Gingerbread houses for CHEAP!

I'm not sure if this is a deal or crafty, I think it's both!

Target currently has it's Halloween things on 90% clearance! (I'm a clearance shop-a-holic I know). I found among the items a haunted house gingerbread kit. I think it was Wiltons (it's already in storage so I'm not sure). It is exactly like the Christmas Gingerbread house kit except it has Halloween sugars and candies. I paid $1.00 for it and it has 5 houses in the kit. ONE DOLLAR! So of course I bought 2 of them and finding candies for decorating is not that big of a deal. You can even make your own icing to put the houses together too. So run out to your local Target and see if they have any left, at Christmas the same kit will cost you anywhere from $10 - $20.

Bella, Tim and I worked on the houses last year together for Christmas and it was a lot of fun. I love finding fun family things to do, which reminds me, I'll be posting some new fun crafty things VERY SOON!

More Cake batter!

Ever since trying Cold Stone's Cake n shake I have been in love with cake flavored items. I joined pintrest awhile back and started seeing other cake flavored items. Walmart also has an amazing cake batter ice cream. Anyway, tonight I tried cake batter edible cookie dough, dough that does not have eggs in it so you can eat it raw....all I can say is OMG!!!

Cake batter cookie dough:

cream together 1/2 c sugar with 1/2 c butter (I used crisco sticks butter flavored), add in 1 tsp vanilla until well mixed. Add to this 1 & 1/2 c flour and 2/3 c yellow cake mix then add 6 tbsp water, more till you get the consistency you would like (I used 9 tbsp water). For more cake like presentation add 1 contained or sprinkles and mix in.

This recipe makes 8 servings. I put mine into the small 1 c serving size zip lock containers and refrigerated them. (I'm sure they will be gone tomorrow!) 

I'm thinking you can make this more "healthy" by using splenda.