Sad, but true. I find the summer time to be a much more challenging time to eat healthy than any other time of year, including Halloween, Christmas and Easter. It's birthdays, barbecues and beaches... and a whole lot of belly-aching! Having said that, here are a few of the fabulous sugar concoctions that have graced my palette recently. All of them tasted fabulous and were really not to much work to make.
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Sparklers!
These were easy, but only because I remembered to use metal when melting my white chocolate chips and not plastic! Yeah My chocolate did not seize up! The red and blue sprinkles made these pretzels a really fun Fourth of July food.
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Yum! Yum! And more Yum! (p.s Don't plan on eating any dinner before you have this cake. It's a doozy!) My friend found this recipe at the Duggar family website. It is an easy recipe that will wow any crowd without stressing you out!
LAYERED ICE CREAM CAKE
Makes a 9”x 13” Pan
24 Ice cream sandwiches
8 oz. Cool Whip™
1 Hershey’s™ chocolate syrup bottle
1 Smuckers™ caramel syrup bottle
2 king size Butterfinger™ candy bars chopped up
1st layer -12 ice cream sandwiches
2nd – half of whipped cream
3rd - half of Butterfinger™ bars, Squeeze 1/2 of caramel &
chocolate over that.
4th - rest of ice cream sandwiches
5th – Cool Whip™
6th - rest of Butterfinger™, caramel & chocolate
You can freeze this and eat as desired! Yummy! Yummy!
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So Ryan hit the big Three - Two on Saturday with a request for chocolate cake. With the intention of pleasing I took the chocolate theme to the extreme and whipped up this bad boy for him. Sure, we are still shaking a little from the sucrose rush, but it is all smiles over here and there were no complaints about this Sugary-Show-Down. I made a whipped chocolate frosting (that was about an inch thick on the top!) The inside cake layers were held together by this frosting and some of the extra-fudgey store bought kind. I inserted Mini Reses Peanut Butter cups on the side and M&M's on the top. The whole thing was then topped off using the old cake decorating tools and some more of that extra fudge frosting. Delicious! This was served with a side of Peanut Butter Cup ice cream. Oh yeah! I thought that I might die in my sleep last night, but I lived to tell the tale, and I even had more today.
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