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Gooey Butter Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
  • 1/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  2. In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter. Stir in the egg and vanilla. Add cake mix, and stir until well blended. Roll into 1inch balls and roll the balls in the confectioners’ sugar. Place 1 inch apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
  3. Bake for 10 to 13 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove from baking sheets to cool on wire racks.

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Fire and Ice Candles

You Will Need:

  • Pillar Wax (IGI 4625 works great!)
  • Metal Candle Mold
  • Wick Screw
  • Mold Sealer
  • Wick Holder Bar
  • Pouring Pitcher
  • Double Boiler or Wax Melter
  • Crushed Ice
  • Bucket or Sink
1. Wick your mold and prepare your wax as usual. Refer to our Pillar Candle Instructions for help.

2. Crush up pieces of ice until they are about 3/4 inch in size. Spoon the ice into the mold until it is almost full. Leave some room beneath the rim of the mold so that the wax has room to completely cover the ice.

3. Quickly pour your wax over the ice and into the mold. Try to pour all over instead of in one spot so that you don’t melt a hole through the ice.
4. Allow the wax to cool and ice to melt completely. Then turn the mold upside down over a sink or bucket to dump out the melted ice water.

5. Remove the mold sealer and wick screw and gently remove the candle from the mold. Handle the finished candle carefully as it is very fragile.
6. Trim the wick to about 1/4″ and allow the candle to dry for at least a week before lighting. If you light the candle while the wick is still wet or damp, it can cause sputtering while it burns.

7. Enjoy watching the beautiful designs on the candle as it burns!

Playing Card Wallet

1) Find three playing cards you like. Lay them about 1/4 inch apart side-by-side with the faces towards you.

2) Tape the three cards together with clear packing tape.


3) Repeat this process to make another set of three playing cards.

4) Lay the two sets of cards beside each other (so that the cards make a 3 x 2 rectangle) with the faces towards you.

5) Connect the two pieces with clear packing tape.


6) Turn the cards over, and cover any sticky parts with tape (sticky part to sticky part).

7) Turn the cards over again, and fold the cards toward each other, so that the faces are pointing outwards.

8) Tape the two shorts sides together.

9) Three of the four sides should now be joined together. Your wallet is now complete, put your money in, fold it up, and put it in your pocket.

Easiest Ever Banana Bread

5 ripe bananas
1 box yellow cake mix
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)
cinnamon and sugar to sprinkle

Preheat oven to 350F. In large bowl mash bananas and add remaining ingredients. With electric beater, mix about 2 minutes until well combined. Spray 2 loaf pans with non-stick spray and sprinkle pans with sugar and cinnamon. Pour batter evenly into pans, optional- sprinkle a little sugar and cinnamon over top of batter. Bake about 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Eat! Yum. Share (optional) 🙂

Winning Wedding Favors

Purchase lottery tickets for your reception guests. This is something they can have fun with, unlike a coaster or trinket, that will most likely not match thier decor. Make up some cute ticket holders like these, or an envelope style. Dont forget to give them a shiny penny to scratch ’em off with!