This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for any purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support! The last time my granddaughter was at my house, she had a great idea! One of my grandsons had a fidget popper and my granddaughter had some time on her hands. She came up with the great idea of using it as a mold and making a chocolate bar that looked like the popper itself! It was such a fun idea! I could picture giving them away at a kid's party along with the actual popper as a party favor! I went to Walmart, got more poppers and we started making more of them for all of the kids. Surprisingly, these poppers can seem a little pricey for what they are, but at Walmart, I found some in the party favor section for a pretty reasonable price. We also found a Groot shaped popper on clearance. You could choose from many shapes out there that would fit with your party theme. Supplies:
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We used a variety of chocolate chip flavors for our bars. One flavor that I loved was a white cream cheese from Hershey! White chocolate, milk chocolate, semi-sweet and salted caramel were all delicious. I liked that the colors seemed to pop best in the white chocolate. If you have a theme for your child's party, here are some more poppers I've found on Amazon! A big thank you to my granddaughter for her fantastic idea! I hope your kids will love this idea as well as we did!
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Did you realize that this is national peanut month? When I think of peanuts, I think of peanut butter and when I think of peanut butter, I think of our family's favorite fudge recipe, Florida Fudge!
I shared the recipe for Florida Fudge with you a couple of year ago on this post. It is a popular Christmas treat around here.
The traditional way to serve Florida Fudge is to scoop it out onto waxed paper.
But, with Spring on the way, I decided to Easter it up a bit!
First, I used a dome mold and made little rounded fudge shapes and decorated them simply with buttercream andsprinkles. Next, I simply spread the fudge in a pan and layered on the springtime sprinkles! I think both ways are super cute and would look great in any Easter Basket!
*No matter how many times I try to make that recipe say "3 Extra Large Tablespoons Peanut Butter", it changes to Extra Large Peanut butter. So, I hope you realize it means 3 heaping, really large spoonsful of peanut butter!
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Have you watched the Holiday Baking Championship Show on HGTV? On one of the episodes, one of the contestants made chocolate jingle bells to decorate her dessert! I know I had to try it and when I got to do "5 Golden Rings" for our 12 Days of Christmas recipes, I knew that this was my chance! These bells don't ring exactly, but they DO shake, and when you break them open, lots of sprinkles pour out. They are a lot of fun!
To make them, you start with a round silicone mold. You can order one on Amazon similar to mine or buy one at Michael's like I did.
It is probably best to wear gloves to do this part. Have a warm pan ready that has a bit of your left over chocolate in it. Pick up an empty dome and rub the edge of it briefly in the chocolate of the warm pan. Place it on top of the dome filled with sprinkles like a lid to complete a sphere. Allow these to harden in the freezer.
The bells for this pie had golden sprinkles inside of them to carry on the idea of "5 Golden Rings." I also sprinkled the outside of the bells with golden sanding sugar.
Of course, I had to have a delicious pie to put the bells on! Here is my recipe for Chocolate Cream pie. I used a graham cracker crust for this pie, but I kind of wish I had used a regular crust. The pie was still a hit though. You do what ever you prefer.
You can always make your pie using a chocolate pudding mix. (The cooked variety is best.) Making it from scratch is simple though. Since I made this one from scratch, I had egg whites left over, so I used them to make meringue rather that using whipped cream on this pie.
To decorate the pie, I piled on the meringue and toasted it in the oven. My first idea was to make a fondant ribbon using my homemade fondant. But, I ended up making holly berries and a couple of leaves. The fondant helped to hold the bells in place.
I know that I put more than 5 bells on the pie! I wanted to be able to give everyone a bell when I sliced it! Then, they can hold it still with their fork and hit it with their knife and break it open. This is an interactive pie! Aren't those bells fun?
I think it would be fun to fill the bells with M&Ms or other small candies or how about a Lego guy? Just be careful no little ones choke on whatever you put inside! Another idea I've been toying with is making smaller versions of Hot Cocoa Bombs inside the small spheres. Hot Cocoa Bombs make a Large cup of cocoa! For little ones, a smaller version might be nice. So, a piece of pie and a cup of hot milk to drop a Jingle Bell Cocoa Bomb into could be so much fun! What ideas can you think of to use these Jingle Bells for? Let me know in the comments! If you have missed the first 4 days of Christmas, go to our Home Page and scroll through the first four days! There is already so much great food there! I can't wait for days 6-12!
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Two fun things for Fun Friday, and for a fun weekend! This is the weekend before Halloween. When Alicia shared pictures of my grandson designing his own jack-o-lantern, I had to include the picture in this post! He is such a sweet, good, handsome boy! And I can't forget smart and talented! I am not biased at all! She carved the pumpkin for him after this. I love his happy smile. Here in Phoenix, we have to wait until the last minute to carve pumpkins or the heat will make them get moldy too fast. (Then they look really spooky!) For those of you who live in cooler climates, like Alicia and her family do, have you carved your pumpkins yet? How detailed do you get? If you haven't carved one yet, this would be a great weekend for it and that would take some of the pressure off getting all of the Halloween things done this week.
Thing #2 was inspired by a gift from my friend, Rhonda. She loves to shop yard sales and last week she found this candy mold and thought of me.
She didn't think of me because I have a mustache. I don't. But, I teach the children aged 3-11 music in our church. Sometimes I use mustaches as a gimmick as I get them to sing. Knowing that, Rhonda thought of me when she saw these mustaches. I was so excited to think of something to do with the mold.
First, I thought of doing some kind of mints or fondant chocolates. Then, out of the blue a nickname for a mustache came to my mind. Have you ever heard of a mustache being called a cookie duster? That made me think of cookies, which led to the thought of cookie dough and I thought, "How about Cookie Dough Cookie Dusters?" And that is how this treat was born! If you don't have a friend to find you a mold like this at a yard sale, here and here are a couple of similar molds that I found on Amazon.
Cookie Dough Cookie Dusters
To make the egg-less cookie dough, I used this recipe from Simply Bakings. All I did differently was to leave out the chocolate chips. I felt like for the mustache mold, they would add too much bulk, so I decided to put a layer of chocolate on them instead. So, I melted chocolate chips to do that. Click the photos to get better directions:
Now, pop the tray into the freezer to harden the chocolate. When it is hard, take the tray out of the freezer and pop the mustaches out of the tray!
I wasn't patient enough to wait for the tray to be ready for another batch, so with the rest of the dough, I formed balls and dipped the top of them in chocolate. They are pretty sweet, too! Just not as cute as the Cookie Dough Cookie Dusters!
You can also find gluten free versions of cookie dough recipes as well, I just didn't use one of those this time.
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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