You will need gluten free flour, coconut oil or butter, baking soda, brown sugar, white sugar, an egg, salt, cream of tartar, cinnamon and vanilla extract.

Start with white sugar in a mixing bowl

Then the brown sugar

Now the coconut oil or butter

Cream together

Now add in the egg

And vanilla extract and mix some more

Now time for the flour

Cream of tartar

Cinnamon

Baking soda

And salt

Mix together all ingredients until batter forms, then roll into balls

Now for the cinnamon sugar. Mix together 1/4 cup sugar

Now the cinnamon

Roll balls around in the cinnamon sugar

Place on lined baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes.

Start with yellow cake mix, orange juice, powdered sugar, milk, 2 lemons, 2 oranges and 2 eggs.

Start with the box of yellow cake mix.

Add in 1/2 cup of orange juice

3/4 cup of milk

and lastly your 2 eggs

Mix together until the batter is combined. 

I used a 1 tbsp measure to pour my batter into the mini cupcakes cups. *Be sure to spray the cupcakes tins with nonstick spray. 

I put my cupcakes molds on a sheet pan because they were a little flimsy. But bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.

After you take them out of the oven. Let the cupcakes cool off for 5 minutes or so before removing from the molds. Immediately make the icing and ice the cupcakes while still warm. 

To make the icing, mix together confectioner's sugar....

And the juice of two lemons and two oranges 

Dip each cupcake into the icing and let cool before serving. 

I used whole wheat flour (to lighten it up a bit), baking soda, baking powder, sugar, one egg, canola oil, milk and unsweetened cocoa powder. Also, mini chocolate chips if you want a little something extra. 

Mix together your dry ingredients. Start with 1 1/2 cups of flour.

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 cup of sugar

1 1/2 tsp of baking powder

1 tsp of baking soda

1/2 tsp of salt

Mix dry ingredients together until combined. 

Wet ingredients turn now, beat one egg

Add in 1/3 cup oil.

3/4 cup milk

Mix the wet and dry ingredients together until well combined.

Fill mini muffin tins with batter and top with mini chocolate chips. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes or so before taking out of pan. 

For this recipe you will need: sour cream, mayonnaise, refried beans, cheddar, green onions, black olives, tomatoes and taco seasoning (not pictured). 

Start by spreading the can of refried beans into a pie plate. 

Next, in a separate bowl mix together sour cream and mayonnaise. 

Mix in the package of taco seasoning 

Spread that delicious mayonnaise, sour cream and taco seasoning mixture over the refried beans. Now's it's time top it! 

Top with some tomatoes. I prefer cherry or Roma for this recipe. 

A small can of black olives adds some great color. 

Lastly, that CHEESE!!! Serve with tortilla chips and you will be the hostess with the most-ess!

'Tis the season for all the Christmas parties and other friends and family togethers. Many of these will be potluck style and it will be requested you sign up to bring a dish. So what do you bring?! 

Here are a couple of tips to making sure your dish stands out this holiday season:

Remix an appetizer essential:
A veggie tray is an essential for any gathering, but it doesn't have to be boring! Veggie Bars are a great way to remix the classic. The recipe is simple. 

1 package of crescent rolls
1 package of dry ranch dip mix
​1 8oz package of softened cream cheese
1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Assorted vegetables such as broccoli, tomatoes, cauliflower, bell peppers, carrots

Roll crescent rolls out flat onto a greased baking sheet. Bake rolls for 10 minutes at 350 degrees. Take the rolls out of the oven and let cool completely. 

Mix together dry ranch dip and softened cream cheese together. Once the rolls are cooled, spread cream cheese mixture on top. Top with your favorite veggies. 

*Pro tip: Instead of buying large quantities of vegetables, just grab what you need from the salad bar. It's much cheaper and you won't be force to eat your veggies all week. 

Are you still at a loss of what to make this holiday season? 

Five Favorites for your next potluck:

1. ​​Milk Chocolate Chip Cake
2. Pineapple Cheese Ball
3. Fresh Apple Cake
4. Sausage Balls​​
5. Blueberry Salad

​Click the links for the full recipes! These are some great go-tos for your next Christmas gathering. 

You'll need sugar, cream cheese, one egg, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice (not pictured), vanilla extract, canned pumpkin and 2 cans of crescent rolls.

Start by rolling out the first package of crescents into a greased baking dish.

Cream together one block of cream cheese

1/2 can of pumpkin

sugar

and vanilla extract and egg yolk

Spread mixture over the first roll of crescents

Cover cream cheese/ pumpkin mixture with second package of crescents. 

Whisk your egg whites until frothy. Then spread on top of the top crescent

Mix together sugar...

...pumpkin pie spice and cinnamon

Spread cinnamon, pumpkin, sugar mixture over egg whites and crescents. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. 

The ingredients you will need are: flour, sugar, crisco, nutmeg, baking soda, allspice, ground ginger, molasses and salt. 

Every good cookie starts off with shortening

Add in your sugar

Cream together shortening and sugar

When measuring molasses I like to spray the cup with nonstick spray. Add in molasses

Add in water

Add in Flour

Next is salt

Now for baking soda

Now nutmeg

And the ginger

Because I didn't have allspice, I mixed together a little nutmeg, ground cloves and cinnamon. You can always leave it out too. It's only 1/8 tsp. 

Mix all ingredients together until combined. 

Shape dough into a disk and refrigerate for 2-3 hours. 

Pick out your favorite cookie cutters! I'm in the Christmas spirit so I went fairly traditional.

Generously flour your surface

Roll out your dough

Once the cookies have cooled, you can decorate with icing or enjoy without! I chose to decorate simply because that's all I know how to do. LOL

You will need: flour, sugar, baking powder, vegetable oil, 2 eggs, salt and milk

Start by separating your eggs

Then beat the yolks well. Save the whites for a little later. 

Add in your milk

Now, add in your vegetable oil

Next is flour

& then your baking powder

And now some sugar

Add your salt

Whisk those egg whites until frothy, then you'll gentle fold them in. 

When making waffles, you want to be sure you grease your waffle iron VERY well. Ladle in 1/4-2/3 cup of batter. This recipe makes 4 full-size waffles.

This is the amazing product you will receive. I typically fish it out with a fork and a spatula. 

Now place that delicious product on a plate, add your butter and syrup and fill up those divots! 

You will need sugar, flour, unsweetened coconut, 3 eggs, vegetable oil, vanilla extract, chopped nuts, baking soda, salt and chopped apples. 

Start with 1 1/2 cups of vegetable oil

Then add in two cups of sugar

add in 3 eggs

Two teaspoons of vanilla

Three cups of flour

One cup of chopped nuts

One and a half teaspoons of baking soda

One teaspoon of salt

3 cups of chopped apples (about 3 medium apples)

And finally, one cup of unsweetened flaked coconut 

Mix it all together. It will take a couple of minutes for it all to combine and you will definitely get a good arm workout! But that is literally the most difficult part of this recipe. So easy!

Put it into a greased bundt pan and bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

This is what it looks like when it comes out! You will be the queen (or king) of the kitchen when you are done! And the smell is DEVINE! You won't need to waste your fall candles when you make this! 

You will need sugar, butter, flour, 3 eggs, cold water and 2 lemons (mine were pretty small so I used 3 lemons) and one pie crust.

Start by spreading your pie crust across your pie plate.

Pour 1 1/2 cup of sugar into the mixing bowl.

Add in 1 1/2 tbsp of butter

And 1 Tbsp of flour.

Add in your eggs and beat well.

Next zest 1 lemon

Add in lemon juice and water and mix well.

Then throw that bad boy in the oven for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

This is the deliciousness you'll come out with! Enjoy! This would be delicious with cool whip! Pro Tip: Doubling this recipe will make 3 pies!