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Ok, I am going to come clean, literally. I am ashamed to show you this but in full disclosure I will. It is BAD. You might want to put on some cheap ray ban sunglasses to prepare for the eye-sore. And Please, don’t judge too harshly but with everything going on things just get out of hand on occasion and this is what happens:

dirty smooth top stove

Get that look off your face! I warned you it was bad. And you said you wouldn’t judge.

dirty flat top stove

Told you it was bad. And I have tried several ways to clean it. Then when it didn’t work stuff just got more stuck on. And then cooked on. And became a bigger mess than I had time to clean most days. Usually I would use a magic eraser, which works ok but still left some baked on stuff behind that just continued to get worse. None of the commercial products have ever worked and they tend to be on the expensive side. So, after some research I found that some folks said baking soda works wonders. Well, let’s see what happens:

ingredients to clean smooth stove top

All you need is some hot soapy water in a bowl, a towel and some baking soda.

Fill a bowl with some hot water and some dish detergent.

 baking soda on stovetop

Sprinkle the baking soda all over the stove top. Be generous, don’t hold back.

soaked towel on stovetop

 

Dip your towel in the bowl of hot soapy water and then squeeze out about half of it. You want it to be soggy. Place the towel over the stove top and let it sit for about 20 minutes. After the 20 minutes is up remove the towel and use it to scrub the stove top. Don’t get me wrong, this does work but if yours looks as bad as mine it is going to take a little elbow grease. And as you scrub you may need to add some more baking soda. But look what happens if you just keep at it:

clean stovetop

After I was done I had to wipe it down again to get all the residue off and then I sprayed it with Windex and shined it. Doesn’t it look great? Soooo much better!!

 

 

Most kids I know are out of school this week…that means that parents everywhere will be hearing the “Mom, I’m bored” mantra. So, why not get your kids involved with the decorating by letting them made this fun and edible centerpiece for the table?

Candy Christmas Centerpiece

Candy Christmas Tree

Supplies:

•50 pieces of Starburst®

•30 pieces of red and green Skittles®

•Small 8″ or 10″ styrofoamtree form

•Royal icing and pastry bag

•2 pieces of Extra® silver gum foil

•Silver pipe cleaner for tree topper

Instructions:

1.Make a batch of royal icing according to instructions. (there are tons of different recipes for royal icing on the internet. Just find one that you like and make accordingly)

2.Using hands, mold about 50 pieces of assorted color Starbursts into leaf shapes.

3.Completely and evenly apply royal icing Styrofoam tree. Let tree sit until icing is almost dry, about 5 minutes.

4.Apply Starburst shaped leaves to tree: first flatten top of candy leaf slightly so icing has a surface to stick to tree. Apply small amount of icing to flat section and hold until leaf is secure on tree.

5.Continue to adhere leaves until tree is completely covered.

6.Let tree dry for an hour and then apply red and green Skittle “ornaments” to leaves with royal icing.

7.Using a pencil, draw two star shapes on the back of each Extra silver gum foil wrapper. Carefully cut out stars with scissors

8.Thread four foil stars onto 3″ piece of silver pipe cleaner.

9.Insert finished foil tree topper into top of tree.

“Thanks to Wrigley’s for supplying the information and products to help facilitate this post. I was in no other way compensated…just found this a really fun thing to do while we wait on Saturday!”

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