A Chocolatey Recipe

Hey, Hey, Hey!  How's everyone doing?  Hopefully everyone has been watching these amazing Olympics.  I don't know what I'm going to watch when it's over...What did I use to watch before it started??  Who knows.  Anyways, I wanted to bring to you an amazing and yummy and EASY recipe that my awesome mother in law brought to me back in December.  It is seriously addicting, so that's your warning.  You only need THREE ingredients.  That's it!!  And they are:

 
1. Box of Golden Grahams cereal
2. Peanuts
3. 1 whole bag of chocolate chips

Put the chocolate chips in a bowl (that can go in a microwave) and heat them up until they are nice and melted.  Stir it up real good.  Now add 4 cups of golden grahams into the bowl with the melted chocolate chips (or more if you want) and add in 1 cup of peanuts (or more or less-whatever you want!) And just mix it all up and make sure you get all the golden grahams all nice and coated with the chocolate.

Here's what it looks like after all mixed up.  Now get a cookie sheet and put some wax paper on it.  Spread out your mixture on the wax paper.

Place the cookie sheet in the refrigerator for about an hour so it hardens.  Take it out after an hour or so and start breaking it up into little pieces and place into a ziplock bag.  Voila!  You're done!

 

The thing I love about this recipe is that you can change it to anything that you like.  You can use dark chocolate or butterscotch chips.  You can use walnuts or pecans or no nuts at all.  It's your choice!

Hope you like.  I love this and it's so good when it's nice and cold.

~Kristine

A Pinterest Recipe

Hello everyone!

Wow, Sorry it's been so long since I have last posted.  Let me show you why...

Yes, I was having my little baby girl - Lola.  :)  She is such a precious and sweet little baby!  She was born on Sunday, January 29th at 6:48 a.m.  She was little - Only 5lbs 10oz!  And I was full term.  Scary delivery, but I'll chat about that on another post.  She is 8 weeks old today, so here is a more recent picture.

Ok, so enough about my cutie little baby! :)  The point of this post is to talk about a yummy little recipe I saw on Pinterest.  If you don't know what Pinterest is, then you have been living around a rock!  It's such an awesome website and you need to join if you haven't yet!

This recipe is called "No Bake Energy Bites" and I pinned it on Pinterest from this source.  Here are mine and the recipe is below.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup oatmeal (the old school oats)
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup flax seed
• 1/3 cup honey
• 1 tsp vanilla

*It says to add coconut flakes, but I chose not to since I hate coconut, but that is something you can add!

Directions:

Mix all ingredients in a bowl and refrigerate for 30 minutes then simply roll into little balls.  Should make around 20 balls or so, depending on how big or small you roll them.  Keep them refrigerated and enjoy!


*Another side note - you don't have to use chocolate chips.  You can substitute those for anything.  Chopped walnuts, almonds or maybe dried cranberries.  Anything you want! :)


I hope you enjoy and try them out!  I have a few other projects up my sleeve that I have been working on and will be sharing very soon!

Kristine