Resurrection Rolls are a fun cooking activity for you and the kids with a built in lesson about Easter. It’s one of our family favorites. Pin it now so you’ll have it handy in a few weeks for Easter. Hope…
Nothing beats FREE when you’re on a shoestring budget, and the black raspberries growing wild in our back yard and the surrounding farm fields definitely fit the bill. We pick as many as we can, and I use them to…
Fluffy White Frosting Recipe Here’s a standard frosting recipe in our home. This is a just a plain old-fashioned fluffy white frosting that has been handed down throughout the generations. Perfect for any cake or cupcake. Save Print Fluffy White…
HoHo Sheet Cake Recipe If you’re looking for a decadent holiday cake that will feed the masses, the HoHo Sheet Cake Recipe will meet both of those requirements! I have a large holiday party each year and this is always…
Perfect Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe If you’re looking for the perfect peanut butter cookie recipe, look no further. My husband loves a thick, yet soft and chewy cookie – so I was on a mission to find and perfect the…
There’s something about fall that makes us start feeling like pumpkin-flavored deliciousness. This takes a little more effort than ordering a pumpkin spice latte, but I promise, you can do this! It looks all fancy and difficult, but it’s not…
We’ve had such a crazy week, but tonight it’s chilly and rainy, and it’s time to bust out the Apple Dumpling recipe! Nothing cheers up a gloomy day like fresh from the oven apple dumplings with vanilla ice cream–It’s seriously…
Pumpkin Cookies Recipe with Brown Sugar Glaze Sisters Shopping on a Shoestring is teaming up with Crystal’s Cookies. Crystal will be bringing us a few of her favorites through the holiday season! A Holiday Favorite: Pumpkin Cookies What is…
My Grandma Roth knew a thing or two about feeding a family on a Shoestring Budget. She was the mother of eight kids, and famously scolded my mom once for paying full-price for bananas for Grandpa while she was in…
Owl Cupcakes What a HOOT these are! Super-simple Owl Cupcakes that will steal the show at any Fall or Birthday party. Ingredients Cake Mix Buttercream Frosting Reeses Pieces Chocolate or Vanilla Sandwich Cream Cookies Directions Mix your cake mix as directed…
This is the pie that my husband requests every year for his birthday…but not at the birthday celebration when we have guests. He’s normally a generous man, but this one he doesn’t want to share with company 😉 It’s so…
Strawberry Recipes
Strawberry picking time is right around the corner in Northeast Ohio! If you’re lucky enough to get a big harvest out of your own garden, or if you head out to a Pick-Your-Own patch like my family did, here are…
Marshmallow Nail Polish Cupcakes This is one of our most popular Pins! Sharing it again because they’re great for a birthday party, girls’ night, or “just because”…we’d love it if you’d Pin it too! These Marshmallow Nail Polish Cupcakes were…
We had Meghan’s 5th birthday party. She wanted a Disney Frozen Birthday themed party. I have to say this was the most fun to plan and to decorate of all the parties I’ve planned! I made homemade marshmallows (so delicious)…
Save Print Disney’s Frozen Birthday Party – Snowflake Sugar Cookies Ingredients 1½ cups butter, softened 2 cups white sugar 4 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 5 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt Instructions Preheat oven to…