Christmas Cracker Treats

Today we have a wonderful, yummy treat you can make for this Christmas! These cracker treats are a delicious mix of salty and sweet. You can use caramel or peanut butter as a filling and white chocolate or milk chocolate as the outside coat.

Here's what you'll need to get started:

• 24 Ritz crackers
• 6 tbs of peanut butter OR 6 Werther's Original chewy caramels
• 2-3 cups of white chocolate OR milk chocolate
• Christmas sprinkles
• Wax paper

Filling

Peanut butter

If you are using peanut butter as your filling all you need to do is spread 1/2 tbs of peanut butter on a cracker. And then place the second cracker on top to make a peanut butter sandwich. If there is much peanut butter coming out the sides, try and wipe off as much as you can. Repeat this for all 12 cracker pairs, you should have 12 cracker sandwiches at the end.

Caramel

If you want to use the caramel filling, first cut all of your chewy caramels into halves. Place one half onto a crackers, you should use 12 crackers. Place these 12 crackers onto a baking trey and bake for 3-5 minutes at 350 degrees. Watch really carefully while these are baking, you just want to leave them in long enough to melt the caramels but the crackers can burn easily. After the caramels are melted remove them from the oven. Immediately, and carefully, add the top cracker on top of the caramels. Let cool for a few minutes before removing from the pan.

Chocolate Dipping

Once you have your filling done (either caramel or peanut butter or both!) it's time to dip these cracker sandwiches into the chocolate. Melt your chocolate (white or milk chocolate or even both) in a pot on the stove. Start at a medium heat, once the chocolate has melted put it on the lowest heat option. Dip your cracker sandwiches half way into the chocolate. Let the excess chocolate fall back into the pan and then lay the cracker sandwich onto wax paper. Immediately add sprinkles. Repeat this for all of your cracker sandwiches. After they are all finished allow them to dry completely before eating or storing! Make sure to store them in a sealed container to keep them fresh.

Making these yummy cracker treats was a little messy, but well worth it! :) They are very good, but don't take our word for it. Try them for yourselves. You can make them for your Christmas party or for a gift for a friend. Or you can even just make them for yourself!

xoxo,

Britt + Sky

S'more Popcorn Balls

I love s'mores! I love popcorn! So why not combine the two? Today I have a quick and easy s'more popcorn ball recipe that is delicious. With all this cold weather coming in, sweet treats really help make the day better! They are also great for holiday parties!

Here's what you'll need to get started:

• 7 cups of popped popcorn
• 1/2 cup of chocolate chips
• Bag of marshmallows marshmallows
• 1/4 cup of butter
• 4 graham crackers

1. Place your popcorn into a large mixing bowl. Set aside.
2. Crush your graham crackers into small pieces and set aside. 
3. In a medium size pan, melt your butter.
4. When butter is melted, add marshmallows and stir until completely melted.
5. Then pour over your popcorn. Mix until popcorn is evenly coated with marshmallows.
6. Add in your chocolate chips and your graham crackers. Stir until everything is mixed in well.
7. The next step is messy. To keep your hand less messy its best to spray them with non-stick spray.
8. Now, with your hands, form the popcorn mixture into balls. Place the popcorn balls onto a tray or plate. You should get between 6-8 popcorn balls depending on how big you make them. 
9. Let sit for about 30 minutes to cool.
10. Enjoy! 

These popcorn balls are sooo yummy. They are great to make if you are going to a party or just to give to someone as a gift. 

I hope you all try this. It doesn't take much time and they are delicious. 

Have a wonderful weekend! xo Britt

Baked Pumpkin Seeds

While carving your pumpkins be sure to save the seeds so you can bake them. As you know we got a ton of pumpkins last week at the pumpkin patch! We thought that it would be a waste if we didn't use at least some of our seeds while we were carving. You can make many different flavors, but today we have four we love to munch on! They are brown sugar, ranch, cayenne, and salted seeds.

Ingredients:

• 4 cups pumpkin seeds
• 1 tbsp. ranch seasoning
• 1 tbsp. brown sugar
• 1 tbsp. salt
• 1/2 tbsp. cyan pepper 
• 8 tsp. vegetable oil (2 tbsp. for each batch)

1. After you have gotten the seeds out of your pumpkin guts, rinse them off in a colander.

2. Lay the seeds out on a towel and pat dry them. Then leave them to air dry for about half an hour.

3. Divide your pumpkin seeds into four bowls. (1 cup in each bowl)

4. In your first bowl add in 2 tsp. vegetable oil. And stir until seeds seem completely covered.

5. Stir in 1 tbsp. of ranch seasoning evenly.

6. Spread out the ranch covered seeds evenly on a flat baking sheet.

7. Bake at 325 degrees for 32 minutes.

8. Let them cool for about 5 minutes. Then take them off the tray and place them in a bowl and enjoy!

9. Repeat this process for the other three seasonings, but instead of adding 1 tbsp. of ranch seasoning, replace it with the brown sugar, salt, or 1/2 tsp. cyan pepper.

These seeds are so yummy and would be great for a Halloween party or even just an everyday Fall snack! We hope you enjoy!

xoxo

Britt + Sky