Pumpkin Spice Cake

 How about a Pumpkin Spice Cake recipe to kick off this Monday morning?
This recipe uses Nutmeg, Ginger and Cinnamon Bark essential oils---
I just love how you can incorporate these oils into baking and cooking!

Ingredients:
-1 1/4 cups butter
-2 eggs, beaten
-1 cup packed brown sugar
-1 1/4 cups white sugar
-1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
-3 cups all-purpose flour
-2 teaspoons baking soda
-1 teaspoon salt
-3 drops Cinnamon Bark essential oil
-1 drop Nutmeg essential oil
-1 drop Ginger essential oil
-1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour your pan(s).
Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter, eggs, brown sugar, white sugar,
Cinnamon Bark, Nutmeg and Ginger essential oils until light and fluffy.
Beat in the pumpkin puree.
Beat in the flour mixture. Add pecans if desired.
Pour batter into prepared pan(s).

Bake in the preheated oven for 60 to 65 minutes,
or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
For extra yumminess, add a cream cheese frosting to this cake!

And as always, email me at jill.meulenberg@gmail.com with any questions you might have either about this post, or about Young Living essential oils.

Thanks!

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RC Essential Oil

It's Day 17 and even more importantly, it's FRIDAY! We made it!

Have you tried Young Living's RC for extra respiratory system support?
It's one of the oils included in the Premium Starter Kit.
RC Essential Oil Blend is a unique combination of Cypress, Spruce,
and three types of Eucalyptus (E. Globulus, E. Radiata, and E. Citriodora) oils,
and includes the naturally occurring constituent limonene.

This is a great one to apply topically to the chest area with a carrier oil.
Or even diffuse while sleeping. Just last night we heard our daughter
started to cough a bit as she was falling asleep,
so we filled up her bedside diffuser with some Lavender + RC.

are ones that we always have in the winter time. Stock up today!

And as always, email me at jill.meulenberg@gmail.com
with your essential oil-related questions!
And have a great weekend!

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Mulled Spiced Wine

Here's a yummy Mulled Spiced Wine recipe for you!
You may want to adjust the sugar amount, depending on your preferences.

3 herbal tea bags of your favorite Fall blend
One bottle of red wine
¼ cup sugar
5 drops Thieves
5 drops Orange

Add to a crock pot and let simmer to desired temperature.
Serve each glass with a stir stick, and recommend they stir before drinking.
ENJOY!

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Peppermint Brownies

Day 15 of Learn and Share!

Who doesn’t love brownies??
How about adding a little Peppermint to those brownies?
YUM!

This is the most simple thing ever.
Bake your brownies however you like (use a box, start from scratch, etc.)
At the end, add 3 drops Peppermint
(learn from my mistakes, I once over-added the Peppermint, and once it's in,
you can't take it back out : enter a larger brownie batch!)

Serve these at your next family gathering and be prepared to share your oily secret.
Enjoy!

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Thieves Household Cleaner

 It's day 14 of Learn & Share and let's talk about cleaners today.

Our respiratory systems take a beating during the Fall and Winter months,
even more so when we are using harsh chemicals to clean our homes.

From toilets to countertops to windows + mirrors, this cleaner can cover it all.
I made the switch to this cleaner a few months back and LOVE it.
I can clean without needing to change into my grubby clothes first,
and I can spray it near my family without being concerned about what I'm exposing them to.

This cleaner is highly concentrated (mix 1 part cleaner to 60 parts water
for light degreasing and 1 part cleaner to 30 parts water for medium degreasing)
meaning one bottle will last you a long time!

As always, email me at jill.meulenberg@gmail.com with any questions
about this or any other Young Living product!

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

 Heyyy Monday, it's Day 13 of our Learn and Share!

Let's talk Pumpkin Chocolate Chip cookies, shall we??
This recipe is perfect for this season,
and good-luck not eating all of the egg-free dough
before you actually bake them too!

Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1 cup butter
1 (15 ounce) can Pumpkin
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 drop Nutmeg
2 drops Cinnamon Bark
Chocolate chips

Directions:
Cream sugar, butter, pumpkin, vanilla + essential oils together.
In a separate bowl, mix together flour and baking soda.
Slowly start adding flour to pumpkin mixture.
Mix well, then stir in chocolate chips.
Drop heaping spoonfuls onto baking sheet.
Bake at 375 for 12-15 minutes.

ENJOY!

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Fall Room Spray


It's Friday!
Today, let's try a Fall room spray in our homes,
to help achieve that “I-just-baked-pumpkin-bread-but-not-really” smell.

These handy sprays are good for the bathroom, or other small rooms as well.
You can purchase a glass spray bottle at any bottle store online.
My go-to sources are Abundant Health + Amazon.

This recipe uses a 4 ounce size bottle. Add a pinch of salt to the bottle first,
then 5 drops each of Clove, Cinnamon Bark, Nutmeg and Orange.
Finish off with distilled water and spray until your heart is happy
and your house smells amazing!


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