Cinnamon Applesauce (no sugar)

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Make cinnamon appelsauce in your corckpot! This recipe is sugar free, gluten free, and paleo!

Autumn is officially here, and we are loving all the apples in the stores! While it is possible to grow apples in Texas, not many people do. Our family prefers to stock up like crazy when they go on sale ($.68 organic apples? Yes please!) We are big applesauce fans, especially Abbie. She has a sensitivity to apples that prevents her from eating them raw, but she can gobble up bowls and bowls of applesauce! This is our favorite recipe for cinnamon applesauce. We keep planning to can it but never have enough left! This recipe is super easy, especially […] Read more »

Chocolate Acorns

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It is still pretty warm here in Texas, but the official start of autumn is just days away. Our minds have been on fall activities, but since we can’t really get that fall feeling outside yet, we decided to bring it inside and make an acorn treat for Build A Menu. What do you think? More appealing than acorn bread? Get the full recipe and tutorial for our Chocolate Acorns at Build A Menu! Read more »

Easy Cheesy Crackers

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This week we were in a baking mood, so we decided to make crackers for our Build A Menu friends. Easy Cheesy Crackers is a recipe that you can really get your hands into! Lots of cracker and pastry recipes call for using a pastry cutter, a kitchen tool designed to help mix butter and flour into a light and flaky pastry, without causing the gluten in the flour to be worked too much. Gluten is what makes bread chewy, which you want for bread, but not so much for crackers. I (Mrs. Brown) didn’t own a pastry cutter when […] Read more »

Strawberry Lemon Dessert Pizzas

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Here’s another quick kid-friendly recipe that we made for our friends at Build A Menu recently. Strawberry Lemon Dessert Pizzas have only three ingredients and are a fresh, light dessert… ideal for summer. We think they are pretty enough to be tea party worthy too! Find our full recipe for Strawberry Lemon Dessert Pizzas at Build A Menu. Read more »

Crispy Peanut Butter Cup Balls

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Looking for a quick treat that doesn’t require turning the oven on? The kids made these Crispy Peanut Butter Cup Balls in just a few minutes. Abbie: “They’re super yummy!” Josh: “I’d say the same! And they were easy to make.” Mrs. Brown: “Chocolate and peanut butter and I don’t have to help make them? Win, win win!” For all the details, head over to our Crispy Peanut Butter Cup Balls recipe at Build A Menu! Read more »

Refreshing Watermelon Slush

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It’s about a million degrees here right now. Okay, it’s only about a hundred. But that’s still very hot! And hot means it’s time to bring out the watermelon. So refreshing. And ice. Very refreshing! Hey, let’s have both! We shared our recipe for watermelon slush (with a nice hint of lime!) on the Build A Menu blog today. Click here for the full recipe! Read more »