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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It was my friend Wendy’s birthday yesterday and she loves Diet Coke like no other and so Courtney and I decided to make her a Diet Coke birthday cake. I got this soda bottle shaped cake pan from the Coke Rewards website where you enter the codes you find on your coke products and then … Continue reading
Wednesday night was our year end wrap up for the girls at church called our Evening of Excellence and I was in charge of the refreshments so to mix it up a little bit, I went with a Cookies and Milk Bar. I made two kinds of cookies, “Three Chip Cookies” (which are already on … Continue reading
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