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Homemade Easy Bake Oven Chocolate Cake Mix & Frosting Kits, For Only $0.20!

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Good evening, savvy savers! For this weeks Throwback Thursday, I wanted to bring you a recipe that was very near and dear to my heart as a child, and even now as an adult, my Homemade Easy Bake Oven Chocolate Cake Mix and Icing recipe! As a child of the early 1990′s, I was always torn between playing with my skip-it, togs, watching Full House reruns, or baking with my Easy Bake Oven, but the baking usually won out! What’s cool about this recipe is that you can make kits, storing the mix and icing in smaller snack-sized baggies, labeled, then placed into larger sandwich bags, frozen, and labeled for use later with the Easy Bake Oven! You will save 98% off retail price with this idea; my kits are priced under $0.20 a kit!

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This recipe is super simple, easy on the budget, and takes awesome, if I do say so myself!

Here’s what you’ll need:

Easy Bake Chocolate Cake Mix Recipe:

Ingredients:

6 teaspoons flour
4 teaspoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa (for vanilla cake, use 1/2 teaspoon vanilla instead)
3/4 teaspoon shortening
1 Pinch salt
6 teaspoons milk

Instructions:

1) Mix all dry ingredients, slowly.
2) Add milk.
3) Pour batter into greased baking pan that
comes with the toy oven.
4) Bake as directed in children’s oven.

Easy Bake Oven Icing Recipe:

Ingredients:
2 cups confectioners sugar — sifted
3 tablespoons instant nonfat milk powder
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
6 tablespoons vegetable shortening

Instructions:

1) Combine all ingredients until mixture resembles crumbs.
2) Spoon about 1/3 cup of mixture into each of 9 small containers or ziplock bags and seal tightly.
3) Label with date and contents.
4) Store in a cool dry place. Use within 12 weeks. Makes 9 packages of Frosting.
5) Can also be frozen.

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Homemade Slime, Only $0.20!

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Good afternoon, savvy savers! For this weeks Throwback Thursday’s, I want to bring you a fun, family-friendly find from my own childhood, Slime! If you were anything like me as a child, than watching Family Double Dare was a favorite, and the best part of the show was the contestants who were systematically slimed! Sure slime, that awesome polymer that was presented both liquid and solid statuses simultaneously, was more than a molecular anomaly, it was an event of epic proportions! What was even better? When the stores began to carry this awesome gak!

Oh, the dealing of a kid from the 1990′s.

But why let the 1990′s evade us one day further, when we can make out own slime, and so here is my recipe for homemade slime! Please note, I can make slime for $0.20 a container, per child.

Ingredients:

1/4 cup Elmer’s School White Glue
2 disposable cups
Food coloring
3 Tablespoons Water
1 Tablespoon Borax Powder
A plastic spoon

Directions:

1) In your first plastic cup, add your water and Borax Powder.

2) Stir the mixture gently, then set aside.

3) In your second plastic cup, add your Elmer’s School White Glue.

4) Add the food coloring, in your color(s) of choice, to the second cup, stirring until mixed.

5) Now, add 1 Tablespoon of the mixture from the first cup at a time, to the second cup; the slime will instantly start forming, but allow the mixture to set-up for 30 second before playing with each batch.

6) Store slime in sandwich bags.

7) Avoid placing slime on textured, carpeted, and porous surface.

8) Enjoy!