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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 cookies form a perfect partnership with a
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Movie Magic: Oz the Great & Powerful Inspired Headbands ~ Glinda & Evanora
#DisneyOzMovie

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Disclaimer:  This is a sponsored post.  However, all ideas and opinions are genuine and my own.  I hope you will enjoy my original craft project. My family enjoyed Disney's OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL when we saw it in the theater back in March. We were enchanted by the vividly beautiful sets and costumes that made the magical land of Oz come alive before our eyes. It was a treat to revisit the magic of Oz this past weekend with an advanced copy of the OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL Blue-ray Combo Pack and HD Digital . During our second "adventure" in the land of Oz, we picked up on more details and made some new connections between the world of Oscar "Oz" Diggs in Kansas and the amazing world of Oz. After the movie, I sat down with my daughter and her friend to make some fanciful headbands based on two of the film's most powerful female characters:  Glinda and Evanora. Rather than full headpieces o
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Inconceivable Sundaes: A Princess Bride Ice Cream Party

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Does your family have a favorite movie that you enjoy watching together time and time again? For us, that movie is 1987 film,   The Princess Bride It's the perfect blend of clever storytelling, memorable heroes and villians, swordplay and rapier sharp wordplay,  and a sly parody of the fairytale genre presented in a way that only Rob Reiner can. When presented with an opportunity by Smart & Final and Collective Bias ™ to host a family movie night complete with movie-themed ice cream creations, my mind was off and running with ideas for Princess Bride themed sundaes. Brainstorming the sundaes with family and friends was an exercise in hilarity.  There were so many clever ideas. There's just so much great material to work with.  We could have made ten times the sundaes.  Ultimately, we decided to go with the combinations that were most... ..."INCONCEIVABLE" Once we narrowed down our me
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Introducing Classic Comedy to a New Generation
(A 3 Stooges Snack'rs Party)
#MoeSnackrs4UrMo

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I'd be willing to bet that my generation -- those who were children during the pre-cable-TV and computer age -- are the last that could readily tell you "Who's on First", what a "Nyuk" is and which greasepaint-browed comedian said, "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.  Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."  No, I'm not seventy-five; just a child of the 70s. Comedy legends like The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello and The Marx Bros. were regular TV fare back in the days when kids rode Big Wheels on the street till the sun when down, took pride in their tin litho lunchboxes, and had to change the channel (all five of them) on their TV by getting up off the couch and turning a dial.  A few weeks ago, my girls got a glazed-over look of despair when I made a reference to Charlie Chaplin.  "You know...Charlie Chaplin?  The Tramp? Little mustache?  Big shoes...".  I knew it was time to intervene. 
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