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Fun Candy Presents Holiday Snack

December 13, 2016 by Kelly Dedeaux

There’s so many great ideas for playful treats, especially during the holidays. These tasty – and easy to make – fun candy presents are the perfect holiday snack! Bring these to your next Christmas party, family gathering, or just because you want to – they’ll be a hit no matter the occasion!

Aren’t these Christmas treats super cute? I love them – plus they’re made with chocolate candies, so how could you go wrong with them, right? You can switch up the colors to match a certain pattern or color theme, or just so each of your kids have their favorite color in their holiday snack.

Ingredients

1 cup White Chocolate Melts/Discs
20-23 Miniature Milky Way Candy Bars
Airhead Extremes Candy Strips
Candy Hearts and Pearls

Directions

Unwrap all your candy bars and set them on a parchment lined cookie sheet. Now take your white chocolate discs and put in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 30 seconds, then stir. Continue to do this until discs are all melted.
Let chocolate cool for a few minutes (if it’s too hot, it’ll melt the candy bar). Then dip candy bar in chocolate, make sure to get a nice even coat. Tap on edge to get rid of excess chocolate. Lay on parchment paper.
Take your extreme airheads and with a knife cut 2 inch strips. Take those strips and cut out each color so you’ll have 5 total strips. Continue to do this until you have 2 strips per present. Add 2 pieces of candy strips in a crossing pattern. Next, add 2 hearts with a pearl between them (this will make your bow). Let dry for about 10 minutes.

That’s it – these fun Christmas treats are ready to eat!

I feel like I need another holiday party just so I have an excuse to make a batch of these – without the risk of eating them all by myself. 😉

Santa Snacks

December 1, 2016 by Kelly Dedeaux

You know how fun it is to make festive treats during the holidays? I love it – and my kids sure do, too. What’s better is when they’re quick & easy, like these fun Santa Snacks using pretzels!

Super cute, right? Just grab the ingredients below, whip up these treats, and enjoy with family and friends. They’d be a huge hit for a holiday party, too!

Ingredients

1 ½ cup Red Candy Melts/Discs
Wilton’s Decorating Santa’s belt/Coat Kit
24 Square Waffle style Pretzels
Wilton’s Dab & Hold edible adhesive

Directions

Take the black candy stripes and cut 24 stripes to 1.5 inches.
Take your edible adhesive (you can use any type of edible adhesive you’d like…frosting, chocolate, etc.) and line one side of the belt buckle. Place buckle in the middle of the black candy strip. Let those dry.
Now take your red candy discs and put in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 30 seconds, then stir. Continue to do this until discs are all melted.
Dip each pretzel in the red chocolate. Get a nice even coat and lay on parchment lined cookie sheet. (If chocolate is a little thick then just take a small knife and spread around the top of the pretzel to get that nice coat).
Add the belt to each pretzel as you take them out of the chocolate. Let dry for about 10-15 minutes.

That’s it – they’re ready to serve and enjoy!

Do you think it’d be weird to lay out Santa Coat Snacks for the Jolly Man on Christmas Eve? 😉

Cute Santa Chimney Treats

November 29, 2016 by Kelly Dedeaux

Guys, I just can’t get over how adorable these Christmas treats are – or how easy they are to make! These Cute Santa Chimney Treats would be the perfect addition to any holiday party, family gathering or just a clever snack for the kids this season.

And don’t worry, they’re REALLY easy to make with just a handful of simple ingredients. Nobody has tons of times to spend in the kitchen during the holiday anyway, right? Thank goodness these hilarious treats – featuring your favorite red suited man, Santa, stuck in the chimney – are quick, and sure to be a crowd-pleaser!

Ingredients

6 Rice Krispy Treat Rectangles (store bought or homemade)
1 cup Chocolate discs/melts (milk chocolate/cocoa lite)
½ cup shredded Coconut
12 mini marshmallows
Red chewy ropes (like SweetHeart or smooth licorice ropes)

Directions

Lay the rice krispy treats on parchment paper. Take a knife and cut 2 holes on one end of each treat. Make the holes about the size of the candy ropes. Cut candy ropes in about 2 inch pieces and set aside.
Pour chocolate discs in microwave safe bowl and microwave for 30 seconds. Take out and stir. Continue to microwave at 30 seconds intervals until chocolate is melted.
Take a rice krispy treat and dip in chocolate, making sure to coat all sides. Place on parchment paper. On the end with the 2 holes, sprinkle coconut on the top and sides. Only go to about 1/3 way. (This is the snow on the top of the chimney).
Insert 2 ropes into the holes that you made earlier.
Repeat all steps until all 6 treats are made. Stick in refrigerator for a few minutes or until hardened.
While those are hardening, take your mini marshmallows and dip just the ends in chocolate. Lay on parchment paper to dry.
When everything is hardened, you’re ready to add the boots. Take your mini marshmallows and cut off just the very end of the non- chocolate side. Stick the side you just cut to the end of the rope. (These will be santa’s boots).

That’s it – you’re ready to enjoy these delicious and FUN Santa Chimney Treats!

Rocky Road Crunch Bars from Leftover Candy

November 28, 2016 by Kelly Dedeaux

Every year we have tons of leftover Halloween candy or holiday candy to use up. Luckily now I have the recipe for these delicious Rocky Road Crunch Bars, made from leftover candy! We can make the perfect holiday treat, even gift some to the neighbors, and not let that pile of leftover candy go to waste. It’s a win-win!

Don’t these chocolate bars look festive? I love the colorful speckles throughout them – they’re just great for holiday parties!

I love that these are full of delicious flavor, with a surprise in each bite with the random marshmallows and candies throughout. They cut so nicely, it’s easy to make these beautiful bars into a treat plate to gift to friends, family, neighbors or those random guests that may suddenly show up during this time of year!

Ingredients

6 cups of leftover candy – chocolate types, not hard one like suckers/etc. – chopped
2 tbsp. butter
1/4 cup milk or heavy cream (optional)
1 cup mini marshmallows
1 cup M&Ms
1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts (optional)

Directions

Line a 9×9 square pan with parchment paper or grease a 9×9 foil pan with butter. Set aside.
Fill a medium saucepan with water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a low simmer.
Place a large bowl, big enough to fit on top of the saucepan without touching the water, and fill with your chopped candies and butter. Heat until everything is melted, stirring constantly.
If the mixture becomes too sticky to mix, add a splash of milk,half and half or heavy cream to thin it out a bit.
Once the melted chocolates resembles a thick chocolate syrup, take it off the heat and add the mini marshmallows and M&Ms. Mix well and immediately pour into the prepared pan. Spread as evenly as possible.
If desired, top with some finely chopped nuts for a festive feel. We love Walnuts, but almonds or hazelnuts are good options, too.
Refrigerate the Rocky Road Crunch Bars for 2-3 hours, until it hardens. Cut into 16 squares or 8 bars and enjoy with a glass of cold milk or cup of hot chocolate.

Now that you have a tasty (and easy) use for all that leftover candy, you can put it to good use and whip up some Rocky Road Crunch Bars for your next party, or just because!

What candy do YOU have most leftover?

Pie Crust Cookies

June 25, 2018 by Kathleen Clegg

It’s Pie Season! Whoo Hoo! Hi there! This is Kathleen from Fearlessly Creative Mammas here to entertain you again. If you can’t tell, I love pie. There are so many choices with pie and during Thanksgiving and Christmas, I make so much of it. Don’t tell, but I also eat so much of it. That’s a secret. With pie baking come leftover pie crust. What do you do with all of it? I hate throwing it out, so I came up with these Pie Crust Cookies. They are so simple, but so good. Originally shared November 2015

This is my beautiful daughter. She is a kick in the pants and absolutely one of my very favorite people. She is so entertaining, funny and smart at a whip. I know, I’m bias. However, other people say the same thing. This girl LOVES Pie Crust Cookies. They are her favorite. She actually ate every one of the cookies on that plate. So, I make her these cookies anytime I have some spare pie crust.

The last time I had pie crust, it was to make this Southern Pecan Pie, which is amazing, if I do say so myself. I like to use a silicone mat on my cookie sheets. It helps your food not stick and you don’t have to use extra oil. So nice. Plus, your food doesn’t stick to the pan. So wonderful for clean up.

Print Recipe

Pie Crust Cookies

Ingredients

Left Over Pie Crust
1/4 cup butter melted
1/8 cup sugar
1/8 cup cinnamon
2 Tbsp pumpkin pie spice

Instructions

Roll the pie crust out to about 1/8 inch thickness.
Cut your cookies out the crust and place on cookie sheet, about 1/2 inch apart.
Bake at 350 degrees until lightly browned.
While the cookies are cooking, combine the cinnamon and sugar in a small bowl.
Brush each cookies with butter.
Sprinkle the cinnamon sugar on half of the cookies and the pumpkin pie spice on the other half.
Allow to cool and serve.
Store in an airtight container.

I hope this will give you an idea for that left over pie crust. These cookies sure are tasty.

Come on over to Fearlessly Creative Mammas and see what else we are cooking up. What is something fun and unusual you make for your family? I’d love to hear about it.

Autumn Splendor Centerpiece plus Cookie Recipe

November 18, 2016 by Nikki Cole

Want a fun and exciting centerpiece for your thanksgiving dinner? One that not only looks great but doubles as a dessert too? Well this Autumn Splendor Centerpiece is sure to impress your guests and it doesn’t cost you an arm and leg to make it.

Autumn Splendor Centerpiece is easy to make and can be changed easily if you need or want. All you need is a simple sugar cookie recipe with frosting, a stick wreath easily found at a craft store, fake pumpkin, candle (whatever color), and some little decorations to go around the top which can be left out if you want.

First get your fake pumpkin and cut a hole in the top large enough to fit your candle. I just used a steak knife which seemed to work great but it did make a little bit of a mess with Styrofoam all over. Place your candle in the whole.

Next if you want you can get little decorations to go around the ring of the pumpkin and candle or you can leave it blank. I found some cool little beads I guess you could call them and pinned them to the pumpkin. Just walk around a craft store and you can find some fun things like maybe leafs, jewels, feathers, anything you would like to dress up your centerpiece.

On your stick wreath (horrible name I know but I don’t really know the technical name for it), place a sheet of cellophane to help support the cookies a little better and so people don’t get any weird sticks in their cookies. Make it a little bigger than the wreath because when you place the pumpkin on it it will come in a little bit. Place decorated pumpkin in the center of the wreath on top of the cellophane.

Make sugar cookies and decorate them. My sugar cookie recipe and frosting is just basic – nothing too fancy, recipes below, and I also didn’t spend hours decorating mine because the only people that saw it was my little nephews and nieces. Feel free to get creative and design however you want. Plain leaves look great on this wreath and doesn’t take forever to decorate. You can get as creative as you want or as simple as you want with the Autumn Splendor Centerpiece.

I cut my cookies into different leafs, acorns, squirrels, turkeys, apples, and a few flowers. Then I just put simple frosting on them in colors of red, yellow, orange, brown. I then froze them and an hour before we sat down pulled them out, placed them around the wreath, not too far out on the wreath so they didn’t fall off but did a few layers and placed in the center of the table. It looked great without all the hard work and I had a great centerpiece and dessert tray.

Sugar cookie and frosting recipes

Cookies – Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
½ teaspoon almond extract
1 egg
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 cups flour

Cookies – Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cream butter and sugar together until smooth. Beat in the extracts and egg.
Mix in baking powder and flour until combined.
Roll out onto a floured surface until about ¼ inch thick and cut into shapes with cookie cutters.
Place on greased cookie sheet and bake for 6-8 minutes. Let completely cool before frosting.

Frosting – Ingredients

2 cups shortening
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 teaspoon almond extract
8 cups powdered sugar
1/8 cup milk
Food coloring

Frosting – Directions

Cream all ingredients except powdered sugar.
Slowly add in powdered sugar.
Can add more or less milk for different consistencies if needed.
Separate into bowls and add food coloring.

Tried & True Recipes: Pumpkin Banana Chocolate Chip Bread

October 7, 2016 by Kelly Dedeaux

It’s been awhile since we’ve done a Tried & True Recipe, so let’s give this Pumpkin Banana Chocolate Chip Bread a try! Super easy to make, delicious and super moist.

As with all of our tried & true recipes, we’re just sharing our experience using another fabulous blogger’s recipe. To get the recipe and instructions, head to the post at Running to the Kitchen. We love her many fantastic recipes, from tasty desserts to yummy dinners. When I saw this one, I just HAD to give it a try – and of course it was every bit as delicious as I’d hoped!

The only twist I’d maybe do to her recipe is to add some Pumpkin Spice to it – for a little bit more pumpkin goodness. But that’s just me…we’re major fans of all things pumpkin, so want us much of the flavor as we can get!

I did make one loaf without chocolate chips, since hubby isn’t a chocolate fan (I know, crazy, right?!) and he agreed that everything from the texture, to the flavor combos was perfect – just needs a bit of pumpkin spice.

This is a tried and true recipe that definitely passed our test! Head over to Running to the Kitchen for this pumpkin banana chocolate chip bread recipe – or check out all her other amazing creations on her home page!

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Mix Up a Moment with Funfetti® Halloween Treats

April 11, 2020 by Kelly Dedeaux

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of The J.M. Smucker Company. All opinions and text are mine alone. #MixUpAMoment

Who else gets super excited for fall? We sure do! While we love summer and do plenty of family activities, something about fall brings out the quality time together even more. Maybe it’s the cooler weather. Maybe it’s that the kids are in school so we appreciate the time we do spend together more. Or perhaps it’s because the upcoming holidays bring out my own inner-kid, so we like to go all out with the fun! While getting ready for Halloween, we had a blast enjoying these delicious Pillsbury™ Funfetti® Halloween Treats – and now YOU can ‘Mix Up a Moment’ with those you love, too!

The most important thing about having a true moment together, and making great memories, is to actually FOCUS on the moment. Don’t be running from the kids to the computer to check emails. Try to have this JUST be with your family or friends, because – as I’m quickly learning – these moments pass so quickly!

Sometimes you can’t plan for family time, it just happens in between everything else. Luckily, it’s super easy to stock up on Pillsbury™ Funfetti® Halloween Baking Mixes and Frosting the next time you’re at Walmart, so you’re prepared anytime you get a chance to ‘Mix up a Moment’! The festive Pillsbury™ Funfetti® Halloween Cake Mix and the Pillsbury™ Funfetti® Halloween Vanilla Flavored Frosting are waiting for you in that center Bake Center area – you know, where they put the holiday goodies – so you can easily grab them.

Don’t forget other fun frosting or decorations, found in the Bake Aisle. Eyeballs are my family’s personal favorite Halloween treat decoration! We can always count on Walmart to have what we need, and it’s never difficult to find our favorite things, plus these are super easy on the budget – like I said, stock up so you’re ready at any time this holiday season!

I grabbed a few Pillsbury™ Frosting colors for our own Halloween fun, knowing my kids like different things. I sure was right – their cupcakes were as different as each of their spunky personalities! Normally we have a quick snack after school, then go right into homework, so I wanted to surprise them with some family Halloween festivities when they got home! I had everything ready for them, so we just whipped up the cupcakes, then sat to enjoy decorating time. That’s one of the great things about Pillsbury™ Baking Mixes and Frosting – it doesn’t take a ton of time, so you can fit in quality time even when you don’t have ‘quantity time.’

I knew this would be PERFECT to get us in the right mood for this Halloween holiday, and I wasn’t disappointed! We had so much fun together, the kids and I, creating our own cupcake monsters.

We even poured some of the Pillsbury™ Funfetti® Halloween Cake Mix batter into a doughnut pan, making neat little doughnut-shaped cupcakes!

My boys were shocked that their cupcakes had ‘sprinkles’ inside – the orange and black funfetti made it even more festive and fun! These were the exact thing we wanted for our Halloween celebrations.

After we were all done, we had to show off our unique creations – and check out how happy they all were! Baking is definitely something our family’s always enjoyed doing together, and we’ve had many adventures in the kitchen that we’ll never forget!

Some other creative topping ideas would be candy corn for teeth, make ‘hair’ with frosting and a decorating tip, or cut out some fondant sheets for neat details – like maybe a Frankenstein scar!

How will YOU ‘mix up a moment‘ for your Halloween festivities?

Candy Corn Mickey Mouse Cookies

December 24, 2020 by Kelly Dedeaux

I loved visiting Disneyland during Halloween-time last year! Super festive with the decor, yummy treats and the characters in costumes themselves added to an amazing atmosphere of fun. Now you can bring some Disney into your Halloween with these delicious Candy Corn Mickey Mouse Cookies! Yummy sugar cookies that are easy to make, and even easier to decorate! It’s part of this month’s Craft Lightning, so you know they’re not only fun, but QUICK, too!

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As part of Craft Lightning, this takes only 15 minutes of ACTIVE time – that doesn’t include fridge time, baking, or drying time for the icing. The basic ‘craft’ of this tutorial is the fun icing decoration part!

Ingredients – Cookies

5 cups All-purpose Flour
2 tsp. Baking Powder
1 tsp. Salt
1 1/2 cups Unsalted Butter, softened
2 cups Granulated Sugar
4 Eggs

Ingredients – Royal Icing

2 Egg Whites
1 cup Powdered Sugar
1/2 tsp. Cream of Tartar
Orange & golden yellow gel food coloring

Cookie Cutter: Mickey Mouse Head

Directions – Cookies

Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth (not grainy) to the touch in a mixing bowl. Add all 4 eggs at one time. Continue to mix. Add the vanilla. Continue mixing. Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture. Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball. Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight.
Check to see if the dough is firm. If so, preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit. Put flour out on the wood cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into the batter (if needed).
Roll the dough out on the cutting board and, using the mickey head cookie cutter, begin to cut out your cookies. Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper. Using a metal spatula, move the cut cookies to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookies are thoroughly baked. Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely. (About 10 minutes).

Directions – Icing

Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl mixing on medium speed for 4 minutes. (except your food coloring) If icing is not stiff enough add 1/4 C powder sugar. When the icing is ready….
Divide the icing equally into 3 bowls. The first bowl of icing add several drops of yellow gel food coloring. Stir to mix. The second of icing add several drops of orange gel food coloring. Stir to mix. In the third bowl, keep this bowl of icing white. Spoon each color of icing into individual frosting bags with a #5 tips. Twist the open end of the bag to push the icing to the tip.
Following the picture of the Candy Corn Mickey, visually divide the cookie into 3 parts. Outline the top of the cookie in white icing. Starting with the middle of the ears and straight across the head and continue to outline around the ears and head. Allow briefly for the white icing to dry. Outline the middle section of Candy Corn Mickey in orange icing. Starting with the lower half of the ears and half of the face.
Outline the lower part of the Mickey’s head in the yellow royal icing. Allow for all of the outlining to dry. Fill in where the cookie has been outlined in white( the top part of Mickey’s head) with the white thinner icing.* Allow to dry for about 30 seconds. *Squeeze the half of the white of the icing into a bowl then add 1 tsp of water to this and mix it in. Leave the rest of the icing in the frosting bag for later use on the cookies. Fill in where the cookie has been outlined in orange ( the middle part of Mickey’s head) with the orange thinner icing.* Allow to dry for about 30 seconds. *Squeeze the half of the orange of the icing into a bowl then add 1 tsp of water to this and mix it in. Leave the rest of the icing in the frosting bag for later use on the cookies. Fill in where the cookie has been outlined in yellow ( the bottom part of Mickey’s head) with the yellow thinner icing. *Squeeze the half of the yellow of the icing into a bowl then add 1 tsp of water to this and mix it in. Leave the rest of the icing in the frosting bag for later use on the cookies.
Allow the cookies to dry for 5-10 hours and ENJOY!

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Other Disney fun…

Sweet Lime Fruit Salad in a Hurry

September 2, 2016 by Kelly Dedeaux

This post is sponsored by DOLE® Frozen Fruit, but all opinions and this awesomely simple recipe are mine alone. #DisasterAverted #DoleFrozenFruit

Please tell me I’m not the only one who always seems to forget when I sign up to bring a side dish to a picnic or party? As much as I try to remind myself, mark it on the calendar and sometimes even resort to sticky notes, I often end up rushing at the last minute for SOMETHING to take that won’t be a big flop. Luckily I can whip up this Sweet Lime Fruit Salad in a Hurry – and it’s a huge crowd-pleaser, so it’s a win for everyone!

If you’ve ever shown up to a gathering where people expected you to bring something, yet you go empty-handed, you know the looks you get. Not that they’re ‘mad’ exactly, but you can’t help but feel awkward – or is that just me? Anywho, I hate it, so refuse to show up without a delicious recipe to share with the crowd – and luckily I’ve learned to keep DOLE® Frozen Fruit on-hand for times such as these so I can fix up a great snack!

Yup, disaster averted with DOLE® Frozen Fruit – or at least embarrassing stares averted! But really, our freezer has a shelf full of their many varieties of frozen fruit, such as the Mango Chunks, Pineapple Chunks, Whole Strawberries, or their Wildly Nutritious varieties like the Strawberries and Blueberries Mix, Tropical Fruit, or Mixed Fruit.

I’ve used them not just for this fruit salad before, but when other circumstances when my lack of planning ahead left us in need – like after making a ton of crepes, but my kiddos were begging for fruit to top them with. Or when I needed a healthy side to stick in their lunches – it’s great how easy it is to just open a bag, put it in a container, and send them off with all natural fruit with no added sugar. Plus the bags are resealable, making it really simple to open-close-reopen as needed.

When I mentioned sending it in my kids’ lunches – we actually do that most days now because it’s not only a healthier choice and they love the taste, but it’s FAST! Morning’s are hectic enough without washing, cutting and making more mess to clean from preparing fruit. The DOLE® Frozen Fruit is seriously just open, scoop/pour, close the container, close the bag, pop it back in the freezer. I wish more of our before-school morning routine was this easy!

DOLE® Frozen Fruit is the perfect ingredient that can help you prepare for any occasion, even when the unexpected happens – plus it’s great for a variety of recipes like drinks, appetizers, entrees, snacks and desserts. Yup, you can be ready for just about anything with the versatile DOLE® Frozen Fruit in your freezer!

Ingredients

3 lbs. DOLE® Frozen Fruit – choose the variety/combination you prefer
2 tbsp. Lime Juice
1/4 cup Honey
Dash or two of Basil, if desired

Directions

Combine the fruit, lime juice and Basil (if desired) until well-combined. Stir in the honey.
Allow to set and soak in the lime and honey for just a bit before serving!

Note: If you don’t want it entirely frozen when it’s served, just allow it to thaw in the bowl for 30-45 minutes. It’ll be nice and refreshingly cold!

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Easy Brownie Dip

August 13, 2016 by Kelly Dedeaux

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #mixinmoments #CollectiveBias

You guys know how much I love brownies, right? This recipe is a perfect twist on the classic brownie, and only takes a few quick steps! This will be perfect for a quick after school snack, or special dessert. If you’re like me and not only love chocolaty brownie recipes, but also simple ones, you’ll love this Easy Brownie Dip!

Another great bonus for this dessert dip is that it doesn’t take a lot of ingredients – and the vast majority are just common kitchen essentials! If you’re missing something, just swing by Kroger to nab it and the NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Brownies & More Baking Mix with Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels (or with Butterfinger pieces – your choice!). You can find them easily in the baking mix aisle. I’m thrilled for these delish new baking mixes – there’s so many possibilities with them! They even have a ‘Cookies & More’ version with both options: Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels or Butterfinger pieces. Yum!

You can use these rebates to save some money on the Nestle Toll House Baking Mixes, too!

Today we enjoyed the brownie dip with crisp apple slices, and I can’t wait to grab some fresh strawberries to try with it! You could also use graham crackers, pretzels or cookies if you want – there’s lots of possibilities!

Ingredients

NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Brownies & More Baking Mix (with chocolate morsels OR Butterfingers)
- Ingredients needed for baking mix: 1 large egg, 1/2 cup vegetable oil and 3 tbsp. water
8 oz. Cream Cheese, softened
1/4 cup Butter, softened
2 cups Powdered Sugar
1/4 cup Cocoa Powder
1/4 cup All-purpose Flour
2 tbsp. Brown Sugar, packed
1 tsp. Vanilla
1/4 cup Milk
Snacks for dipping: fruit, crackers, cookies, pretzels, etc.

Directions

Prepare the Nestle Toll House Baking Mix according to package directions, allow to cool when done. Cut into chunks and set aside.
In a large bowl, whip all of the remaining ingredients (except the dipping snacks of course) until fluffy and well-combined. Stir in the brownie chunks.
That’s it! Store any leftovers covered in the fridge.

Yup, you gotta love super easy snack ideas that are not only fast and flexible, but completely delicious! We used the ‘semi-sweet chocolate morsels’ mix with this batch – the kids (and hubby) are already begging me to try the Butterfingers version!

Check out more delicious Nestle Toll House inspired recipes at Very Best Baking!

The BEST Ever Cinnamon Roll Sugar Cookies

July 1, 2019 by Kelly Dedeaux

It’s been a long while since I’ve made this cookie recipe, I’d almost forgotten how incredibly delicious they were. I decided to whip up a batch and Oh. My. Gosh! They’re just like the name hubby calls them: sugar crack! Not that they’re bad or anything like that, but they’re so tasty it’s hard to resist eating more. I swear, these are the BEST Ever Cinnamon Roll Sugar Cookies – try them for yourself and see!

If you’ve been following the blog for a long while, you may recall when I shared these back in 2013. I re-read that post and laughed, because we were still in our tiny apartment and I had yet to find my packed rolling pin, so made this without – not easy! Luckily I’ve long since found my rolling pin, so these were a breeze to put together. And yes, I’ve already eaten quite a few, and am resisting the urge to eat more. At least not for a little bit 😉

Ingredients

1 cup Butter, softened
2 cups Sugar
3 Eggs
1 cup Sour cream
2 tsp. Vanilla
2 tsp. Baking soda
2 tsp. Baking powder
6 1/2 cups Flour
1/4 tsp. Salt
For the filling:
- 1/2 stick Butter, softened (4 tbsp)
- 1 cup Brown sugar and 2 tbsp. Cinnamon mixed

Directions

Cream the sugar and butter. Mix in the eggs, sour cream, vanilla, baking soda, baking powder and salt. A little at a time, add in the flour until well-combined.
Divide the dough into two separate parts, flatten into an oval, wrap with plastic wrap (lightly floured to prevent sticking), and place in the refrigerator for 3 hours.
When done, preheat oven to 350 Degrees F. Spray or line a few baking sheets, set aside.
Take out one oval at a time (so it doesn’t warm up too much as you work with the first). Cut each oval into thirds – so you have 6 separate pieces. Roll out to about 1/8 inch thickness, and about 12 inches long by 5 inches wide.
Spread each with some butter, then brown sugar and cinnamon mixture. Roll tightly into a log (from the long end) then slice into 1/2″ pieces and place on the prepared baking sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes, checking when it’s close so you don’t overcook them.
Allow to cool about 5 minutes then remove to a cooling rack.

Note: makes about 4 dozen cookies

The great thing about this sugar cookie recipe is that they taste great warm or cold, with frosting or without!

If you do want the frosting: whip 8 oz. softened cream cheese with 3/4 cup powdered sugar, 4 tbsp. milk and 2 tsp. vanilla extract. Store in the fridge.

Okay, so I’ve eaten 2 more while writing this – I have no self control when it comes to these amazing and tasty snacks! Luckily they’re pretty small so it’s okay, right?