🍪🤩 COOKIE HACKS: FREE + EASY 🤯 Store Bought OR Homemade👩‍🍳

Do you ever wonder why bakery cookies aren’t burnt on the bottom? Why they all look uniform and are soft & chewy? Turns out, it isn’t their cookie dough, it’s what they’re doing with that dough 😉 Here are my cookie hacks that will make you look like a pro and they don’t cost a thing 💕

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🍿POPCORN HACK 🤯 The PERFECT AMOUNT of BUTTER 🧈

Have you ever snuck a snack into the movies? Candy and a can of soda pop is pretty easy, but that movie popcorn just can’t be duplicated! So if we’re going to pay the price for bucket of popcorn it would be nice to have every bite perfectly buttered wouldn’t it?! 🤩 Here’s a hack that will change your popcorn game forever 🎬

We all know the struggle of trying to get an even layer of butter on our popcorn.

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👩‍🍳🧇 SNEAK PEEK RECIPE: Mini Waffle Sausage Sticks 🤩 + BTS of the LORAfied COOKBOOK 🩷

The publisher is only allowing me to release a handful of my over 100+ recipes from my cookbook and this is one of them! I am so excited for this book to come out. Preorder my cookbook HERE!

LORAfied Mini Waffle Sausage Sticks
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 Tablespoons sugar
1 Tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1½ cups milk (any kind)
⅓ cup (2/3 stick) melted butter (cooled to room temperature)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Nonstick cooking spray or melted butter, for greasing
18 cooked sausage patties (pork, chicken, or plant-based), thawed if frozen
18 wooden coffee stir sticks
Melted butter and maple syrup, for dipping (in separate bowls or mixed together)

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Have you heard about McDonald’s new Big Arch burger? I’ve hacked the Big Arch for ya so you can try it without blowing your diet.

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🥤❤️ McDONALD’S DIET COKE HACK: LOW CARB DIRTY SODA 🤩

Have you tried a dirty soda yet? The craze is sweeping the nation! Both of my girls are fans, but we don’t have a place like Swig near us in Los Angeles, so I had to create my own dirty soda🥰

This is a low carb hack you probably didn’t see coming, but trust me, sis! I went through the McDonald’s drive-thru and ordered a medium Diet Coke and asked them to add 1 pump of sugar-free vanilla.

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🍦🤫 COSTCO’S SECRET SWITCH 😮

Did you know Costco stopped selling their fan favorite food court chocolate ice cream?! 🤯 Instead, they’ve switched gears and are going after the McDonald’s Shamrock shake crowd, specifically the Oreo Shamrock McFlurry folks. It’s a shocking and IMO, a risky move they didn’t really advertise. Mint isn’t as universally loved as chocolate, but ‘tis the season 🌈☘️ Will the Luck O’ The Irish be with Costco?

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👩‍🍳🤯 KITCHEN HACKS 🤩

What’s the fastest way to thaw meat? If you haven’t tried this way, it’s a goodie! Plus four more EASY KITCHEN HACKS you’re actually going to use 😉

1. FAST Defrost

Forget to thaw your meat? You NEED to try this hack. All you have to do is place your frozen meat in between stainless steel or aluminum.

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Do you have a box cake mix in your cabinet? I currently have at least five, I say at least, because there’s good chance I have a couple others hiding behind those 🤭 They’re just SO EASY and with these little hacks, they taste homemade! This cake turns out SO MOIST it’s crazy, not a crumb in sight! Here’s how to get all the credit with a fraction of the work 💕

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🎂🤩 CAKE HACKS: BOX MIX ➡️ HOMEMADE 🤯

You’ll need:

• 1 box cake mix (any flavor, 15.25 oz)

• 1 box instant pudding mix (any flavor, 3.4 oz)

• 1 cup milk (I use buttermilk), room temperature

• 4 large eggs, room temperature

• ½ cup salted butter, melted

• ½ cup sour cream or Greek yogurt, room temperature

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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LORAfied Cake Mix Hacks (In Order!) ✨

1. Skip the water.

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Do you like beans in your chili? Two of my three kids won’t touch a bean or a tomato and although I like both, I don’t like ‘em in my chili ☺️ THIS is the chili of my childhood, the one my dad made, and boy did he know food, as the owner of a chain of restaurants, he was pretty picky, especially when it came to beef. I’m so excited to share this one with you as a sneak peek of the EASY and DELICIOUS recipes you’ll find in my new cookbook 👩‍🍳

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🧀🤩 CHEESE HACK: FANCY + FRUGAL✨💰

Where is the mystery section in your fridge? Mine is my cheese drawer 🤭 It’s shocking how many little tidbits I collected in there…all wrapped in plastic, missing identifying labels 😳 So what do we with all this still good cheese that wasn’t free, but is no longer attractive enough to put out on a tray with crackers? This is an old hack the French do that’s kind of hard to get your head around, but WOW, does it ever work!

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