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Cake Mix Funfetti Cookies

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funfetti cookiesThere are so many fun ways to use a boxed cake mix, besides just making cake! These Funfetti Cookies are lots of fun to make with kids or for a birthday party. They taste similar to sugar cookies and are super soft! And they stayed soft, even the next day.

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Choose any Funfetti cake mix from the store. I used this one from Pillsbury. Adding the extra ingredients will give the cake mix a dough-y consistency so that you can make individual cookies.

Here’s the recipe:

1 box Funfetti cake mix (18.25 oz)
1 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 tsp vanilla
Color Sprinkles to top

Preheat the oven to 350. Combine the cake mix and baking powder in a bowl. Add the eggs, oil and vanilla and stir well. Pour some color sprinkles into a small bowl. Take spoonfuls of the dough and dip into the sprinkles to top them. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 8 to 10 minutes.

Peppermint Oreo Truffles

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Oreo truffles can be made with just a few ingredients and don’t take a lot of time, but always turn out so good! For Christmas, I made this festive peppermint version.

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Crushing the oreos was the most time consuming part but its a lot of fun! I put the oreos in a ziploc bag and first used this meat tenderizer to crush them. That wasn’t grinding them up finely enough so I then ran the bag over with a rolling pin until the oreos were completely crushed.

I’m sure you could find crushed peppermint at the store during the holidays, but I had some peppermints in the house so I put them in a ziploc and crushed them to use for the topping. You could also use a candy cane or two.

Here’s the recipe!

36 oreo cookies (that’s one package of regular oreos)
1 (8 oz) box of cream cheese
2 cups melted chocolate
1/4 cup crushed peppermint

Mix cookie crumbs and cream cheese until well blended. Shape into 48 (1 inch) balls. Dip each ball into the melted chocolate. Top with peppermint (I dipped 4 or 5 at a time and then topped with peppermint before the chocolate started to harden). Refrigerate for 1 hour or until hardened.

Cake Mix Peach Crisp

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This peach crisp requires only 3 ingredients! While it takes 45-60 minutes to bake, the delicious smell that fills your house is worth it! It’s best served right out of the oven and topped with vanilla ice cream.

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I have experimented with different types of yellow cake mix and this Dunkin Hines Butter Golden mix is my favorite! I recently made this peach crisp for a holiday party, so I used these Del Monte Harvest Spice peaches. I have also heard of people making this recipe with other types of canned fruit or even frozen berries. If you try something new, be sure to comment below and tell me about it!

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Here’s the recipe:

2 (15 oz) cans of sliced peaches in syrup
1 yellow cake mix
1/2 cup of butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 9″x13″ pan and pour the peaches with syrup into the pan. If you like, you can cut the peaches in half or just leave them the way they are. Sprinkle the cake mix over top evenly. Pour the melted butter on top. Bake 45-60 minutes or until browned.

Fall Leaf Cookies

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Baking sugar cookies using my Great-grandmother’s recipe is a holiday tradition in my family. We make them in the shape of fall leaves and pumpkins for Thanksgiving and wreaths, christmas trees and presents for Christmas. Typically, we use a dye made of food coloring and egg yolks to paint on top of the shapes after we cut them. This year, my mom and I saw pictures on Pinterest of dyed dough, so we experimented!

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First, make the sugar cookie dough (the recipe can be found at the bottom of this post). We separated the dough into bowls that we didn’t mind getting dyed. Using a toothpick, we added food coloring to each bowl to make orange, red, green and yellow. Use gloves so you don’t dye your hands while you are at it!

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We took small pieces of each color and arranged them before rolling out the dough. Finally, we used fall leaf cookie cutters to cut the dough. We also made some pumpkin cookies (see the last picture) using just orange dough and adding a little bit of green dough for a stem.

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Sugar Cookie Recipe:

1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
3 cups flour
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla

Cream butter. Add sugar gradually and cream well. Add eggs, beat again. Add vanilla. Add flour, baking powder and salt. Chill for 1/2 hour or more. Separate the dough into small bowls and add food coloring. Using small amounts of each color arranged on a floured surface, roll out the dough to about 1/8 inch thick. Cut into shapes. Bake on a greased pan for 8 to 10 minutes at 375.

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