Easy Homemade Holiday Gifts by Monica Escobar Allen | themomemans.com

Easy Homemade Holiday Gifts, er, um, if ya have the ingredients

|Monica Escobar Allen

When I was young and naive, I thought that when I had my own family, we'd solely do homemade gifts. None of this consumerism. None of this running around or clicking around. Then...when I found myself with a family, that thought went out the window. And here I am, nine years later, making homemade gifts for the first time. And they aren't even for my own family! They are for my daughter's friends! (insert crying laughing emoji). How did I get roped into this? #suckerforamom

Anywho, my dear friend gave me some Terrasoul Raw Cacao Butter and I didn't know what to do with it so I went to the ol' Google and found this recipe from Navitas Organics. 

WHIPPED BODY BUTTER

Ingredients

  • 56g Cacao Butter
  • ¼ cup unrefined coconut oil
  • ¼ cup sweet almond oil
  • ¼ tsp. favorite essential oil (optional)

Directions

  1. Melt cacao butter, coconut oil and almond oil in a saucepan over low heat.
  2. Pour into a mixing bowl and place in the refrigerator until mixture begins to harden, about one hour.
  3. Add essential oil, if using, then whip with an electric mixer on high until light, fluffy peaks form, scraping the sides periodically with a spatula.
  4. Let the mixture cool completely. Spoon into a glass jar, cap and store at room temperature.

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. Oh yeah, that's something I've picked up since being a mom. I'm so embarrassing.

Click here to see me literally whip it up in a flash!

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