Chocolate Walnut Strudel

Christmas dinner dessert!  Recipe from the Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry website.  Easy to make and delicious to eat! 1 egg 1 tablespoon water 4 squares (1 ounce each) semisweet chocolate, chopped (I used chocolate chips) 2 tablespoons milk 1 tablespoon butter 1/2 package Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry Sheets (1 sheet), thawed as per package directions … Continue reading

Christmas fun with Candy Melts!

I’ve been working so much that I’m way behind in my Christmas prep so I’ve been trying to get caught up especially with the neighbor gifts and candy melts are my new best friend.  The possibilities are endless!  At Michaels they had a couple of fun versions for the holidays – the version in the … Continue reading

Christmas Cupcakes

I had a day of so I spent half the day on Thursday making these for my friends at work.  I was going to make them all snowmen but the box needed some color so I added in some cupcakes with a bit of color on them.  These are Red Velvet cupcakes; all I did … Continue reading

Chocolate Raspberry Dream Torte

It was our Christmas Bunco dinner last night and I actually got off work in time to go and then I actually won!  Woo Hoo!  I made this Pampered Chef torte for dessert.  It is supposed to be topped with raspberries but they didn’t have any fresh ones at the store so I went with … Continue reading

Christmas Treat Day!

So yesterday was Christmas treat day around here, as in I spent the whole day making treats and thought I would share for those of you looking for some quick and easy last minute gift ideas.  All of these treat ideas are already on the blog so this will just be adapting them for Christmas … Continue reading

Mini Hot Chocolate Bar

This may have been the girls favorite thing about the party, they seemed to really enjoy the mini hot chocolate bar!  You can see from the picture that I had both large and small marshmallows, large candy canes, chocolate dipped spoons (more on that soon) and two different kinds of hot chocolate – mint and … Continue reading

Nutter Butter Reindeers

Another treat for the Christmas party!  This idea was kind of a combination of several things that I saw on Pinterest but none in this exact configuration so I’m going to take credit for these.  🙂 1 package Nutter Butter cookies 1 package light cocoa Wilton candy melts tiny twist pretzels red M&Ms chocolate chips … Continue reading

Mini Donut Snowmen

This one too was for the Christmas party for the girls, another idea from Pinterest and another picture that led to nowhere so here’s what I did! mini powdered sugar donuts candy corns mini chocolate chips Cut wide end off 1 piece of candy corn then carefully stick, pointy end facing out, into slit (there … Continue reading

Marshmallow Reindeer Pops

Here is one of the treats that I made for the Christmas party for the girls.  I saw the picture on Pinterest but the website that it led to, called “Wedding Day Pins”, had no instructions just the picture so I’ll just tell you how I did it. 1 bag Wilton light cocoa candy melts … Continue reading

Cupcake Ornaments

Last night my girls from church came over for a Christmas party so I thought a craft would be fun for the party and since I am the food lady I thought this cupcake ornament was just perfect!  And while it isn’t a food item with a recipe like I usually do on this blog, … Continue reading