Sugar Swings! Serve Some: snacks
Showing posts with label snacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snacks. Show all posts

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Pokemon Go Sweet & Salty Snack Mix - with Pikachu and Mini Pokeballs


Are you into the Pokemon craze like we are? The kids and I have such a fun time playing it.  What's not to love - super cute Pokemon characters, augmented reality, gamification and exercise!


We walk around catching Pokemon, hitting Pokestops, and battling in gyms - and bonus - we talk to each other about neat topics while doing all this.  It's actually a great way to do something fun with the kids (and something they like just as much).  

If you have kiddos all into Pokemon Go, then this cereal snack mix will be a hit.  It's sweet and salty and seriously addicting.

The Pokeballs are made from yogurt covered pretzel balls.  


Dip half into melted red candy wafers 


Add the rest of the detail with melted black candy wafers and use a round white sprinkle as the center


The tiny Pikachu heads are made with Corn Pops cereal, red and black sprinkles.  Yellow melted candy wafer was used to attach everything together and black edible marker for ear, nose, and mouth.


And because regular Pokeballs were not enough - I also made Great Pokeballs. 

You know just in case you have a really tough Pokemon to catch!


You can throw it all into a bowl and let everyone dive in....


OR serve in individual cups!


This sweet and salty cereal mix would make a great addition to any Pokemon party or if you need to restore your energy after a long afternoon of pokemoning!

PS In case you are wondering I'm currently Level 15 - 105410 XP and Team Mystic!

Pokemon Go Cereal Snack Mix
Ingredients
  • 5 cups of Crispix cereal
  • 1 cup of Corn Pops cereal
  • 2 cups of pretzels
  • 1 cup of raisins and/or dried cranberries
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup agave syrup
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • For pokeballs: yogurt coated pretzel balls, red, blue, and black candy wafers, round pearl sprinkles
  • For pikachu: Corn pop cereal, red and black round sprinkles, yellow candy wafers, black edible writing marker
Instructions:
  1. Combine 1st 4 ingredients in large bowl.
  2. Combine butter, syrup, brown sugar, salt in bowl and microwave 1 minute until melted.  
  3. Add baking soda and vanilla and microwave another 30 seconds.
  4. Add to bowl with cereal and mix well.  Spread onto backing sheet to dry.
  5. For Pokeballs: Melt some red or blue candy melts in small bowl in microwave in 20 second intervals until candy is just melted.  Insert toothpick into bottom of pretzel ball and dip 1/2 into candy.  Let harden 10 minutes. Melt black candy melt in microwave and add to a freezer bag.  Snip one small corner and pipe the black detail onto ball (use picture of pokeball as guide).  While black candy is still wet attach white ball sprinkle to center.  Do the same for blue great balls except use blue melted candy wafers and add 2 red lines on top of ball with melted red candy wafers.
  6. For Pikachu: Find the right sized Corn pop cereral for the head.  Cut 2 small ears out of the cereal for each head.  Melt yellow candy melt in microwave and add to a freezer bag. Snip one small corner and use it to attach the ears to the head. Let harden.  Use more melted yellow candy to attach red and black sprinkles.  Add mouth, nose, and ear detail with black edible writing marker.
  7. Add pokeballs and pikachus to snack mix before serving.  Store in airtight container.
Prep time: 60Assemble time: Total time: Yield: 8 cups of cereal mix

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!

Thursday, August 4, 2011

graham cracker sandwiches....!

graham cracker sandwiches

....these are so ridiculously simple that they hardly need a post....but they came out cute...so why not?....you'll need:
  • frosting (i had a little bit of left over frosting from these cupcakes and hate to waste perfectly good homemade buttercream!)
  • graham crackers
....slather some frosting in between graham crackers....and ta-da....you are done....

graham cracker snacks

....and don't worry if the graham crackers break....just make mini sandwiches.....they are so cute and the kids loved them....i kept them in the fridge so the icing didn't squish all out when you bite them (well for the little bitty ones, that's not a problem since you can just pop them in your mouth)....

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....and you get some super simple graham cracker sandwich snacks....i love using up stuff without wasting it...this is a recycled treat....and so is this.....and i know it's just frosting, but there's a lot of love that goes into making it...!