Valentine

I know the date has past, but I still wanted to share with you the fun Valentines we gave out this year!! The kids and I had so much fun coming up with ideas and making these, best part??? They were SuPeR simple!! For Jake's we did these:

They were perfect and only cost me $2, for the glow bracelets. Jake even helped cut them out! Since he LOVES Star Wars they were perfect!! (Want to use these?? Well you can get your own from here!)
Here are Emmah's:

These have to be one of my most favorite ones we have done!! Emmah helped to design the tag and then stuff the bags!  (The original idea came from here)
I then decided that we needed some for the kids at daycare...there are some school aged as well as younger ones too. So of course I went a searching and found these on Pinterest!

Be sure to check them out...there are 4 different varieties, I only used 2.

Halloween Treats

I am one of those people who LOVES to make fun and festive treats for my kids...and I think they enjoy bringing them to school too! (I mean they do ask, so they must like them right???)   Now on most occasions I make cake pops, since they are a favorite of my kids and their friends!! Most teachers think they are pretty tasty too!! But this year I decided to try something new!!   I got some melting chocolates, sucker sticks and cookies and got to work!!   Here is the end results:   An alien invasion cookie style...

 

And a bunch of ghostly ghouls:

  Enjoy the treats...there may be TRICKS tomorrow!

Ooo La La

My obsession with Pinterest continues...

Emmah has been attending Art Camp this week with the art teacher from the school I work at. She ABSOLUTELY LOVED it!! Which was nice to see her really enjoying something. On the last day they decided to do a little breakfast so they asked everyone to bring something to share. Emmah wanted something different as did I so off to Pinterest we go..
That's where we found these:

(photo from tablespoon.com)

Ummm yea we'll go with these!! Emmah isn't a rasberry and blueberry fanatic so since I had strawberries and bananas in the house we went with those. Wanna make your own?? I knew you would so here it is:

Ingredients:
Pillsbury French Bread (any brand would work)
1/2-1 cup fruit- strawberry, banana, blueberries, rasberries
4 whole eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/4 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp cinnamon
powdered sugar/sryup (optional)
wooden skewers

Directions:

1. Start by baking the bread, according to package directions.This can be done the night before or earlier in the day.
2. Cut bread up into 1" pieces
3. Mix together milk, egg, vanilla, and cinnamon. Drop in half of bread and mix to coat.
4. In large saucepan melt butter, then added coated bread pieces. Cook til brown on all sides, 2-3 minutes each side. When browned...move to a cookie sheet to keep warm in the oven. Then repeat with other half of bread.
5. Now place fruit and bread in an alternating pattern on skewer.
6. Place on patter or serving dish. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve with sryup for dipping!
7. ENJOY!!

These are great for a brunch, overnight guests, sleepovers, and for us Easter!!

Gender Revel Cookies

A really good friend of mine is expecting her second baby and I love to live vicariously through her...as there are so many fun ideas to share that your expecting, gender reveal, and baby photos. So I make her try all this fun stuff!!

Well this past week she had her ultrasound and was going to find out what she was having, and since she is a teacher we thought it would be fun to have her kids guess and then give them a special treat to find out what it was. After searching I found these delicious chocolately fudge cookies and decided these were PERFECT!!
Fudgy Delights (as found on easybaked.com)

INGREDIENTS:

• 40-50 Wilton candy melt pieces in BLUE or PINK
• 8 oz. Philadelphia Cream Cheese
• 1 bag (12 oz) semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 2 c. all-purpose flour
• 1 t. vanilla

DIRECTIONS:

• Soften Philadelphia cream cheese in microwave until completely smooth.
• Melt chocolate chips in microwave in 30 second increments, stirring well in between.
• Add cream cheese to melted chocolate and blend well.
• Add flour and vanilla and stir into a thick dough consistency.
• Flatten about 1 tbs. of dough in your palm, place 2 candy melts (flat sides together) in the center and gently wrap the dough around the melts until they are completely covered.
• Flatten dough and shape into an Oreo shaped and sized cookie and place on an un-greased cookie sheet.
• Bake cookies at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.( I did mine just a little longer, but time varies based on your oven.)
• Remove warm cookies from cookie sheet and place on parchment paper (they will be a little greasy on the bottom, the parchment paper helps with this)

These cookies are super delicious and could be done for almost any holiday or just a sweet treat! On her site she even uses the peanut butter candy melts, or hershey kisses...Oh the possibilites!!!

"I Want My Mummy!"

I may have a new fun treat to make and the possibilities are endless!!

Can't wait to try and make more of these super fun cookie suckers from How Does She there are so many options!! And they're delicious!!