Crock Pot Cashew Chicken

My crock pot and rice cooker are my favorite small appliances we have.  I love them even more than my coffee maker, which really means a lot coming from this coffee addict!  I have an inexpensive crock pot, and it works fine for all of my recipes, but my rice cooker is AMAZING.  We have the Zojirushi NS-ZCC10 Fuzzy Logic:

Easy Lemon Poppy Seed Cake

This is my first ever attempt at making a Bundt cake.  Most normal people wouldn’t make their first food-related blog post on a first attempt at making a baked good, but I’m going to be an honest blogger and share both the good and the bad (and the sometimes ugly).  I found this Recipe from McCormick while searching for a way to use my homemade lemon extract so I could include a recipe with the lemon extract gift.  When I saw that it was easy, which means using a boxed cake mix, I thought it would be perfect as a Christmas gift for the busy moms I know that love to bake but may not be able to find time in this busy season.