Chocolate Toffee Pretzel Chunks

This recipe is so easy your can close your eyes doing it, I recommend kids gets involved in this one as well. I figured I want to make some cute food labels because, its looks great on a table and its also, helpful to allow your guest to see exactly what they are eating. Since, food allergies are a constant struggle for some its, especially vital that people can read the main ingredients and decide whether they want to digest it. As delicious as everything looks it was just as delectable to enjoy and satisfy our tummy's.

I attended an event with my cousin Nicole, where you can find her Jalapeno Poppers and Mac & Cheese Cups recipe here http://www.presleyspantry.com I made them myself for my family and friends today and they were the talk of the day, super Delicious!!! my Nina was raving about them to all her friends after tasting them.

I decided to set up a cupcake station that way all guests are able to decorate their own cupcake the way they want it so, i set up a array of sprinkles to choose from.

Supplies:

*Snyder's Pretzel sticks

*Kellogg's Rice Krispies Cereal

*Kraft Jet- Puffed Marshmallows

*Nestle toll house chocolate morsels

*Heath toffee bits

*cupcake sleeves

*a sauce pan and large pot to melt the chocolate over a double broiler

your first going to melt the chocolate in a large enough bowl using a double broiler 

Have all the ingredients ready to pour into a large bowl to mix in everything. break the pretzels in small pieces and chop down the marshmallow's.

once the chocolate gets melted pour in all the ingredients and rice krispies to mix everything up all together and pour them in the cupcake sleeves using a large spoon 

now refrigerate over night and walla 

For the Whipped Cream Frosting Recipe: See my Alcohol Infused Cupcake & Whipped Cream Frosting recipe

*2lbs Confectioners Sugar

*Vanilla extract

*Heavy Whipping Cream

Alcohol Infused Cupcakes & Whipped Cream Frosting

Lets get Cupcake Wasted...

I already baked the cupcakes ahead of time using the Duncan Hines Confetti Mix and have left them to cool over night, now you will pierce holes in the cupcakes using a fork not to deep just enough to fill them with the vodka and Jell-O mixture.

Supplies:
*If you don't have a kitchen Aid mixer a hand mixer will work just fine

*1/2 cup vodka I used the Costco Kirkland brand, any vodka will work
*1 package of Jell-O blueberry flavor
*piping bag
*#1 M decorating tips any

Whipped Creme Frosting:
*2 lbs bag of Confectioners Sugar, you will use the full bag to make the frosting will make for 24 cupcakes and some left over depending on the size tip you use to pipe
*1/2 pint Ultra- Pasteurized Heavy Whipping Cream
*1 tsp vanilla Extract

keep the whipped creme refrigerated until you will use it and don't re-refrigerate because the frosting will get too runny and will not harden as its supposed to.

Follow the directions on the back of the Jello-O box and replace 1 cup of cold water with vodka the extra Jello-O can be used to make Jell-O shots as I did or finger Jello-O its totally up to you.

now that you pierced the top of cupcakes use a teaspoon to fill them be generous with your spoonfuls, I poured about 6 teaspoon fulls to each and left them in the cupcake tin refrigerate because the vodka and Jell-O mixture will leak through the cupcake sleeve. I'm not sure about you but I don't want to have to clean up my refrigerator any more than i have to so less mess is best for me.

Whipped Creme Frosting;
In the stand mixer add the 2 pounds of Confectioners Sugar, 1 teaspoon full of vanilla extract, add half of heavy whipping cream and start to whisk in. Set the mixer at a speed of 4 and gradually add in the rest of the heavy cream and once its has started to thicken and looks like its getting its peaks its done.

it should have peaks and look like this, scrape off the sides with a spatula and whisk that it too, continuously stop and scrape down the sides of the bowl to make sure all the sugar gets mixed in and then place in the refrigerator for 2 hour. Once it has set in the refrigerator you can begin to pipe your cupcakes and be creative like I did with these Jello-O shots like I did.
In celebration to the super bowl I also made New York inspired Jell-O shots with the same vanilla whipped cream on top they are infused with vodka as well.

Valentine's Day Rice Crispy

In Today's Blogging & Baby Sitting Mikey and I decided to make food crafts and since its Valentine's Day coming up we thought we would make heart pops form rice crispy treats.

Supplies:

*butter
*Rice Crispy Cereal
*Wax Paper
*heart cookie cutters
*sprinkles
*food coloring if you want to dye the crispy mixture
*frosting
*white marshmallows
*spatula
*thin baking rack to flattened out cereal

This is a great way to get the kids involved when its time to decorate and cutting up the crispy, since Mikey is still young I allowed him to decorate everything and I cut up the rice crispy since they are a little tough to apply force for such a small child.

In a large pot melt about half a stick of butter depending on how many rice crispy you want to make I only used half a bag of cereal therefore half a stick of butter otherwise if I was to use the whole box I would use the full stick of  butter. Avoid the butter burning this will cause the marshmallow's to brown and start adding in the cereal

once its all sticking together similar to the consistency above

 take it out of the pot and empty it all on to wax paper.

In order to flatten out all the cereal find something with a flat surface I used a baking sheet without the raised edges then let it cool for about half hour or till cooled. Using a spatula apply a thin layer of frosting

 Place it in the refrigerator for at least an hour till it hardens and then your ready to decorate.

Once your done decorating place them back into the refrigerator so the frosting and all sprinkles will set and enjoy your dessert.

Creme Brulee

The next two weeks I am on baby sitting duty so from time to time I will be blogging about my adventures with the 2 year old toddler. He is a very animated kid we have plans of whooping us some crafting some food crafts and we will see what else is in store for us the next few days. Yesterday we attended a birthday party for one of my cousins, I wanted to make something so, I decided to make  Creme Brulee because I have always wanted to try it.
I watched a YouTube video on how to prepare everything since, this was my first time making creme brulee, I knew it was going to take me about 4 hours to refrigerate so in the meantime Mikey and I ran a few errands, we headed to Trader Joe's. He noticed the samples and quickly told me he wanted some, sure enough he was quiet a good few minutes as he devoured the Macaroni & cheese.  Once he finished he said "yumm thine um hum good" I was kinda busy looking for a particular cereal as I noticed my basket full of food I didn't put in there. Mikey had choose a bunch of snacks and tossed them right in. I thought to myself we better get out of here before this kid breaks my bank ha ha. I wait till he turned to start putting back some of the "yonke" (Spanish for junk).  He is a great helper and knows exactly what he wants when it comes to shopping. He threw in berries, macaroni & cheese, nuts, and fruits that we had stocked up on at home. Our cashier gave him a roll of stickers, and he immediately had a huge smile on his face and began peeling them off and sticking them to his sweatshirt.

Once we got home there were stickers stuck to the window, I told him "oh noo were going to get in trouble" and had this confused look on his face and replied to me "huh? no thine the humming bird in trouble" of  course I'm not sure what he was talking about or trying to tell me but, later I learned that he was watching an episode of  Wonder Pets and the pets rescued a humming bird because the bird couldn't fly or something it was just funny to see the connection he tied in when i mention were in trouble. This day and age allot more kids are so much smarter, he knew that by telling me about the humming bird story I would probably forget about the whole sticker situation,  and yes it worked because, I was too occupied trying to figure out what he was talking about.

wallah creme brulee...

Happy 16th Birthday Joe!!

  purchased from The Phoenix Bakery