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Pumpkin Pie Milkshake

Aug 13, 2020

Pumpkin Pie Milkshakes – everything you love about pumpkin pie in a milkshake! Sweet pumpkin milkshake with cinnamon and topped with whipped cream and gingersnap cookies.

Originally posted November 8, 2012. Updated on August 13, 2020.

Okay listen, I know it’s only August and I’m not supposed to be sharing pumpkin recipes but y’all, are there even rules about this stuff in 2020?

Let me have pumpkin in August.

And yes, I did go to Bath & Body Works and buy 6 Leaves candles the other day during their sale. And yes, I am already burning them. (Sorry boyfriend.)

I am just so ready for fall. I’m usually a summer person but this summer is just so hot since we can’t really go to the pool or the lake or any of the places we usually go. I need fall.

This is a really old recipe that we make every year and if you love pumpkin pie as much as I do, this is the perfect way to cool down in this heat!

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S’mores Frozen Yogurt – your new favorite summer treat! It starts with regular vanilla yogurt and turns into the most delicious s’mores froyo with a fudge swirl, graham crackers, and mini marshmallows.

YOU. GUYS.

It’s S’mores Week!

My faaaaave week of the entire year!

Nicole and I have been doing this for 5 years now. Five years.

That’s a lot of s’mores.

Somehow we’re not sick of them yet. I’m still making stovetop s’mores in the middle of the night most days of the week. If someone has s’mores anything on the menu, I’m 100% going for it. Still obsessed with s’mores.

We probably should’ve gotten matching s’mores tattoos instead of pineapples.

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Matcha Frappe

Jul 20, 2017

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #FrappeYourWay #CollectiveBias

Heeeey guys!

We’ve officially reached that point in summer when people are complaing about how hot it is and wishing for fall.

Also? I saw pumpkin stuff at the grocery store.

Pumpkin. In July.

Anyway, we’ve had to move our lake trips from midday to evening because, Texas.

It’s hot, y’all.

We even tried to hike last weekend and I thought that since it was mostly shaded, we’d be fine. No. We sat in the stream for an hour and then went for burgers.

This means that it’s officially frozen drink season.

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Mango Coconut Popsicles

Jun 23, 2017

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser, Walmart Family Mobile. All opinions are mine alone. #SummerIsForSavings #CollectiveBias #WFM1

Summer means a couple things for my kids.

One: they’re stuck going on all my weird adventures. If I need to drive an hour for something for a blog post, they’re all going with me and we’re stopping at a taco place, a beach, whatever happens to be in my Yelp bookmarks on the way.

They’re already over it.

And two: all their friends move. Every summer, man. Every summer all their friends move. #armylife

It’s rough. My oldest always has a great group of friends at the end of the school year and then they leave and he’s bored.

So last year when it happened I get him his first phone. And this year I decided to upgrade the phone and his plan to make it easier for him to keep up with his friends.

And also to keep him entertained when I impulsively decide to drive across the state of Texas for perfect chips and queso.

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Birthday Cake Pudding Pops

May 16, 2017

Birthday Cake Pudding Pops – creamy vanilla pudding pops with crushed cookies and sprinkles! The perfect way to cool down in the summer!

You guys.

I think I love Texas.

I never thought I’d love anything as much as I love the mountains in Colorado buuuuut I’m super into Texas right now.

I finally took the top off the Jeep this morning.

Which means in exactly 2 1/2 days it will rain and I will need someone to help me put the top back on the Jeep.

Look.

I am tiny and it is heavy.

I don’t need your judgment.

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Pistachio Ice Cream with Chocolate Chunks

Apr 07, 2017

Hiii guys, we made it through another week. I made ice cream to celebrate.

You were expecting a cocktail?

Yeah, I know.

My life’s been weird this last month and I’m so out of this whole blogging routine right now. I have, however, made 3 kinds of ice cream in the past week so… let’s just just go with it.

Next week I’ll make a cocktail. Promise.

In the meantime, I made that grapefruit ginger bourbon sour from last year the other night and it was just as delicious as I remembered. So if you are looking for a drink idea today, use that one!

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S’mores Frozen Hot Chocolate

Aug 10, 2016

Happy 3rd day of #SmoresWeek!

This one may be my favorite.

Except really, they’re all my favorite.

I can’t choose. You can’t make me.

But I really, really, really like this one.

Have you ever had a frozen hot chocolate? They are uhhhh-mazing and don’t even start with the, “Isn’t that just a chocolate shake?”

NO.

I used to think so, too, and then I tried one. It’s a hot chocolate. But frozen. And it will change your life.

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Raspberry-Peach Bellini Popsicles

Jun 28, 2016

Okay, guys.

It’s that time of year.

Big Brother has officially started.

Tell me you’re watching. Or we may not be able to be friends for the rest of the summer.

It always takes me a few weeks to get really, really, really into it so I’m not obsessively watching the feeds or annoying cashiers with Big Brother talk. But don’t worry, it will happen.

Who do you like?

I like Tiffany. I like Da’Vonne. I like James. And I like Paulie’s abs.

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Paleo Fudge Pops

Jul 27, 2015

Paleo Fudge Pops – a healthy fudge pops recipe! You can’t taste the avocado but it makes them super creamy. Only 6 ingredients!

I’ve played around with paleo ice cream recipes many times and as delicious as they are, they just don’t cut it sometimes. If I’m having ice cream, I like a small ratio of ice cream to a huge ratio of mix ins. I want cookies, candy, potato chips, pretzels, caramel, sprinkles, all of it.

None of which is paleo.

At all.

Not even a little bit.

But I’ve found that with popsicles, I’m a little more forgiving. Especially if they are fudge pops. Because I love a fudge pop.

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KitchenAid Stand Mixer + Ice Cream Attachment Giveaway (and 10 ice cream recipes!)

Jul 09, 2015

Guys!

I have the BEST giveaway for you today. I’ve teamed up with a bunch of your favorite (and mine, too!) bloggers to bring it to you and I’m so excited about it.

The winner will get their color choice of the 5 quart KitchenAid Artisian Mixer! And because it’s summer and you should be eating your weight in delicious homemade ice cream, the winner will also receive the ice cream maker attachment!

Make sure you enter below using the Rafflecopter widget – and there’s lots of chances to enter so make sure you get ’em all! And then keep scrolling for a list of 10 of my favorite ice cream recipes that you HAVE to make this summer.

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Thanks to all the lovely ladies hosting this giveaway with me!

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Caramel Corn Ice Cream

Jun 09, 2015

Second corn recipe this week!

You guys probably had no idea that I was so obsessed with fresh corn. And yeah, this ice cream starts with fresh corn.

Weird, right?

I never talk about my love of fresh summer corn here because typically we just grill it, spray it with butter, and sprinkle some salt on it. Easy easy and so good. But there’s no need for a recipe when you’re doing that.

My love of corn is coming out this week.

Back when I lived in Alabama, I made frequent trips to the flea market because they had (probably still do?) a stand that did roasted corn and then they had, like, this bar of different seasonings you could sprinkle on it.

Omg, you guys. My favorite thing in the world. Last time we went home I told my husband we had to get some before we left and he was all, “You really want to spend your time at home at the flea market?”

Uhhh yeah, eat corn, look for Pyrex. Does he know me at all?

If you are into sweet corn like me, you are going to be obsessed with this ice cream. So the ice cream itself is just corn flavored. But then at the end, you mix in some caramel sauce. And then you can top it with some real caramel corn if you like a little crunch in your ice cream like me.

It’s so good.

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Snow Ice Cream

Jan 23, 2015

Stick a bowl outside before a big snow so you can make Snow Ice Cream! So easy – the perfect project for kids!

Happy Friday! I’ve got a quick and easy recipe today! You can make it with your kids next time you’re snowed in or just make it for yourself and don’t share with anyone.

I won’t judge you.

We got, like, 8 inches of snow on Wednesday. Which was fun because the weatherman said we’d get 2. He has a history of playing with my emotions so I took a chance and put a ginormous mixing bowl in the background to collect snow.

By lunchtime we had a full bowl of snow and I had a sore throat from yelling at Penelope (the husky) to keep her face out the bowl every time she went out. Seriously, a yard full of snow and she wants to eat my snow?

Jerk.

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Frozen Peppermint Mocha

Nov 16, 2014

This is a sponsored post featuring DREAM Latte™. All opinions are my own.

I don’t know if you know this but I’m kind of a coffee addict. Like, I’m that person that starts thinking about my morning coffee at midnight and has to make a cup of decaf.

Something else you may not know about me is that I don’t drink any kind of cow’s milk, half and half, anything like that. I mean, I make exception for heavy cream every once in awhile just because heavy cream is delicious and I’m weak but other than that, I don’t drink any dairy. I don’t have an allergy, I just prefer to stick to nut milks.

So I was excited to try the new DREAM Latte™which comes in two flavors: Caramel and Mocha! They are free of soy, lactose, dairy, gluten, and cholesterol. They are rich in calcium and vitamin D and are made from fair trade organic, non-gmo coffee beans.

Most importantly, they are delicious! I have to say, I’m not a mocha person but I’m in love with the DREAM Latte™ Mocha!

I wanted to make a frozen drink using the DREAM Latte™ because coffee shop frozen drinks are expensive. Plus, most coffee places still don’t have almond milk! Get with the times, coffee shops! Geez.

I went with a Frozen Peppermint Mocha because, like I said, I don’t usually love mocha so I never have peppermint mochas and then I’m always jealous when I hear other people talking about them.

That’s weird, right? To be jealous of someone’s ability to like something that you don’t?

I know.

But anyway, since I do like the DREAM Latte™ in Mocha, I made a quick simple syrup with peppermint extract and blended it all up with ice. Topped it with whipped cream (google coconut milk whipped cream if you’re dairy-free – it’s so easy!), chocolate syrup, and crushed peppermints.

It was so delicious. Peppermint just gets me feeling all sorts of festive so I’m thinking this is going to become my official holiday drink this year.

Everyone has an official holiday drink, right?

I don’t even know anymore.

Frozen Peppermint Mocha

Ingredients

For the peppermint syrup:

1 cup water
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons peppermint extract

For the Frozen Peppermint Mocha:

1 11-ounce carton DREAM Latte™ in Mocha
1 - 2 tablespoons peppermint syrup recipe above
1 cup ice
whipped cream try coconut milk whipped cream if dairy-free
chocolate syrup dairy free as needed
crushed peppermints

Instructions

To make the syrup:
Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Lower to low and stir until all the sugar is dissolved. Stir in peppermint extract.
To make the Frozen Peppermint Mocha:
Combine Dream Latte™ in Mocha, 1 - 2 tablespoons peppermint syrup, and ice in a blender and blend until no chunks of ice remain. Pour into a glass, top with whipped cream, chocolate syrup, and crushed peppermints, if desired.

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of DREAM™.

Candy Corn Pudding Pops

Oct 21, 2014

One way I know that I am getting old is that I no longer like candy corn.

Like, it was only a couple years ago that I had one of my friends over to make those homemade butterfingers out of candy corn because our husbands said they didn’t like candy corn and we were all “WHAT?! YOU DON’T LIKE CANDY CORN?!”

So obviously, we needed to trick them into eating (and enjoying) candy corn.

But now, bleh.

I even bought all those fun ones that came out this year. Pumpkin Spice, Caramel something-or-another, S’mores.

Nope. Hated all of them.

But I do love regular foods dressing up to look like candy corn. I made these cookies a few years ago and I absolutely had to make these Candy Corn Pudding Pops this year because I’m currently eating Fudgesicles like it’s my job and I figured these were kind of close to that.

Super simple – you use box pudding mixes and then you just layer them in popsicle molds and freeze overnight. These don’t taste like candy corn (if you can find candy corn pudding, go for it) but I used a cheesecake pudding for the white layer (white chocolate would also work) and then french vanilla with food coloring for the other two layers.

They turned out super cute and my kids were obsessed.

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Paleo Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream

Sep 03, 2014

I swear this isn’t like all those times I Instagrammed a rice cake with M&Ms on top or Doritos and wine and hashtagged it paleo.

This is really paleo. And really delicious.

This recipe comes from Paleo Ice Cream: 75 Recipes for Rich and Creamy Homemade Scoops and Treats which is the newest addition to my cookbook collection. The book has basically every ice cream variety you could ever want, but Paleo-ized.

I mean, Maple Bacon Chocolate Ice Cream.

Yeah.

I, of course, am obsessed with all things fall right now (BECAUSE OMG SNOW IS COMING) so I had to give the Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream a try.

And I’m totally breaking my October 1st = Pumpkin Day rule but whatever. I had to share this with you.

I’m not gonna lie to you, I had serious doubts about the whole paleo ice cream thing. Paleo treats are really nice to have when you’re strict paleo but let’s be real, a paleo muffin tastes nothing like an actual muffin.

If I read your blog and you tell me a paleo biscuit tastes like a Cracker Barrel biscuit, I’m giving you major side eye.

So I worried that paleo ice cream would be nothing like real ice cream.

But basically, this ice cream is coconut milk (the canned stuff, not the refrigerated stuff), xanthan gum is optional but I definitely recommend it for the texture, honey as the sweetener, and some pumpkin.

(I totally saw xanthan gum at Walmart yesterday so you should be able to find it anywhere.)

It tastes like ice cream. Like pumpkin ice cream!

I did have to let it defrost for a few minutes before scooping but after that, it had nearly the exact texture of regular ol’ ice cream!

I’ve made paleo cookies, pizza, muffins, bread, etc, etc, etc and this paleo ice cream is the only thing that’s actually been super close to it’s non-paleo counterpart.

You should definitely check out Paleo Ice Cream if you’re looking for recipes like Oregano Ice Cream, Double Chocolate Candy Bar Ice Cream, or Toasted Almond Frozen Custard!

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