krispies baskets!

I could eat a whole box of Rice Krispies. If I make home made, they don't make it to shapes. I'll just eat blobs of it. sorry not sorry. But I don't make them often. I don't need to. Plus I hate working with sticky marshmallow >.< but I do love eating it. So if I want a RKT, I buy them. HA! Check it out. This basket is all krispy....

 

Ok so when you dip RKT in chocolate... HeAvEnnnn :O

Boy I need my emojis here on this blog.

Here we goo..

 

So you definitely need : Rice Krispies Treats, chocolate and some decorations. I have Cadbury mini eggs and Bakerella's cool new edible grass. Its perfect for all these cute Easter treats!

 

Unwrap your RKT and cut about in half. Eh, a hair or two more on one side is ok. But just a hair. Or two. The bigger side is better for making the handle. PS here are some more supplies for helping you along. Some toothpicks, a baggie, sticks.. some round cutters - these can help shape your handle but if you don't have them, just use a knife. I trust you. Then you may need a stand, but, uh, I only needed it for one of these. The other two didn't like to stand up. lol.

 

Use the larger cutter to cut the outer of the handle. Just to kind round off the top corners to make a nice rounded handle. Gotcha.

 

Then use the smaller cutter to shape the inner part of the handle. Pop it out and into your mouth. I mean really what are you gonna do with it?

 

Should look like this. YAY.

 

Now. If you try to just glue onto the base of the basket with your melted chocolate..the handle could collapse. Just saying. I just know these things. Because it happened to me. So. Let's reinforce it a little with some chocolate. On the inner wall of the handle, using a tooth pick coat with a thin smooth layer of chocolate. Let that dry. Continue to work on other baskets/handles while you wait for things to dry. You got this.

 

HAHA looks like a padlock. HA don't laugh at my Easter basket. lol jk! It does. So when the inner part of the handle is dry, put some chocolate on the bottoms and glue to the base so they come together like this. Thumbs up. Next dip a cake pop stick into the chocolate and insert in the bottom of the basket.

 

Next dip into the melted chocolate. Carefully tap off the excess. RKT is very sensitive. Don't upset it. If it feels like standing in a cake pop stand, let it. If not, when all the excess is tapped off, gently lay on a piece of wax paper. 

 

 I had these toothpicks here to reshape the handle if if started to shift.

Just needed a little poking and it was fine.

 

Once the basket is dry, fill your baggie with melted chocolate and drizzle like this. Make a nice basket weave. You are a basket weaver. Ok not really I just crisscrossed all over the place. Looks great enough, right.

 

Once that is completely dry, and it could take a little while, pick it up off the wax paper and using a toothpick just clean away any pokey sticky parts from the crisscrossing.

 

Next use a toothpick to lather on some chocolate inside the basket to put your eggs.

 

Then put your eggs in first.

 

And finally, while the chocolate is still wet, stuff in as much grass as you can. Looks good.

Let that all dry before the final touch.

 

Some cute ribbon. Now if you are a cake popper, baker, you may have some of those fancy bow molds like I have. You can make some completely edible bows for your basket if you want. But if not, just tie on some cute ribbon from your local craft store. Just be sure you tell the kids to take them off before eating or before one dares the other too eat that too. It happens. I'm a mom of boys.

 

Looks so pretty and yummy! You can even give this to friends and family and be like look what I made yalllll. Mmmmm. One bite and they will love you.

Happy Easter Spring Break Snacking! 

mini time!

It's Monday! It's mini time!
Next in the 7 days of spring break treats are the chocolate 
 covered mini oreos I made for Christian's teachers.
SEEEE! Bottled up in some adorable mini jars from Target.
Perfect for MINIs :D

 

 Well, we love Oreos too! You can just pop these in your mouth. Endlessly. So be careful. Or like your mom said, you could turn into a mini chocolate covered Oreo.

I don't care. As long as I AM mini.

 

If this isn't the cutest way to Oreo...then what is life. JK really I don't think they can get any cuter than this. Well the minis. I do have some cute Oreos coming up this week. BUT LOOK at these minis. So cute. The chicks. Chicks are cute no matter what form. And the bright colored pastels remind me of mini Easter eggs. I am so sure if you have kids or grandkids, you have mini Oreos in your house. Have fun with them this spring break! Ready! Let's make some! 

 

They are so easy this is gonna be a breeze! You may not stop til the bag is gone. AHA. Here's some cute sprinkles for your mini Easter egg pastel Oreos. Of course mini Oreos and TOOTHPICKS. Toothpicks are life in this treat making hobby.

If you wanna get crazy and do the whole bag, go for it. I'll just do a few at a time. K. So seperate the Oreos. I think some people think you have to shove the stick, or in this case the toothpick, into the space between the cookies. No. Just take them off. It's a lot easier. Dip your toothpick into the melted candy melts you are using and press into the cream of the Oreo. Try to lay it the length of the Oreo so that it is even when you place the top cookie back on.

 

And that's what you do next. Right after putting your toothpick on, put the top cookie on to secure it with the melted chocolate. 

 

Let them dry a few minutes then dip into your melted candy melts.Tap off the excess and smooth the bottom with a toothpick. You don't want a pointy hole left when you take the toothpick out.

 

If you are sprinkling these, do it right after you dipped and tapped. If you may be drizzling them with another color, place in stand to dry.

 

I am using some styrofoam to hold these Oreos. The skinny little points of the toothpick are more stable in something like this. This is actually a cake dummy. HAHA. Place here to dry until the final step.

 

Here I am making the baby chic Oreos. Doing the same steps for the sprinkled Oreos. Take them apart, dip your toothpick in your melted candy and press into the cream of the Oreo.

 

Top with the other cookie while the candy melts are still wet.

 

Time to dip and tap of the excess melted candy. Before your candy dries place the little beak on using the rainbow chips. Place the beak closer to the top.

 

Then right after the beak cover with yellow sanding sugar for that fuzzy chick look. AWW.

 

With some melted black candy melts, place two little black eyeballs on your baby chick. Like this. It looks crazy but I like it better this way when I take the toothpick out. LOL.

 

Continue to make as many minis as you want!

Place them in your foam to dry before the final step.. below.

 

To remove, carefully grip your mini Oreo and twist the toothpick, and then start to pull and twist. See. Comes right out.

 

Same for the baby chicks. Be careful with them! They are too cute to crush. So again, carefully grip your mini Oreo, twist and pull the toothpick out. TADA!

 

AaAaAaAaH! Once all the toothpicks are out, display your littles in some edible grass and dig in! HeAvEnLyyyy. They are ready for spring break snacking! YuM.

peeps nest popcorn!

7 days of spring break with 7 ways to spruce up the snacks you may already have sitting in your pantry during spring break. THE KIDS ARE HOME. Eat fun :P

First up is the peeps nest popcorn I made for my school kids!

 

This is obviously so easy, right? Ok I LOVE everything in this bowl. PEEPS! Yum. M&MS! Yumm. POPCORN! Yummm. I wanted to do a little kiddy gourmet popcorn for the last day before spring break for my Kids Choice kids and there ya go. Inspired me to get crazy with my other snacks at home for my boys this week. YESSSS. 

 

Here's some things you will need to make this quick, fun treat for your kids this week. Of course, you can add whatever you like in yours! I picked these things to make it so springy cute. Put what you want. Go for it.

 

Throw your bag of light green candy melts in a large ziplock bag. DO NOT seal. Lay in microwave and heat at 50% power for 30 second intervals. After each 30 second interval, squeeze the bag and squish all the wafers to get them all melty and combined.

It could take a few minutes to get it to look like this. You could also melt in a container if you want and pour it in the bag. But lazy wins this time and I don't want another bowl or spoon to clean ;)

 

During the 30 seconds your candy is melting quick fill your bowls of popcorn! It's a race! jk, this looks like I'm feeding an army. I was, about 40 kids! So anyway, get your popcorn ready in the bowls while waiting for the candy melts to cooperate.

 

Cut a small hole in the bag and get ready to drizzzzzle and sprinkle. YUM.

ps look how purty those m&ms look. aww.

 

So easy the kids can do it and they might fight you for that bag of melted chocolate to squeeze on their own popcorn and in their mouths too. HAHA. Drizzle all over the popcorn as little or as much as you like.

 

While the chocolate is still wet throw on your M&Ms so they stick to it. YUM again. Then just squirt a blob over each one for a nice little place for your peep to sit.

 

Just like this! All happy and safe in their nest. Til its feedin time! HA! 

#ILOVEPEEPS! 

Enjoy your spring break peeps nest popcorn! 

YUMMM :P

sweet baby hatching chics!

These baby chicks make my heart melt. Seriously. They're so fuzzy and cute. I can just leave them on my shelf and (probably) not eat them. They look even cuter sitting in their lil welcome to the world nest. Wanna see?! Well get your stuff ready because you're about to see them live, you're makin em!

  You had to know. YES I am using My Little Cakepop's snowman mold for these cuties! As seen in my previous posts, just squish your already made cake pop dough into the mold and close. Voila! Baby chick body ready to go!

To make some wings just take a candy wafer and cut in half. Have your melted yellow candy melts ready, toothpicks, cake pop stand, and yellow sanding sugar to give him a nice fuzzy coat.

 

 Next dip your stick in the candy melts and insert in the bottom of the chick. Once secure, use a toothpick to put some melted candy on the sides of him and stick on the wings like the picture. Let them dry in the stand before dipping.

 

Once the wings are dry, fully submerge your baby chick in yummmmmy yellow melted candy. Pull him out quickly and tap off the excess candy.

 

Once all the excess has run off, coat him in the sanding sugar before the candy melts set. Using a spoon sprinkle on over the bowl to catch all the extra sugar. Good job! How does yours look? I know he looks as cute as this little baby :) Set him in the stand to watch you make the cracked shell.

Roll out some white fondant not too thick and don't ask how thin because I eyeball it. Just like they do with your cheese at the deli. BAHAA. If you have these cool cutters, GREAT! If you only have the star, use it! Use whatever you have to make a cracked shell shape. Doesn't need to be perfect. It's a cracked shell. K.

 

Next you want to use something to make a small hole in the larger (star) shell. This is for if you would like to keep your chick on the cake pop stick like the very first picture. I just used a piping tip. Anything the size of a cake pop stick will be a-ok.

 

He's ready to speak so he needs a beak! Grab that container of pretty mixed hearts that you use for stuff like this! Pick out two orange hearts for the beak. Using a toothpick dab a little yellow candy on his face. Pointed side out, press on and hold a few seconds to secure each heart in the open beak look. LOL. He is so funny!

 

To finish his face using a toothpick dab on two little black eyeballs with your melted black chocolate. He's alive!

 

Slide the larger star up and using a toothpick dab some melted yellow candy on the shell. Quick before it dries, fold up and secure on the chicks body.

 

For the top, dab some more melted candy on and set on his head, securing all the points down and over his head.

 

Just like this! So cute the way they are! But I wanna put them in a little nest to fit in my BRP box shop boxes so people can give for Easter. So let's get to oreos!

 

Here's your set up. Hopefully you have an oreo mold to make your life easier. So many places online carry them so just google. But if you don't just throw them in your bowl of milk chocolate and fish them out with a fork setting on wax paper to dry, like the old days. HA! But as far as the oreo mold, fill each one with 2 tsp of melted milk chocolate. It's messy, so yea.

 

Once filled pick up your mold and drop a couple times to smooth out, see.

 

Drop your oreos on top of the flattened out chocolate...

 

Then press into the mold so that the chocolate comes up the sides and starts to cover the Oreos. Great job! So great.

 

If the press down didn't cover them completely just dab a little more and spread over to cover the cookies. Just like this.

 

And should look like this after you do that, but don't worry because we are about to do this ...

and smooth it out! Pick it up and slap it a few more times on your table to smooth and even out and get all those rising bubbles to pop. PS notice I wiped the splatter off with a clean paper towel. Do this so you don't have any freaky sticky pokies on your Oreos when they set. Ok, to set you then put in the freezer about 7 minutes. Yea I like the number 7. You  don't want to take out too early because they be ugly if you do.

 

See nice and smooth except that one, because it didn't like the cold but its alrighty because it will be covered. Yay.

 

But first we need to remove the sticks. So, as before in my other posts, firm and gentle grasp on the cake pop and the stick and slowly spin the stick several times before starting to pull it out, spinning the stick as you pull it out. There. They are free!

 

Get your Bakerella edible grass ready and drop a blog of chocolate on top of the Oreos.

Because the Oreos are still very cold, quick get your chic and the grass on the warm chocolate before it dries. Do this for all three and....

 

Tada! Cute as can be! Now box them up and give them away for a Happy Easter Sunday!