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Green Velvet Cupcakes with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting

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February 17, 2015 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Frugal Living, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Spring

Green Velvet Cupcakes with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting

Seasons and holidays always seem to produce a recipe for the kids. This St. Patrick’s day, we haven’t forgotten the adults. Check out these delicious GREEN VELVET CUPCAKES with a touch of Baileys in a Cream Cheese Frosting… prepare to eat the entire batch (so make a few!) This recipe yield 12 cupcakes.

Cupcake Ingredients:

1 1/4 cup Flour
1 cup Sugar
1 tbsp Cocoa Powder
1/4 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1 Egg
1/2 cup Oil
1/2 cup Milk
1 tsp Vinegar
1/2 tsp Vanilla
Green Food Coloring (also consider Green Gel Food Paste)

Frosting Ingredients:

8 oz softened Cream Cheese
4 tbsp softened Butter
3 cups Powdered Sugar
3 tbsp Baileys (Optional: a cup for yourself)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.
Line a muffin pan with paper liners.
Beat egg and then add remaining wet ingredients and whisk until blended.
In a separate bowl whisk together all the dry ingredients.
Add wet ingedients to the dry stir until combined.
Now add food coloring until you reach the desired color.
Fill cupcake liners about 2/3 full.
Bake about 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean.
Allow to cool on wire rack.
Cream together cream cheese, butter and Baileys.
Gradually add in powdered sugar and whip until desired consistency is reached.
Transfer to zippered bag or piping bag and pipe frosting onto cupcakes.

This recipe yields 12 cupcakes

Enjoy!

Also check out this other Guinness Recipe – Guiness Bread. Pin to Pinterest.

Find these other Irish and St. Patricks Day Recipes on Frugal Coupon Living.

Guinness Bread – Pin to Pinterest
Guinness Cupcakes with Bailey’s Buttercream Frosting – Pin to Pinterest
Guinness Beef Stew – Pin to Pinterest
Rainbow JELL-O Squares – Pin to Pinterest
Lime JELL-O Cupcakes (also check out this Rainbow Cupcake) – Pin to Pinterest
Lucky Charms Marshmallow Stuffed Cupcakes – Pin to Pinterest
Chocolate Marshmallow Leprechaun Hats – Pin to Pinterest
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies – Pin to Pinterest
Copycat Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies – Pin to Pinterest

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Guinness Bread and Other Adult Irish Recipes

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February 17, 2015 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Frugal Living, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Spring

Guinness Bread

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We shared with you last week a delicious Guiness Stew. This week, pair your soup with an amazing Guinness Bread.

Pair this dinner entree with Guinness Cupcakes or Green Velvet Cupcakes. Best of all this frosting is made with Baileys!

Ingredients:

1 cup Rolled Oats
2 cup Whole Wheat Flour
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
2 tsp Baking Soda
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Salt
1/4 cup melted Butter
2 tsp Vanilla
1 cup Milk
1 tsp Vinegar
12 oz Guinness

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425.
Grease a loaf pan.
Combine milk and vinegar and set aside for 10 minutes.
Mix together 3/4 cup of oats, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
In another bowl, stir together the butter, vanilla, milk mixture and Guinness.
Add dry mixture into the liquid mixture, and stir until blended.
Pour batter into the prepared pan.
Sprinkle top with remaining oats.
Bake 30 minutes, then reduce temperature to 400 and bake for additional 20 minutes.
Allow to cool in pan for 30 minutes before moving to a wire rack.

Enjoy!

Also check out this other Guinness Recipe – Guiness Cupakes with Baileys Buttercream Frosting. Pin to Pinterest.

Find these other Irish and St. Patricks Day Recipes on Frugal Coupon Living.

Guinness Cupcakes with Baileys Buttercream Frosting – Pin to Pinterest
Guinness Beef Stew – Pin to Pinterest
Green Velvet Cupcakes with Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting – Pin to Pinterest
Rainbow JELL-O Squares – Pin to Pinterest
Lime JELL-O Cupcakes (also check out this Rainbow Cupcake) – Pin to Pinterest
Lucky Charms Marshmallow Stuffed Cupcakes – Pin to Pinterest
Chocolate Marshmallow Leprechaun Hats – Pin to Pinterest
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies – Pin to Pinterest
Copycat Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies – Pin to Pinterest

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Christmas Tree Rice Krispie Treats with Molding Tip

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February 12, 2015 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Christmas, Frugal Living, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe

Christmas Tree Rice Krispie Treats
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I have had fun sharing with you Rice Krispie Treats for every holiday – Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Halloween and more. I love this Christmas Tree Tutorial and I have a great tip to help you mold the tree – Use the trial form that comes in a waffle cone pack to protect the cones and cut it to make a form to help shape the trees. Directions and tips below!

Ingredients:

6 cup Rice Krispies Cereal
3 tbsp Butter
10.5 oz Marshmallows
Green Food Coloring
12 Miniature Reese’s Cups
1/3 cup M&M Minis
12 Candy Stars
3 cup Powdered Sugar
3 tbsp Milk
3 tbsp Corn Syrup

Directions:

To help in forming the cone shape, I took the foam that comes in a waffle cone pack to protect the cones and cut it to make a form to help shape the trees.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
In a medium to large saucepan, melt the butter over low heat.
Add the marshmallows and stir until completely melted.
Add enough food coloring to make mixture dark green (it will lighten when cereal is added).
Remove from heat.
Add the Rice Crispies cereal and stir until cereal is well coated.
Allow to set about 4 minutes.
Butter a your hands and form mixture into cone shapes.
Place cones onto prepared pan.
Allow to cool and firm up for several hours.
Mix powdered sugar, milk and corn syrup in a bowl until smooth.
Transfer to piping bag or zippered bag to pipe onto cookies.
Pipe like a garland around each tree.
Space M&M minis like ornaments onto the garland.
Pipe a dab of icing on top of tree to act as glue and attach star.
Place a Reese’s upside down on pan. Pipe icing on it and place tree on top.
Allow to set before serving.

If you love these Christmas Tree Rice Krispie Treats, also check out these Mashmallow Rice Krispie Treat Snowmen. You can Pin these to Pinterest.

Look at these other Seasonal Rice Krispies Treats

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Valentine’s Day Essential Oils Special

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February 9, 2015 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Essential Oils, Frugal Living, Instagram, Online Shopping, Valentine's Day

Valentine’s Day Essential Oils Special

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Have you been looking into essential oils but don’t know where to start or which brand to try? I am part of the amazing family of Young Living Essential Oils (read and order here). Essential oils are a fabulous natural substitute for many household chemical laden cleaners, medicines, and even beauty products. Having looked into several companies I was convinced that Young Living was the way to go and use them on myself and both of my girls daily.

I have a special deal just for Frugal Coupon Living readers this month through February 28th!   If you get a premium Young Living starter kit (read and order here) which is, on its own, a really great deal at $150!…

…then I will also mail you a super helpful Essential Oils Reference Book (you can look up almost anything in it and see which oils have been used to help with that problem), a set of essential oil labels to keep your oils organized, AND a $10 Amazon Gift Card!

You will receive 10 bottles, one 5ml each of these everyday oils; Peppermint, Lavender, Lemon, Frankincense, Melaleuca A, Stress Away, Thieves, PanAway, Purification, and Joy. Also get Product Guides about your essential oils, Samples and our NEWEST Dewdrop Diffuser. This month comes with a Citrus Fress Oil too!

This is just a quick list of the many ways that Young Living Essential Oils (read and order here) can be used on a daily basis, and there are many more ways to use these oils to naturally treat you and your families ailments.

Wanting to give it a try, sign up for the PREMIUM Starter Kit and FREEBIES for $150 ($300.00 Value) In addition you get ALL of this for FREE!

:: FREE Essential Oils Reference Book (Look up almost anything to find out which oils to use!)
:: FREE Oil Labels to keep everything organized
:: FREE $10 Amazon Gift Card!!!

This is a huge savings over buying them individually, not to mention its a better value than some of the other oil distributors out there – especially wiht all those FREEIBES!

Here’s how to sign up:

1. Head over to the Young Living page here and fill out your information.

2. Be sure the “Wholesale Member” option is checked so that you don’t end up paying retail prices.

3. Be sure the “sponsor ID” and “enroller id” say 1819360 (so that I can send you your FREEBIES)

4. If you do not feel comfortable putting in your social security number (this is only for tax purposes if you decide to turn this into a business) then you can get an EIN from the IRS in just a few seconds here and use that number instead (the IRS just needs to be able to connect some number with you for tax purposes). They need a Social Security Number or an EIN because if you make $600 or more per year selling Young Living products, you will receive a 1099 form in the mail (which is required by law). Young Living will never share this info with anyone.

5. Select which starter kit you want to get. To get the FREEBIES, you’ll need to check the option that says “Premium Starter Kit”. You can get the kit that’s $150 or you can get the kit that’s $160 with the Bamboo Diffuser (in my opinion, the Bamboo Diffuser looks nicer, but doesn’t put out as much as the diffuser that comes with the $150 kit).

6. There’s a Step 3 of the sign-up process that you can skip if you don’t want to mess with that part, OR you can get a couple of extra free oils if you know already that you would like to order monthly (see BONUS step below!)

7. Go through the checkout process.

8. After you sign up, send an email to frugalcouponliving@gmail.com letting me know that you signed up through this promotion. Somewhere in the email, be sure to put the promotion code “VALENTINEOILDEAL”.

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I Believe in Plan A!

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February 8, 2015 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Frugal Living, Instagram

I Believe in Plan A.

You might have heard (through Instagram or Facebook) the wedding bells ringing a few weeks ago, and I’m writing to tell you that, Yes, I got married to that amazing man I shared with you previously!

If you’ve stayed with me over the last 7 years, you may think that my marriage to Wes doesn’t look like someone’s typical Plan A. In Who is Ashley, I shared with you about my history – my background as a divorced, single mom raising two little girls. Well, I feel like it’s time to give everyone the latest update and connect some of the dots that may have been lost along the way. Initially, when MY first marriage (MY Plan A) didn’t work out, it wasn’t something I wanted to make public. It was a tough time, and I thought it best to keep to myself and move on to Plan B. Eventually though, my heart began to change, and as time passed, I felt that sharing my story was important for a lot of reasons.

Through that change of heart, I began to reconsider my perspective of moving on to MY Plan B, and as I took direction from God’s Word, I grew to believe and understand something completely different. The more I thought and prayed about it, the more I began to understand that God doesn’t have a Plan B, his Plan is always Plan A, and it always focuses on us growing more mature in our relationship with Him. Sometimes that growth requires a heavy pruning, and I believe that I felt that over the past 4+ years, and as hard as it has been at times, I look back and am so grateful to the place God has brought me. I don’t always feel that I deserve this amazing gift God has given – an amazing husband and leader – but I believe my girls do. In the amazing recognition of how God has protected and watched over the girls, I realize our Father does the same for myself. I am grateful for the man He chose for us, one that far exceeds the highest of expectations I had.

As this orginal plan rolls on, I am looking forward to 2015. I see glimpses of God’s Plan A before me, and I believe it’s going to be amazing.

Truth is, there’s always a Plan A. It just may not be the road we’ve envisioned…. Grab the reigns, and enjoy the ride.

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Valentine Peeps Pops on a Stick – Cake Pop Alternative

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January 31, 2015 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe, Valentine's Day

Valentine Peeps Pops on a Stick
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Does anyone else get frustrated by cake pops? They always seem to collapse and fall apart on me, I would love a tip on how to keep them togehter. I love the simplicity of these Peeps Pops as an alternative to the traditional pops on a stick. This is a simple tutorial and you can give them out as valentines, use them as decorations or share them at a class party. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1 pkg Peeps Hearts
12 oz White Melting Chips
9 Lollipop Sticks
Valentine Candy Decorations

Directions:

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
Separate hearts and insert sticks.
Place in freezer for 30 minutes.
Heat chocolate by microwaving for 1 minute, stirring and repeating until melted.
Dip hearts in chocolate and spoon over top to cover completely.
Place on prepared tray and place in refrigerator for 10 minutes.
Use a knife to trim any excess runoff from hearts.
Dip again in chocolate and return to prepared tray.
Decorate with candy before chocolate sets.
Return to refigerator for 10 minutes.
Use a knife to trim any excess runoff from hearts.

Enjoy!

Another fun Valenitne Recipe easy and great for the kids is this Funfetti Dip – Pin to Pinterest!

Check out these other great recipes…

Also, have fun with these Valentine DIY Tutorials…

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DIY Valentine Wreath – Burlap Wreath Tutorial for Under $10

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January 31, 2015 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Crafts, Instagram, Pinterest, Valentine's Day

DIY Valentine Wreath

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I made this wreath last year for Valentine’s Day and I love it! It was so easy and very cheap. I got all of my materials at Hobby Lobby in two separate trips so I was able to use two 40% off coupons.

Supplies:

1 or 2 wire hangars (I used two and wired them together) – FREE
2-3 yards of Red Burlap – $5.98 (use 40% off coupon)
Letters ‘X’ and ‘O’ in Chipboard – $2.49 each. I used a coupon for one so paid $3.49 total.
Two sheets of scrapbook paper – $.59 total (on sale for 50% off)
Ribbon – already had on hand
Mod Podge – already had on hand
X-ACTO Knife – already had on hand

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Directions:

Stretch your hangar into a circle or unhook it to put two hangars together. I just overlapped mine to the desired size.
Lay the fabric out flat and measure 5″ widths and cut.
Begin putting the fabric on the hangar going back and forth until the whole strip is on. Repeat until the hangar is full.
Twist the hanger back together to close. I had to get more fabric later because all they had was 1 1/2 yds! You will want it to be much fuller than this!
To make the letters, lay the scrapbook paper face down and glue the letters on using the Mod Podge.
Once dry, trim the paper around the letters with an X-ACTO knife, then Mod Podge the surface to seal and provide a shine.
Glue the letters together with hot glue and then glue the ribbon onto the back.
Loop over the top of the hangar and add a bow to cover. Ta-da!

Try it and let me know how it turns out! I plan to make one for Easter too!

This is a fun and easy food craft! Make these fun Cake Pop Like Treats – Peeps on a Stick! Pin this to Pinterest!

Check out these other great recipes…

Also, have fun with these Valentine DIY Tutorials…

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Copycat Girl Scouts Thin Mints Cookies Recipe

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January 27, 2015 by Ashley at Frugal Coupon Living Filed Under: Frugal Living, Instagram, Pinterest, Recipe

Copycat Girl Scouts Thin Mints Cookies Recipe

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Did you love our Copycat Girl Scouts Samoa Recipe and Girl Scouts Tagalongs? Do you stock-up on Girl Scount Cookies like my home each Spring? Thin Mints are a FAVORITE in our home. Check out this easy and yummy copycat recipe. Best of all, you can make them year around.

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cup Flour
1/2 cup Cocoa Powder
1/4 tsp Salt
1/2 cup softened Butter
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg
3/4 tsp Peppermint Extract
8 oz Dipping Chocolate

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350.
Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
Whisk together flour, cocoa, and salt.
Cream together butter and sugar until fluffy.
Add in egg and peppermint and mix until blended.
Slowly add flour mixture into creamed mixture.
Shape dough into a 1 1/2″ – 2″ round cylynder and wrap in wax or parchment paper.
Place in freezer for 1 hour to firm up.
You can cut down the length of an empty paper towel roll and wrap it around cylinder to help it stay more round.
Slice into 1/4″ thick cookies.
Place on prepared sheet.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes.
Allow to cool.
Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
Melt chocolate by microwaving 45 seconds then stirring and repeating until chocolate is smooth and melted.
Dip cookies in the chocolate and lift out with a fork shaking off excess.
Place the cookies on prepared sheet and allow to set.