All of these amazing cakes were made using an Evergreen Kosher’s (supremely delicious) bundt cake, right from the bakery department. Not much of a baker? Not in the mood of taking out the mixer? Not enough time to bake, cool, and decorate a cake? Just buy a bundt cake and you’re almost ready to sing…
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Prep These Gooey Chocolate Cookie Dough Lotus Dessert in 5 Minutes
Everyone’s looking for those easy desserts that don’t need a mixer, and frankly, don’t need time to prep either! These Gooey Chocolate Cookie Dough Lotus Cups are *that* dessert. They’re so easy to prep, you can even put these together during the meal and serve them piping hot (what could be better?). In these gooey…
One Challah Secret for Light, Fluffy Dough
This one trick helps your dough achieve that light, fluffy texture you want. It’s also your solution in a pinch when that dough is just-too-sticky. So you went out and bought a new bag of flour right after putting away the Pesach dishes. Now both you and your kitchen are ready to get back to…
Do This When the Mayo Jar is ¼ Full
Have a little left in the mayo jar? It’s the perfect time to shake up a salad dressing. You’re making dinner, and then you get to the last step…the salad. Finally, the salad is all assembled and it’s time to get some ingredients out to make that dressing (and more mess). But, wait! You don’t…
How to Get a Good Night Sleep on That Red Eye (or Any Flight)
Put your feet up and get some rest. Oh, so, how do you put your feet up on a red eye flight? A short flight is like sitting in a car. You get on, you sit a bit, perhaps get some reading in, take a short nap if possible, and you get to your location. …
How to Seamlessly Extend Your Dining Room Table
Extra guests are coming and they won’t fit around your regular dining room table. Make your table bigger without anyone noticing which part was “added on.” A while back Chaya Fishman (@app_fish) posted a hack on how to extend your dining room table to fit a large crowd on her Instagram account. We thought it…
Make the Cutest Square Cookies Using This Easy Hack (+ They’re Egg-Free)
I don’t like rolling cookies into balls. With this hack, it’s not really necessary. When my oldest daughter was three years old, she had one of her first playdates, and I decided to bake cookies with the kids. After we had made the dough, each one taking turns adding ingredients, one of the moms arrived…
How to Freeze Your Ground Beef – and Use It, Too!
Do you have ground beef sitting in your freezer, waiting to be used? You know that mound of ground beef you have sitting in the freezer? You keep forgetting to take it out to defrost the day before you need it and it just doesn’t defrost fast enough to use the same day. Well, here’s…
The Easy Way to Avoid Melted Wax Stuck to the Menorah
This post-Chanukah wax scraping chore is no more. Do you find it a pain to scrape out the colored wax from the menorahs every night over Chanukah? I learned this trick when I saw my brother-in-law prep his children’s menorahs last Chanukah. This hack works only when the candle fits exactly into the menorah. Pour…
3 New Ways to Top Challah (or Fake That You Made It)
No time to bake from scratch, but still want to call a challah your own? Change up your own or store-bought challah dough with these three toppings. Anyone can tell you that the quickest, easiest hack for Shabbos challah is to buy it freshly baked from the bakery. That wouldn’t be much of a post….
