Sweet Tooth Tuesday: Nutella Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

The other day when I was at Sam's Club I grabbed a big thing of Nutella.  I don't know why because I had never had Nutella before (yes, I have gone almost 30 years without trying it....)  Well...I tried and I liked it...big surprise, I'm sure.  The only problem is I have a huge thing of it......so I am trying to find ways to use it.  I found this super yummy recipe...and I may have eaten half the cookie dough before it madeit to the oven.....

Chewy Nutella Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

from: A Kitchen Addiction

Ingredients

• ½ C butter, softened
• ½ C brown sugar
• ⅓ C sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ C Nutella
• 1½ C all-purpose flour
• 2 tbsp unsweetened baking cocoa
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• ½ C peanut butter chips

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350. Lightly spray cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray or line with a baking mat.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together butter and sugars. Add in egg and vanilla and beat until creamy. Beat in Nutella until combined, scraping down sides as needed.
3. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and beat until just combined.
4. Stir in peanut butter chips.
5. Drop by tablespoon full onto prepared cookie sheets. Bake for 8-10 minutes, until edges are set. Centers will look slightly under done.
6. Allow to cool on cookie sheets for 2 minutes before removing to a wire rack.

Munchkin Monday: Tinkerbell Day

 

A few years ago  Last week my daughter LOVED Tinkerbell! So I decided to plan a play date with a friend to celebrate Tinkerbell! 

First thing I did was make each of the girls satin skirts with pointed bottoms to look like the bottom of Tinkerbell's dress. Cut the satin 2 times the width of your child's waist sew the back seam and the elastic casing at the top. When you cut the points for the bottom of the skirt you need to melt the edges so it doesn't fray. Light a candle and go to town melting the edges :)

Then I made a felt pouch to carry their fairy dust in. Strangely I had a couple of glass vials which I put glitter into. I just drew the shape of the pouch I wanted and then blanket stitched to outside edges.
Then the girls went outside and made fairy houses!

Watched the newest Tinkerbell movie.

Foodie Friday: Koolaid Popcorn (Skelita's Sugar Skulls)

Here is another tutorial from the Monster High Party.  This is also a great snack when you do movie nights or to take to the park.  

2 cups Sugar

1 cup Light Corn Syrup

⅔ cups Butter Or Margarine

6 quarts Plain Popped Popcorn (I think I may have used more popcorn so maybe pop a bit extra and if you have extra sugar sauce, add more popcorn)

2 packages Kool-Aid (Any Flavor You Want)

1 teaspoon Baking Soda

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 225 F.
2. Boil sugar, syrup and butter/margarine together for 3 minutes.
3. On a large shallow ungreased baking dish, spread out popped popcorn.
4. In a separate bowl, combine the Kool-Aid with the baking soda.
5. Remove sugar syrup from the stove and carefully stir in the Kool-Aid mixture. (This will make the sugar mixture puff up. Be careful to not get burned.)
6. Now take sugar mixture and pour it over the popped popcorn. Carefully mix all till combined.
7. Place it in the oven and stir every 10 minutes. Repeat this 3 more times.
8. Take popcorn out of the oven and when it starts to cool, break it apart into pieces.
9. Enjoy!

DIY Thursday: Decorative Picture Frame

Just the other day my husband brought this picture frame home for me. Apparently his work will sometimes get salespeople that will come in and they leave little items like this picture frame, metal slinkys, pencils, just a bunch of random stuff for employees. So being a thoughtful man he brought me home the picture frame and a slinky for the kids to play with. This is a great picture frame, but you got to admit it is a little dull and boring. I thought I would spice it up a bit. Decorating picture frames are easy and lots of fun. These are great to do for young womens activities, youth camps, super saturdays, or if you just want to do something fun and crafty!

The frame before:



And after:



Supplies needed:

• A picture frame ( a wood one works best. I know most craft stores will sell unfinished picture frames)
• scrapbook paper (You want paper with a small pattern)
• scissors
• modge podge
• paint
• embellishments (flowers, jewels, ribbon, etc.)

Step 1:
Trace your frame onto your scrapbook paper and cut it out. Make sure the paper is upside down!

Step 2:
Remove the frame glass if it has some and trace the hole. Make sure to pay attention to how your paper is laying so it will look ok when you go to glue it on the frame.

Step 3:
Set the paper aside. Paint only the edges where the frame shows and the scrapbook paper doesn't cover. You will want to use a color that will match up well with your paper. I used black, but could have used white instead if I wanted. Let dry completely.

Step 4: 
Glue your paper on by applying a thin layer of modge podge on the frame. Slide your fingers across the paper to make sure to get rid of any bubbles. After that if you want to you may go over the egdes of the frame with some paint VERY LIGHTLY! I think this really makes the paper and its design pop. You can do this using a makeup sponge which I think works best or your paint foam brush. You will want just a little bit of paint on there and you will want to dab it on a paper plate a couple of times in case there is too much paint on there. After that you will just lightly dab the paint along the edges and then let it dry.

Step 5:
Apply a thin coat of modge podge over your the top of  the paper to seal and protect it. Let dry and then put your picture in.

 Step 6:
You could just stop at Step 5 if you want but I like to add a little more to frames by tying on some ribbon at the top. You could also do something like sticking a big flower in a corner or even put a few flowers on. Just experienment, see what looks good with the paper and enjoy looking at your cute new frame :)



Tiffany

Sweet Tooth Tuesday: Sweet Sushi Rolls (Laguna's Sushi)

Here is the tutorial from the Monster High Birthday Party I did awhile back.

6 cups rice crisp cereal
3 tbsp. butter
1 10 oz. pgk. marshmallows
gummy candies (worms, twizzlers, ect)
fruit roll-ups

In a saucepan, heat the butter and marshmallows until the marshmallows are melted.  Then stir in cereal.  In a greased 9x13 pan,  flatten until the bottom is filled (like you would normal rice-krispie treats)  Once it has cooled, cut them into rectangles.  I cut mine in half longways in the pan and then cut across.  you can get about 16 out of one pan if you do them a little smaller than I did mine.  Then get your fruit roll ups and cut them into about 6 in. strips (you want it long enough to wrap around treat)  then lay it down and put a rice-krispie square on top, and then add your worms or licorice and roll it up.  If your fruit roll up is longer, that's ok, that will help seal it closed.

another way is you can get fruit rolls, lay out the rice krispie on that, with some worms and licorice, roll up and then cut into small pieces.