American Flag Cake

Since this weekend is the 4th of July, I thought I would share a cake a made last year {or the year before? I can't remember...} 

So simple to make and it just looks so cute!

 




Anyone have any big plans for the weekend? 

Our town does the fireworks on the 3rd of July {I really have no idea why, but they do!} and we are heading over to a friends house for a BBQ and to watch the fireworks! Should be fun! {At least until the fireworks start. My 3 year old is petrified of them. She still talks about not liking the fireworks from LAST year! LOL. I have a feeling I will be sitting in the house with her during the show!}

Chocolate Cups- FAIL

So as I was browsing Bakerella one day, I saw these.

Chocolate Cups. 

I fell in love. I wanted them. NOW. 

I mean, how cute and simple. You melt some chocolate, blow up some balloons and the dip the balloon in chocolate. 

O.M.G. 

I don't know what I did wrong but HOLY COW this did NOT work out for me!

Dipped one balloon and POP. 

You do not want to know what happens when a balloon covered in melted chocolate pops. I should have taken a picture.  Lets just say, I had to change my clothes, wash my face and my hair and scrub my entire kitchen- ceiling included.

OK- chocolate must have been too hot. Let's try again.

Let the chocolate cool some and dipped the next balloon.

Nothing! Woot! I am going to have chocolate bowls!

NOT!

5 seconds after I placed it on the wax paper POP. 

OK now I am pissed. This should be an easy project.

Try again.

NO pop!

And again, NO pop!

FINALLY getting the hang of it!

Dip- POP!

Dip- POP

I can honestly say that it is a good thing my girls were napping because quite a few curse words came out of my mouth at this point.

And I gave up.

Forget it. No more chocolate bowls, this is insane and my kitchen now looks like a chocolate person was murdered in it. Chocolate was EVERYWHERE. And I am still finding chocolate splatter in places I swore I cleaned already.

Since I had chocolate melted already, I quickly slapped some peanut butter on some Ritz crackers and dipped those.

{See the splatter- multiply that by 1000 and that is what my kitchen looked like}

But, at least I had 2 chocolate bowls. Sam would be happy, right?

WRONG!

This is what happened when I tried to pop the balloons...

My bowls imploded and broke.

I can honestly say I will NEVER try making these again. NE-VER.

 

Birds Nest Treats

I have been seeing these all around Blogland lately and I just thought they were too cute!

So of course, I had to make them too!

I just kind of combined what other people did to make mine!

I used a bag of chocolate chips- my bag was actually a mixture of chocolate chips and peanut butter chips.

1 bag of Chow Mien Noodles

And for the eggs I used Reese's PB Eggs {YUM}

Melt the chocolate in the microwave and then mix in the bag of noodles. Once it is all mixed up, take big spoonfuls and place them on wax paper and then stick a couple eggs on top. {notice the one on the bottom row with noodles not coated in chocolate? Yeah- my 3 year old thought it needed some more noodles so she put them on for me. Isn't she a great helper? LOL}

Once I had mine all made, I put them in the fridge for a few minutes to get hard.

My daughter had a blast putting all the eggs on these! {hence the reason some of the eggs have chocolate spots- she kept finding "better" spots to put the eggs after it was down!}

After they set in the fridge, we {I} wrapped them up in some tulle and tied them with a bow!

Cute huh?

After I realized making these with Peanut Butter probably wasn't the best idea with all the allergies these days, but I just made sure to let the teacher know that they had Peanut Butter in them and to let all the parents know!

I was going to add a little tag to say who they were from, but I got lazy ran out of time!  We did these last night for her to bring to school today!