🍪🤩 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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🥤❤️ 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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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!) ✨

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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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🍦🤩 ICE CREAM CINNAMON ROLL HACK 🤯❤️

If you had to choose between ice cream or a cinnamon roll which one are you picking? It’s a tough call for me! So I’ve decided to combine them both into this mind blowing taste sensation! I’m so blown away with how these turned out I can truly say THIS is THE BEST Cinnamon Roll HACK I’ve ever done! Hands down, full stop!

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🎄🍪 SUGAR COOKIE PIE HACK 🤩☃️ EASY + AFFORDABLE 🤶

Would you rather have a cookie or a piece of pie? Now you don’t have to choose! It’s crazy how good this simple dessert is! If you have run out of time to make cookies this season, this pie hack is the answer! Only 4 ingredients and no baking skills required. I’m not sure if I prefer the crust or filling!

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What’s the least photogenic dish on your Thanksgiving table? For us, it was the stuffing 🫣 This simple hack changed that! AND, the part my husband Scooter is jazzed about, more crunchy surface area 😉

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🦃🤩 STUFFING HACK: EASY + PRETTY! ♥️

Thanksgiving Dressing Ingredients

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4 cups dry cornbread cubes
4 cups dry sourdough bread cubes
1 tsp salt
2 Tbsp rubbed sage or 1 Tbsp of fresh
1/2 stick butter
2 cups chopped onion
2 cups chopped celery
4 cups chicken broth
4 eggs, beaten

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Directions:

Preheat oven to 350F
Grease large baking dish
Combine bread cubes, salt and sage in large bowl and set aside.

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