Crock-pot chicken

• Cut up an onion and put in bottom of crock pot (or you can omit this step)
• Rub a whole chicken inside and out with salt, pepper and any combo of herbs (or omit herbs) and put on top of onions
• Put new potatoes and carrots on top of chicken (or omit this step)

Turn on crockpot to high for 4-5 hours or low for 8-9 hours. 

For Chicken stock:

• Put chicken carcass back in the crockpot with whatever juices were left from cooking
• Toss in 1/2 onion, few carrots and/or stalks of celery
• Add enough water to fill crockpot to about 1 inch from top
• Turn on crockpot to low and let run overnight
• Pour through strainer in the morning and save in fridge or freezer

Creamsicle Cupcakes

From Darci

CAKE

White Cake Mix
2 oranges (zest and juice...no pulp)
Eggs
Oil
Orange Juice

FROSTING

Orange Extract
Powdered Sugar
Cream Cheese
Butter
Heavy Whipping Cream

For the cake. Use the zest of 2 oranges and juice the oranges. Strain
the pulp. (OR.... if you don't want to go through juicing and zesting
the oranges, you can use regular OJ with no pulp and just ad more
orange extract.) Make the White cake mix as so from the box, but
substitute the fresh OJ instead of using water, add the zest. You can
add food coloring and a little more orange flavor with the extract if
you like (tablespoon). Bake as box instructs. I like to bake them for
15 minutes at the temp that is recommended.

For the frosting. Cream 1 cube of cream cheese and 1 stick of butter.
Add five cups of powdered sugar and start with 1/2 cup of whipping
cream, add more depending on the texture you like. Blend all together.
Add 1-2 teaspoons of the orange extract (to your liking). Put it in a
ziplock and cut off the corner. Pipe it out. Yum.

These cupcakes taste best when they are cold. The frosting gets really
yummy and more solid.
I got those little garnishes at Michaels, they come in a variety of
colors only.
I use white cupcake forms