Rice Krispie Easter Eggs

My first how to! Yay! And it just happens to be one that everyone has done at least once in their life! Gee whiz! But this was my first time and maybe I can help another newbie of egg molding with this! So here goes...

First make sure you have all of your supplies on hand. Please don't be like me. I didn't have anything quite ready!

You will need...

Plastic Easter Eggs! The kind that overtake your home around Easter time! P.S. why do they connect nowadays? Remember when you actually had to pull the egg apart for your goodies? Now it's just half an egg hangin on! ANYWAY...

Hard Shell Chocolate Candies! In my opinion Cadbury Mini Eggs are the only way to go! But your favorites are great too!

Cooking Spray

Colored Sugars! My all time favorite sugars are the sanding sugars from Williams Sonoma. I use them for everything and they come in the best colors!

And last but not least...Rice Krispie Treats! To make a batch of these bad boys you will need to do the following...

In a large saucepan melt 4 tbsp. of butter. Once melted, add 1 bag of mini marshmallows. Stir almost constantly until melted. Then add 6 cups of Rice Krispies. Stir all together and that's that! The simpilest thing you will ever do!

Now lets makes the eggs. Take a plastic egg and lightly spray it with cooking spray. I took the larger side of the egg and filled it with the Rice Krispie Treats. Then add a chocolate candy.

Fill the smaller side with the treats.

Then press the egg together to form the egg.

The treat should come out of the plastic egg rather nicely.

Then "dye" your egg with your colored sugars.

How cute are these!?! Well I am a lil bit corny on things, but I think they're cute! One batch made us 24 eggs...but if you count them today....we don't have quite that many left!

Dippin'

Every year for Easter we have a dinner and dye eggs at my dad's house. It's always a great evening and we seem to try to think outside of the box on some of the eggs! This year I tried two types that seemed simple enough...

The first was and egg wrapped in lace and then dipped.

As seen in the photos below...it looked promising!!! But...I ended up with a blue egg. Bad news right there...but I haven't given up on that concept! There is always next year!! The second was an egg with circle stickers placed on the surface and then dipped. Those one came out fabulous!! I recommend that technique!!

The boys had a great time and we had some interesting colors going on! Bring on the egg salad!!

Making Wishes

Goodness! Twenty-nine years flew by me! I celebrated a birthday on this past Monday. As the years go by it seems to me as time just gets faster and faster! There weren't any grand birthday plans this year. As if you plan anything when you have kids...something is bound to come up with one of them!

My poor Ryder caught the worst ear infection I have ever seen. We went to urgent care on Thursday afternoon and ended up back again on Saturday morning. He was absolutely miserable and it broke our hearts to see him that way. We got him some different ear drops and luckily he is on the mend. At least he is running around like a maniac again!!

For my last birthday of my twenties we kept it low key. My family threw me an Italian dinner on Sunday evening complete with my favorite Paradise cake from Kings Hawaiian. It was quite lovely and quiet! And I ended it in my pajamas watching Once Upon a Time...PERFECT!

On Monday we went out to another quiet dinner and came home to make sure Ryder wasn't out in the wind with his healing ear. Although the nights of celebrating were very mellow...I got my chance to make my birthday wishes...They were pretty out there!!! So we will see if they happen to come true!!

Cheers to year number twenty-nine! Its gonna be good!!!

Hello Lil Blog!

Hello and welcome to my blog!! This is the space where I will fill our daily happenings and some of the great stuff we do as a lil family! We have so many adventures awaiting us and I want to document and share with everyone. Look for cool places to go, great things to eat, and awesome laughs along with "real life" things as well. My hopes for this page are that you might get a smile from it or a recipe you have to try or maybe you will find a new favorite place to go! So here is to us and this ride we are about to take!

xoxo, Heather