PB Cheerio treats

You will need:

1cup Corn syrup

1cup sugar

1cup Peanut butter

1Tbsp vanilla

5cups cheerios

In a sauce pan add corn syrup and sugar... stir heat on high til smooth bring to boil for a minute

In the mean time get your other ingredients ready

add peanut butter stir until smooth turn heat to low

add in cheerios... I recommend to add little by little to coat them all and you may have to scoop some out before you finish adding all the cheerios

Spoon out onto wax paper into "treat"size blobs, let cool on counter for an hour or so and then there you go fast easy and yummy treats! 

Jalapeno snacks

You will need Jalapenos, cream cheese, ranch season and bacon

First mix ranch season and cream cheese... I used a whole pack of ranch season for one block of cream cheese... DO NOT DO THAT.... way too salty use a 1/4 the pack taste and if you think it needs more add a little more... 

cut the jalapenos in half and get the seeds out... 

Cut bacon strips into thirds

Fill each half with cream cheese mix...

wrap with bacon

Cook on 350 for about 15 -20 minutes or until bacon is cooked.... 

I've made these before and they have turned out great... I don't know what I was thinking adding so much ranch season but this batch turned out bad.. James also likes the ready bacon instead of the real stuff because it always turns out more crispy, its hard to get this bacon crispy when wrapped around a pepper...

Side Dishes....

First up No peek Popovers....

You'll need:

1 cup flour

1 cup milk

2 eggs

Mix all together, spoon into muffin tin

Place in a cold oven, then heat to 400 bake 30 minutes... remember DON'T peek...

Here we go... seeing them for the first time... 

NEXT Sassy Green beans!

You'll need:

Can of green beans

I used about 3 Tbsp of onion soup mix

1 Tbsp olive oil

Mix all contents of green bean can *do not drain the water*

Mix in onion soup mix and oil

 Heat on med. until warm 

Apple glazed meatballs....

You will need Meatballs ( I used frozen) and make them like package says...

for the apple glaze you'll need:

1 cup apple juice

1/4 cup soy sauce

3 Tbsp packed brown sugar

1 1/2 tsp cornstarch

1 tsp ground ginger

1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

and some chopped green onions to top

For the glaze place all ingredients except onion in a sauce pan and cook to a boil, let boil 1 minute and then stir in cooked meatballs add green onions as garnish

we made sandwiches... So good!!!

Baby Diaper Gifts....

For the 3 things I am making here you will need a bag of diapers, pipe cleaners, ribbon, rubber bands, a onsie, another article of clothing, a hat, wash cloth and plastic cup....

First up the diaper butterfly... would have been cuter if I would have had plain white diapers but I didn't.... what you do is you put a rubber band around the center of the diaper and spread the ends out to look similar to wings, then place a rolled wash cloth in the center and tie with pipe cleaner

Then I wrapped another pipe cleaner around to give a more 'pretty" look and there you have a butterfly :) Would be perfect for decorations at a baby shower

The second item is a diaper baby.... I rolled up and banded 5 diapers and I put a travel size baby wash in the center for support.... 

Here is how it should look....

Then I put a baby hat over the diapers and I secured it with a piece of mesh

Then I decorated the top of the "head" with pipe cleaners to look like cute colorful hair

Then I picked out my onsie for the body of the baby

I rolled and banded four diapers to make legs and arms and then I just placed more diapers in the onsie to fill out the body.... 

Third item is a "sunday" Roll up an article of clothing or blanket into a cup and stick a pipe cleaner in to look like a straw.... easy ideas...

Here are the finished products... fun to make and very easy! great gift ideas or shower decorations that mommy to be can take home 

Pudding Pops

You will need pudding of your choice and some sort of Popsicle maker 

make Pudding as directed

Pour into pop molds and freeze... then enjoy!!!

You can basically make a Popsicle out of anything 

Strawberry cheesecake bites

These are so great!

You will need cheesecake ( again I went the lazy route and bought the ready made), you'll need strawberries and graham crackers...

Cut the center out of the strawberries 

Fill with cheesecake mix

Sprinkle graham cracker crumbs on top and there you have bite sized strawberry cheesecake! SO GOOD

Enjoy!

Sweet tea!

Amazing Sweet tea!

You'll need:

5 - 8  Family size Tea Bags. (or 12 regular Tea Bags) 
1 Quart  (4 Cups) - Boiling Water
3 Quarts (12 cups) - Cool Water
1 1/2 - 2 (one & a half) - Cups Sugar. 
1/4 teaspoon - Baking Soda

Sprinkle baking Soda in the bottom of pitcher and then add tea bags.... Pour boiling water in cover and steep for 15 minutes

remove bags, add sugar dissolve completely and then add cool water

Refrigerate and serve when ready! 

This turned out very sweet so maybe take the sugar down a notch but it was still very good! 

Enjoy!

Zebra Cake

This was pretty neat! 

You will need two cake mixes.. I wanted the "zebra" look so I chose white and black mixes

Mix each according to box in separate bowls

Layer the mixes in a cake pan cook according to box

And there you have a "stripped" cake! I want to try hot pink instead of white next time... It would be pretty cool for Nora's "Minnie mouse" first birthday theme!

Enjoy

Yogurt covered berries!

This would be the best treat this summer! So fun!

You will need wooden skewers, yogurt, and berries i used blueberries and strawberries.....

Place your blueberries on a skewer like so...

Roll in the yogurt and place on wax paper

 the strawberries were an after thought...

you made need to spoon some of the yogurt around the strawberry chunks because it doesn't roll as evenly as the blueberries did...

Once you have them all on the wax paper, freeze until yogurt hardens... and they are so good! 

Enjoy