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    Easy Salt Dough Ornaments!

    Easy Salt Dough Ornaments! We wanted to do something a little different with our Christmas tree this year so we decided to make our own ornaments! I put this off for a long time because I thought it would be too difficult or time consuming. I was surprised to find out that these ARE really simple and quick to make! We used gingerbread cookie cutters this time and we decided to use some of the more natural ingredients around the kitchen to color these with. We used turmeric for the yellow, cinnamon for the reddish-brown, cocoa for the dark grey and just plain salt dough for white. The “people” came…

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    Chocolate Covered Moonshine cherries and vanilla cream!

    Chocolate covered Moonshine cherries with vanilla bean cream center! Think that was a mouth full??? Wait until you have tried these AMAZINGLY delicious, easy to make, home made cordial cherries! These are very simple to make… the bad thing is you want to eat them right away!! The cherries have to set for TWO weeks at a minimum so that the vanilla cream will liquefy. The picture above is from Day one. Of course I had to cut one open and try it! Ingredients: 40 Ole Smokey Moonshine cherries 1/4 cup (2 oz) butter, softened to room temperature 1 tbsp light corn syrup 2 tbsp reserved cherry liquid (can substitute…