Dipped Strawberries

Fun fact: Chocolate covered strawberries are super easy to do yourself! I recently made these for my friend's baby shower.

Ingredients I used
-Strawberries
-Guittard Old Dutch (chocolate chips)
-Vanilla Drops (white chips)
-Red food coloring

First wash and dry your lovely strawberries.

Then melt your chips. I found these at "Kitchen Kneads", but I'm pretty sure you can find some at a craft store or even walmart depending on the time of year. I just used a regular cereal bowl (microwavable) and melted the chips in the microwave 30 sec at a time. For the pink, I just used some white chips and added a drop or two of red food coloring.

Now for the dipping! Pretty self explanatory.. cover the strawberry. Might be useful to have a spoon to help cover. Near the end, I had to tip my bowl to get good coverage. Place in the fridge for a few min before moving on.

Last thing.. the drizzle! Melt a few more chips of all the colors you'd like to use (unless you have some extra from the dipping). Place in a ziplock baggie and cut the corner. Drizzle over opposite colors. Note to self: the vanilla stuff comes out a lot faster than the chocolate, so be prepared :P

See, that wasn't so bad! Happy dipping!

Cake Bites

Just in time for the holidays! Everyone has heard of the adorable cake pops.. here's my twist.

Bake desired cake mix as directed. Let cool, then crumble into a bowl. Mix in 1 16oz tub of your fave frosting, then put in the fridge. After at least an hour or so, take out and form little bite size balls. Then dip them in chocolate and add sprinkles. YUM!

Swamp Creatures

 Found this cute Halloween recipe here, but don't laugh too hard at how mine turned out nothing like theirs HA! I used cream of spinach instead of sautéed spinach and black olives instead of green. My only advice is to cook them in the muffin tin as long as it says.. I got a little impatient and I think that's why they kinda fell apart. Still cute and fun nonetheless!