25 Calorie Pudding Pops

 I saw THESE on pinterest & and thought they looked delicious & decided to make them to try to satisfy my sweet tooth cravings:)

Chocolate Pudding Pops

1 package of instant Chocolate Pudding(3.9 oz)

2 cups cold milk

1 cup cool whip

Whisk pudding and milk together & add in cool whip.

Pour into your "popsicle molds" or dixie cups, stick a popsicle stick in & freeze!

I used these tall skinny ice cub trays I found at Walmart that held 27 popsicles. I had just enough leftover in my bowl for my kids to have a little...so I would guess that I could've made 5 more popsicles, totaling 32 pudding pops. They aren't very big, which I like because my kids(and me) only need a small treat every now & then.

I added up the calories of each ingredient...

MILK 1%- 2 cups @ 110calories each= 220 calories

COOL WHIP- 1 cup - 200 calories

PUDDING-400 Calories

TOTAL= 820 Calories  / 32 popsicles = 25 Calories

*Not terrible for a little snack when you are having a sweet craving! And you could probably bring those calories down by using Skim Milk or Low Fat/Sugar Free Cool Whip??? 

ENJOY!!!

Pizza Muffins

I rarely share recipes on this blog, because well, let's face it...

I'm not a great cook. 

But every now and then I find a recipe that I try that is worth sharing and this is one of those. 

Excuse my non-fancy shmancy picture as well, I take pictures about as good as I cook.

I made my mother's breadstick recipe...

1 Tablespoon Yeast

1 Tablespoon Honey

1 1/2 Cups Warm Water

Dissolve these 3 ingredients together and let yeast start to activate.

In a large bowl, add:

4 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp salt

Add your "yeast mixture" to flour and mix.

*add a little more flour if dough is sticky

Then I sprinkled flour on my counter(you can do this on a cutting board as well) & I rolled the dough out into a rectangle...

Spread pizza sauce over dough(we used white sauce which is why you can't see it!)

then add whatever pizza toppings you'd like!

We chose pepperoni's & olives...

Oh and of course Mozzarella cheese! Then start on one side & ROLL up your dough(like you are making cinnamon rolls!)...

Cut "rolls" about 1 inch thick...

and place in a greased muffin tin! It made exactly 24 "muffins" cutting them at that thickness. You could do bigger or smaller! Don't worry about them looking PRETTY:)

Then I let them RAISE for about 30 minutes or so, until they started puffing up out of the pan.

I might have let them raise even longer, if my hubby wasn't almost home from work;)

Bake at 400 degrees for 14 minutes or until golden brown & ENJOY!!!

They were DELICIOUS & the leftovers were just as good the next day!

*Next time I make these, I will split the dough in half and make 2 different kinds of "pizza" in each muffin tin. I think I will try a Buffalo Wing Sauce & Chicken one next, just for my husband!

If you are intimidated by "making your own dough"...use you could do the same thing with store bought dough or crescent rolls!

Sweet & Salty

I tried THIS RECIPE last night as a THANK YOU for someone & I think my husband and I ate half of the pan in minutes...

I LOVE coconut, but I did chopped pecans on top instead & it was delicious!

I love an easy recipe with less than 5 ingredients, so this might be a new treat around our house:)

Peppermint Bark

I tried Peppermint Bark for my 1st time last week,

my aunt bought some for her daughter's birthday & I really don't know

HOW IN THE WORLD I have been missing out on this stuff!?!

It was DELICIOUS.

She bought hers at Williams Sonoma &

I figured it was more than I wanted to pay, so I attempted to make some myself. I googled and found a million recipes & narrowed it down to the ones that sounded the best & the easiest.

This was my 1st attempt and it was actually really DELICIOUS.

 I took it to a Christmas party & it got eaten up quickly.

Here is what I did

(and what I will do differently next time)

I used milk chocolate chips & white chocolate almond bark, because it was what I had in my pantry.

The flavors were good, but the chocolate ended up way too thick, so next time I would spread it thinner!

Line a 9x 13 pan with parchment paper or tin foil-I also sprayed mine with Pam because I wanted it to come off easily.

Melt 2 cups semi sweet and/or milk chocolate chips and 1 tsp of Vegetable Oil together & spread into the bottom of your 9x13 pan.

Place in the freezer for 10 to 20 minutes until it has hardened.

While it hardened, I placed 6 candy canes in a ziplock bag and wacked it on my counter tops until I had little crushed up pieces of peppermint.

Melt 2 cups of white chocolate chips with 1 tsp of vegetable oil & then I took all of my teeny tiny & powder like pieces of peppermint & stirred them right into the white chocolate & then spread a thin layer of white chocolate on top of the milk chocolate.
Immediately after you spread the white chocolate on, sprinkle the remaining crushed peppermint pieces over white chocolate.

Place pan in freezer to harden & your peppermint pieces will harden right into your top layer of chocolate.

Take out of the freezer and break into uneven pieces & ENJOY!

**Most recipes I found said to heat over low heat on your stove, but I just stuck mine in a microwave safe bowl and stirred every 30 seconds until they were melted and it worked great & was EASY.

**A lot of the recipes suggested DARK CHOCOLATE as the bottom layer, but I didn't have any on hand, so I haven't tied that.

**Some recipes mentioned adding 1 tsp of peppermint extract to the white chocolate layer, which I think would be good as well, but again I didn't have it in my pantry:)

I think it looks really pretty & would be a perfect NEIGHBOR gift tied up in a plastic cellophane bag with a ribbon on it!

Peanut Butter Cheese Ball

I LOVE a good cheese ball! 

They are so simple to make, but I rarely do unless I am taking it to a party.

When I saw this PEANUT BUTTER CHEESE BALL recipe at Cute as a Fox, 

I knew I needed to make it!

Looks delicious & I love the idea of dipping apples in it...go check it out!

Cake Balls

A Craft for your Stomach...

What? You didn't know you could craftify Food? 

Well...you can!

I just discovered Blackberry Vine

& I'm in awe of her "cake balls"

Caution: Your mouth WILL water when you click on the link above

I just went to a baby shower last night & a friend of mine made the most delicious Red Velvet Ones & I've tried Oreo, Coconut & Peanut Butter in the past...

I've made some in the past & they really aren't very difficult & they are sooo delicious!!

but NEVER have I seen Funfetti ones...

 or "Birthday Cake" ones...

or such pretty designs on them...

Or ones for Valentine's Day...

Or carrot cake ones...

Until I found Jami's blog!!!

This is the recipe that caught my eye & I think I am going to find an excuse to make these German Chocolate Cake Balls very soon...

German Chocolate Cake Balls

German Chocolate cake mixed with coconut pecan icing

Dipped in dark chocolate and topped with chopped pecans & coconut.

OH MY....I'm a sucker for German Chocolate AND Coconut, so I have to try these!

Now...go stop by and say HI to Jami  at Blackberry Vine & grab your favorite cake ball recipe. 

These are a HUGE HIT at parties!