Marshmallow Mashed Up Dessert

Lauren has really been into cooking and creating her own recipes this summer.  A half-used up jar of Marshmallow Fluff proved to be just the inspiration she needed for this dandy little dessert.

You will need:

Mrss Mllos
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torolit
flss

Translated, that Means:

Marshmallow Fluff
Regular Ice Cream
Chocolate Syrup
1 Fish, put a little piece inside
If you want, Cashews

Directions:
1. Put Marshmallow Fluff in a bowl.
2. The ice cream can go in the bowl, too.
3. And then you put chocolate syrup on the ice cream.
4. And then you add the fishes.
And then 5. Stir it up. Then if you want cashews in it you can.
6. And then at the end you put it in the freezer. Five minutes.
7. And then you take it out, and then you stir it up some more.
8. And then you put it again five minutes in the freezer again.
9. And then that's all.  Then you can have it!

Making a Sandwich

Today I decided it was time the girls made their own sandwiches, or at least learn how.  The following is their interpretation of their first adventure in sandwich making....

Lauren's Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich

You will need:

• Peanut Butter
• Jelly
• Bread
• Knife
• Cutting Board

1. You get a sandwich.
2. Peanut butter.... you put it on your bread.
3. Jelly.... you put it on your bread.
4. Then I cut.
5. Then I ate it.

"It taste wonderful."--Lauren

Abby's Peanut Butter Honey Sandwich

You will need:

• Bread
• Peanut Butter
• Honey
• a Knife
• a Cutting Board

1. Get a piece of bread out of the bag.
2. Use a knife with peanut butter.
3. Squirt honey on sandwich.
4. Fold it.
5. Cut.

"It tasted like honey."--Abby

Mini Sn❄w Day Cookies

These cookies are the result of two things: one, funning up cookies on our snow day. Two, my quest for a better tasting cookie out of my Ohio oven.

What makes these cookies a little different aren't just the mini goodies, but the caramelized butter.  Ummmmm.

2 ¼ cups Softasilk or unsifted flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

1 cup butter, warmed and cooked slightly on the stove top

¾ cup sugar

¾ cup brown sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

mini M&Ms

mini chocolate chips {we also added 1 cup oatmeal to this one}

1. Cream sugar, brown sugar, vanilla and melted butter.

2. Beat in eggs.

3. Add flour, baking soda, and salt.  Mix well.

4. Split batter in half.  Poor mini M&Ms into one, and mini chocolate chips into another.  {Be generous, but leave enough room to taste the batter.}

5. Spoon into small dollops on the cookie sheet. Bake at 360° for 10-12 minutes, or until just barely baked in the center and light brown around the edges.

Enjoy as many as possible warm and with ice cold milk.  {They taste best when enjoyed in your jammies!}

Peanut Butter & Jelly Soup

One of the great things about Lauren is that she dictates what she sees around her.  This was totally her idea, the soup she wants for supper tonight.  The recipe is inspired by the Wild Rice soup on the stove.

Try at your own risk....

First you need some milk.
Then you need water.
Then you need chicken noodles.
You need peanut butter.
You need cookies in there.
You need more milk, then stir.
You need rice, more chicken noodles.
Some ketchup, some mustard in there.
And some M&Ms.  That's it.
Oh, and some chocolate chips.

That's it!

Pretzel Kisses

We decided to make these for some special veterans this Veterans Day.  The idea is another simple, yet tasty treat via preschool.  Lauren's class made it for our open house in October, so she was a pro at putting them together.

pretzels, we used snaps
Hershey Kisses
M&Ms

1. Place pretzels on a cookie sheet.

2. Put one Hershey Kiss in center of pretzel.

3. Bake in 200° oven until melted, about 10 minutes.

4. Press an M&M to the melted center down carefully.

Cool before serving.

We decided to jazz ours up a bit to make them patriotic.  To do so we used only red M&Ms.  We drizzled melted vanilla almond bark over finished cookies, then colored the remaining vanilla almond bark blue with food coloring and drizzled again.

Lauren's Happy Trail Mix

Lauren's inspiration for this recipe came from preschool. Another class had made it for all of the students to enjoy at snack time. Lauren raved about it on our way home and decided it was a must-have for this afternoon.

She did ALL of the work. She listed the ingredients she needed, poured them in and stirred. It's a healthy, tasty treat, and we've got a bowl full just waiting for her big sister when she gets off the bus!

A little bit of Gold Fish crackers
So many oyster crackers
100 chocolate chips
100 raisins
100 Cheerios

Make circles with the spoon in the bowl.

Rice Krispie Bars, By Lauren

Lauren loves to help in the kitchen, this afternoon we made Rice Krispie Bars. This is the recipe according to Lauren.

First you add the butter.

Then you add the marshmallows.

Next you add the Rice Krispies.

Now I can go play.