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I know, I know. You read the title of today's post and said, "uh... it's February. Also, polar vortex." Hear me out!
I know that winter is not the time we generally want to drink a nice cool smoothie, but this one has pumpkin in it, which makes it velvety and delicious. It is also healthy! I had some banana I needed to get rid of, and really, your winter options are bread, or cake, or cookies. Do you know what is faster than all of those and requires way less clean up? A pumpkin banana smoothie, that's what! You just throw all the ingredients into your blender (or your Ninja like I used) and whip it up. My daughter ate half of mine. She wanted it all to herself really. Which is why she climbed on my lap and stared at me, mouth open like a little bird, waiting for me to give her another bite. Honestly, she is the cutest. Honestly, this smoothie is delicious. It'll keep you healthy and full, and remind you of warmer days, which are really just around the corner! So, make this smoothie. Drink it, and imagine yourself sitting pool side. You look good in your swimsuit because you didn't eat so much cake this winter, but opted for a delicious and healthy smoothie instead!
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Hello readers! Do any of you have an Air Fryer? My mother in law gave us one for Christmas, and we have been Air Frying everything ever since!
PH and I love our cooking appliances. We are a gadety kitchen. This is a GREAT gadget and let me tell you why. 1. It cooks everything really fast. 2. It doesn't heat up your kitchen during those hot summer months. 3. The meat always turns out moist and juicy. No regrets you guys. If you get an Air Fryer, your life will change! 
Last night we had family over for dinner for our monthly Family Home evening. We were hosting. I made my mom's amazing gluten free brownies for dessert since PH is a Valentine's baby and he loves brownies. And we made these delicious pork chops using the air fryer!
Now I will give the caveat that we had particularly thick cuts of meat so we had to cook our chops for a bit longer than the recipe calls for. If you have really thick chops like we did, add an extra five minutes to the cooking time to ensure they cook all the way through. Seriously guys. These air fryer pork chops are so good! Try them for dinner tonight, and enjoy!  So last week I showed you how to make a delicious funfetti Daniel Tiger smash cake for a kids first birthday smash session. This week I'm here with the Daniel Tiger birthday cake! Remember how I told you that I had originally planned to throw my daughter a small party, since she was turning one etc etc etc... then that all went out the window. Well it went out the window about 4 months before her birthday when I started searching for first birthday party ideas on Pinterest and decided she should have a Daniel Tiger birthday party since she loves him!  Baby girl enjoying her cake! I searched and searched for ideas on a Daniel Tiger birthday cake and then I found this website. How perfect is that? It has other food ideas besides the cake and it also has decorating ideas and game ideas for the party! That came in handy because a few of her cousins who are older came and so we had coloring pages and a couple games on hand to entertain them. The recipe here makes one 9 in round cake for you to decorate. I did not include an additional recipe for the cupcakes (I did a different flavor for the ears.) You'll want to remember to save a little bit of icing for the whiskers. I completely forgot and dyed it all orange and then I made PH go buy me a small bag of white icing because I did not feel like cleaning everything I had used just to make a tablespoon of frosting. Use the same frosting recipe here, but use orange food coloring instead. Now I used the full recipe because we had her birthday party on the same day of my brother's birthday (her actual birthday is the day before his) so I used the extra cake for him.  If you don't want to make a full batch of cupcakes you could just increase the measurements here slightly (I'd say by 1/4 for two cupcakes) just to make two cupcakes. It really is a matter of how many kids will be at your party, and how much you like leftover cake.
I've also included some of my notes regarding the decorating. I followed the directions at the website to decorate the cake with these few variations I mention at the bottom of the recipe. This cake was delicious, and fun to make except for the eyes. Those Oreos drove me nuts! Be very gentle with them! |
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to ten and counting! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, and my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! 
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