Cooking | The Pink Apron

Cran-Cherry Oatmeal Cookies

This week in our house, we are potty training. Because of that, we can’t leave the house. Not only that, but after 2 days of solid rain, we can’t even play outside. To keep our sanity, we decided to make cookies. Cran-Cherry Oatmeal Cookies Ingredients: 1 white cake mix (yellow would work as well) 2…

Mothers’ Day Breakfast

One of the greatest Mothers’ Day traditions is breakfast in bed. Here are some ideas to make this year’s breakfast extra special. Rather than make plain pancakes, dress them up by adding pineapple juice for half the liquid in a pancake mix. Add some flaked coconut as well and top with a berry syrup. Serve waffles with…

Semi-Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

I do not like canned chicken noodle soup. But when I was sick a few months back, I wanted some homemade chicken noodle soup. Being the mom of the house, there was no one to make it for me, but me. Because I didn’t want to spend hours making soup, I came up with this…

Pumpkin-Banana Bread

Last week, I had some over-ripe bananas. I decided I could either make plain old banana bread, or come up with something new. I decided to try something new and I now have a new favorite form of banana bread. Ingredients: 3 ripe bananas 1 1/2 C pureed pumpkin 1 C softened butter 2 ½…

Variations on Cream-Cheese Frosting

I believe, the main purpose for solid food is to serve as a a vessel for frosting. In that spirit, I always like to experiment to come up with new frosting ideas. Here are two I’ve come up with recently. Both have the basics of a regular cream cheese frosting, but the additions send them…