Rolo Cookies

Although this recipe is not my own, it is one that I have made several times.  I originally got the recipe from Six Sisters Stuff.  I didn't change anything, but I have never been able to get more than about 24 cookies from a batch.  I usually use two boxes of cake mix and a bag of Rolos and I get about 50 cookies which was just enough for my family to snack on and to pass some along.  Today I made this for the teacher pot luck lunch at my son's school.  

Ingredients:

• Box of Devils Food Cake Mix
• 2 Eggs
• 1/3 Cup Vegetable Oil
• 24 Rolos
• Powdered Sugar

Makes about 2 Dozen Cookies

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a medium bowl, combine eggs and oil.  Then add in cake mix.  The first time I made these I used my electric hand mixer and the batter was so thick that my mixer had a tough time with it.  It was much easier to mix it my hand.  Next take a scoop of batter a little smaller than the size of a ping pong ball and press a Rolo inside.  Make sure that the dough covers the entire piece of candy.  Place on baking sheet.  Bake for 7-8 minutes.  Sprinkle with powdered sugar and ENJOY!

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St. Patty's Day Printable Candy tags

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day! Here's a great way to do something fun for your kids for the Irish holiday. I made a cute tag that says "You are better than any treasure found at the end of the rainbow" and attached it to a pack of Starbust for each one of them. I made a couple more sayings as well, depending on what kind of treat you'd like to use. Magical Mom Tracy had gold coins, so I made one that says "Here's a piece of Treasure from the Rainbow" I also like the idea of a small snack baggie full of Lucky Charms so I made one that says "You're my Lucky Charm!"

In order to print these yourself, right click on the image below and select save as picture. Then open the file and print the picture as a 3.5 x 5 inch photo on cardstock. Enjoy!

Sweets for my Sweeties

My family LOVES chocolate and Valentine's Day gives us an excuse to splurge! After school we made some sweet treats to share with the ones we love.

Chocolate Kissed Pretzels

Ingredients:

Pretzels (I like to use the waffle ones because I think that they hold the kiss better)

M&M's

Hershey Kisses

Preheat oven to 275 degrees. Layer pretzels on baking sheet. Top each pretzel with an unwrapped Hershey Kiss and bake for 3 minutes.

Remove from oven and top with M&M. Gently push down M&M. Let chocolate harden. Store in sealed container.

Next, we made peanut butter cookies topped with Dove Milk Chocolate Hearts. I love opening the candies and reading the sweet messages inside Here are some of my favorites

** Remember your first crush

**Share a sunset

**Get Swept away by love

**Express what's in your heart

**Share a secret

Next on our sweet treat list was cupcakes. I have two of the BEST mixers around.

Family Hearts

February is just a couple of days away, so it's time to start on my Valentine's crafts. Okay I probably should have started a few weeks ago so that I could actually enjoy some of the decorations that I want to make, but I am going to give it my best shot over the next few days. As a kid Conversation Heart Candies were a staple to every Valentine's Day. I never really liked them, but I always liked to read them. Now they put all different sayings on them. At the store the other day I was looking at the Valentine candy and discovered that Brach's makes Ice cream Flavored Conversation Hearts. I decided that I was going to give them a try. Here are a few of my favorite sayings.

The new Ice Cream flavors did not impress me, but the candy did inspire today's creation.

Materials Needed

Wooden Hearts

4-6 Different Pastel Paint Colors

Staple Gun

Paint Brush

48" of 1.5" wide ribbon

Letter Stickers

The hearts had barcode stickers on them so I had to use a combination of a razor blade and Goo Gone to get the adhesive off. To make sure that I covered up the slight color that the Goo Gone gave, I had to paint each of the hearts with 3 coats of paint.

After the paint is dry, arrange the name letters on the hearts. To attempt to get the names centered and straight, I started with the middle letter of the name and placed it in the center of the heart. I then placed the letters on either side and so on until all letters were on the heart.

Next I spaced the hearts on the ribbon. The dots on the ribbon helped me to space them equally apart with out having to measure it. I used the staple gun to attach them in place.

I next attached an 8 inch piece on the top heart to form a loop to use as a hanger.

This SUPER CUTE decoration will hang in our house year after year!