Cara's Kitchen & Crafts

02/23/2026

🍪MAKE THESE!

Salted CARAmel Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies

In a bowl add:
1 cup melted butter
1/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
Whisk well

Then add:
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tablespoon corn starch
1 tsp salt
Mix well

Then you’ll need:
1 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup coconut flakes
12 soft caramel chews cut in half
Flakey salt

Fold in the chips and coconut

On a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper
Add walnut sized dough balls
Press half a caramel into each ball

Bake at 350 for 10 mins(just until the edges are light brown)**

Sprinkle with salt as soon as they come out of the oven

**Every oven varies**
Made 32 cookies

Enjoy!

02/23/2026

🍪It’s cold out and I feel like baking. Stay tuned for the result! (And a recipe, if it turns out well😜)

02/06/2026

02/05/2026

CROCKPOT WHITE CHICKEN CHILI🥣

Ingredients:
•1 lb boneless skinless chicken(I use thighs, but breasts are fine)
•1 onion diced
•2 cloves garlic minced
•32 oz. carton chicken broth (low sodium)
•2 15oz cans white beans rinsed and drained
•2 4oz cans diced green chiles
•1 15oz can whole kernel corn drained
•1 tsp chicken bouillon
•1/2 tsp
•3/4 tsp black pepper
•1 1/2 tsp cumin
•1 tsp oregano
•1 tsp chili powder
•1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
•1 8 oz block cream cheese softened
• 1/4 cup half and half

Toppings:
•shredded cheese
•cilantro
•tortilla strips
•lime

Instructions:

1. Add chicken to bottom of slow cooker, top with bouillon, salt, pepper, cumin, oregano, chili powder, and cayenne pepper.
2. Top with diced onion, minced garlic, beans, green chiles, corn, and chicken broth.
3. Stir.
4. Cover and cook on LOW for 8 hours or on HIGH for 3-4 hours.
5. Remove chicken to large mixing bowl, shred, then return to slow cooker.
6. Add cream cheese and half and half, stir, then cover and cook on HIGH for 15 minutes, or until chili is creamy and slightly thickened.
*If you want to ensure a smooth blend of the cream cheese, try adding the softened cream cheese to a small mixing bowl, then adding a few ladles of the chili from the slow cooker. Whisk until smooth, then stir that mixture into the slow cooker and proceed with adding the half and half and cooking on high for 15 minutes.
7.Stir well and serve with desired toppings.

02/04/2026

🏈What is everyone making this Sunday for the Super Bowl?
I’m keeping it simple with wings and nachos.

02/02/2026

Tonight’s dinner:
Buffalo hot honey chicken tenders with homemade ranch(because blue cheese is gross😜), collard greens cooked with turkey tails, and crispy smashed potato salad.

What did you have?

01/31/2026

Have you had the POG juice at Disney World and wished that you could get it at home? Well, today is your lucky day!

Just mix:
•2 parts Passion Fruit juice
•2 parts guava nectar(often found in the Hispanic section of your grocery store)
•1 part orange juice

🍹Enjoy!

08/21/2025

✨Zootopia: Better Zoogether! opens Nov. 7 at Disney’s Animal Kingdom

08/14/2025

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