Homemade Soft Pretzels
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I'm so glad you are here to get this amazing SOFT PRETZELS easy recipe that you can easily make at home.
If you are like me, when you go to the mall you, and perhaps your kids, can SMELL the pretzels before you SEE them.
Do you extend your stay and buy one of those buttery breads to dunk in cheese?
OR
Do you think -- I wish I knew how to make these at home where it is more work but cheaper?
With 5 kids in tow when I walked through the mall I was always thinking pretzels ...
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Ingredients:
Simple line drawing in a coloring book or create your own. You do not want a lot of detail in the picture.
Various colors of yarn
Scissor...
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German Chocolate Cake Frosting
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German Chocolate Cake Frosting
Recipe Type: Dessert
Author: Five Little ...
German Chocolate Cake
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Ingredients:
6 regular size cotton balls
2 googly eyes
red, white, blue, light tan/flesh, pink construction paper or cardstock or foam
1 pink pom pom
hot glue gun
Uncle Sam printable pattern
Direc...
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Ingredients
low temperature hot glue gun or white glue
cardboard circle, your choice of size OR a paper plate with the center circle cut out
stars ...
