Tie-Dye Cupcakes

Tie-Dye Cupcakes

Ingredients:

• 1 (18 ounce) box white cake mix
• red food coloring
• blue food coloring
• green food coloring
• yellow food coloring
• 1 (16 ounce) can of vanilla icing/frosting

Directions:
 Preheat oven to according to box directions. Prepare the cake mix according to box directions. Divide the batter evenly in 6 small bowls. (I only used 3 bowls of batter). You will dye each bowl individually. To make the colors, use the following amounts of food coloring. Make sure to scrape the sides of the bowls to get all food coloring mixed together. Coloring mixtures:

Purple: 9 red + 6 blue 
Blue: 12 blue
Green: 12 green
Yellow: 12 yellow
Orange: 12 yellow +4 red
Red: 18 red 

After you have mixed the batter colors, line 24 muffin cups. Evenly distribute the batter between the cups in the order that you dyed them, layering them carefully. You can use about a half of a spoonful of each color per cup. Frost with white icing and add rainbow sprinkles. ( I colored the icing also).

This was a very fun project to do with a 12 year old. 

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Italian Meatballs

Italian Meatballs

• 1 1/2 lbs. of lean beef or pork (I use 1 lb. of beef and 1/2 pork)
• 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
• 1 large egg- slightly beaten
• 1/2 italian bread crumbs
• 2 tbls minced garlic
• 2 tsp salt- or less
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• 2 tsp dried parsley

Preheat oven to 375. Mix all ingredients together and make them 

into meatballs. Bake 35-40minutes, or until done. I served with 

noodles,bread and a veggie. My family REALLY likes this recipe.

(An online recipe)

Pico de Gallo

 Pico de Gallo

This is my version of Pico de Gallo with only 3 ingredients.

Tomato

Onion

Cilantro

And that's all I use. It's good on chips, pork or anything else. I love to use everything out of the garden. Great summer snack.