Reese's Fudge - Guest Post

Today my 11yr. old daughter is posting for me. One of her assignments this week was to write a "how to..." article. Since she loves to cook, she picked out a new recipe to try. She took all the photos, uploaded everything and did the whole post herself. It was a win-win situation for me. I got to eat chocolate and have a new blog post posted :)

Reese's Fudge

What you will need is:
one can (14 ounce) sweetened condensed milk
1 bag of Reese peanut butter chips
vanilla
1 bag of Nestle chocolate chips
8 inch pan
small bowl
wax paper

Line the 8 inch pan with wax paper.

In the small bowl, microwave peanut butter chips mixed with 2/3 cup of condensed milk and a 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla on high for 1-1 1/2 min. Spread evenly over wax paper in pan.

Repeat with chocolate chips the instructions above. Spread evenly over peanut butter mixture.

Refrigerate until firm. Then cut into squares and serve. Refrigerate leftovers.



-- P.S. They tasted so good there were no leftovers!

Don't forget to add your favorite Christmas recipes in the recipe McLinky. When you do, you could win a custom cookie recipe book!

Craft & Cookie Party

Last year I hosted a craft and cookie party at my house for my older daughter and her friends. I wanted my daughter to be able to hang out with her friends and create something that they could give away to neighbors. The craft and cookie party ended up working fabulously!

Materials:
cookie totes or shirt boxes
craft supplies
snacks
cookies
camera

On the invitation I had each girl only bring 1 dozen cookies. I didn't want it to be too much for anyone so I actually baked several dozen cookies to add to what they brought. Depending on how many boxes you want each girl to bring home, plan on each participant bringing 1 dozen cookies per take-home box. So if each guest brings home 3 boxes, they should bring at least 3 dozen cookies.

I chose two crafts to have ready at the party. The first craft was a gingerbread man foam ornament. We taped the ornament on the boxes to give to the neighbors. Note: Use glue-dots to attach the foam pieces if there isn't enough time to let glue dry.

The second craft was Snowman Charm Bracelet Craft Kit (1 dz) This craft was for the girls to be able to bring home for themselves or give as a gift.

The girls then split into two groups. One group filled half the boxes of cookies while the others worked on the ornaments. Then they switched. Once the boxes were filled and the ornaments were drying, all the girls worked on their bracelets and ate snacks together. They got to hang out, create and share. Each girl brought home three boxes of cookies--one to keep and two to give away. It was a fun time.



This week on Making Christmas Meaningful we're spotlighting recipes. So if you have a favorite Christmas recipe, blog about it and post it in the blog-hop. Also, don't forget to enter the recipe book give-away!

I've also extended the dates of the previous Making Christmas Meaningful blog-hops. If you have a blog post talking about the following Christmas topics, please add your links.

MCM: Organization
MCM: Christmas Books, Music and Movies
MCM:Christmas Crafts
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Digital supplies used for the invitation:
A Colorful Christmas by Mindy Terasawa
Gingerbread Lane by Pattie Knox

Favorite Christmas Recipes and a Give-Away

Last year a group of ladies from the Designer Digitals creative team collaborated on a cookie recipe album. We each designed a digital layout of our favorite Christmas cookie recipe and compiled the pages into a photo-book. The book is gorgeous! I handed several out as Christmas/hostess gifts last year and they were so well-received. Since this week's Making Christmas Meaningful theme is Christmas Recipes, I thought this book would make a perfect give-away. So I'll be sending one reader a copy of the Doubly Delicious Cookies recipe book--just in time for Christmas. [note: If you only see a big white space after this sentence, you're missing out on seeing the book. :) I'm not sure you'll be able to view in a reader. Visit Spell Outloud to view.]

Click here to view this photo book larger

I've also extended the dates of the previous Making Christmas Meaningful blog-hops. If you have a blog post talking about the following Christmas topics, please add your links.

MCM: Organization
MCM: Christmas Books, Music and Movies
MCM:Christmas Crafts

and add your Christmas Recipe links below. Please remember to post the perma-link to the blog post, not a link to your main page.

Give-Away Rules: **CLOSED**
1. Subscribe to my blog (or follow via Google Friends Connect/Networked Blogs) and let me know by leaving a comment here for one entry.

2. (optional) Twitter or blog about this giveaway and let me know by leaving a link in the comment section below for an additional entry.

3. (optional) Link up a blog post in the recipe blog hop. After you post the link on McLinky, come back to this post and leave a comment letting me know added one.

Total of 3 possible entries per person. You must leave a comment for each entry.

This giveaway is open from November 22 - December 5. A winner will be chosen at random and the winner will be posted on Sunday, December 6.

Please make sure there is some way I can contact you :) If the winner does not respond after 3 days, then I'll draw another winner.