Yummy Chewy Almond Sugar Cookies

I’m a total chocolate chip cookie fan… I’ll almost always choose that over sugar cookies… until I found a recipe that uses Almond Extract… What??? How have I lived my whole life without Almond Extract?

So I made the cookies, with the Almond Extract, and they were a hit! So much so that I made them a few times in a row… that was dangerous.

I was actually supposed to roll them into balls 🤷🏽‍♀️… so they don’t look so pretty.

The kids have been asking for Chocolate Chip Cookies, so I used my old faithful Bisquick recipe… super easy…

And today Bobby started asking for muffins when he saw them on the Bisquick box that I pulled out to make the Chocolate Chip cookies… so I made those next.

And finally… I made the Almond Sugar Cookies… then Hot Chocolate from a can since it was already running late and we still wanted to get the Christmas Tree up and let the kid start decorating it.

I only had one extra stick of softened butter when I went to make the Almond Sugar Cookie recipe… so I tried to halve it… and I am horrible at measuring things, mostly because I don’t like to have to wash my measuring cups between ingredients, so I try to make do with other clean cups and do the math in my head… good thing I’m pretty good at math and fractions. Ha! So I may have used the 1/8th of a cup 10 times to measure out 1 1/4 cups of flour…

Anyway, here’s the recipe that you should follow and not try to do my halved one.

Chewy Almond Sugar Cookies

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp almond extract,optional, but it adds an extra layer of flavor
  • 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt

Topping

1/4 cup granulated sugar, for dipping

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees and coat a baking sheet with baking spray.
  • In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, about a minute. Add in the egg, vanilla extract, and almond extract and beat until combined.
  • Next, add in the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix until just combined, making sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl every now and then.
  • Roll dough into 1″ balls, and roll in sugar.
  • Place on baking sheet, about 2″ apart. Bake for 10-11 minutes, or until cookies have set.
  • Allow to cool.

Enjoy!

You can frost them or cover them with a glaze, if you like… I like them just the way they are.

We got the tree started, maybe we’ll finish going through the boxes tomorrow to finish decorating the house, or maybe…. just maybe… it’ll take us a few days… or weeks until we are ready for Christmas.

The Superhero Family RV Trip – Day 4

So we didn’t actually leave the house until 12:27 am… And you might be wondering how I remember that almost 5 months later… but I have Google Maps to thank for that! If you have your timeline tracking enabled, you can look back to any day and see where you were and what time you were there. So it looks like we drove for 1.5 hours then stopped for a few minutes, I feel like we may have stopped for gas.

We arrived in Idaho at 2:42 am and finally pulled into the Montpelier Creek KOA Journey at 4:07 am. I am pretty sure I nodded off for a couple minutes here and there on our way there. And as soon as we pulled in, found the map with our spot marked out for us, we pulled into our pull through and we went to sleep. I don’t remember if we even hooked up, or if I said we could hook up in the morning so we could dump and fill before we left. I really loved the full hookups and pull through sites, because we didn’t have to find the dump station, or stop along the way to dump and fill up. Not that I was ever the one to do the dumping or filling, but it was convenient to be able to just relax in the RV with the kids while my hubby was outside getting us up and running again.

We woke a few hours later and while Ryan was prepping us for our departure, the kids and I went for a little adventure around the park. We saw the biggest dandelions I had ever seen in my ENTIRE LIFE, and there was a cute little creek that you could sit on a bench and watch. I’m pretty sure the kids told me they thought they saw a piranha in there… They had a swimming pool, which we didn’t use because we had no time to waste, and they had a fun playground that the kids enjoyed for a bit, we went into the little store… but I think we only bought ice (we had an ice maker in the RV but… I didn’t trust drinking water from those fill stations), then the kids played Mega Connect Four for a bit.

We had to hit the road pretty quickly because we had plans to make it all the way to see Old Faithful. So we finally loaded up and hit the road at 12:33 pm.

Except… as soon as we left the campground and turned right on the road to head to Wyoming we were going as slow as a turtle. It may have been a little daring to make our first RV trip a 21 day trip, especially since we had no idea what we were doing. But… we were already on it, so it was going to be a learning experience. Ryan had a hunch that it was going slow because it was a cool morning and maybe the RV just wasn’t warm enough to get up and go. So we pulled over, and after a few minutes we tried again and we were up to speed in a minute or so. Around 15 minutes later… we were in Wyoming! We kinda passed the sign, so I jumped out and ran back to get a picture of it.

We stopped at another Sinclair for gas… and our gas stops suddenly turned into lunch stops. Ryan would get the gas going, then he would usually run inside to use the restroom… I on the other hand would take the opportunity to move around the RV while the RV was not in motion so I wouldn’t get nauseous. The kids could get out of their seats and sit at the table while I got lunch ready for them and sometimes we would be hanging out at the pump for 30 minutes or more.

Then we made a pit stop to take some pictures with this beautiful background and white puffy clouds. Then we drove through Jackson Hole Wyoming, then on to see the Grand Tetons.

Then… we saw where the Buffalo really roam. They weren’t crossing the street, so they didn’t slow down traffic… though I did see the traffic seeming to slow down on Google maps, and I was hoping that the slow down meant we were going to see something really cool. I just had NO idea that we would see hundreds of Buffalo right off the side of the road.

So… we did what any tourist would do… pulled over and took in the amazing sight for a few minutes. But not too many minutes, we still had destination Old Faithful on our mind.

We finally arrived at the entrance to Yellowstone at 5:49 pm and arrived at the parking lot for Old Faithful at 7:00 pm. I knew it “closed” at 8 pm, and I knew it could erupt every 55 minutes… so I was hoping that it would erupt within 55 minutes from the time we arrived and didn’t happen to erupt 1 minute prior to our arrival where we would have missed the last “showing” of the day. I later figured out it was the Visitor Center that closed at 8 pm, and Old Faithful itself did not turn off at 8 pm… duh! It erupted about 10 minutes after we got to the viewing area, and it was an amazing site to see!

What I completely forgot about, until about 30 minutes away from Old Faithful was that I had downloaded an app called Gypsy Guide Yellowstone… I wish I had turned it on sooner. It is like having a personal tour guide on board. That’s actually where I learned about the timing of Old Faithful and where to go. He also mentioned to go into the Old Faithful Inn, he didn’t tell us what we would see, he just told us we wouldn’t want to miss it. I’m pretty sure he was talking about the massive clock… and all the beautiful wood. So after a quick picture, we walked back out to the RV to grab some dinner and head on to our next stop for the night in Cody, Wyoming… at our first Wal Mart! We pulled out of the parking lot at 9:05 pm and it was still daylight… it was so crazy!

But first… we spotted some Elk, so we pulled over and got out of the RV to walk over to get a closer look. Someone stopping to see the Elk told us they had just seen a bear… Oh my goodness, I was walking back to the RV as fast as I could, especially since Ryan was ahead of us with Alexandria, and he had the bear spray and I was trailing behind with Victoria and Bobby as it started getting dark fast.

Sometimes Google Maps didn’t give me what I thought were the very best directions… and the drive from Old Faithful to Cody was one of those times…. we were driving on what seemed to be a dirt road, under construction, in the pitch black of night and I never knew when we would get back to real road. We did see some deer, which was frightening to me since it was so dark, but we saw the most beautiful moonlight reflecting on the lake, and my Google Pixel Night Sight actually makes it look like it was still daylight out, but it was very much night.

Tips for Day 4:

  • If you don’t have Google Maps…. get it! And turn on your timeline tracking if you ever take a trip and want to remember where you went.
  • If you are going to visit Yellowstone, get Bear Spray… we didn’t need it, but we had it just in case we did need it.
  • If you want a tour guide definitely get the GyPSy Guide for Yellowstone, I think they have it for other locations too… so look into it for any travel that you might want to enjoy listening to, rather than trying to read while you are taking in the beauty around you.
  • If you are driving to Cody, Wyoming for the night… try to leave before nightfall… and hopefully the construction will be done (it may even be done now) so that you don’t have to brave dirt roads in the middle of the night.
  • Give yourself some time… that’s probably a tip I would add for EVERY SINGLE DAY because I feel like we were so rushed. We didn’t have time to spend time in places because our schedule was packed full, and I don’t regret any of the places we got to see, but I would definitely take a second trip to almost every place because there was so much more we could have done had we had more time.

The Superhero Family RV Trip – Day 3

We got to sleep in, then wake up and had a homemade delicious breakfast with family thanks to Ryan’s sister! She was amazing for driving all the way to Cedar City and back to pick us up for the night the night before, and by the end of the day, she would do the same trip again. Thank you, Jen! You really made an unfortunate situation soo sooo much better!

After breakfast, the kids enjoyed throwing rocks into the pond, playing guitar with Uncle Brian, then Auntie Jen told us about the splash pad, so… we got the kids swimming gear together (that is one of the things I packed when we knew we may be without the RV for the whole weekend) and headed out to the splash pad. There were playgrounds there too! If you are ever in Alpine, Utah and looking for a cool place for the family to hang out, you should check out Alpine Splash Pad. While we were at the splash pad, we got 1 call from Amen diesel saying the replaced the clamps on the hose where the coolant had been shooting out. They were going to take it for a test drive, then let us know if that fixed it. A couple hours later, they told us it was ready.

I had Ryan leave me and the kids at the house, so that he could make the 3 hour drive back to Cedar City with his sis to get the RV, drive it back 3 hours, then pick us up so we could continue on to Idaho. I didn’t think the kids would do well with 10 hours of driving in a day when they could just have a 3.5 hour trip. We had reservations for the night in Montpelier, Idaho, it was the closest place we could find to Yellowstone that had vacancies. Apparently, you need to book in January if you want to stay in Yellowstone, and since I was booking our sites in May and June… I had to take whatever we could get. If we stayed one extra night in Utah, Old Faithful would have been an 8 hour drive away, which easily turns into 10 hours with gas stops… and then we had another almost 3 hour drive to Cody, Wyoming where we planned to stay the next night. So I stayed in Alpine with the kids, did a couple loads of laundry, helped the kids shower, which meant I got completely soaked, but they all got clean, then I turned on The Greatest Showman on the tablet for them to watch while I showered, and they were all asleep before Ryan got back.

I packed up and waited up… he arrived around 11:45 pm, we loaded the kids, laying down, drank our Active, then hit the road. It was really dark… and we were driving through a lot of trees, with those signs that say watch out for wildlife… but thankfully we didn’t have any animals dart out in front of us.

Tips for Day 3:

  • If you plan to visit Yellowstone in the summer, and want to stay there… make sure you make your reservations really early or you’ll be stuck staying further away. We tried to stay in Alpine, Wyoming, but that was booked too. Montpelier, Idaho has a great KOA and it’s only a couple hours away from Jackson, Wyoming.
  • Speaking of trip planning… you MUST get the RV Parky App. I originally tried to plan our trip on RoadTrippers, but before we could even start our trip, they started charging and limiting the number of stops you could add to your trip for the free version. However… RV Parky lets you add unlimited stops. And I love that you could add your destination, then search around there for places to stay. The places to stay included reviews, so you could know ahead of time if it was a good option for you. We were in a really big RV, so some of the reviews helped me decide that we likely would have trouble getting in and out. And while I only planned to stay at Walmart 1 time, we ended up staying at at least 3 Walmarts in our 21 days.
  • Allow for more time. I booked our trip solid. The purpose of the trip was to go to my sister’s wedding in Michigan, and while I planned for about 6 hours of driving a day, it took way longer than that, most days. So, we had to rush to see what we were going to see then keep on moving so we wouldn’t get behind schedule.

The Superhero Family RV Trip – Day 2

Day 2 we got to start our day with a nice hot shower in our friend’s house before we headed on to Utah to visit Ryan’s sister and her family. When we got out to the RV to take off, we realized that the refrigerator had turned off at some point during the night and the food wasn’t as cold as it should have been. Apparently the battery runs out of power, so my aunt, who has her own trailer, and was giving us lessons as we went along, told us we could switch to propane when we dry camped to keep the fridge cold if we weren’t keeping the generator on all night. So… we started doing that (when we remembered).

Speaking of generator, we also learned that you can’t power the generator on with a dead battery, so you had to start the RV first, then power on the generator if you were going to use it while driving. Another thing, you have to have the generator on while driving if you want to run the A/C in the back of the RV. So many things to learn!

So we made our first stop of the day in St George at a Sinclairs (one of those Dinosaur gas stations) to gas up, and made lunch and ate it while we filled up, and I’m sure Ryan cleaned the windshield as well, that was his third job (1 – Driving, 2 – Getting Gas, 3 – Cleaning the windshield). One app we used almost every single day of the trip to find the least expensive gas, that was nearest to us, was Gas Buddy, I HIGHLY recommend you get that for any road trip. We set it to Diesel so that it would only consider gas stations that had diesel, then you could open the station and see what type of amenities they had. Most of the time we just needed gas, but sometimes we needed to dump and fill up with water.

Then we got back on the road and started heading up the grade toward Alpine, Utah when the thermostat got really hot, the little alarm (a different one) made noise and said we were overheating, and the engine slowed way down. We pulled over on the side of the 15 and called AAA. If you don’t have AAA, you should get it, we have the Premier membership, and it allows for one 200 mile tow a year for each cardholder, which has absolutely saved us in our personal cars, like the time we were moving here and Ryan’s car broke down hours from our new home, and we got it towed for Free! So, we found out from our friend Mike that there’s Premier RV for when you are in an RV, and you need to add it on a couple months before you trip, so we did, and it sure came in handy when we broke down on the second day of our trip! Thank you, Mike!!!

While we were hanging out on the side of the freeway for hours, the kids got to play with puzzles, color some of their favorite characters, and just hang out watching movies. We found out most repair shops are closed over the weekend, and since it was almost 5 pm on a Friday we may have to wait until Monday to get a diagnosis.

The first company AAA sent out was Bracken’s Auto Tech. Austin came out in his tow truck with some coolant to see if filling that up would get us up and running again. After he filled up the coolant, we tried driving the RV again, the temp had gone down, but within 30 seconds of driving, the heat went all the way back up and the engine slowed back down. He realized all the coolant shot right out and went onto the ground, so it was going to need more than just a refill. He thought we may have to get an Uber to get me and the kids to wherever the RV would be towed since they don’t usually have room for 2 adults and 3 car seats in a tow truck, but I had a friend in St George, also named Austin who had volunteered to come pick us up if we needed a ride.

Thankfully, next AAA sent out All Ways Towing to get us towed to Amen Diesel (they were actually opened on Saturdays). The driver of the first tow truck was Hunter, he came with an extended cab tow truck to pick us up, and they sent a separate tow truck to pick up the RV. So my friend Austin got to stay at work once he knew we were taken care of. Thank you for the offer, Austin! Hunter knew we were trying to pack some bags in case we would be without the RV for the weekend, and he had fun keeping the kids entertained. Once the RV tow truck arrived and they got it loaded up, Hunter drove us to Denny’s where Ryan unloaded me, the 3 kids, the 2 car seats (1 with a sleeping child) and the bags, while he headed to Amen Diesel to get the 3rd car seat with Hunter.

We spent 3 hours at Denny’s eating dinner and waiting for Ryan’s sister, Jen, to arrive from Alpine to pick us up for the night and drive us back to her house. Everyone at Denny’s was super nice, especially our server, Jake, who was always on top of things and made great recommendations! It made the wait go by much faster.

It was a long day, and we actually ran out of data on our phone one day prior to the start of our unlimited month… Boo… While at a rest stop on the way up to Alpine, Ryan called Verizon to see if they would waive the $15 overage fee, and rather than waive the fee, they told us about an offer we had on our account for being long time customers, where rather than paying the extra $30 for one month of unlimited data, they could offer us unlimited data for $2 extra a month… every month! And they would prorate it to the current month, so not only did they waive the $15 fee, and not bill us $30 extra for July, they billed us $2 for the month for June so we didn’t have an overage, and now we have unlimited data for only $2 a month, rather than $30 a month. So that $45 we would have spent, will not buy us almost 2 years worth of unlimited data. Auntie Jen was singing the Daniel Tiger song about when something seems bad ,turn it around, and find something good, but the kids didn’t hear it. And when we walked out of the rest stop bathroom, Bobby started singing it… so… the break down, and the running out of data, actually turned into something good.

So, it was a long, exhausting day, but… we scored on the Verizon offer, and we got to sleep in a super comfy bed, in a dark dark room, and wake up the next morning to spend time with the family.

Tips for Day 2:

  • Get AAA if you own a car.
  • Get AAA Premier RV if you own, or are going to be using an RV.
  • Get Gas Buddy for any road trip… or even if you just randomly choose where you get your gas in town. We usually go to Costco because it’s generally the cheapest in town. Speaking of Costco, upgrade to the Executive membership if you don’t already have it, it pays for itself. If you don’t make enough back in the rewards to cover the price difference between the regular and executive membership, they’ll refund you the difference!
  • Verizon is pretty awesome…. sure we didn’t have service in some locations, but overall, we had pretty good service as we went through 16 states. And that unlimited offer came at the perfect time, it even allowed me to jump on a company Zoom and and watch it live, rather than calling in and just listening to it (did you know you can call into zooms when you don’t have data/wifi?)
  • If you are ever break down in Cedar City, Utah call All Ways Towing or Bracken Auto Tech, they are both awesome! And if you want a place to eat and hang out for a few hours… Denny’s is the place to go!

The Superhero Family RV Trip – Day 1

We woke at 4:00 am to get dressed, and get the last things packed up. I sent my hubby outside as soon as he woke to see if the fridge was cold, and it was! All the praise hands 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼!!! I had planned to leave at 5:00 am, which really meant I wanted to leave by 6:00 am… I gave us an hour buffer… we didn’t end up leaving until 6:30 am and then we had to make a stop (at a Flying J) shortly after we left (probably within 30 minutes) because I was already getting nauseous. I would later discover how cool the RV spot we pulled into was because you could get up, get water, and dump all at the same spot!

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The Superhero Family RV Trip – Day 0

way from home for the next 3 weeks.
Our temporary Superheromobile/home away from home for the next 3 weeks…

So we got the RV home on Wednesday after work and started loading it up! My Grandma Lola, Cousin Joanna, Aunt Virginia, and my Mom (Theresa) all came over to see the RV and help watch the kids while we picked up the RV then proceeded to get it all loaded up. My mom was the trooper staying until at least 10:30 pm and even giving the kids their bath and trying to get them to sleep for us. At 11:00 pm we were done loading for the night, and put everything else that needed to be loaded on the dining room (except all the refrigerated/freezer items since the fridge wasn’t cold yet) table to load it in the morning.

Oh and that reminds me… our neighbors across the way, Dan, Dorothy, and Joe came over to give us a tutorial since they are always going on trips in their RV. We tried to hook up to power at our house, so we could run the A/C and lights while we got loaded, and…. we kept flipping the breaker… so Dan showed us how to use the generator instead to have continuous A/C and lights since we didn’t have a proper outlet to hookup to. He also told us it could take until the morning for the fridge to get cold, and he was right. They also let us borrow their RV DVD since we had never seen it, and they thought it would be fitting for our first RV Trip. We had it playing while we drove into Las Vegas, but I was too busy watching the road to watch the movie, so we still need to watch it.

So at 11:00 pm I started packing my own clothes, I had the rest packed and ready to go, except my clothes and our toiletries, and my hubby had to pack too. After I finished packing, I took a shower at midnight, then made a final list in my Keep Notes (if you haven’t tried that app, let me tell you, it is AMAZING!). I was using OneNote before, until I realized I wasn’t actually logged in with an account that I could see what it was, so I wasn’t able to log into my account from any other devices… so I reluctantly switched to Keep Notes and I am SOOOO Glad I did! Probably my favorite feature is that when you save a link, it shows you the thumbnail, so it’s super easy to see what that link that you saved is going to take you to! The other pretty amazing benefit is that I can access my account from my laptop, and my iPad too…. so I can save notes from anywhere and access them from anywhere too!

After I got into bed at 1:00 am, my hubby still had to take his own shower and give our dog Rinzler (yes, he was named after the character from Tron Legacy) a bath so that he would be nice and clean while he stayed at home during our 3 week road trip. Planned wake up time was 4:00 am… which means I would get 3 whole hours of sleep.

3 Week Cross Country RV Trip

The Superhero family is getting ready for an adventure…

We’ve done road trips in California and once to Las Vegas to visit family, but it’s always been in our old Kia Sorento, or our Superheromobile, Toyota Sienna.

Trips with kids take SO MUCH LONGER than they did before we had kids.

All three of our kids have vomited on the road. So between vomit cleanups, stopping to nurse, stopping for bathroom breaks, stopping to change diapers, and stopping for food, our trips just take a lot longer now.

We’ve done some flights with kids too. Victoria’s first flight was to Maui when we went for our 2nd and my parent’s 30th wedding anniversary. They watched Victoria while we went snorkeling at Molokini. Bobby was technically there too… because I was about 5 weeks pregnant at the time. We took our baby announcement pictures there too!

Our second flight was to Cabo San Lucas, my mom and sister came to help this time because we had both Victoria and Bobby and had a wedding to attend where children weren’t allowed. It would have been easier to leave the kids at home with grandma, but I was still nursing Bobby, because he was only 6 months old at the time.

Alexandria has not been on a flight yet… and when we found out my sister was getting married in Michigan, I wasn’t too excited at the thought of taking 3 kids on flights to Michigan and back, especially since all 5 of us are in the wedding. So, I thought… maybe we can finally do our road trip…

We’ve been wanting to do a cross country RV trip for a while, but we just haven’t made it happen.

So, when this opportunity came up, we were super excited about the idea of making it happen. Our trip is scheduled to start 7/11/2019, and we’re scheduled to return back home on 7/31/2019. I’ve never done an RV trip (that I can remember, but I have seen a picture of me in an RV when I was a teenager, so… maybe I did, but if so my mom and dad did all the work, so I don’t remember it at all) so this is all new to me, and I’ll absolutely be using Google and YouTube, as well as all of my friends on Facebook to gather as much information as possible before we leave on our adventure.

I’m super excited to have a bathroom on board since that should allow us to eliminate some of our stops, we’ll have food and drink on board, so that’ll allow us to eliminate more stops, hopefully the kids are over their vomiting stage, they haven’t actually thrown up since we moved to Visalia in February 2018 (Alexandria was the last to vomit, and she did it twice in the last 30 minutes on our move here), and I’m really excited to get to explore our country, and see some pretty amazing landmarks, and get to do this with our kids.

This is our planned route… Stop #9 is the purpose of the trip, everything else is just an adventure! ❤️

So, now the real fun begins where we figure out how to use an RV, all the tips, and tricks, and where to stay. We plan to park on the street if possible when we stop to visit friends/family, but the big touristy sites, we’d like to find an RV park close to the tour site so we can get there easily since we aren’t towing a car.

Pumpkin Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bread

I found this recipe on Pinterest…

Pumpkin baked oatmeal with chocolate chips

And went with the honey option instead of the maple syrup, and added in a little bit of Almond Extract. Any time a recipe calls for Vanilla extract, I used the Vanilla, and add in the Almond Extract as well. I love the taste, and it makes everything a little more delicious!

So… I pulled it out and let it cool 10 minutes before I cut it and seems like it could have baked a little bit longer. I’m going to let it cool all the way, then refrigerate it and see if it stays together better tomorrow.

The kids loved it (I did too), and I love that they have another option for breakfast now.

As an update, I pulled it out of the fridge for an after dinner snack and it totally stays together now! 🙌

Egg & Cheese Croissants

I saw a YouTube video with this idea, and tried it from memory. I think it would probably have been easier with the larger sized croissants, but this is what I had.

I bought these to make pigs 🐽 in a blanket but the kids weren’t impressed. 🤷‍♀️

So this is my attempt to get them to eat them so we can finish what is left in the house.

While I usually tend stay away from things that are “enriched” because let’s be real, they aren’t enriched with anything good, as a matter of fact, the good that was in it, has probably been removed, I occasionally make eggceptions 😂. Check out this great article about Enriched food

Back to the point… so even though these croissant are made with enriched flour… it’s ok to have some crap food every once in a while. Just make sure you are having more healthy than unhealthy, and I don’t mean 51%/49% I mean more like 80%/20%.

So in order to know what is going in my family’s body, I like to make most of our food at home, because the pre-made, pre-packaged foods usually have things in them that are probably not so good for you. But, I am a busy mom, so sometimes we do have pre-packaged or fast food… But that isn’t what we have most of the time.

So…. if you must go to a fast food place and have an egg and cheese croissant, why not try making your own at home instead, you’ll save money, and you’ll know exactly what is in the food you are eating. You can easily heat them up and keep the crispy flaky layer by popping them into your Air Fryer (I LOVE my Air Fryer, I am actually selling my old toaster oven because it takes up more space and I love the simplicity of the Air Fryer!)

First, scramble your eggs and try to keep them flat as you cook them.

I used my Tupperware microwave egg cooker.

Pour the egg in, pop on the top, pop onto the microwave for 2.5 minutes and it’s ready to go!

Next… Open your croissant 🥐 package. These always freak me out because of the POP. But… I remember in the video he hit the container on his counter to open it. Genius! It pops it open as it hits the counter so it didn’t scare me. ❤️

I had my second batch of eggs cooking, but this is all you need to make your croissants! You could add bacon or sausage too if you like, but I tried just eggs and cheese this time.

Layer your egg then cheese then wrap it closed.

I followed the baking directions on the packaging.

So these are baked and ready to go, and I’ll be offering them up at breakfast time to get my kids to try something other than the usual, cereal, yogurt, or bar.

Let me know what you think!