When my little sister and brother and I were young children, my single mother struggled to make ends meet and we didn’t have a lot of extra money for luxuries like sweets. Her idea of a great dessert was a bowl of instant white rice with maple syrup poured over the top. Or sometimes, Mom would mix powdered sugar with milk and a drop of red food coloring and spread it onto graham crackers. But each spring, we looked forward to a very special sugary treat. Our neighbor a few doors up the block was a traveling candy salesman. Each year after the Easter holiday was over, he would present my mother with a big bag of leftover foil-wrapped chocolate bunnies. Oh what joy! We knew it was time again for “DEAD RABBIT SUNDAES!” My sister, brother and I would sit at the kitchen table with a pile of chocolate bunnies in front of us and we’d begin carefully peeling away the foil wrappers. The naked chocolate rabbits would be piled up into a large metal bowl. Mom prepared a make-shift double boiler of the metal mixing bowl propped over a saucepan of boiling water. She gently placed our painstakingly peeled rabbits into the bowl and we all stood watching wide-eyed as the rabbits ...
Burger Bite Cookies | Easy & Fun Cookie Recipe
Years ago my mother-in-law would send these adorable burger bite cookies to the kids. I was reminded of it the other day when talking to my sister-in-law and thought "I really should post how she does these" for my Real Moms of Pinterest people. It's a super easy recipe that makes Mom look like a rockstar with minimal effort. No actual baking necessary. This is all simple assembly work and a little melting. Ingredients for Burger Bite Cookies: 1 bag peppermint patties 1 box nilla wafers yellow and red squeezable cookie icing 1/2 cup shredded coconut 2 drops green food coloring sesame seeds Directions for Burger Bite Cookies: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lay half of the nilla wafers round side down on a cookie tray. Top each one with a peppermint patty. Place the shredded coconut in a ziploc bag with a few drops of the green food coloring and a few drops of water. Shake it up until the coconut reaches a shade of "lettuce" you like. You can add more food coloring if necessary. Melt the patties for about 90 seconds in the oven just until they are glossy. Take them immediately out of the oven and top them with your coconut lettuce. Use the yellow ...
Denver Broncos Cocktail Recipe
Looking for an adult Denver Broncos Cocktail Recipe for the big game? This one has been a hit at our house. 1 part blue Curacao 2 parts Orange Patron Liquor (or you can use Vodka if you don't want it as sweet) 2 parts San Pellegrino Blood Orange Soda How To Mix the Denver Broncos Cocktail Recipe: Start with all well chilled ingredients. Pour the Soda into a glass and let it settle a bit. Add the Orange Patron or Vodka. Using the back of a large spoon pour in the blue Curacao to the middle of the glass. Do this slowly and carefully or you will end up with a green drink. If that happens, let it settle and you may be able to save it. Note: an orange colored sugar rimmer may be a great addition here depending on your glasses. In mine it takes away from the look. Need some more game ideas? I have been collecting some over on my Pinterest Football Food Board ...
Ghirardelli Chocolate Peppermint Bark Snowflakes
After my last post mocking the people of Pinterest that produce these gorgeous things no mom can ever live up to, I am a bit embarrassed to post my latest project: Ghirardelli Chocolate Peppermint Bark Snowflakes. Last year I fell in love with Peppermint Bark Snowflakes that I saw on Pinterest. I became a little obsessed. The problem with these is that you cannot make them without this specific mold (affiliate link) Well, you can make them in other shapes or in a pan and break them up but let's face it, you are looking at these because they are simple and make you look like a genius. And that my friend, is all in the mold. I purchased my mold in November last year and got the first one by New Years. I turned around and bought a few more and they arrived by Valentines Day. *sigh* You may be out of luck for this year but it is cheap enough to try and put away until next like I did. OK, are you ready for this crazy complicated recipe to making you look like a genius? Ghirardelli Chocolate Peppermint Bark Snowflakes Step 1: Go to the store and buy Ghirardelli Chocolate Wafers. I bought these bulk bags at Sam's Club for $7.50 a piece. You need both Dark and White Chocolate. ...
Stepping Up the Spook Factor
Halloween is always a to-do at our house. Since moving to Colorado Carter has not been able to trick-or-treat. Too many stairs and inaccessible hills to peoples houses. Instead we stay in, buy full size candy bars for ourselves and scare the pants off the neighborhood children. We have fog machines, creepy decorations, spooky music, sound system on a mic that Carter yells things through and cameras to catch all the action. These are some of the things that are staples: I have a plethora of hanging skeletons that are all named after former evil children I have known. Seriously. I could tell you their names but I am not that mean. The problem with the skeltons is that they are all trained to howl, moan and talk at the slightest bit of motion. It gets pretty annoying hearing them talk all night (much like their live namesakes were) and honestly, if it snows the switch is pretty darn cold and inconvenient to get to. This year I have them on a WeMo switch so that I can turn them on and off from my phone. It will be awesome to be able to do this even when we aren't home. In past years, we have used a camera to tell when kids are getting close to the house. Then Carter would turn ...