Fruity Pebbles Bunt Cake

Who I stole the idea from: I adapted if from rice krispies treats
# of ingreditents: 3

prep time: 20 min

nutritional info: Dessert

Fruity pebbles(way better than regular rice krispies) TBSP Butter Marshmallows *How much cereal and mallows you use is up to you. I usually do about a 1mallow to 3 cereal ratio.

Melt the butter so your mallows don't burn. Mini Mallows work better for melting than the big ones. Watch your heat cause these can burn fast. Then you'll have crunchie krispies. Pour the melted mallows into the biggest bowl you got. Add the cereal a cup or two at the time as you mix them in. If you put too much cereal, it's hard to go back and add melted mallows. This was just an on the fly idea...to put it in a bunt pan. Use a plastic bag or wax paper to press down the krispies. Otherwise, they'll stick to your skin when you try to compress them. How fun did it turn out?! I just love all the colors. Kind-of a pain to cut though. Oh well!

Funfetti "Ice Cream"

Who I stole the idea from: Pinterest
# of ingredients: 4 (veg oil in cake batter)
Overall time: 45 min

nutritional info: Dessert

Prep work is super easy for this. Pre heat oven to 350. Now need to grease anything.

See how much I filled them up? Just below the inside lip of the cone.
Keep an eye on them because you won't need to cook them long.
I was a little bummed they didn't dOMe up more BUT it really didn't matter once you put the icing on them.

Perfect for a little kid's b-day party...or a bachelorette party in Chattanooga for one your fabulous college roommates. 0:)

Kiss Smush

Who I stole the idea from: Pinterest
# of ingredients: 3
prep time: 10 min
nutritional info: Dessert

Make all your kisses naked.
Place them in the middle of the pretzels. I put foil down, on the off chance you leave them in there too long and they melt everywhere, clean up won't be as bad.
Here's you're warning. They say "a watched pot won't boil" Well, I want you to watch this one. You only need to cook it 5 min on 350. See how they're shiny. They should still have their shape before you smush the M&Ms on them. If you wait until they loose their shape, you've waited too long.
Smush the M&Ms down on the kiss and let it cool. I get Peanut M&Ms cause they're bigger and I think it looks better but I guess you can use whatever.
Easy Peasy.

Chocolate Chip Raisin Banana Bread

Who I stole the idea from: Sherrill (my babysitting pimp)
# of ingreditents: too many
prep time: 30 min prep and an hour in the oven
nutritional info: not good but I did squeeze flax in there 0:)

Ingreditents:
1 tsp Vanilla extract
1 egg
1 tbsp baking soda
1 cup sugar
1.5 cup flour
pinch salt
handful of raisins
handful of choc. chips
2 tbsp flax seed
2/3 cup melted butter
*did I foget anything?*

oh yea the bananas DUH
3 RIPE bananas. I had started putting them in the freezer, then when they thaw, they're really easy to smush. They look really sick so be warned (and you'll need to drain them)
See
Throw it all in together.
grease that bread pan thing and bake at 350 for an hour.
Nom nom nom

Enjoy!

Homemade Protein Granola Bar

Who I stole the idea from: Well Tupperware got me thinking about it cause I bought their mold, then I just adapted their recipe.
# of ingredients: 6
prep time: 15 minutes max
Nutritional info: Good. I eat them for breakfast. There's a lot of almond butter but that fills you up.

Ingredients:
1.5 cups whole grain oats
1/2 cup almond butter
1/3 cup Agave
1/4 cup raisins
2 TBSP ground flax seed (this isn't necessary but it's good for you) (and you can sneek it in and no one will be able to taste it) 0:)
As many sunflower seeds as you want cause MmmMmMm

Throw it all together and mix it up. /\

\/ I'm not a Tupperware salesman but I have to plug this product. It's a granola mold that they sale and I love it. I wanna say it was like 12bucks. It's not as big as it looks in this pic.

Divide it all up. Let it overflow and then eat the extra. Smush down the oats with this yellow smushing thing that comes with the tray. Then put the top on the tray (not pictured) and stick it in the fridge till you want to eat it. It's super yummy but since they're not baked they do get a little crumbly but no biggie. Enjoy!

Got fog?

You got some foggy headlights? Well I did. For someone as obsessed with my car as I am, I'm surprised that I let this get so bad. It was bad when I bought the car and over the last yr. had gotten to the point where I needed to ride with my real fog lights on at night b/c my low beams are so dim. So anyway, my dad bought me this one-time use kit (about $30)
It's a few different sanding grades and you just go from roughest to softest. First you have to tape off the light w/ painter's tape, to protect everything else.
Then you begin the sanding. The first pass over freaked me out cause the whole light gets SUPER foggy. Patience young grasshopper. This too shall pass.
After 2 more grades of sandpaper, you load up on the special wax. Then buff it off.
After running down the battery on two different power drills, we finally got a corded one. Ha.
Tah Dah! I am SO pleased with the outcome.
So while I dug into my lights, my friend Tonka rescued things a few times and also worked on his new baby. I don't even know how to describe this guy, who has now been named Lt. Dan.

Have a great night!

Cherry Tom Salad

I don't know if you all know this but my grandmother is an excellent gardener. Like ridiculous. These pictures are from last season but I visited her one day and she was like "ohh here, have some stuff from my garden." She was going to let the cherry tomatoes rot b/c there were too many to pick.

I mean look at the size of these babies! Have you ever seen garlic cloves this big?

Who I stole the treat idea from: My cousin's wedding caterer

Prep Time: 30 min
# of ingredients: lots
Nutrition info: really good for you, with exception to the cheese.

The portions are this are really up to preference. I have to say the cilantro makes the salad so go crazy with it. Here are my approximations.

• A cup or two of diced cheese (this is Parmesan)
• 1 cup chopped cilantro...yes a cup
• 6 cups of quartered cherry tomatoes. (If you don't have an awesome granny like me, this ingredient could get expensive)
• 3 cups chopped bell pepper

Throw it in a bowl

Mix it up
Then add 1.5 cups of apple cider vinegar (maybe more) and .5 cup of extra virgin olive oil. Oh! then graded Parmesan. Lots of it.

Close upBon Appetit!

Peppermint Bark

Who I stole the treat idea from: This lady
Prep Time: 30 min
# of ingredients: 2
Nutrition info: Tis the season... don't worry about it.






This is THE easiest recipe ever. There are 2 ingredients...
#1 Candy Canes





#2 2 bags of tiny white chocolate chip morsels. Start to melt those in a double boil while you bust up the candy canes.

The best I have found to break up the candy canes is to put them in a bowl and carefully smash them with a glass cup. Sounds crazy but there is an art to it. Get the pieces as small as you can.





Now if you run out of candy canes, just go pull some extra's off your tree.









Once all of the morsels are melted pour in the the candy cane pieces.





Line a brownie pan with foil or wax paper, then pour all of it in.




Smooth it out so that it's about 1/2 inch to an inch thick.

You can let it harden on it's own. I have found that throwing the pan in the freezer for a few minutes works well.

Once it gets hard, it should come out of the pan easily and you break it up to the sizes you want.


Finished product!

Super easy, cheap, and yummy...like I like my men.