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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 cookie...

Happy Easter!
Show and Tell ~ Homemade Chocolate Bunnies and Treasure Box Eggs

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Happy Easter, friends! I hope you're enjoying the day and are feeling blessed! I haven't been online much lately.  At this time of year, I get especially kid-centered, so I've been spending extra time reading to my girls, snuggling, having adventures, and devising sweet surprises for them for Easter day.  Even though I'm juggling work and school into the mix, I'm grateful to have found the time to create some whimsical treats:  Solid Chocolate Bunnies and Polka Dot Chocolate Treasure Eggs...   I posted a tutorial a few years ago. I'll be adding a few tips and new techniques shortly.   (You can find the DIY post by clicking HERE ) I started by molding the egg halves and bunnies. I use the Wilton Easter Egg Candy Mold Set and a vintage bunny mold.  Then I filled the eggs with jellybeans and fuzzy chicks.  The small eggs got chenille chicks and the big egg (for my girls) contained plush chick finger p...

Easter Craft: How to Make a Pompom Sheep

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Inspired by my recent review of Adventures in Pompom Land I decided to take another crack at making some simple folk-art style sheep. Over the holidays I purchased a bundle of wool with the idea of transforming it into a flock for my table setting. I was less than pleased with the results (and ended up using the wool for another project). Working with homemade pompoms turned out to be so much easier! So quick and simple! In no time at all you can have your own precious flock of woolly little sheep and lambs!  Here's how: Easy Pompom Sheep Chunky yarn ( I used Homespun by Lion Brand , white) Piece of cardboard (3x5 for the sheep or 3x1.5 for the lamb) Packing tape Scissors Waxed twine Floral wire Black polymer clay tacky glue   Step 1:  Cut a cardboard rectangle to use as a form for making your pompom .  Laminate the c ardboard with packing tape so that it will slip easily out of the yarn . ...

How to Make Adorable Pompom Easter Chicks from Adventures in Pompom Land (DIY, Review & Giveaway)

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I LOVE making cute things! Do you LOVE making cute things?   If you're a fan of the sweet, the fuzzy, the soft, the cuddly, the diminutive and the adorable, You're going to LOVE Adventures in Pompom Land by Myko Diann Bocek (new this March from Lark Crafts )   Later in the post I'm going to show you how to make this sweet little chick.  At the end, you can enter to win your own copy of Adventures in Pompom Land . But first, let me tempt you with some of the other incredible step-by-step projects from Adventures in Pompom Land : Squeee...k!  Pompom Mouse Don't ewe love it? Pompom Lamb A Pompom Pony and A Huggable Hedgehog! There's an Elephant, Snowy Owl, Fox, Bunny and many more! Where does the cuteness end? (The last page of the book, page 128)    Spring Chick (adapted from the Yellow Chick & Bluebird projects in Adventures in Pompom Land )   100% wool yarn...

Buttery Citrus Shortbread -- Cottontail Cookies

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These bite-sized citrus cookies are like a little taste of springtime!   The simple butter cookie dough is brighte ned with the flav ors of lemon, lime, and orange zest.  A toss in fresh squeezed lemon juice and powdered sugar gives them a perfect sweet-tart balance and nifty little glaze. This recipe is as prolific as a warren of rollicking rabbits, but don't be fooled.  They're as quick to disappear as their namesakes.   Citrus Cottontail Cookies (makes approx. 200) 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour, plus more for surface 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt Zest* of one lemon Zest of one small orange Zest of one lime 4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened 1 cup granulated sugar 1 large egg 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract juice of 1/2 a lemon 1 cup powdered sugar, sifted 2 parchment lined baking sheets 1 strainer or colander *microplane grater for zesting is recommended Step ...