S'mores Cupcakes

Winters is still lounging upon us, not yet ready to take it's summer vacation, therefor I can't get out yet to enjoy a nice toasty campfire to build my favorite S'more.  Time to improvise.  In my opinion these are closest to a real S'more as any baked good can get.  It uses real marshmallows, I opted out of doing the marshmallow fluff method (the original recipe calls for) because how often do you make a S'more over a campfire with...

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Bird's Nest Cupcakes

I'm like a little kid on Christmas morning full of excitement over these cupcakes!  Are they not so fun?  These are one of my favorite blogs posts yet.  My daughter and I had so much fun making these, and she like me was thoroughly ecstatic over them.  I would love to claim the idea of these as fully my own, because it is a genius idea.  I come across these on one of my favorite sites marthastewart.com....

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Fruit Punch

It's time to sneak some fruit juice into your kids soda =).  I love this drink because it really is a fruit punch.  It's made of half fruit juice, it's not like those sodas flavored with artificial fruit flavors.  This punch also gets an incredible boost of flavor from the almond extract in it.  This beverage is family friendly because it contains no alcohol so it would be a great homemade drink to make for family parties....

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My Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies (with 5 Secret Ingredients!)

Go now and take your favorite chocolate chip recipe that you "love" and destroy it like it's a bad break up letter you never want to see again.  I'm just kidding.  But really you don't know what chocolate chip cookie love is until you have tried this recipe.  I'm pretty confident these cookies are just that good that you will rid your life of whatever chocolate chip cookie recipe you consider to be the best without ever looking back....

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Slow Cooker Pork for Tacos

Surprise!  Another slow cooker recipe from Cooking Classy =).  I can't help it, I love them!  They always yield such incredibly tender, flavorful meat.  The majority of the time I cook my meat for my main entrees in the slow cooker.  If you don't have one, you need one.  I bought mine for $30 (you can find it here for $34), I love it because the lid stays snug while cooking so all the liquids aren't...

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