Crescent roll dessert

I saw this pin just a couple days ago and it looked sooooo yummy. It did not disappoint. What I love is the endless possibilities.




My family are peanut butter and chocolate fans so that is what we did. Next time, I'm thinking of doing this for a party and having a "build your own" bar. Marshmallows, graham crackers, Carmel squares, white chocolate chips, toffee bits, nuts. Yes - I can go a little nuts! I think you get the idea.

1 package phillsburry crescent rolls
Filing of your choice (we used chocolate chips and peanutbutter)
3 Tbls powdered sugar
1 Tbls milk

Preheat the oven to 375. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Spread out each triangle as directed in package. Add your filling. I spread peanutbutter on the triangle and then sprinkled about 10 chocolate chips. Then roll the crescents as directed.

Bake for 10 min. Meanwhile mix the powdered sugar and milk in a small bowl. When you pull out the cooked crescents, brush with the milk mixture. Let cook a little. They were so yummy when still warm and gooey!!!







Original pin:

Source: somethingswanky.com via Kristen on Pinterest

Chocolate kiss cookies

Two things I love. Chocolate chip cookies and Hershey's kisses. Why wouldn't these taste amazing????

My standard chocolate chip cookie recipe: as adapted from the classic toll house recipe

1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 12oz bag milk chocolate chips

Melt the butter in a large microwave safe bowl for 45 seconds at 1/2 (5) power. (this gives it a room temp softness). Cream the butter and sugars. Add the eggs and mix. Then add the vanilla.
Add 1 1/4 cups of the flour and 1/2 tsp of the baking soda. Mix. Add the remaining 1 cup of flour and 1/2 tsp of baking soda. Mix. Mix in the chocolate chips

For this recipe, unwrap 36 kisses. Get a tablespoon of batter and roll into a ball. Push the kiss into the center of the ball and cover with the batter. Put on parchment lined baking sheet. Bake at 350 for 10-11 min.

The only thing that my cookies didn't do was get gooey in the center. But who cares? They taste so good!!!












Original Pin:

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No bake granola bars

Our family has been big into granola bars lately. When I saw this pin I just had to try it. It was super easy and fast - less than 20 min from start to finish (it does take about an hour to cool - but they are super yummy warm, just hard to eat!).

The recipe I followed:
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup honey
1/3 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups Quaker oats
1 cup rice crispies
1/4 cup mini chocolate chips

In a small saucepan, combine the butter, honey and brown sugar over med heat. Once it starts to bubble, stir and then let it bubble for two minutes.

While the mixture is bubbling, pour your dry ingredients into a large bowl.

At the end of the 2 minutes, remove from heat and add the vanilla. Stir. Then pour over the dry mixture. Stir until coated.

Pour onto lightly greased cookie sheet (a jelly roll pan would be perfect but I don't have one). Press down with a wooden spoon. The sprinkle with chocolate chips and press down again. Let cool on the counter top about 1 hour.




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Fill up a balloon without blowing it up

My daughter just finished a week of science camp and loved it. I wanted to keep the momentum going so I looked up the science experiment pins I have. This one sounded great (and we had everything at home).
What you need:
Empty water bottle
Balloon
3/4 cup vinegar
1/8 - 1/4 cup baking soda
Two funnels - one dry and one to get wet
Using the wet funnel, pour the vinegar into the water bottle

Put the balloon around the dry funnel and fill with the baking soda.

Keeping the balloon folded over (so the baking soda doesn't mix with the vinegar yet) and wrap the opening of the balloon around the water bottle.

Then lift up the top of the balloon and allow the baking soda to mix with the vinegar.

The balloon will start to fill. We did six balloons today and three of them had the vinegar mixture get so big the liquid filled the balloon too. My daughter thought those were the best ones!!!



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Braid covered hair

My daughters hair is much longer than mine so I can try these fun ideas on her (when she's in the right frame if mind!).

I was able to do this style as we were walking out the door on the way to camp. She loved it. I did end up using two rubber bands. One for the initial pony tail and the other to keep the braid in place. I didn't think bobby pins would hold up with an active 7 year old.

Recovered my dining room chairs

When we bought our dining room set, we were newly married with no kids. Off white beautiful chairs seemed like a great idea. Fast forward 9 years and two kids (let alone a 2 year span with a 2 year old where the table was our only dining table) my beautiful off white chairs became so stained. I was embarrassed to pull them out and have people sit on them.

I've been searching pinterest and watching HGTV and finally got inspired. I found fabric 50% off so I cost $25 for 6 chairs.

The hardest part was figuring out where the screws were that we're holding the seat to the chair. We found the screws and were off! I'll admit the corners aren't perfect but I don't care. They look 100 times better than they did. I teased my husband that it was so easy we can recover them for each holiday. I don't think he thought that was a good idea!

The biggest tip I can give you, and I don't remember were I heard it, is do not get striped fabric if this is your first time covering the fabric. You don't want to deal with making sure the stripes line up while trying to get nice corners.

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