Seasons & Holidays

Crafts for the holidays and the different seasons.

Dark Reese’s Thin Peanut Butter Cookie Cups

~ lindy

Dark Reese’s Thin Peanut Butter Cookie Cups


*1 (17.5 ounce) packages Peanut Butter Cookie Mix, we used Betty Crocker brand, make cookie dough as directed on package


*7.37 ounce package Dark Reese’s Thins Peanut Butter Cups size, un-wrapped (use as many as needed)


*1 package 10 ounce Mini Cadbury Eggs, or favorite chocolate coated eggs, you won’t use all of them.

**We used a Muffin Top Pan see HERE


After making cookie dough, use cookie scoop, scoop 2 tablespoons per cookie cup into Muffin Top Pan sprayed with Pam cooking spray. Press lightly the cookie dough into cups.


Bake the cookies in a pre-heated oven at 350*F. for 9 to 11 minutes,


Remove the baked cookie cups from the oven adding the Dark Reese’s peanut butter cups to the center of each baked peanut butter cookie cup. Make sure cookies are still hot/warm from the oven, when adding Reese’s peanut butter cups. Allow the cookies to cool about 10 minutes before adding candy eggs. Also allow peanut butter cookie cups to cool before removing them from the muffin top pan.

Enjoy!

Lindy

Mini Shamrock Lime Shake

~ lindy

Mini Shamrock Lime Shake

*1/2 gallon Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, softened

*Juice and Zest of 1 Lime 

*Green Food Coloring, I used 7 drops but add as desired

*Cool Whip Topping or Whipped Cream Topping

*1 cup Dark Chocolate Melting Wafers, Ghirardelli

Melt Wafers in the Microwave 20 second increments, stirring between each increment, until almost melted.  Then remove from microwave and stir chocolate until completely melted.  

Chill 8 mini glasses in the freeze for about 15 to 20 minutes.  Then remove 1 at a time and dip the tops of each glass in melted chocolate and use a spoon that comes more to a round point to add drips down the inside of each glass. Return to the freezer until ready to add the ice cream.

Then add some cookies to the bottom of each glass and pipe in ice cream mixture

Allow Ice cream to soften enough to stir.   Then add lime juice and zest and stir in until incorporated.  

Scoop ice cream mixture into a Ziploc gallon sized bag, cut of one of the corners and pipe into chilled prepared mini glasses.

Then add some cookies to the bottom of each glass and pipe in ice cream mixture 

*Chocolate Mint Cookies, like Keebler grasshopper Cookies cut cookies into 1/4 pieces,  use the crumbs for serving on top of cool whip topping etc…

Enjoy!

Lindy