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Friday, January 22, 2016

All Edible Terrarium Pudding Cups

Happy Friday everyone!! Sharing a super fun dessert for when you want to bring a little nature inside. I love terrariums and all the fun ideas around for them. BUT I definitely do not have a green thumb. Most plants die a terrible slow death when I try to keep them alive. I've tried doing real terrariums many times and it just does not work for me.

So, instead I made some edible terrariums! Complete with succulents, rocks, mushrooms, dirt, and moss.

I love the way they came out and I don't have the guilt about killing the plants!

See the easy how to here at sheknows!

We are getting ready for the first big snow storm of the season. The latest is calling for 8-12 inches of snow! Can't wait since there is just something about the quiet of newly fallen snow that I love.

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Red, White, and Blue Greek Yogurt Pudding Cups

It's time for all the red, white, and blue food! I always love seeing all the tri-colored treats for the upcoming 4th of July holiday. This year I made some simple pudding cups made from greek vanilla pudding.

Did you even know they made greek yogurt pudding?? I didn't so when I saw this instant pudding for the first time at the food store last week, I scooped up a couple of boxes. Mix up the pudding as per the box directions then separate equal portions of the pudding into 3 different zip lock baggies. Tint 1 bag blue, 1 red, and leave the last bag white.

Snip an end of the baggie and squirt into cups, one color at a time. I had some mini plastic square cups which worked great for this.

Although the pudding is very tasty on its own, promise me if you make this that you'll add fresh strawberries. Strawberries are my all time fav fresh fruit. Don't they look absolutely delish??

After you add a spoonful of sliced strawberries, go ahead and add some whipped cream and blueberries. It doesn't have to look perfect, but it will taste pretty dang close to perfect as perfect gets.

And there you go some mini pudding cups all red white and blue'd up in prep for the Fourth of July. Plus there is fruit on them so that means you can eat 1 or 2 or 12.

Have a great week peeps!

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Rainbow Lego Men - Frozen Pudding Snacks

So who loves Lego?? I think I've said it a million times but we've definitely got lego freaks living here. Lego, lego (lego) and more lego. Apparently we just can't get enough. We have hundreds of minifigs around the house, we could populate a country with minifigs. That's either amazing or pretty sad (depending on your perspective!)

And I've made mini edible lego guys like a gagillion times too. My goal is to use as many different foods as possible to get 110% out of my silicone ice cube mold!

These guys are are made out of vanilla pudding. But you can also make them from candy melt or yogurt too. The only ingredients used for these little dudes are a box of vanilla pudding, some food coloring, and a lego minifig mold (I got mine at a Lego store, but you can order them online too). Mix up the instant pudding, separate into bowls, tint with coloring, and "pipe" into mold.

If you get really ambitious, you can go for the real lego dude feel by changing the colors for the shirt and pants.

The process is basically the same as described here for making these guys - except replace the candy melt with the tinted pudding. Then freeze well (at least a couple hours). You can definitely just keep it simple and use solid colors - tastes the same!

And you know what, if some break popping them out of the mold, who cares, they taste the same too!

Just eat them fast!

And you get some tiny little frozen pudding snacks for a unique summer time treat! I get so tired of the kiddos yelling for ice pops this summer and this was definitely a fun change for them.

You could even use other ice cube trays or molds for this and change it up by using other pudding flavors.

What other food can I can make Lego men out of??! If you have any suggestions, leave them in the comments!

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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Watermelon Pudding Cups

So since it's officially summertime I figured a watermelon flavored sweet was definitely needed! I've been on a search for watermelon flavored jell-o for ages and can never ever find it in stores. When I saw both watermelon and melon flavored jell-o recently in my local food store I knew it was a sign.

Although I would have rather tried making the pudding from real watermelon, my past experience with cooking this fruit made me realize that its flavor is usually best fresh so all the watermelony flavor comes though. (Here is a recipe for watermelon pudding from real watermelon in case you are interested!) But since this pudding is essentially from a box, it's also really simple to put together.

To make this you need:

1 Box of vanilla pudding
1 Box of watermelon jell-o
1 Box of melon jell-o
Cool Whip
Black sesame seeds

Make 1 box of instant vanilla pudding as per the directions on the box
Separate vanilla pudding into 2 small bowls
Add 2 tablespoons of the melon flavored jell-o powder to one bowl and 2 tablespoons watermelon jell-o powder to the other. Mix up well. I also added a tiny bit of pink and green food gel, just to add a little more color.
Mix in some black sesame seeds into the watermelon pudding (to look like watermelon seeds - totally optional!)
Add the melon pudding to the bottom of a dish/cup
Add a layer of cool whip (if you like cool whip!)
Add a a layer of the watermelon pudding
Chill

Then eat!

It was really tasty! But not a subtle melon flavor. I actually liked the watermelon (pink) pudding better than the green melon pudding, but all together and with the Cool Whip the whole thing was nice and refreshing.

Alternatively you could just use vanilla pudding and tint with food colorings/gels if you don't want the melon flavor but still want the watermelon look.