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Cooking, Product Reviews

Little Secret Review: Natural Peanut Butter Candy Cookies

4 Ingredients Peanut butter cany cookies featuring Little secrets all natural candy

Natural Peanut Butter Candy Cookies : I love candy,  so do my kids.  I am often concerned that my kids are putting too much artificial in their body’s.  When Little Secrets offer me the opportunity to send me their new line of  premium, natural candy-coated chocolate with no artificial ingredients, flavors, colors or corn syrup brings the fun back to small indulgences with its line of four amazing chocolate candies.  It was a win win with for my family.

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Little Secrets offers conscious consumers four premium flavors of candy-coated chocolate made with high quality ingredients. The line features four decadent  offerings, including Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate Raspberry, Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter and Dark Chocolate. All flavors are Fair Trade Certified, and are made with 100% natural ingredients.

I have to say I love the Dark Chocolate Little Secrets Candy it is a more mature flavor.  The dark chocolate was not the favorite of the kids.  Which was fine because the Hubby and I hid ourselves away with the bags and watched movies without the kids.  The peanut butter was similar to a certain candy made famous by a alien who want to use a cell phone but all natural.

The kids absolutely love the milk chocolate.

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Little Secret: Natural Peanut Butter Candy Cookies

4 Ingredients:  Peanut Butter Candy Cookies

  • 1 eggs
  • 1 cup of natural peanut butter
  • 1 cup of natural sugar
  • 1/2 cup of Little Secrets candies (any flavor)
  1. Preheat oven 350
  2. Mix ingredients (egg, sugar, peanut butter) blend well
  3. Mix in Little Secrets candy
  4. Scoop out  cookies on to making sheet  (12-18 cookies) (tip: spray scoop spoon with cooking spray help it not to stick)
  5. Using a fork dipped in water then sugar make a crosshatch to push down cookie
  6. Bake for 7-8 min
  7. Take out an cool slightly before moving to wire rack to cool completely.

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4 Ingredients Peanut butter cany cookies featuring Little secrets all natural candy

Recipe adapted from from MomCreiff

These are Little Secret cookies you kids will love.

Learn all about Little Secrets at www.sharelittlesecrets.com.

Cooking, Crafting

Easy Easter Treats: Chocolate Birds Nest

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chocolate birds nestEasy Easter Treats:  Birds Nest I decided to make these treat for the kids for Easter.  These are a chow main treat done loose and deconstructed.  I choose to do them more deconstructed.  Traditionally there chow main noodles are tossed in melted butterscotch chips.  I like chocolate so I make a loose nest.  My daughter helped to make these Easy Easter Treats nests.  I am not sure if they will last it to Easter.  They  are so easy I made batch in about 20 minutes.

Easy Easter Treats: Birds Nests

Makes 15 treatschow main,chocolate,cadbury eggs

Ingredients:

  • 1 bag of Chow main noodles Found in Asian section of grocery store
  • 1 bag of milk chocolate candy melting chips or 2 bags of milk chocolate chips
  • 1 bag of mini eggs  chocolate they look like robins eggs

Tools:

  • wax paper
  • 2 cookie sheets
  • Glass Pyrex measuring cup
  • pot
  • water
  1. Melt 1/2 of the bag chocolate I use a Pyrex 2 cup measuring cup, in a pot of water 1″ of water in a pot (double boiler method) or microwave chocolate in Pyrex cub starting at 30 seconds then 5 second intervalsdoubl boiler method chocolate
  2. Using a spoon drop a quarter size drop of melted chocolate on wax paperdroping chocolate on wax paper
  3. Place chow main noodles on chocolate,  pat down slightlychw main on chocolate
  4. Place a smaller dot of chocolate on top to hold eggs
  5. Place 3 mini eggs on topeggs on chocolate
  6. Repeat till tray is filled and place in refrigerator till chocolate  is hard.chocolate birds nests

This is a great Easter treat to make with the kids,  add peeps to the plate and the peeps now have a place to lay there eggs.girl helping make treat

My daughter age 9 loved make these Easy Easter Treats.  If you child is younger just have them place the eggs since the chocolate is hot.

Happy Easter!chocolate birds nest

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Cooking, Crafting

Chocolate Leprechaun Hats : St Patricks Day Cookies

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St Patrick day cookiesSt Patricks Day Cookies:   Chocolate Leprechaun Hats  using a chocolate marshmallow and sugar cookie. Cute little treat for the family on St. Patricks day.  Easy to make. They are also a no bake cookie. Here is how.

Ingredients:

Makes about 16-20 St Patricks Day Cookiescookie making supplies

  1. Melt chocolate following directions on package or if you have a Wilton Chocolate Pro Electric Melting Pot
  2. Dip the end  Marshmallow in to chocolate a place in the center of the cookie this fused the marshmallow with the cookiechocolate marshmellow cookie
  3. Allow the chocolate marshmallow cookie  to cool in the fridge for  10 minute till sethat cookies
  4. Roll the hat on the side in the chocolate till covered. I use a spoon carefully Place on wax paper to cool or place in fridge..away from blower to avoid bubbleschoclate covering cookiecookie in chocolate
  5. When cook decorate with band and clover-  I used glitter icing for my black it did not dry so I would use the same Betty Crocker  icing for both the black and white.
  6. You can buy little bags to protect the Chocolate Leprechaun Hats

You could also do Easter bonnets and use pastel chocolates.

For more tips on working with chocolate check out the Make and Mold Chocolate website

chocolate covered cookies that look like Leprechaun Hats

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Have fun making a St Patricks Day Cookies

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Parenting

HERSHEY’S CAMP BONDFIRE & RECIPES

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smoresCrackling fire, smell of sweet marshmallow, and smooth HERSHEYS chocolate.  That is the smell, taste of outdoors for me, every since I was a little girl camping with my family.  I always know I have arrived in the woods for relaxation and good times, once the HERSHEYS hits my mouth.girl eating a smore

I prefer a s’more cooked to my prefect specifications which are: the hot golden toasted  marshmallow, laid on a cold firm just taken out of the cooler HERSHEYS chocolate bar. When I bite my bonfire creation; it is the crunch of the gram cracker, the goo of mellow and firm snap of the HERSHEYS.  My mouth is drooling at the thought.girl eating a smore

My daughter she loves to blacken the marshmallow (catch on fire) then blowing out the flames, then walks toward me for the assembly of her smore with 4 squares  HERSHEY  enough to cover the entire gram cracker evenly.   She will always make more than she can eat.eating a smore

My son eats traditional style smore  but only one and then goes straight to eating the only the HERSHEYS chocolate .

My Husband smores?  hold the marshmallow and gram cracker. Nothing but HERSHEYS

This summer I had the pleasure of camping with 16 families or 61 people. It was the annually church camping trip. Their were 30+ kids with hot pokers all dying to make HERSEYS s’mores.   I was in my camping zone, many kids so everybody was entertained and great bonfire for all. We had  7 bags of marshmallows , 6 boxes of gram crackers, and 12 packages of HERSHEY chocolate.  There was also  was alot of sticky hands and over sweetened kids, nothing like a sugar high 9 o’clock  at night. Here are some pictures:making smores with hershey

The weekend was amazing many smiles and happy kids..also many tears when we left. One of the little kids came up to me the next few week later and asked

“Mrs. Sherry when can you takes us camping again? So we can have some more s’mores?”roasting marshmellows

Here are some add on recipe ideas for your HERSHEY smores;

  • peanut butter, chocolate, marshmallow and gram.
  • instead of gram crackers use chocolate chip cookies
  • add a pinch of seal salt  to the chocolate
  • add caramel on top of the HERSHEY then the marshmallow and gram
  • add a slice of a fresh cut strawberry to your smore
  • a slice of kiwi in the middle

How do you like your Smore?

Thanks for a great HERSHEY’S CAMP BONDFIREhersheys bar

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This post is part of my participation in the HERSHEY’S CAMP BONDFIRE campaign. All opinions expressed are mine

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Lores Chocolate Birthday Party

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A journey back to a land of sweet chocolate Goodness:  Philadelphia Lores Chocolate Birthday Parties Experience a memory my children will never forget.

We were recently  were invited to a Lores Chocolate birthday party,  with several other Philadelphia Bloggers it was a fantastic day….

As you walk downstairs into Lores Chocolates 7th Street location  and you are transformed back to a different time where people took the care  to make candy by hand. The chocolate party room has a lovely tin ceiling and brick walls, the room it oozed historic old city charm. The original Lores candy machines are located in the nostalgic space.   The best was the smell… amazing the warm sent of chocolate: dark, milk and white located in vats throughout the room.  It was intoxicating and inviting… I think I arrived in Lores Nirvana.

What to expect at the party?

To start The children and adults get a little history of chocolate by a Lores Chocolate personnel .   Then the children are split into 2 groups.  My kids started with the conveyor belt.  Maureen (Lores Party Coordinator) provided the children  with their own box of goodies to cover in chocolate.  The kids place each pretzel, marshmallow, and animal crackers  on the conveyor belt. Then watch as it their own stash gets cover in a flood of chocolate.

The kids even get to put their own little swirl on top of each chocolate with their fingers, so really “Hands On”.  Then at the end of the conveyor they pack ala Lucy Ball style.  Each kid ended up with a box of yummy chocolate.

lores chocolate birthday party

Next work with molds:  with Lores Owner Toney.  First up the hallow chocolate. Did you know they put the chocolate in a mold  then use a slow rotator to get the Lores Chocolate to cover the entire inside of the mold? So COOL to watch

Then the kids made lovely flowers of solid Lores chocolate. I have to say the Lores chocolate tastes amazing so if you have not tried you must.

The final chocolate experience was how nonpareils are made by hand.( I was actually jealous that the kids got to try making my favorite movie treat.) check out my making Nonpareils video.

How to make Nonpareils

I think my son talked Toney and Maureen ears off asking questions,  they were really great and patient.  You can tell the Lores couple has school age children because they created  a wonderful  hands on chocolate party great for girls and active boys.

I have to say this was a party experience unlike any other.   The charm and old world feel of the location makes it a fantastic place to teach the kids about a such a lovely art form.  Both My son and Daughter  said it was awesome and they wanted to come back.

The Lores Chocolate party packages start at $250 and well worth the very memorable experience.

Disclosure; I received no monetary compensation for this review but I did receive the entrance to the party and party chocolate favors.  The opinions stated in this post are mine own.

Wikipedia: Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. →