mother's Day, Father's Day or just as a treat. If you serve the cake in a clean new flower pot garnished with clean new silk flowers, the recipient will think you've brought her flowers until she tries the delicious, edible cake. Use gummy worms to further decorate your Dirt Cake if you're serving it to kids or anyone else who will appreciate the novelty of feeling like they're really eating dirt. Allow cream cheese and frozen whipped topping to soften overnight before you begin making your Dirt Cake.