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Peanut Butter Cup Rice Krispie Treats

April 15, 2014 By Becca@CrumbsandChaos 6 Comments

A peanut butter lover’s version of a classic treat…Peanut Butter Cup Rice Krispie Treats are the perfect for your next get together, as an afternoon snack or just because!

I feel like you can never have enough RKT versions to fall back on when you are eluded by what to make as a dessert. I mean, you really can’t go wrong by starting with cereal and marshmallows and adding chocolate and peanut butter. The fact that kids and adults love them and there’s no baking required is just a bonus. I love how the mini peanut butter cups absolutely perfect the chocolate peanut butter ratio of these bars. And don’t offer these to a crowd before you’ve secretly hid one for yourself…they go super fast, just sayin’

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Peanut Butter Cup Rice Krispie Treats

Ingredients

5 Tablespoons BUTTER
9 cups MINI MARSHMALLOWS
1/2 cup CREAMY PEANUT BUTTER
4 1/2 cups RICE KRISPIES CEREAL
4 1/2 cups COCOA KRISPIES CEREAL
8 oz. bag MINI REESE'S PEANUT BUTTER CUPS

Instructions

Line a 9x13 pan with foil. Grease well using butter for best results.
In a large microwave safe bowl (or a saucepan for the stove), melt butter. Add marshmallows to bowl, heat at 45 second intervals, stirring in between until melted and smooth.
Meanwhile, mix together cereals in a large bowl.
Stir peanut butter into melted marshmallows. Pour over cereal and mix well. Add in mini peanut butter cup candies and stir again.
Transfer this mixture to prepared pan. Take a turner spatula and butter the back of the flat side well. Use it to press the bars firmly into the pan. Set aside to cool and set up before cutting into bars.

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More RKT to love…

Double Chocolate Salted Caramel Rice Krispie Treats

Hot Fudge & Kit Kat Rice Krispie Treats

Banana Cream Pie Rice Krispie Treats from Crazy for Crust

Pay Day Krispy Bars from Lady Behind the Curtain

Thin Mint Streusel Muffins

March 4, 2014 By Becca@CrumbsandChaos 9 Comments

Your favorite Girl Scout cookies meets your morning muffin in this Thin Mint Streusel Muffins recipe!

There are few things better than a warm muffin alongside a steaming, hot cup of coffee. They go together so well, in fact, I’ve considered telling my husband that he’s the muffin to my morning coffee because some things should just be together.

So this muffin, this muffin…absolutely incredible. A buttery vanilla muffin full of Thin Mint cookie chunks and topped with Thin Mint cookie streusel…there are few words to describe this amazing-ness. The only way you’re going to know is to make them yourself! Serve them with coffee, of course, for breakfast or brunch. They’d also make a fun lunchbox treat or after school snack. Seriously, just do it!

Thin Mint Streusel Muffins

Yield: 12 muffins

Thin Mint Streusel Muffins are your favorite Girl Scout cookie for breakfast! Perfect with your morning coffee!

Ingredients

MUFFINS:

2 cups FLOUR
2 1/2 teaspoons BAKING POWDER
1 cup SUGAR
1/2 cup BUTTER, room temperature
1 teaspoon VANILLA
2 EGGS
1/2 cup MILK
16 THIN MINT (or Grasshopper) COOKIES, coarsely chopped

STREUSEL:

2 Tablespoons BUTTER, room temperature
2 Tablespoons SUGAR
2 Tablespoons FLOUR
6 THIN MINT (or Grasshopper) COOKIES, finely chopped

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Prepare a 12 count muffin tin by lining with paper liners.
In a small bowl, stir together flour and baking powder.
In a large bowl, beat together sugar and butter until well combined. Add vanilla and eggs and beat until completely combined.
Add in flour mixture and mix on low. Pour in milk and continue to mix until evenly incorporated. Fold in the cookies and divide mixture evenly among muffin cups. (I used a standard ice cream scoop to make this job easy.)
In a small bowl, combine streusel ingredients with a fork at first and then use your fingers to rub the mixture together to form bigger 'crumbs'. Sprinkle on top of muffins.
Bake for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick tests clean. Remove to a wire rack to cool. Serve warm with coffee.

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More muffins to love…

Double Chocolate Muffins

Salted Caramel Muffins

Blueberry Muffins with Creamy Lime Glaze

Oreo Streusel Muffins

Pizza Grilled Cheese

February 26, 2014 By Becca@CrumbsandChaos 6 Comments

Easy and kid friendly Pizza Grilled Cheese Sandwiches are a quick meal the whole family will enjoy!

Selective eaters…one of the great joys of parenting. Seriously, I can’t keep up with all of the things my kids abruptly decide that they don’t care for from one day to the next. I don’t plan meals around their preferences (being picky is not an allergy!). I’m of the philosophy that dinner is what’s on the table – there will be another meal come breakfast time if you don’t eat this one.

Pepperoni is always a winner at my house, so adding that to a meal almost guarantees that they’ll eat it. Grilled cheese sandwiches, also a winner, serve with pizza sauce or tomato soup for dipping and you’ve got a quick weeknight meal. This recipe could also be called – grilled cheese for a crowd. Crank up that oven and bake the sandwiches all at once so that everyone sits down to eat together. Feel free to add other pizza toppings to your sandwich as you like – it’s all gooey and delicious

Pizza Grilled Cheese

Easy Pizza Grilled Cheese is kid friendly and simple to make.

Ingredients

1 loaf of ITALIAN BREAD (sliced from the bread aisle)
SLICED MOZZARELLA
SHREDDED MOZZARELLA
PEPPERONI
GARLIC BREAD SEASONING
BUTTER, room temperature

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Butter one side of a piece of bread, place it butter side down on a baking sheet. Repeat, laying out the first piece of bread for as many sandwiches as you would like to make.
Top the first piece of bread with sliced mozzarella (enough to cover the bread), layer on 4-5 slices of pepperoni and a handful of shredded mozzarella. Sprinkle on garlic bread seasoning. Repeat with remaining sandwiches.
Butter one side of the remaining bread, top each sandwich with butter side up.
Bake for 6-7 minutes and check to see if the underside of the sandwich is golden. If it is, flip sandwiches over. Bake another 5--6 minutes and check underside again.
Remove from oven when they're golden. Slice into halves or quarters and serve immediately.

Notes

*You can easily make these in a pan or on a panini press if you don't want to bake them in a large batch in the oven.

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Crayon Valentine’s Day Cards

February 12, 2014 By Megan@CrumbsandChaos Leave a Comment

This is my first year with a child old enough to be in preschool. With that comes a lot of firsts. One of those is having a class full of kids for holiday parties. So as Valentine’s Day rolls around I wonder what I could do that would be cute, fun for him to help with, and NOT involve candy! I’m assuming that he will get more than enough candy from the other kids, not including what he is likely to end up with from his grandparents. So after doing some brainstorming and research, which involve some searching of Pinterest. I decide on crayons. We love art and coloring and I fell in love when I saw this melted crayon heart idea on Buzzfeed. It’s adorable and the perfect way to use up the broken crayons at the bottom of the box. It gets a little tedious because you have to take all of the wrappers off the crayons. But once I got into the rhythm of cutting and peeling, it went pretty fast. It is fun for the kids to help break the crayons into smaller pieces and my boys loved helping pick out some color combos. I really liked the monochromatic ones but the multicolored ones are fun too. The great thing is they are all unique. I had also hoped the find a silicone heart mold but didn’t have much luck outside of ordering it online. But I finally found a heart cookie mold pan in the Valentine’s Day section at Target and while I was slightly skeptical, it was PERFECT! Each heart had a different detail or design which added just another element to the uniqueness of each crayon! I love the way they turned out and think they make the perfect Valentine’s Day Card!

I got the idea for crayon valentines from The Nerd’s Wife, but made a few adjustments. Here is what I did…..

First, I dug through the crayon box and pulled out all of the broken pieces. Beyond that I just chose a good selection from every color group. Then I carefully cut through the wrapper so that it peels easily away.

Next, we broke the crayons into small pieces and sorted them by color. I like to include the neutrals such as brown, black, gray, and white because I think it adds a little something to all of the color chaos.

Then, we let our creative juices flow as we combined colors and picked which colors would go in which mold. The kids loved this part!!

Now, they were ready to be melted! I placed the sheet in a 200 degree oven for approximately 15 minutes. Or until all of the pieces are liquid. Then remove the pan VERY CAREFULLY as it is all liquid and can spill very easily. I love this part because it is so deceiving. I would look at one in the pan and think “Yuck that one just turned out an ugly brown!” or “Those colors didn’t melt well together!” But then when I popped them out the front was a wonderful marbled array of vibrant color. When removing them, keep in mind that the cooler they are the easier they come out. If some are stubborn you can stick them in the freezer for awhile to help the process.

Finally attach it to a card or put it in a cute Valentine’s Day bag. I made a card that says “Hope You Have a Fantastic Valentine’s Day for CRAYON Out Loud!” Then used a little hot glue to adhere the crayon to the card and had Jonah sign them. How adorable! My printable is available here!

We hope you have a fantastic Valentine’s Day full of LOVE!

For another great Valentine’s Day Card idea check out: VALENTINE’S DAY ROCKETS

Pumpkin Oatmeal Scotchies

October 23, 2013 By Megan@CrumbsandChaos 3 Comments

Growing up whenever my dad made cookies he would add a little something extra, either in the form of a chip or a nut. But RARELY was it chocolate chips. He’s just not a huge chocolate fan. Usually it was walnuts or butterscotch chips. So Oatmeal Scotchies were a cookie that we had quite often. I always loved the butterscotch flavor that was added to the soft oatmeal cookie. Recently when looking around on pinterest I saw these Pumpkin Oatmeal Scotchies. They were just like I remember from childhood with the added goodness of pumpkin. I figured I couldn’t go wrong and that was correct. The pumpkin kept them soft and moist and the combo of pumpkin and butterscotch was outstanding. They made about 4 dozen, so they are perfect for a class treat or party.

Pumpkin Oatmeal Scotchies

Ingredients

2 cups FLOUR
1 teaspoon BAKING SODA
1/2 teaspoon SALT
1 teaspoon PUMPKIN PIE SPICE
1/2 teaspoon CINNAMON
1 cup BUTTER, slightly softened
3/4 cup SUGAR
3/4 cup BROWN SUGAR
2 EGGS
1 cup PUMPKIN PUREE
1 Tablespoon VANILLA
3 cups OATMEAL, I used old fashioned oats
1 (11 ounce) package BUTTERSCOTCH CHIPS

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375° F. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, pumpkin pie spice, and cinnamon in small bowl. In a large bowl beat butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, pumpkin puree and vanilla until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in oatmeal and butterscotch chips. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto parchment lined baking sheets. Bake for approx. 9 minutes. Cool cookies on baking sheets for 2 minutes before you remove to wire racks to cool completely. ENJOY!

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Biscoff Oatmeal Blondies

October 1, 2013 By Becca@CrumbsandChaos 8 Comments

This easy dessert is a great lunch box treat -

Biscoff Oatmeal Blondies are full of cinnamon chips and chocolate!

I, for one, love a nice fudge-y brownie. I also adore brownie’s cousin, the blondie, which is a bar with the texture of a brownie that doesn’t have any chocolate in it’s basic batter.

One weekend I was looking for a lunch box treat and decided to make these blondies. I switched up the add-ins based on what I had in my overflowing pantry and they were incredible. I mean, really, you can’t go wrong with Biscoff spread, cinnamon chips and chocolate. My 8 year old loved these and kept asking for one everyday until they were gone. These are a winner and this recipe is on the must-make-again-soon list. So good!

Biscoff Oatmeal Blondies

A quick bar dessert that has a texture like a brownie and is full of Biscoff, oatmeal, cinnamon chips and chocolate!

Ingredients

1/2 cup BUTTER, softened
1 cup BROWN SUGAR
1/2 cup BISCOFF SPREAD
2 EGGS
2 teaspoons VANILLA
2 teaspoons BAKING POWDER
1/2 teaspoon SALT
1 1/2 cups FLOUR
1/2 cup OATMEAL
3/4 cup HERSHEY'S BAKING MELTS (or chocolate chips)
1 cup CINNAMON CHIPS
3/4 cup WHITE BAKING CHIPS

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°. Line a 9x13 pan with foil and lightly grease.
Beat together butter and brown sugar. Add in biscoff spread, eggs and vanilla; mix well. Slowly add the baking powder, salt, flour and oatmeal, mix until just combined. Stir in chips.
Spread into prepared pan and bake for 20-22 minutes. Be careful not to over bake these and let them cool completely before cutting into bars.

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Biscoff Goodness from friends…

Cookie Butter Pretzel Dip from Lemon Tree Dwelling

Biscoff Filled Brownie Bites from Lemons for Lulu

Biscoff Muddy Buddies from Chef In Training

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Candy Bar Apple Dip

September 7, 2013 By Becca@CrumbsandChaos 27 Comments

This light and fluffy, 4 ingredient dessert dip is perfect for fall’s fresh, crisp apples -

Candy Bar Apple Dip - you’re gonna love it!

Two years ago I was introduced to this fabulous caramel apple dip - it’s always the hit of the party and a cinch to make. And thanks to Pinterest, one of our most viewed recipes ever – rightly so, the stuff is amazing. So think of this Candy Bar Apple Dip as the Caramel Apple Dip’s Sophisticated Older Sister…

I was heading to a birthday party and taking along some freshly picked apples. I had planned on making the regular classic caramel apple dip (I didn’t have the caramel but was going to use dulce de leche), but all of a sudden decided to switch things up a bit. This version turned into something completely incredible. There’s only 4 (yep – 4!) ingredients and it is light and silky. Best of all – you can use your favorite candy bar! I had Butterfingers on hand, but can’t wait to make this again with Snickers, Heath, Milky Way…the sky’s really the limit here.

So take this to your next get together, put it on the menu for your fall or Halloween party, it would totally rock your next game day spread and don’t be surprised if you end up wanting to shove your entire face in the bowl…I almost did.

Candy Bar Apple Dip

A dessert dip that pairs beautifully with apples. Use your favorite candy bar in this recipe for Candy Bar Apple Dip and try not to eat the entire bowl yourself!

Ingredients

8 oz. CREAM CHEESE, room temperature
1 13.4 oz. can of DULCE DE LECHE*
1 cup HEAVY WHIPPING CREAM*
6 FUN SIZE CANDY BARS (choose your favorite - I used Butterfingers), roughly chopped

Instructions

Beat cream cheese until smooth. Add dulce de leche by the spoonful and continue mixing until well combined - you will probably need to scrape the sides of the bowl. Set aside.
Whip cream until stiff peaks form. Gently fold into cream cheese mixture until fully incorporated.
Add chopped candy bars and chill until serving with fresh apple slices*.

Notes

*Dulce de leche can be found at most grocery stores in the Hispanic foods section. It's a thick caramel made from sweetened condensed milk. You could also make your own.

*I had whipping cream on hand so that's what I used in this recipe. You could also try using Cool Whip in it's place.

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More Dessert Dips to love…

Honey Pecan Baked Brie Dip from Something Swanky

S’mores Cheesecake Dip from Shugary Sweets

Apple Brickle Dip from Kitchen Meets Girl

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Oatmeal Berry Bites

September 2, 2013 By Megan@CrumbsandChaos 7 Comments

Just over a year ago, my husband and I purchased our first house. Not long after moving in, a new magazine showed up in my mailbox. It is called KIWI Magazine, it was one that I had never heard of and didn’t ever remember subscribing to. Nevertheless it has arrived at my house, addressed to me, about 6 times per year. It is a magazine that focuses on growing families and natural/organic foods and products. I always find an interesting tidbit of information or an informative article that I enjoy. This time, I found a recipe for these Oatmeal Berry Bites, a healthy and filling snack that was pretty simple to make. It was kind of like an alternative to a muffin. A lot more dense and little less cake-like. A little more filling and a lot less sugar. It uses whole wheat flour and oatmeal with pure maple syrup as the sweetener. It originally called for raspberries and blueberries but I only had blueberries available so that’s all I used. We especially loved the bites that included a juicy blueberry! Made in individual cups makes it easy to grab and go for breakfast or the perfect after school snack to tide them over til dinner.

Oatmeal Berry Bites

Ingredients

2 cups OATMEAL
1 cup WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR
1 teaspoon BAKING POWDER
1 teaspoon CINNAMON
3/4 teaspoon SALT
1/2 cup PURE MAPLE SYRUP
1/4 cup BUTTER, melted and cooled slightly
2 EGGS
1 teaspoon VANILLA
1 cup BLUEBERRIES

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare 12-muffin tin with papers or grease with cooking spray. In a large bowl whisk together dry ingredients. In a medium bowl, whisk together wet ingredients. Add wet ingredients to dry and stir until just moistened. Add berries and stir gently to combine. Divide batter evenly among prepared muffin tins and bake for 20 minutes. Allow to cool in pan for 5 minutes before removing to wire rack. ENJOY!!!

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M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies

August 29, 2013 By Becca@CrumbsandChaos 10 Comments

Everyone loves cookies – our family is crazy for these M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies - they bake up beautifully thick and soft. Studded with mini chocolate chips to ensure chocolate goodness in every bite! P.S. I realize Meg just shared cookies last week, but these were too good to not share right away!

Back in our pre-marriage days, I remember my husband always choosing M&M cookies over chocolate chip only cookies. Anytime we got cookies at Subway or someone had one of those variety cookie packages from the local grocery store bakery, M&M was his choice. I realized somewhere in there how much I liked them as well, such a good M&M eating pair we ~~were~~ still are

Lately I’ve had a problem with cookies in general…no matter how closely I follow the directions by chilling etc. they still spread out so much. It’s ridiculous and it makes me not want to try any more new recipes and just stick with the family favorites – like Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies or Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. This recipe uses a little bit of shortening along with chilling time to keep them from spreading much and the brown sugar and cornstarch keep them thick and soft.

These cookies are absolutely worth making sure you have the out of the ordinary ingredients like bread flour and cornstarch on hand (use the rest of the bread flour to make your own pizza dough or cinnamon rolls). I loved the addition of mini chocolate chips – there was chocolate in every.single.bite! That’s just personal preference, so use what you like. These cookies are pretty good size, feel free to add M&Ms to your liking as well. You need to chill these before baking, mix them up tomorrow night and let them chill overnight and bake them in the morning to have fresh, delicious cookies all holiday weekend long! You’re welcome.

M&M Chocolate Chip Cookies

A sensational M&M Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe - perfectly thick, soft and studded with mini chocolate chips.

Ingredients

1 cup BUTTER, softened
1/4 cup SHORTENING
1 1/2 cups BROWN SUGAR
1/4 cup GRANULATED SUGAR
2 EGGS
1 EGG YOLK
1 1/2 Tablespoons VANILLA
2 cups ALL-PURPOSE FLOUR
2 cups BREAD FLOUR
2 Tablespoons CORNSTARCH
2 teaspoons BAKING SODA
1 teaspoon KOSHER SALT
1 1/2 cups MINI CHOCOLATE CHIPS
M&M CANDIES

Instructions

Beat together butter, shortening and sugars using a stand or electric mixer until fluffy and light in color. Add eggs, yolk and vanilla; continue beating until well combined.
Stir together flours, cornstarch, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl. Add to the butter mixture and stir until just combined.
Stir in chocolate chips. Cover and chill for at least 6 hours or up to 2 days.
Time to bake: Preheat oven to 350°. Line your baking sheets with a Silpat liner or parchment paper.
Form balls with about 2 Tablespoons of dough. Place on cookie sheet and press down slightly to flatten. Press M&Ms into each cookie dough ball, use as many as you like.
Bake 10-11 minutes, until edges are lightly golden. Allow to cool on baking sheet for 5-10 minutes before removing to cool on wire rack.

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Quick Pizza Snacks with Kraft String Cheese {and a Giveaway}

August 22, 2013 By Becca@CrumbsandChaos 43 Comments

String cheese and snack time go together like peanut butter and jelly, biscuits and gravy, waffles and syrup…you get the picture. Did you know? Kraft (or PollyO as it’s known in some parts of the country) has come on the scene with exciting new string cheese varieties that are packed with flavor. These are great for adventurous eaters and adults alike. The new flavors include – Tomato Basil, Jalapeno and Cracked Black Pepper – all three have 6 grams of protein and will help keep you satisfied until your next meal.

The start of a new school year comes with the hustle and bustle, changes in schedule and moments of insane craziness. Kraft String Cheese is a great choice for lunches or as a snack to grab and go, as well as enjoy at home to make a tasty after school snack. In every bag of specially marked Kraft/PollyO String Cheese are coupons worth over $12 in savings on products like Crystal Light, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Kraft Natural Cheese and some of your family’s favorite magazines. These offers will last through mid-September to help make the transition to the busy fall season a little more enjoyable.

I used one of Kraft’s new String Cheese flavors to make a quick pizza snack. We loved the flavor of the jalapeno for this snack, but the tomato basil would be equally delicious. Serve with fresh fruit for a ideal snack that will have you full and happy until dinnertime.

Quick Pizza Snacks

Ingredients

7 CRACKERS or PITA CHIPS (use your favorite)
4 slices PEPPERONI, halved
1 KRAFT STRING CHEESE - TOMATO BASIL or JALAPENO, cut on an angle into 8 pieces
4 CHERRY TOMATOES, halved

Instructions

Place crackers or pita chips on a microwave safe plate. Top each with half a slice of pepperoni and one piece of cheese (use the two end cheese pieces on the same cracker)
Microwave for 30-45 seconds until cheese is melted. Top with halved cherry tomatoes and serve immediately.

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GIVEAWAY TIME!

You can enter to win the prize pack pictured above ($100 value):

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Insulated To-Go Kit

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13-Pocket Coupon File

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What’s your favorite after school/mid day snack?

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Giveaway will end Thursday August 29th at 12 noon. Winner will be notified by email and has 48 hours to respond.

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