Showing posts with label EASTER. Show all posts
Showing posts with label EASTER. Show all posts

Monday, April 1, 2013

DEVILED EGGS WITH BACON & SCALLIONS


Time to eat eat up those colored Easter eggs up? Try this simple deviled egg recipe with bacon!!!

Deviled Eggs Recipe



Ingredients:

4 hard-cooked eggs, peeled
2 Tablespoons mayonnaise
1 teaspoon dijon mustard
1/8 teaspoon seasoned salt
pepper

paprika
3 slices of bacon, cooked crisp and chopped 
scallions, chopped for garnish

Directions:

Slice eggs in half lengthwise.
Remove yolks and put in small bowl. Mash yolks with mayonnaise and dijon mustard.  Add salt and pepper to taste.  Pipe into egg white halves. and sprinkle with paprika and bacon pieces.  Chill.

Sunday, March 31, 2013

MINI CADBURY CREME EGG BARK



So Simple! Melt chocolate-I used Classen's disks. Lay on an 8x8 pan covered with nonstick foil.  Top with halved Cadbury eggs!!!!  Chill and break apart with hands.
Inspired by Cravings of a Lunatic

Saturday, March 30, 2013

S'MEEPS!

EASTER WOULDN'T BE THE SAME WITHOUT THESE LITTLE TREATS! MOVE OVER S'MORES...WE'RE MAKING S'MEEPS!!!!  






I USED SOME GODIVA CHOCOLATE SQUARES FOR THIS BUT HERSHEY WORKS GREAT TOO!!!

JUST MICROWAVE THE CHOCOLATE SQUARE ON 1 GRAHAM CRACKER SQUARE FOR A FEW SECONDS UNTIL MELTY.  ON A SECOND GRAHAM, MICROWAVE A PEEP FOR JUST 3-5 SECONDS...MINE EXPANDED QUICKLY SO BE CAREFUL.  SANDWICH TOGETHER AND ENJOY!!

TIE DYE EGGS

WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE TIE DYE EGG KIT!! SO FUN AND VERY EASY! NO VINEGAR NEEDED!!!!  FOUND THIS AT MICHAELS!!

PEEPCORN!!!


 
white chocolate
bag of microwave popcorn, popped
PEEPS!
spring m & m's
sprinkles

Lay popped popcorn on cookie sheet-remove any unpopped kernels.  Pour on the melted white chocolate and begin tossing lightly to miss. Sprinkle on m & m's and sprinkles. Add Peeps!

Friday, March 29, 2013

BROWNIES TOPPED WITH HOMEMADE CADBURY CREME FILLING & A MILK CHOCOLATE GLAZE

LOVE CADBURY CREME EGGS? THIS IS FOR YOU!!!!




START BY MAKING THESE EASY BROWNIES:
SIMPLE, DELICIOUS, ONE BOWL BROWNIES 2 eggs
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1 cup plus 2 Tablespoons sugar 
3/4 cups all purpose flour
Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 and line 8"x8" pan with nonstick foil. In a large bowl, add eggs, and beat with cocoa, salt, baking powder.  Stir until fully combined and smooth. In the microwave, melt butter. When melted, add sugar, and stir to combine. Add warm butter/sugar mixture to the egg/cocoa mixture, stirring until smooth. Add the flour to batter and stir until fully incorporated. Spread batter into prepared pan. Bake brownies about 35-40 minutes or until inserting a toothpick leaves only moist crumbs. Cool Completely-I stuck them in the freezer!
Recipe Adapted from King Arthur Flour 
Cadbury Creme Filling (recipe for filling & glaze adapted from Love and Olive Oil) 

For Cream Filling:
1/4 cup light corn syrup
2 tablespoons soft butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

I also needed a splash of heavy cream to make it spreadable but don't use more than a tablespoon or it will be too runny.
Electric mix all of the above.  Pour most on top of cooled brownies and spread.  Tint the remaining bit yellow like the yolk and pour on top of the white.  Use spatula to swirl the two colors.  Return to freezer until set.

For Glaze:
3 ounces milk chocolate chips

2 tablespoons butter
Microwave both until smooth and spread on top of the brownies.  Chill again before cutting. Top with Cadbury mini eggs!

Thursday, March 28, 2013

BROWNIES STUFFED WITH CADBURY CREME EGGS




2 eggs
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
 1 cup plus 2 Tablespoons sugar

  3/4 cups all purpose flour
16 cadbury mini creme eggs


Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 and line 8"x8" pan with nonstick foil.
In a large bowl, add eggs, and beat with cocoa, salt, baking powder Stir until fully combined and smooth.
In the microwave, melt butter. When melted, add sugar, and stir to combine.
Add warm butter/sugar mixture to the egg/cocoa mixture, stirring until smooth.
Add the flour to batter and stir until fully incorporated.
Spread batter into prepared pan.  Push in cadbury mini eggs.
Bake brownies about 35-40 minutes or until inserting a toothpick leaves only moist crumbs.
Cool and cut. Recipe Adapted from King Arthur Flour 
Cadbury Egg idea inspired by Roxana's Home Baking

Sunday, March 24, 2013

LOVE AT FIRST PEEP....ON A SKATEBOARDING DATE!

WHEN MY FRIEND DEBBIE SENT ME A PICTURE OF SKATEBOARDING PEEPS I KNEW I HAD TO RECREATE THEM FOR MY BOYS.  HERE IS MY TAKE...A BIG HIT IN MY HOUSE!!! THANKS DEB!!!! ORIGINALLY SEEN AT SWEETSIMPLESTUFF.COM
I USED MELTED CHOCOLATE AS THE GLUE TO ADHERE EVERYTHING!!! LOVE HER NECKLACE, TOO! LOL


Saturday, March 23, 2013

CRUISIN' WITH MY PEEPS!





No more Hostess Twinkies so I had to buy the fake kind...you know the ones they sell at the gas stations in the snack aisles hahaha!!!!  They still did the trick!!!! 

INSPIRED BY CRAFT GOSSIP

Thursday, March 21, 2013

A PEEP PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY RIDE!

PEEPS TAKE A RIDE ON A PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY SANDWICH MADE ON FRENCH BREAD!!!  WITH REESE'S WHEELS THEY'RE SURE TO MOVE FAST!!!! YUM!!!  MY KIDS ENJOYED THIS COMBO OF DINNER AND DESSERT IN ONE!!!


 REALLY???? I GET TO EAT THIS FOR DINNER?? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAAH


Sunday, April 8, 2012

HOPPY EASTER!!

HOPPY EASTER!!! I HOPE YOU ENJOYED SOME GOODIES!! THESE ARE CHOCOLATE DIPPED MARSHMALLOW POPS!


Thursday, April 5, 2012

SPRING CUPCAKES!!!

MY LITTLE ONES WILL BE PARTYING WITH THEIR FRIENDS AND SOME SPRING CUPCAKES!



HERE IS A PHOTO TUTORIAL IF YOU WANT TO MAKE THE FLOWERS ABOVE USING EASTER CORN! SO SIMPLE!!!!!!!!


START BY LAYING OUT YOUR CANDY CORN IN THE FLOWER SHAPE YOU WANT...


NEXT, DAB SOME MELTED CHOCOLATE ON EACH PIECE OF CORN...

LAY A MARSHMALLOW ON TOP OF EACH FLOWER AND GENTLY PUSH TO ADHERE. LET DRY WITHOUT TOUCHING!! NO CHEATING!!!!

ONCE FIRMLY ADHERED, INSERT LOLLI STICKS AND FLIP OVER. ATTACH AN M AND M OR JELLYBEAN IN THE CENTER OF THE FLOWER USING MORE MELTED CHOCOLATE!

LINKED AT http://younglivingoillady.com/home/kids-in-the-kitchen-link-up-week-8/
LINKED AT http://www.dwellonjoy.com/

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

PEEP STUFFED CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

PEEP LOVERS...PREPARE YOURSELVES!!!

HERE THEY ARE COOLING! I LIKED THESE BEST SERVED AT ROOM TEMPERATURE!!! YUM!!!!

COOKIE RECIPE
BEAT:
1 1/2 STICKS BUTTER
1C. LIGHT BROWN SUGAR
1/2C. SUGAR

ADD:
1 EGG
1 YOLK
1TSP. VANILLA

STIR IN:
2 1/4C. FLOUR
1 TSP BAKING SODA
1 TSP KOSHER SALT
2 CUPS MINI CHOCOLATE CHIPS

PEEPS-I USED THE "CHICKS" AND CUT THEM IN HALF-TRIM TO FIT AS NEEDED

WRAP LARGE SCOOP OF DOUGH AROUND THE PEEP HALVE AND SEAL TIGHTLY. BAKE AT 350 ON PARCHMENT PAPER FOR 12-13 MINUTES UNTIL GOLDEN. COOL COMPLETELY OR THEY ARE VERRRRY OOEY AND GOOEY!!!!!! TASTED THEM WARM AND AT ROOM TEMP....ROOM TEMP WAS EVEN BETTER!!!

Monday, April 2, 2012

A WILD AND CRAZY CADBURY NIGHT, INDEED!


HAVE YOU SEEN THESE ADORABLE CADBURY MINI EGGS YET?


I JUST COULDN'T HELP MYSELF!!! OH MY...LOOK WHAT I'VE DONE! HEE HEE

I STUFFED MY COOKIES WITH THE REGULAR SIZE AND THE MINIS. THE REGULAR ONES HAD MORE OF AN OOZE AND MESS FACTOR. THE MINIS WERE JUST PERFECT!! HERE THEY ARE COOLING!!

AND OF COURSE, I NEED TO SHOW YOU THE INSIDE SHOT!!!! THOSE ARE ALWAYS MY FAVORITE!!!! THINK YOU'D LIKE ONE?

COOKIE RECIPE
BEAT:
1 1/2 STICKS BUTTER
1C. LIGHT BROWN SUGAR
1/2C. SUGAR

ADD:
1 EGG
1 YOLK
1TSP. VANILLA

STIR IN:
2 1/4C. FLOUR
1 TSP BAKING SODA
1 TSP KOSHER SALT
2 CUPS MINI CHOCOLATE CHIPS

1 PACKAGE CADBURY MINI EGGS

WRAP LARGE SCOOP OF DOUGH AROUND A MINI EGG AND SEAL TIGHTLY. BAKE AT 350 ON PARCHMENT PAPER FOR 12-13 MINUTES UNTIL GOLDEN. COOL!

LINKING UP AT FLOUR ME WITH LOVE
AND
STUFF OF SUCCESS
AND
GRATEFUL BELLY

Saturday, March 31, 2012

SOME PEEP IDEAS!!!


A PEEP PARADE! CHOCOLATE DIPPED PEEPS, PEEP KABOBS AND MARSHMALLOW POPS!
MY FAVORITE!!! S'MORES+ PEEPS=S'MEEPS

CHOCOLATE PEEP BARS

HE WAS BATHING IN MILK CHOCOLATE!
MARSHMALLOW PEEP CAKE




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