Chonky Boys: The Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches that Scream Summer!

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Featuring my thick and nuggy Chonky Boy Chocolate Chip Cookies, these ice cream sandwiches are the stuff that summer dreams are made of.  If you've ever had the Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich at Disneyland , you are going to LOVE these!  These big and bold chocolate chip cookies are based on a recipe from my culinary school studies at Auguste Escoffier, but with a few modifications to give them that Jennuine touch.  They make the perfectas book for a fat slice of real vanilla bean ice cream.  And those mini chips?  You just gotta have that extra cronch! Thank goodness this recipe only makes 8 sandwiches, otherwise I would be eating them for breakfast lunch and dinner.  This way, my big family can help save me from my inner child diet-saboteur.   Print With Image Without Image Chonky Boy Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches Yield: 8 Author: Jenn Erickson Loaded with chocolate chips and buttery, brown-sugary vanilla flavor, these mall-sized cookies form a perfect partnership with a

The Punk Skunk Costume


There's certainly no shortage of adorable Halloween costumes to buy or make for babies, toddlers, and kids under 8. Somewhere between the cute and fuzzy stage of the early years and the "You're not leaving the house wearing that!" stage of the tween and teen years, is the unfamiliar territory I found myself wading through last year when my daughter hit 4th grade.  

Cute and fuzzy was out.
Cool, original and clever were in demand.
Fortunately, we found a way to combine them all:
--The "Punk" Skunk--



This costume is easy, affordable, warm, comfortable!
9 out of 10 pre-tweeners agree:  "It doesn't STINK!"



PUNK SKUNK COSTUME

Materials:
Black Velour hoodie*
White Faux Fur**
Piece of cardboard to stiffen the "mohawk"
Glue gun
Punk inspired clothes
Face Paint (black, white, pink)
Create a mohawk piece by wrapping and hot-gluing a piece of cardboard (cut to the desired shape) with white faux fur.  Hot glue the mohawk in place on the hood of the sweatshirt.  Continue to glue a strip of white faux fur all the way down the back of the sweatshirt, and allow it to extend a foot or two beyond the sweatshirt for the tail.

Pull together a punk-inspired outfit from your child's wardrobe or from a trip to a local thrift store.  Add a little face paint and you're ready to go!

*We found our black hoodie at Target for $12.99
** We purchased the faux fur at Michael's.

What is your pre-tweener wearing this Halloween?

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