This sweet Easter treat is perfect for serving to all ages on Easter weekend!

Customize it with your favorite colorful and festive candies and set out for guests to nibble on throughout the day.

Look at those happy faces! They enjoyed movie night and their festive Easter Candy Snack Board this weekend. 

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Easter Candy Treat Board

Ingredients

• Edible candy grass
• jelly beans
• Easter gummies
• pastel M&M's
• Peeps bunnies
• Peeps chicks
• chocolate eggs
• chocolate truffles
• marshmallows
• cotton candy

Instructions

• Start with a large Easter egg shaped platter.
• I add the larger items first so add the cotton candy and the edible candy grass nest onto the platter.
• Now add an Easter shaped cookie cutter and filled it with small chocolate candies like jelly beans or pastel M&M's.
• Add a row of bunny peeps and then add two chick peeps on top of the edible nest.
• Finally, fill in with remaining Easter themed candy like gummies, marshmallows, chocolates, eggs, and truffles.
• Serve and enjoy this sweet Easter treat!

Start with a large Easter egg shaped platter.

I add the larger items first so add the cotton candy and the edible candy grass nest onto the platter.

Now add an Easter shaped cookie cutter and filled it with small chocolate candies like jelly beans or pastel M&M’s. 

Add a row of bunny peeps and then add two chick peeps on top of the edible nest.

Finally, fill in with remaining Easter themed candy like gummies, marshmallows, chocolates, eggs, and truffles. 

Serve and enjoy your sweet Easter treat!

Fun, festive, and delicious!

Happy Easter!

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Halloween Movie Night is made even better with bewitching Hocus Pocus Halloween Treat Board for sharing during the show!

Hocus Pocus Halloween Candy Treat Board

Ingredients:

Hocus Pocus themed cookies, assorted

Halloween themed candies like M&Ms, Oreos, popcorn, Reese’s Cups, KitKats, and Sour Candies 

Homemade themed treats like Witch’s Hat Cookies, Peanut Butter Haystacks, Spell Book Brownies, Witch Finger Pretzels, and Marshmallow Cereal Bars

Halloween themes Marshmallows and Cotton Candy

This dessert tray was inspired by these fun Hocus Pocus themed cookies I ordered for the Hocus Pocus 2 premier night last month! 

I collected a bag of random Halloween themed candies from different events and stores such as

&M’s, candy corn flavored popcorn, ghost shaped marshmallows, and spider web cotton candy.

I knew these would be a fun treat for movie night and Halloween!

Start with a large platter or board. I have a big square wood board from Aldi that I love. 

Add your cookies in the center since they are the “stars” of the board. 

Now add cookies cutters and small bowls in corners and other open spaces. 

Then start to fill in the holes with larger candies like marshmallows and popcorn. 

I also saved a few of each of my Hocus Pocus treats I have made this year to add to our board!

Here are the recipes for each:

Wicked Witch Finger Dipped Pretzels

Hocus Pocus Marshmallow Cereal Bars

No Bake Haystack Cookies

I found these Zombie sour candies I knew my kids would love!

Inspired by Billy Butcherson in the movie!

Add all your treats including chocolates and candies. 

Fill in the cookies cutters (witch hat and black cat) with small candies like M&Ms. 

Finally what is Hocus Pocus without the spell book, right?

I made boxed brownies and cut a few in rectangles and decorated with black icing and a candy eye. 

Add these to your board.

All done and ready to eat!

Happy Halloween movie night!

Hope you love Hocus Pocus 2 as much as we did!

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A birthday treat from my sweet!

This delicious dessert is easy to make and only 4 ingredients. I made it recently for my husband’s birthday dinner.

I assemble it the night before and freeze. It’s so simple to make even the kids can help!

Also check out my original larger version of this ice cream cake: Peanut Butter and Caramel Ice Cream Sandwich Cake. 

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Chocolate Caramel Ice Cream Sandwich Cake

Makes one 8x8 square cake

Ingredients

• 1 box 12 ice cream sandwiches - we used Neapolitan flavor
• 8 ounce container Cool Whip thawed
• 1/2 jar 12oz caramel sundae topping
• 1 cup chocolate candy bars coarsely chopped - we used a variety of snack size candy

Instructions

• Lay half of the ice cream sandwiches (whole) in the bottom of a 8 X 8 inch pan, trimming the last one to cover completely.
• Top with half of the cool whip, drizzle half of the caramel sauce on top, then add on half of the candy.
• Lay down another layer of ice cream sandwiches.
• Top with remaining cool whip and spread out evenly.
• Drizzle on the caramel sauce and top with remaining candy.
• Cover and freeze for several hours (or overnight) before serving.
• Optional: let thaw for 10-15 min for easier slicing.

This dessert is a great way to use up leftover candy from the holidays.

Lay half of the ice cream sandwiches (whole) in the bottom of a 8 X 8 inch pan, trimming the last one to cover completely.

Top with half of the cool whip, drizzle half of the caramel sauce on top, then add on half of the candy.

Lay down another layer of ice cream sandwiches.

Top with remaining cool whip and spread out evenly.

Drizzle on the caramel sauce. 

Top with remaining candy.

Now it’s time to freeze!

Cover and freeze for several hours (or overnight) before serving. 

Time to serve.

Optional: let thaw for 10-15 min for easier slicing. 

Layers of deliciousness! 

Everyone, especially the birthday boy, enjoyed it!

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

These Sweetheart Candy and Fruit Kabobs are a delicious Valentine’s Day treat that kids can make in minutes for breakfast or dessert. Serve these sweet kabobs for movie night, school parties, Valentine’s brunch, or just for fun!

My kiddos and I love celebrating holidays together and we always try to make things fun!

They are the best helpers and are always up for sampling my treats!

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Candy and Fruit Kabobs

Makes 4 kabobs

Ingredients

• 8 oz strawberries about 8 , destemmed and cut into heart shapes
• 1 cup large heart shaped marshmallows
• 4 powdered sugar coated donut holes
• 4 chocolate Reese's hearts

Instructions

• 'Using large skewers thread on each ingredient in a patterned row.
• Start with a marshmallow, then strawberry heart, donut hole, Reese's heart, marshmallow, and end with another strawberry heart.
• Arrange on a platter and serve.

These are an easy treats for kids to help make!

Just lay out all the prepared ingredients and let them thread them on the skewers.

I like to make these easy strawberry hearts for desserts.

Just remove the stem and cut a V shape into the top to make a heart. 

‘Using large skewers thread on each ingredient in a patterned row. 

Start with a marshmallow, then strawberry heart, donut hole, Reese’s heart, marshmallow, and end with another strawberry heart. 

Arrange on a platter and serve for breakfast or dessert!

So simple to make and super cute to serve!

Time to eat!

Look at that happy face!

My Ava girl loves sweet treats! 

We were lucky enough to have my Mom here with us last Valentine’s Day!

My girls love spending holidays with their Oba and Papa.

Hope you have a sweet Valentine’s Day! 

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Got candy?! We do! Lots and lots of bagged candy and treats leftover from Halloween fill our kitchen.

I let the girls fill a bag each (plus a parents tax bag!) and then we assembled this cute leftover candy treats tray for our movie night!

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Leftover Candy Halloween Treats Tray

Ingredients

• Halloween themed popcorn or chips I used skeleton cheese puffs
• Assorted Halloween colored and shaped snacks and candy like cotton candy Peeps, gummies, chocolates, and sour straws.

Instructions

• Use a tray, plate, or board to hold your snacks. I used a medium size cauldron tray with sides from the Dollar Spot at Target.
• Start with a base of chips, popcorn, or another larger puffy snack like the skeleton cheese puffs I used.
• Then top with any assortment of candy like gummies, cotton candy, sour straws, chocolate, and marshmallows.
• Serve and snack away!

So many treats and no time to eat!

We used a variety of sweets for this movie night snack tray then bagged up and donated the rest at a local bank that sends them to the troops overseas. 

Use a tray, plate, or board to hold your snacks.

Start with a base of chips, popcorn, or another larger puffy snack.

Top with any assortment of candy like these Reeses pumpkins. 

Peeps marshmallow pumpkins and monsters are fun too!

I loved these colored KitKats and Reeses Franken Cups too.

Assemble all on top of and around the crunchy chips or popcorn on the bottom.

Serve and snack away! 

Yay for movie night and using up the last of the candy (before Christmastime!). 

“Stop taking pictures, Mom. We want to eat.” 

Have a fun and delicious weekend, friends!

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Happy Earth Day, friends! We made these delicious Creepy Crawly Dirt Cups for Earth Day this week for our Mommy and Me time video.

Check out the recipe and live video below!

I set up a tray with all out goodies and we brought it outside to make our dirt cups in the yard.

They are a messy but good treat and everyone enjoyed creating their own dirt cup!

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Makes individual 4 cups

Ingredients

• 4 oz box Chocolate Fudge instant pudding
• 2 cups milk
• 10 {1 cup} chocolate sandwich cookies {like Oreoes} crushed
• assorted sour gummy worms flowers, spiders, and frogs, for topping
• edible green grass candy or green licorice strings for topping

Instructions

• Prepare pudding with milk according to the package instructions.
• Chill for 5 minutes then scoop pudding into 4 clear cups.
• Add at least two scoops of crushed chocolate cookies to the top of the pudding cups, covering the pudding completely.
• Top with gummy creepy crawlies like worms, spiders, and frogs. You can also add flowers.
• Break your edible grass or licorice into small pieces and stick them into the cookie "dirt".
• Serve with spoons and dig in!

Prepare pudding with milk according to the package instructions. 
Chill for 5 minutes then scoop pudding into 4 clear cups. 

Add at least two scoops of crushed chocolate cookies to the top of the pudding cups, covering the pudding completely. 
Top with gummy creepy crawlies like worms, spiders, and frogs. You can also add flowers.

Break your edible grass or licorice into small pieces and stick them into the cookie “dirt”. 

Serve with spoons and dig in!

Dirt Cups are sweet and perfectly messy! A fun afternoon treat for Earth Day!

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Maple Snow Candy

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup maple syrup
• medium bowl of fresh snow

Instructions

• Bring maple syrup to a boil in a small saucepan.
• Drizzle hot maple syrup lightly over the snow.
• Use forks to eat this sticky sweet treat right away!

 

  Happy Snow Day!

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Magical Unicorn Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 1 dozen frosted cupcakes
• green candy sprinkles
• 12 small unicorn toys
• 12 pieces rainbow gummy candy

Instructions

• Pour sprinkles in a small bowl and gently dip the cupcakes, frosting side down, in the sprinkles to coat.
• Place a unicorn toy on top of each cupcake and then press the rainbow gummy strip into both sides of the cupcake frosting so it looks like a rainbow over the unicorns.
• Serve and enjoy your magically delicious treat!

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Chocolate Lovers Cookie Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 2 tsp cornstarch
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup butter softened
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg plus 1 egg yolk at room temperature
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips {go all out and use caramel filled}
• 1/2 cup M&M's plus 2 tbsp for topping
• 1 cup assorted chocolate candy chopped {I used a Hershey's bar and Snickers}
• 1/4 cup mini Oreos chopped plus 2 crushed Oreos for topping
• Frosting for decorating {optional}

Instructions

• Preheat 350 degrees.
• Spray {or butter} a 9 inch round cake pan or pie plate with non stick spray.
• Cream butter and brown sugar together in a large mixing bowl on medium speed.
• Add egg and egg yolk then vanilla.
• In a separate large bowl add flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt. Mix well.
• With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the flour mixture until fully combined. The dough will be thick.
• Add the chopped candy and Oreos, reserving 2 tbsp M&M and crushed Oreos for topping.
• Gently stir until combined then spread evenly into the pan.
• Press remaining 2 tbsp M&M's on top of the cake.
• Bake for 18-20 minutes until cooked through.
• Cool slightly then remove onto a cooking rack to cool completely.
• Optional: once cooled add decorative frosting around the edges and sprinkle with crushed Oreos.
• Slice and serve and enjoy this Chocolate Lovers Cookie Cake!

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Candy Pretzel Pumpkins

Ingredients

• mini pretzels
• white chocolate chips
• green M&M candy
• orange food coloring
• vegetable oil optional

Instructions

• Melt chocolate in a bowl in 30 seconds intervals in the microwave until smooth.
• If you need to make it thinner add a tsp of oil to the chocolate.
• Add orange food coloring (or a mix of red and yellow) to the melted chocolate.
• Now dip the pretzels, one at a time, in the chocolate. Lay out on a sheet of wax paper.
• Take green M&M candies, on their sides, and press them onto the top of each pretzel to make the 'leaf'.
• Let chocolate cool until hardened then enjoy your pretzel pumpkin treats!

 

Pumpkin Spice Popcorn Balls

Candy Corn Bark

Chocolate Pumpkin Cake Cookies

Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

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