Daffodil Candy Cups

Spring has officially sprung!  Time to say goodbye to the snow, rain, and cold winter nights.  Please join me in welcoming Spring by making these sweet Daffodil Candy Cups!  Celebrate new life and sweet candy all at once.


This adorable idea was brought to us by Martha Stewart, and we all know how crafty and wonderful all of her ideas are.  This is the perfect afternoon craft and can be done by anyone and it takes just minutes to complete this precious sweet craft.  Your kids will love it!

What you need:

Colorful scrapbook paper (Michael's has tons to choose from)

Scissors

Colorful baking cups

Jelly Beans

Tape

What you do with what you need:

*Cut paper into the shape of a Daffodil by using the photos for your guide.  It doesn't have to be perfect!  Make it any size you want.  

*Place a baking cup in the center of the flower and tape to the paper.  

*Sort Jelly Beans and place all of the orange and yellow beans to the side.  Group the appropriate colors together in their individual bowls.  Place a handful of orange jelly beans in a baking cup, and then do the same for the yellow.  

*Repeat until you've made as many flowers as you'd like!  

*Place all over the house to welcome Spring in the brightest and cutest way around!!

Thin Mint Martini

Happy Thirsty Thursday!  You've all seen those Girl Scouts selling cookies these last few weeks, and if you are the unlucky individual that unfortunately did not have cash on you, we're bringing the Girl Scout to you this week by making Thin Mint Martinis!  You'll love this chocolate and minty creation because it's delicious and extremely fitting for St. Patrick's Day coming up this weekend!

Ingredients

2 oz. De Kuyper's Creme de Menthe

2 oz. White Creme de Cacao

2 oz. Half and Half

1/4 c. Chocolate Chips

Crushed Thin Mints

Junior Mints

Instructions 

Rim martini glass with crushed Thin Mints

Put chocolate chips in a microwavable bowl

Melt chocolate chips in the microwave and stir every 15-30 seconds until melted

Pour chocolate into a piping bag

Pipe chocolate in approximately 20 lines throughout martini glass, starting from the bottom of the glass and working your way up

Let chocolate harden for a few minutes

Mix all liquid ingredients into martini shaker filled with ice and shake, shake, shake

Pour into glass and garnish with Junior Mints on a toothpick

It's almost a spiked Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream melted in liquid form!  Show off the Irish in you by providing all of your friends with this amazing drink!  Thanks to Grin and Bake It for this amazing idea and mouthwatering photo.  Hope you all have a Happy St. Patrick's Day!  

Easy Pot O' Gold Candy Craft

St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner.  That means rainbows, pots of gold, leprechauns, and green are heading your way.  If you haven't already picked out that perfect green outfit for the big day, time is running out!  Act fast or else you will be pinched!  

Bring the Irish out of you and all of your favorite leprechauns by making this simple and adorable craft that I found online!  It's especially a perfect go to craft on a rainy day, because you will really feel like you are in rainy Ireland!  

What you need:

Rainbow Twizzlers

Gold Coins

Clear Goodie Bag 

Construction Paper

Instructions:

Sort the Twizzlers into a rainbow form, you know, red, orange, yellow, green, and blue

Place 5-7 gold coins in the bottom of the goodie bag

Place the sorted rainbow into the bag and make sure it's in correct rainbow order!

Use a rubber band or stapler to seal the bag shut

Cut out any shape and color of construction paper to glue on top of the bag, a four leaf clover shape would be super cute!

Write or print whatever creative saying you'd like such as "I love you like a leprechaun loves its gold" or "You shine as bright as a pot o' gold" 

Have fun!  Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Over the Rainbow Cupcakes

Cupcakes are so yummy in all forms. Mini, regular, or giant sized, each bite is baked to perfection.  My favorite type of cake and cupcake is Funfetti.  You can read about my delicious obsession here, in cookie form!  No matter what flavor you like best, you can't go wrong when topping your cupcake off with a Rainbow!

How to make a Somewhere Over the Rainbow Cupcake

The Necessities:

Cupcake Fixings (Boxed of from scratch, your choice!)

Vanilla Frosting

Food Coloring

Rainbow Sour Belts

Piping Bag

The Instructions:

*Bake your favorite flavor of cupcake, whether it be red velvet, funfetti, chocolate, or vanilla.

*Let it cool.

*Choose your favorite color dye to add to vanilla frosting for some brightness.  Green would be perfect for St. Patrick's Day coming up!

*Set some of the plain vanilla frosting to the side.

*Frost the top of the cupcake with a knife.

*Cut Rainbow Sour Belts in thirds

*Using a piping bag, place plain vanilla frosting inside and squeeze out a small amount to create two "cloud like" bases to secure the rainbow 

*Bend Rainbow Sour Belts and place each end in the "clouds"

This is a fun and easy activity for kids.  The final product will of course taste delicious, especially with the Sour Belts on top!  All of your guests will smile as soon as they see these.

Enjoy!

Chocolate Boyfriend, Chocolate Girlfriend

With Valentine's Day being right around the corner, it's really time to get down to business.  Shopping for that special someone is a must, and candy is the perfect go to gift that's bound to create a smile!  But if you don't have a special someone in your life, don't worry, Lola's Sugar Rush will help you out!  This candy store knows exactly what will melt your heart.    

If you're looking for that perfect girlfriend or boyfriend, worry no more!  Lola's Sugar Rush is the perfect place for singles to go to meet their match.  Lola will set you up with a mate that is:

Absolutely sweet

So hot they will melt

Belgian and delicious

Happy when bitten

Filthy rich 

Savory until the core

Priceless-but sells for $14.99

All around solid

Super tasty

Tall, dark, and handsome/beautiful

Although my boyfriend and I have each other as Valentine's, we are both totally crushing on our newly found Belgian lovers!  Thanks to Lola's Sugar Rush for sending us our new delicious crushes!  Happy Valentine's Day! 

Raspberry Chocolate Kiss Cocktail

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• Who's ready for Valentine's day!?  Hope you have all been snacking on cake pops, chocolate, sour candy, and conversation hearts.  Only 5 more days to go so you better get cracking if you haven't been snacking!  Anyways, it's the last Thirsty Thursday before the big V-day, so we need to celebrate with the Raspberry Chocolate Kiss Cocktail.

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup Mint-Infused Simple Syrup
• 3 chocolate cookies, finely crushed, such as Nabisco Famous Wafers
• 10 raspberries
• 1/4 cup vodka
• 2 tablespoons cranberry juice
• Ice cubes
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• Instructions
• Fill a dish with simple syrup. Crush cookies into another dish. Dip martini glass into simple syrup and then immediately into crushed cookies to coat the rim of the glass.  Fill shaker with ice and add crushed raspberries, simple syrup, vodka and cranberry juice and shake, shake, shake!  Pour into martini glass and serve immediately.

Cheers to a Chocolatey Raspberry Kiss of a Thirsty Thursday!  Thanks to Martha for this lovely recipe!  Check it out, her recipes are always a hit!

Valentine's Day Cake Pops

Valentine's day is coming up so very soon.  Any ideas on what you should be snacking on with your lover?  I've got a great one!  Valentine's Cake Pops.  YUM!  I was special enough to taste these when my friends at the Chips Chocolate Factory kindly sent some my way.  And I'm not just trying to be nice, but they were the BEST CAKE POPS EVER!  


The Chips Chocolate Factory gave me three different kinds to try.  Aside all of these being aesthetically pleasing and the prime definition of eye candy, they were all so, so scrumptious!  


Let's start with my favorite pick....the Cookies and Cream Cake Pop.  When biting into it, I immediately tasted how moist it was.  While chewing on it, I could taste all of the creamy and buttery taste of yellow cake.  With the outer shell made up of crushed chocolate cookies and tasted like chocolate frosting.  Each bite was full of crunchy, chewy, and moist textures all at once.  It was so moist that the inside actually looked wet and I've never seen anything like that before.  It was so gooey and great.  

Next was that Strawberry and Cream Cake Pop.  As with the Cookies and Cream cake pop, this one was just as moist.  Eating this one tasted like you were actually chewing on a gulp of strawberry milk.  The texture of this one was creamy but more crunchy because it was covered in white, red, and pink sprinkles.  The outside was white chocolate and the inside was a delicious yellow cake.  If you are a Strawberry flavored lover, definitely try these! 

And last but not least, was the Red Velvet Cake Pop.  This was definitely the most festive cake pop because of its red hue.  Way to get in the Valentine's day spirit, because even your tongue will get pink after consumption.  This was amazingly moist, the outside pink and red sprinkles made the texture crunchy, and the outside tasted like a white chocolate frosting.  Talk about delicious!  It tastes just like you cut yourself a slice of a big Red Velvet Cake, so if you love that, you'll love these!

I was so happy to have the chance to review these sweet Valentine's treats.  I would describe these as perfection on a stick.  Thanks so much to the Chips Chocolate Factory for getting me in the Valentine's day mood and making my tastebuds happy!  It's not too late to order these for V-day!