Light, Lemony Cream Cheese Cookies made with Doterra Oil

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Ingredients
2 ox cream cheese
6 Tablespoons of unsalted butter, softened
1/4 Cup plus 1 Tablespoon Powdered Sugar
3/4 Cup White Sugar
1 Egg
1/2 TeaspoonVanilla
1/4 TEaspoon Salt
1/4 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1/4 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1 3/4 Cup Flour
15 drops of Lemon Doterra Essential Oils


Instructions
Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
Cream the butter, cream cheese and sugars together until smooth. Add the essential oil drops, vanilla and eggs and mix again.
In a separate bowl mix together all of the dry ingredients so they can become well incorporated into the dough. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix well.
Scoop cookies onto a baking sheet and bake for 9-10 minutes, remove from the oven and dust with powdered sugar.

Notes
The amount of oil that you use will determine how lemony the cookies are, but remember that the dough will be stronger than the baked cookies.

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Milky Way Krispies

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Ingredients

1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Karo Syrup
1 1/3 Cup Nutella
Pinch of Salt
4 1/4 Cups Rice Krispies
11/2 Cups Milky Way Candy bars, chopped





Instructions

In a medium sized sauce pan, over medium heat, add the sugar and Karo Syrup. Cook the sugar and syrup, stirring occasionally until all of the sugar is dissolved and the liquid is clear. Stir in the Nutella and salt. Turn the stove down to medium low and stir for one minute or until well incorporated. Set aside to cool for about 2 minutes. In a large bowl pour the cereal in and then pour the Nutella mixture on top. Gently fold the mixture together until all of the cereal is well incorporated. Add the candy bars and stir again. Using two spoons or an ice cream scoop, scoop the Milky Way Krispies into a parchment lined baking sheet to cool. Store in an airtight container or Ziploc bag for up to 3 days.

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BEST SUGAR COOKIES

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Dry Ingredients:
6 cups of Flour
2 teaspoons of Baking Soda
1 teaspoon of Salt


Mix all dry ingredients together in a small bowl


Wet Ingredients:
1 cup Shortening
2 cups Sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup Sour Cream




Blend wet ingredients until smooth in large bowl

Stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Cover and place in the fridge for a couple of hours. Roll out cookie dough and cut with your favorite cookie cutters. Bake @ 400 degrees for 7-8 min. Let cool.

SUGAR COOKIE FROSTING

Blend all together:
1/2 cup Shortening
1/2 cup Butter
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
4 cups powder sugar
2 Tablespoons milk

Color the frosting in your color of choice.

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Kristy's Apple Pear Crisp

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Ingredient
1 c. brown sugar
1 c. quick oats or minute oats
1 c. whole wheat flour
1/2 c. butter, melted
3-4 c. apples and pears - peeled, cored and chopped
1/4 c. white sugar (I used a couple packets of stevia instead)
2 tsp. cinnamon





Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease an 8-inch square pan. (Or what you have, I used a 8"x 9.5" glass baking dish)

In a large bowl, combine brown sugar, oats, flour and butter. Mix gently until crumbly. Place half of crumb mixture in dish. Spread the apple pear combo evenly over crumb mixture. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and top with remaining crumb mixture.

Bake in the preheated oven for 45 to 50 minutes, or until apples are soft and golden brown on top.
Serve with Breyers French Vanilla ice cream for extra yumminess!!!

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Coughing And Sneezing and Sniffling Syrup

I have actually heard a lot of coughing and sneezing and sniffling already.. so I thought this would be a good one to start sharing!

This homemade decongestant is good for breaking up chest congestion so you can clear it out. Anyone old enough to eat honey can take it.

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Ingredients
1 c. honey
1 c. lemon juice
5-7 radishes
1 sm. red onion
6 garlic cloves (If my cloves are super-small, I use a couple more.)



Instructions
Wash, peel, and trim the vegetables as appropriate, and cut the onion into 2-4 chunks.
Dump everything into the blender and blend until smooth.
Strain.
Refrigerate between uses, for up to a week or so.




TO USE:
Adults take 2 Tbsp. once a day, or more as needed/desired.
Children take 1 Tbsp. once a day, or more as needed/desired.
Should begin expelling within 24 hours. (We have typically noticed it kicking in within the first couple hours.)

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Pumpkin Spice Muffins

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Ingredient

1 can of 100% pumpkin
1 cake mix (I used spice)


Directions

Mix the two ingredients together
Bake at 350 for 20 to 25 minutes














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BERRY SURPRISE MUFFINS

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Ingredient
2 cups of whole-grain flour
2/3 cup of honey
3 tsps. baking powder
1 tsp of lemon or orange PULP
1/2 cup of orange JUICE
1/2 tsp salt
2 egg WHITES
3/4 cup fresh blueberries
3/4 cup of raspberry PULP
1/4 cup raspberry JUICE
1/4 cup coconut oil






Directions
Preheat oven to 400 F. 

MIXTURE 1:
Combine whole- grain flour, honey, baking powder, lemon or orange pulp. Mix Thoroughly.

MIXTURE 2:
Combine orange juice, oil, egg whites, raspberry pulp and raspberry juice, mix thoroughly.

COMBINE MIXTURE 1 AND MIXTURE 2. Mix together. Gently stir in fresh blueberries.

Bake for approximately 20 - 25 minutes. Enjoy!

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