Funny Bunny Nutter Butter Cookie Pops

Normally when I look at Sue's blog I sit back and think "Man, why can't I do that?!"  She is amazing and so talented when it comes to baking and decorating the cutest cookies ever.  Then I saw this post and thought "holy smokes, I can do that!"  I was so excited!  I'm always looking for fun treats to make for my kids (and some of my co-workers.)  These were perfect.

Funny Bunny Nutter Butter Cookie Pops 

Source: Munchkin Munchies

* Nutter Butter Cookies

* Vanilla bark

* Popsicle sticks

* pink M&Ms

* black food marker

Melt the vanilla bark following the directions on the package.  (I cut it up into small pieces and microwave it in 30 second bursts, stirring after each one, until it's smooth.)

Open the Nutter Butter cookies and place a blob of the white chocolate on the end of a Popsicle stick.  Place it on the inside of the cookie and place the other cookie on top to close.  Let the chocolate cool.  (This keeps the stick from falling out.)

 

Holding onto the Popsicle stick, dip the cookie into the melted chocolate.  Tap off any excess.  Add a pink M&M for the nose.  You can place the sticks at this point in a styrofoam block.  I just layed them on a piece of waxed paper to harden.

 

When the chocolate is hard, use your black food marker and draw on a cute bunny mouth.  Mine aren't as cute as Sue's but my kids loved them!

 

You can add a bow with a glue dot or a small dab of melted chocolate or tie a ribbon around the stick.

Aren't the adorable?!
 

Enjoy!

 

 

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Another Turkey Cookie for Thanksgiving

 

So what do you think?  Have we been doing it up, Thanksgiving style?  (Maybe not if you're a grown up.  But we don't really have one of those in our house.)  =o)  But my kids have loved all the fun treats we've made so far.  We tried our first Turkey Cookie.  Then we sugar-ed it up a little and made another Turkey Cookie.  Here's version three.  

 

 

We found two great turkey cookie recipes that were similar.  Pinterest had one version.  It wasn't linked to a page, unfortunately, so I can't give someone credit.  Then Betty Crocker did their version with chocolate frosting all over the cookie.  I liked both, but for me, covered in chocolate frosting was the clincher.  I mean seriously!  Chocolate frosting!

The kids had so much fun making these.  We had some friends over and went to my school for a day of crafts and fun.  This was the perfect "craft" for them.

 

 

We lined up all of our supplies:

 

* sugar cookies

* chocolate frosting

* candy corn

* orange cookie frosting

* M&Ms

* candy eyes

 

And then they all went to work.  There was some serious concentrating going on here.

 

 

 

And lots of snacking.

 

 

They were pretty proud of their creations.

 

 

And super excited to eat them.  They kept asking "are you done taking pictures yet?"

 

 

They turned out pretty cool we thought.

 

 

Of course my favorite to eat was the one covered in chocolate frosting =o)

 

 

My daughter (who doesn't like chocolate) was so proud of her turkeys.  What do you think?

 

 

She said they were alien turkeys =o)

 

I can harldy believe Thanksgiving is almost here!  Yikes!

 

 

 

 

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Part 2 of the Turkey Cookies

 We had so much fun making our Turkey Cookies with Nutter Butters that we wanted to make another Thanksgiving cookie.  I think this one turned out much cuter than the other Turkey Cookies!  I mean seriously, look at these little guys.  too cute!

I used the candy eyes which are my new favorite thing to have in my kitchen.  They are kind of big for his little face but they make it look kind of comical, doesn't it?  Like he just realized he was going to be dinner =o)  (Or am I just having way too much fun with this???)

Turkey Cookies

Source: Cooking with the Two-Gether Express

* Oreos

* Candy Corn

* Candy eyes (or mini M&Ms)

* White Chocolate

* Mini Resse's Peanut Butter Cups

* Malt Balls

Have fun with them.  Use whatever you have and snack along the way!

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Turkey Cookies

Yep, another Thanksgiving-ish recipe.  I told you we were going to rock the Holidays!  (If you missed that post, you can check it out here.)  And after our delicious Pumpkin Spice Fudge, we needed a kid friendly crafty kind of dessert to make.  Can you get any more kid friendly or crafty with these Turkey Cookies?

Look at the table of ingredients.  My daughter said it was like heaven =o)

Turkey Cookies

Source: 7th House on the Left

* Nutter Butter Cookies

* Oreo Cookies

* M&Ms

* Candy corn

* Jelly Beans (we used Mike &Ike's)

* White chocolate

They are super easy to make and your kids will have a great time making the faces on these little guys.

Feel free to substitute some of the ingredients for like size and shape things.  My kids don't like Peanut Butter Cups so we used Oreos instead.  (I know, gasp!  Right?)

Assemble and have fun!

My daughter loved this one!

Can you tell?

How are you going to rock the holidays?

 

 

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Move Over Camping Food! Hello PUDGY PIES

One of the best things I've done with my kids is taking them camping.  I was a little afraid the first time we went.  It was just me and my two, very young, children.  We had so much fun.  Now, 5 years later, it's the highlight of our summer when we go camping.  We load up the car with great food, bikes and scooters and a deck of cards, and we're off.

When we discovered Dough Boys I thought I had hit the jack-pot.  Then when we discovered Campfire Eclairs?  Holy heck.  I didn't think it could get any better than that.

Then my nephew told me about Pudgy Pies.  I thought he was making it up until my Dad reminded us that my Grandfather (who was a patent attorney) helped put the patent on the first pie iron.  How cool is that?  So I was determined to figure out what these were.

Are you ready for this?  This is a pie iron.

You fill it with awesome and delicious food and then cook it over the camp fire.  Easy and so simple.  And FUN!

 But look what you can make.  The possibilities are endless!

Butter the outsides of two pieces of bread (like you're making a grilled cheese sandwich.  Add whatever "inside" you want in your "pie".  My son?  Guess......  yep, spaghetti =o)

Place the other piece of bread on top (buttered side out) and place in your pudgy pie iron.

Close the pie iron.  This will squeeze off the crust (yeah!)

Remove the crust and now cook over your campfire.  You'll have to turn it often to get it golden brown on both sides.  Don't put it right in the fire but you want it pretty close.  The pie iron needs to get nice and hot.

Are you ready for this???  Voila!

You have a Spaghetti Pudgy Pie!

Now be creative!  How about a Grilled Ham and Swiss Cheese Pudgy Pie?

I think my favorite was a Bacon, Egg and Cheese Pudgy Pie.

Ready for this???

Then we tried making Pudgy Pies with Cresent Dough instead of bread.  Yowza!!!  I'm hooked!

This is what my daughter wanted for breakfast... a Bacon Filled Pudgy Pie =o)  (That's my girl!)

And for dessert?  How about a S'more Pudgy Pie?

It was delicious!  The marshmallows get all gooey and the chocolate melts and the Cresent dough cooks and it's like heaven in your mouth!

And even though this isn't technically a Pudgy Pie, guess what we discovered you could cook in a pie iron.

You guessed it!  Cinnamon Rolls cooked over a campfire.  We just took camping food to a new level!

What do you think?  We can't wait to go camping again, just to cook =o)

 

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