Easter Box!!

There are so many things I want to catch you up on recently that I am going to try to just put the rest of it all in one post.

First off, I got the cutest boxes ever for my fudge!!



Also, I made an easter box with lots of yummies in it for a friend! I put in Oreo balls, easter rice krispie treats, pretzel mints, fudge, sugar cookie sandwiches, and whole wheat honey banana bread(thats a mouthful in more than one way)!!!

Here are some pictures of what I have been up to!


So my mom has had this recipe for pot pies that has been my favorite since I was a kid... So I made baby pot pies!! I froze them and now they are waiting for me to bake them and devour them!!! Yummmmmmm!! A friend of mine recently had a baby and I took some of them over to her so that she could thaw them and have a yummy meal when her husband was at work. I had some leftover filling so I made a big one in one of my pyrex dishes. Yay for pyrex!! It had the perfect filling-to-crust ratio!! I love filling!!!

I have had an ice cube tray fascination for a long time... I collect all kinds of trays from dead fish, to dentures, to pirates, to Han Solo frozen in carbonite... Some would say it is an obsession bordering on disease(it make have spread to my husband when I got the ak-47 ice cube tray)! The sad part is that occasionally an ice cube tray is amazing in theory, but doesn't quite work in practice... Han Solo is a perfect example of this. The ice just does not do justice to all the awesome details in the tray... So I tried it in chocolate form... OH MY GOSH SO PERFECT!!! I even did some with caramel filling, and I must say they are sooooo cool!!!

Crunchwrap Supremes from taco bell are a total weakness of mine... So I started making them. Incredibly good, and I have the flexibility to add extra meat and tomatoes!!! Here is the Pinterest page I based mine off: http://busymamabird.blogspot.com/2012/04/yummy-crunchwrap-supremes.html

Lets see... What else have I done in the past few months???

Owl cupcakes are adorable! I am not sure if I already posted them, but here they are!!!

Update - Peppermint Bark Fudge

K I figured it out...

Do not use Hersheys white chocolate chips for the white layer. Nestle's chocolate chips make the white layer more firm. Use two whole bags!

Hersheys: becomes slightly soft and gooey.

Nestle: Holds shape and doesn't get too gooey!

SOOOOOOOO YUMMMMERS!!

 Here is the updated Recipe card!!

-S

Cookie Monster!!!!

Giant Cookie!!!! I made this with my brother last year. Great memory. We used two 9 inch baking rounds, and then sliced the ice cream to fit from a box of ice cream. We used a spatula to make the edges look decent. The key is freezing the cookie pieces BEFORE you try to put the ice cream on! If you don't, then even if you get the whole thing back into the freezer quickly, a room temperature cookie is still warm enough to melt the ice cream! Trial and error, right? Same thing for Ice Cream Cakes.

-S