Peanut Butter Popcorn

This is delicious! And oh, so easy.


1 cup popcorn kernels
1 cup sugar
1 cup Karol syrup
1 cup peanut butter

Pop popcorn kernels and set aside. Then in a sauce pan bring to boil sugar and Karol syrup. Take off heat and add peanut butter. Pour over popcorn and toss until covered.

Marshmallow Popcorn Balls

Submitted by: Rachel W.

This seems to be a favorite. My co-workers and neighbors ask me when they
are going to get there's all Christmas long!

Marshmallow Popcorn Balls

4 cups of marshmallows (adding more makes them gooier, do so as you like)
6 TBL of butter
1/2 pack of jello (any flavor you want)
3 QTS popcorn (air popped, one batch)

Melt butter and marshmallow on low to medium heat over stove
Then add in jello, mix well (for deeper color, add food coloring)
Poor over popcorn
Then shape into round balls
Place on wax paper to cool off
Eat and Enjoy!

Halloween/Fall Treat

My Mom found this cute idea in her blog adventures one day! We tried it out and they are super cute and super good if you like peanut butter. They taste like peanut butter fudge, only better and much cuter! They are a little time consuming but kind of fun to make especially with the kids.

All you need is one bag of peanut butter chips (like chocolate chips) and one container of vanilla frosting.Melt the peanut butter chips in the microwave and then add the vanilla frosting to it. Set aside a very small amount to color green for the stems and color the rest orange. It kind of gets tuff to stir. Then you set in fridge for one hour.

To make pumpkins you roll the orange into balls. Take a knife to score like a real pumpkin and then you set it down and push the top down with your thumb. It opens up the scores that you just made to make it look like pumpkin. Then you use a tooth pick to make a little hole in the top to stick the stem in that you make out of the green.

I hope this makes sense. There really isn't any directions so these are my special instructions and I wanted to be clear as possible so it may be sound stupid. If you have any questions let me know.

Enjoy!

Laurel’s Cheesecake Ball

I don't know who Laurel is. My cousin sent this around to the fam. Thought all you cheesecake lovers might enjoy it.

Recipe makes two Cheesecake Balls!

1-8 oz brick cream cheese
1 cube butter (not margarine)
4-4 ½ cups powdered sugar
¼ tsp cinnamon
¾ tsp Mexican vanilla OR 1 tsp regular vanilla
¾ cup finely chopped pecans
¾ cup Heath toffee bits (in a bag on the baking aisle)
¾ cup MINI semi sweet chocolate chips
1 pre-made Oreo pie crust-(store bought)
Honey Maid graham cracker Sticks (honey and/or chocolate flavor for dipping)

Let cream cheese and butter sit out at room temperature about one hour to soften. (Don’t soften in microwave as it makes the mixing consistency too soft). Unwrap Oreo pie crust and crush well with a fork down to fine crumbs, leave inside pie tin and set aside. Cream butter and cream cheese together with powdered sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla until well mixed and fluffy. Add nuts, toffee and chocolate chips and mix well. Put cheesecake mixture into freezer for 30 minutes to harden. Take out of freezer and split in half. With spoon, shape one half into a ball shape and drop into center of Oreo crumbs. Use spoon to further shape and then cover cheesecake mixture well with crumbs. Wrap in Saran Wrap and finish shape into perfect ball and refrigerate for at least two hours before serving. Repeat with second half of cheesecake mixture. Serve with chocolate and/or regular graham cracker sticks.

Variations:

Raspberry White Chocolate Cheesecake Ball -

Instead of chocolate chips and toffee, substitute broken up, frozen raspberry pieces and shaved white chocolate and nuts of your choice. Use a regular graham cracker pie crust (crushed) for the coating.

Rocky Road Cheesecake Ball -

Instead of chocolate chips and toffee, mix in 1 T. of cocoa, chopped almonds, toasted coconut and mini marshmallows (quartered with scissors). Omit cinnamon and half the vanilla. Use Oreo crumbs as coating.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheesecake Ball -

Omit toffee, cinnamon and half the vanilla. Add 1/3 cup smooth peanut butter to cheesecake mixture, ½ cup finely chopped peanuts and ¾ cup mini semi sweet chocolate chips. Use Oreo Crumbs as coating.

Indoor S'mores

I love s'mores, but don't always have a fire pit handy.

8 cups golden grahams
6 cups miniature marshmallows
1 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips
1/4 cup light corn syrup
5 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla

Butter 9x13-inch pan. Measure cereal into large bowl. Heat 5 cups of marshmallows, the chocolate chips, corn syrup and butter in 3-quart saucepan over low heat, stirring occasionally, until melted. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla. Pour over cereal in bowl; quickly toss until evenly coated. Stir in remaining 1 cup marshmallows.

Press mixture in pan, using back of spoon. Let stand uncovered at least 1 hour, or refrigerate for a firmer bar. For bars, cut into 6 rows by 6 rows. Store loosely covered at room temperature up to 2 days.

A Classic... Rice Krispies Treats

So everybody probably knows how to make rice krispies, but I made them tonight and thought I'd post it anyways...just in case. Plus I know Jessica really loves rice krispies even if she'd prefer a 8x8 pan instead of 9x13.

1 bag (16oz) marshmallows
1/4 tablespoon of margarine or butter

Stir until marshmallows are melted, take off heat and add

1 teaspoon vanilla
8 cups rice krispies

press into a 9x13 buttered pan. I even took a picture.

Marshmallow Popcorn

This recipe comes from a lady in my Mom's ward (Sister Scheift's) When I tried this popcorn there was no going back! It's fantastic!

1 pound of butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
1 cup karol syrup

Stir to a bubble

Add
1 teaspoon vanilla
6 cups marshmallows

Mix on 2 big greased cookie sheets over flowed with popped corn.

Chocolate Chip Cheese Ball

My visiting teaching partner, Suzette, brought this to a Relief Society Enrichment activity, complete with the graham crackers. It was delicious!

Ingredients:
1 pkg. (8oz.) cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
2 tbsp. brown sugar
1/4 tsp. vanilla
3/4 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup finely chopped pecans

Method:
In a medium bowl, beat together cream cheese and butter until smooth. Mix in confectioners' sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla. Stir in chocolate chips. Cover and chill in refrigerator for 2 hours. Shape chilled cream cheese mixture into a ball. Wrap with plastic and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Roll the cheese ball in finely chopped pecans before serving.

Jello Popcorn

• JELL-O Popcorn
• 8 cups popped popcorn
• 1/4 cup margarine
• 3 Tbsp. light corn syrup
• 1 package JELL-O®, any flavor
• 1/2 cup sugar

Heat oven to 300 degrees. Line a jelly roll pan with foil. Spray with cooking spray. Place popcorn (already popped) in a large bowl.Heat butter and corn syrup in small saucepan over low heat. Stir in sugar and JELL-O; bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat to low and gently simmer for 5 minutes.Immediately pour syrup over popcorn, tossing to coat well. Spread popcorn in prepared pan, using 2 forks to spread evenly. Bake 10 minutes in preheated oven. Cool. Remove from pan and break into small pieces.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Rice Krispies

This is my brother Pat's favorite! If I ever need to get some brownie points or just want to be a good sister I make these for him. He's a great brother so he deserves them!

1 1/2 cup karol syrup
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 cup peanut butter
8 cups rice krispies
2 1/2 cups chocolate chips

Bring to boil sugar and karol syrup. Take off heat and stir in peanut butter; add rice krispies; press into 9x13 pan; Melt chocolate chips and spread on top. Cool and cut!