Pizza Balls

I ran across this awesome recipe a while back and had to share. I changed the words below a bit, I had lots of people wanting to know what to do with the sauce so I've now added that to the recipe. 

I'll add my own photo soon!!


ENJOY!!!

PIZZA BALLS!

3 cans of Buttermilk Biscuits
Pepperoni slices
Block of your chosen of Cheese
1 beaten egg
Parmesan
Italian seasoning
Garlic powder
1 jar pizza sauce


Cut up the block of cheese into squares.
Flatten biscuits out & stack pepperoni and cheese in the middle.
Gather the edges of the biscuit and secure on top.
Lay the rolls in a greased pan.
Brush with beaten egg.
Sprinkle with Parmesan Cheese, Italian seasoning and/or garlic powder.
Bake at 425°F for about 20 minutes or until Golden Brown
Use the Pizza Sauce to dip your Pizza balls into!

EAT UP!!!!


Recipe found at The Gunny Sack

Strawberry Snake

Strawberry Snake!

What you'll need

• SHORTCAKE BISCUITS:
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup margarine (1 stick)
• 1 cup milk
• STRAWBERRY FILLING:
• 1 quart strawberries
• 4 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
• WHIPPED CREAM TOPPING:
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
• GARNISHES:
• 4 whole strawberries
• Green fruit leather
• Mini chocolate chips or M&M's

1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl. Cut in the margarine with a pastry cutter. Or use a vegetable grater to grate the stick into the mixing bowl and let your kids take turns blending the margarine into the dry ingredients with their fingertips. Once the dough is crumbly, slowly stir in the milk.

2. Turn out the dough onto a floured working surface and gently roll or pat the dough into a 1-inch-thick rectangle (it should measure about 6 x 8 inches). For the best results, handle the dough as little as possible.

3. Slice the rectangle into four 1-1/2- x 8-inch strips. Place the strips on an ungreased baking sheet, then let your child mold and curve them into S shapes that resemble snakes. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until the bottoms are golden brown. Transfer the baked shortcakes to a wire rack (a parent's job) and let cool. Carefully slice the cooled shortcakes in half lengthwise or split them with a fork and then set aside.

4. Wash the strawberries and let your kids select four to use for the snakes' heads. Slice the rest of the berries lengthwise into a mixing bowl. Toss with the confectioners' sugar and let stand while you prepare the whipped cream.

5. Combine the whipping cream and confectioners' sugar in a chilled bowl and beat with an electric or hand mixer until stiff peaks form.

6. Just before serving, arrange berries on the bottom half of each shortcake, then cover with the shortcake top. Spread on whipped cream and add a layer of sliced strawberry "scales."

7. For the snakes' heads, cut mouth openings in the tips of the whole berries and place one at the end of each shortcake. Press a pair of mini chocolate chip or M&M's eyes into the sides of each head and add a forked tongue cut from green fruit leather. Serves 4.

Cake Ball Flag Cake

 


Step 1--> Heat oven to 350°F. Make and bake cake mix as directed on box for 13x9-inch pan, using water, oil and eggs. Cool completely, about 1 hour.

Step 2--> Line cookie sheet with waxed paper. Crumble cake into large bowl. Add frosting; mix well. Using 1-inch scoop, shape mixture into balls; place on cookie sheet. Freeze about 45 minutes or until firm. When firm, transfer to refrigerator.

Step 3--> In 1-quart microwavable bowl, microwave red candy melts uncovered on High 1 minute 30 seconds; stir. Continue microwaving and stirring in 15-second increments until melted and smooth.

Step 4--> Remove a few balls from refrigerator at a time. Using 2 forks, dip and roll 1 ball at a time in red coating. Return to cookie sheet; immediately sprinkle with red sugar crystals. Dip a total of 28 cake balls in red coating.

Step 5--> Repeat melting instructions for white candy melts. Dip a total of 23 cake balls in white coating; immediately sprinkle with sparkling sugar.

Step 6--> Repeat melting instructions for blue candy melts. Dip remaining 12 cake balls in blue coating; immediately sprinkle with blue sugar crystals. Refrigerate all coated cake balls about 10 minutes or until set.

Step 7--> On serving tray, arrange cake balls in flag pattern in 7 rows, starting from the bottom: 1 row of 9 red balls, 1 row of 9 white balls, 1 more row of 9 red balls, 1 more row of 9 white balls, 1 row of 4 blue balls and 5 red balls, 1 row of 4 blue balls and 5 white balls, and 1 more row of 4 blue balls and 5 red balls. Store tightly covered. Serve at room temperature.

Recipe found at www.bettycrocker.com

Quick and Healthy Summer Snacks for Young Kids Cont.

 Quick and Healthy Summer Snacks for Young Kids Cont.

 

Nutella fairy bread recipe

Ingredients:

• 6 slices of bread of your choice
• 1/2 cup Nutella
• 100's and 1000's

Directions:

Spread each slice of bread generously with Nutella.

Press slices face down into 100's and 1000's.

Slice into triangles or use cookie cutters.

Mini hotdogs recipe

Mini hotdogs are perfect party fare and you can have these made for the kids in no time. Here we give you tips on taking these to the park for a party!

Prep Time:

10 minutes

Cook Time:

10 minutes

Ingredients:

• 2 pkts of bake at home rolls (12 rolls total)
• 12 mini frankfurts
• squeezy bottle tomato sauce
• squeezy bottle mild mustard

Method:

Bake rolls as per package directions. Split down the center.

Place frankfurts into cold water and gently warm without bringing to the boil.

Drain and place inside buns.

Squeeze sauce over just before serving.

Notes:

• I like to put a saucer in the pan to keep the frankfurts immersed because it is when they hit the cold air that they split.
• If you are going to the park for a picnic you can pour boiling water over the uncooked frankfurts in a thermos and let them sit while you re-boil the kettle. Then drain and cover with boiling water again and seal until you are ready to serve.
• I then place the split rolls in a plastic bag and heat them in the microwave for 1-2 minutes and then wrap the bag in tea towel to keep warm.
• When you get to the park you have warm rolls with hot frankfurts in the thermos and you can serve them up easily. Don’t forget the paper plates and napkins.

 

Pizza Roll-Up Bento Lunch

This easy pizza-inspired roll-up is a kid-pleaser. Make crunchy vegetables more appealing by selecting colorful varieties like orange and purple cauliflower—and don't forget the dip! Keep 'em smiling with watermelon cut into fun shapes with cookie cutters. Along with a few cookies for desert!
You can also do a Ham-and-Cheese Roll up by laying out one or 2 pieces of ham, add a slice of cheese on top of the ham. Then put one more slice of ham on top to hold the cheese in place. Then starting at one side, roll it up. You can serve these whole or cut them to make them more bite-size!




Recipes found at www.kidszone.com , www.eatingwell.com and my kitchen!

Quick and Healthy Summer Snacks for Young Kids

Quick, Easy and Healthy Summer Snacks
for Young Children

A quick, healthy snack for you kids! It's Summer time! What parent wants to slave over a stove in the middle of the day to make their children snacks thru-out the day, Or giving them those Rubbery microwaveable snacks? I was on a mission and searched the web to find some quick and healthy snacks for parents to give to their kids. Below are a few that I've found. I will be posting more soon!

Blueberry-Banana Stacks

These tiny little beauties are so adorable and so yummy! They are also very easy to make! I'm sure they would be a hit, not only for a quick snack for you kids, but at Parties as well! Kids parties and Adult parties.  The Popcorn cakes are very light and make perfect bottoms for the yummy toppings!

Ingredients

• 6 mini chocolate, caramel, or berry-flavored popcorn cakes
• 1 - 2 tablespoons strawberry-flavored cream cheese
• 6 banana slices
• 6 fresh blueberries

Directions

Spread cakes with cream cheese and top with banana slices. If desired, dollop with additional cream cheese and top with a blueberry. Serves 2.

Polka-Dot Waffle Sticks

Ingredients

• 2 square, whole grain waffles
• 1 teaspoon reduced fat cream cheese
• 1 teaspoon blackberry, raspberry, and/or apricot jelly

Directions

Toast waffles and cut into 6 sticks. Spread each stick with cream cheese and use a spoon or squeeze bottle to dot sticks with jelly. Serves 2.

Strawberry PB Crepes

Ingredients

• 1 9 inch store-bought crepe (such as Melissa's)
• 2 tablespoons peanut butter
• 1/4 cup chopped strawberries

Directions

Spread crepes with peanut butter and sprinkle with strawberries. Roll up crepes, trim off ends, and cut log into 1-inch slices. Serves 2.

SNACK ART

Much like an arts and crafts project, making a snack can become an after-school activity. The bonus: Kids get to eat their artwork, and you get to sneak nutritious foods into their diet.

Create a work of art using a few of the following ingredients:

•The Foundation Celery, carrots, zucchini or cucumbers cut into sticks or rounds; banana, apple or pineapple slices; melon balls; lettuce leaves; or orange sections

•The Cement Peanut butter, cream cheese, cheese spread, yogurt, jam, pizza sauce or ranch dressing

•The Decorations Seeds, nuts, grapes, raisins, olives, frozen peas or beans.

Lay out the materials and give each child plastic utensils and a plate "canvas." Suggest that they build sharks, monsters, cars, flowers, or have them write their names.

TIP: This makes a great birthday party activity.

WIGGLE WORMS

Ingredients 

• Fruit, such as grapes, melon, bananas or strawberries, cut into bite-size pieces
• Pretzel sticks
• Chocolate sprinkles

DirectionsSpear about four pieces of fruit onto each pretzel, as if making a kebab, to create the worms. Leave a tip at the end for the tail. Parents, you can "pre-spear" the fruit if need be.

Join 2 worms with a piece of fruit to make a longer creepy-crawler.

Use sprinkles to make the eyes, spots and/or tiny feet.

COLD-CUT PUZZLER

Enjoy Some Lunch Time Puzzle Fun!

• Start by making a sandwich with ham and cheese (or other sandwich meat).
• Cut the sandwich into a variety of different shapes in different sizes
• Separate the shapes & mix them up on your child's lunch plate.
• Have her rebuild the sandwich by putting the puzzle back together before she eats it.

Recipes From www.parents.com and www.familyfun.go.com

My Lazy Day

Yesterday was such a lazy day for me! I mostly just laid around the house doing nothing at all. I did get to do a small Photo Shoot though. One of my friends is going through a custody battle over her step-daughter. She needs pictures of Hope, her step-daughter, playing with her friends and being happy. The pictures are going to be shown in court. My daughters and a couple more of Hope's friends came over and I pretty much followed them around, snapping pictures. I'm very happy with how the pictures look on my computer. Now I'm just waiting on the finished product to show up in my mail! I just love getting pictures in the mail! It makes me excited! I'll be sure to let everyone know how the prints turn out.
Ohhhh~~Before I forget.... I have updated my prices for my Photo Shoots. The package prices have all changed along with a new package being added.I have also added a couple of other things as well. The prices are posted on my website ~ Check it out!!~ www.AutumnBphotography.weebly.com
*I'll be adding more pictures to my site very soon. I've been very busy and have gotten a bit behind!*

Here is one of the shots I got yesterday!