Peanut Blossom Blog Posts

A collage of gift ideas for book lovers.

12 Best Gifts for Book Lovers

A platter of green Christmas tree sugar cookies have been decorated with royal icing in simple patterns.

Easy Royal Icing Recipe

Easy Panettone Bread Pudding

Easy Panettone Bread Pudding

A small pitcher is filled with creamy amaretto sauce. It is on the counter in front of a panettone bread pudding.

Sweet Amaretto Creamer

A hand is dunking a graham cracker into a creamy gingerbread dip.

Easy Gingerbread Dip {For Kids!}

Collage of four book covers: The Christmasaurus, The Girl Who Saved Christmas, The 12 Dares of Christa, and Nutcracked.

12 Christmas Chapter Books for Tweens

A bread basket is lined with a napkin and filled with golden crescent dinner rolls from the bread machine.

Bread Machine Crescent Dinner Rolls

Two Heart Cookies with Blue Frosting are decorated with sprinkles on half of the cookie.

Easy Frosting Recipes for Sugar Cookies

A bin of colorful sugar cookie cutters with a few samples laid out in front.

The Best Cookie Cutters for Kids

A bowl of rice is topped with shredded bourbon chicken from the crockpot.

Saucy Crockpot Bourbon Chicken

A serving bowl of square pretzels that have been baked and seasoned.

Easy Seasoned Pretzels: 16 Fun Flavors!

Collage of four book covers: Song of the Stars, Three Wise Kings, The Legend of the Poinsettia, and The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree.

22 Powerful Christmas Books for Advent

The finished gingerbread house has been assembled and decorated by a young girl with gumdrops, candy canes, and sprinkles.

How to Make a Homemade Gingerbread House

20 Holiday Gift Ideas for Moms 2024

20 Holiday Gift Ideas for Moms 2024

Collage of four book covers: Christmas Stories, The Christmas Pig, The Vanderbeeks of 141st Street, and A Christmas Carol.

12 Best Christmas Read Aloud Books

A DIY Advent wreath sits on a table on Christmas Eve in front of a lit Christmas tree.

DIY Advent Wreath with Candles

A two-tier cake plate has cute Halloween cupcakes in lavender polka dot wrappers. There is a dish of candy corn on the side.

3 Easy Halloween Cupcakes from 1 Box Mix

Cupcakes topped with a swirl of chocolate cream cheese frosting sit on a baker's rack next to a piping bag filled with frosting.

Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

Vanilla cupcakes have been topped with a swirl of cream cheese frosting and sit on a cake plate. There's a frosting piping bag on the counter in front.

Easy Cream Cheese Frosting

A bowl of hot chicken taco soup has shredded cheddar and a dollop of sour cream on top. Sliced bread in the background.

Quick Chicken Taco Soup {No Beans!}

A white plate has a pile of freshly roasted green beans hot from the air fryer basket.

Air Fryer Green Beans

Two salmon filets are surrounded by fresh green beans in an air fryer basket.

How to Cook Salmon in Air Fryer

A white serving dish has the beef broth and butter flavored rice with a spoon.

Instant Pot Sticky Butter Rice

Two girls are dressed up in Harry Potter themed costumes for Trick or Treat

Harry Potter Costume Ideas

A Harry Potter "Monsters Book of Monsters" birthday cake has shaggy brown frosting like fur and a red tongue and googly eyes.

Monster Book of Monsters Cake

Instant Pot is filled with cooked white jasmine rice.

Easiest Instant Pot Jasmine Rice

A dinner bowl has a serving of butter chicken spooned over jasmine rice. Fresh cilantro is sprinkled over the top.

Easy Instant Pot Butter Chicken

A row of stockings are hung on a mantle in front of a Christmas tree.

How to Celebrate St. Nicholas Day

A collage of different Nativity sets for families

Sturdy Kids Nativity Sets Parents Love

A collage of foods inspired by the book Romanov by Nadine Brandes

Russian Dinner Party Ideas

A blue bowl filled with raspberry mustard has a spoon and is surrounded by seasoned pretzels.

Homemade Raspberry Mustard Dip

A collage of Halloween picture books for reading out loud to kids.

Delightful Halloween Books for Kids

A photo collage of several lovely fall picture books to read aloud to kids.

Gorgeous Fall Books for Kids

A platter of sausage swirl appetizers is ready to be served.

Sausage Crescent Roll Swirls

A white soup bowl filled with tomato bisque has brown bread croutons floating on top.

Tomato Bisque Soup

The baked peach bread with almond glaze and toasted almond slivers has been sliced so you can see the fresh peaches inside.

Peach Bread

A sliced loaf of almond poppy seed bread is ready for serving on a white platter.

Almond Poppy Seed Bread

A photo collage shows the variety of recipes that can be made in a bread maker.

50 Best Bread Maker Recipes

The finished ground turkey soup is ready to be served from the Instant Pot.

Instant Pot Ground Turkey Soup

A focaccia bread on parchment paper with several squares cut and scattered.

Bread Machine Focaccia