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Desserts Snacks

Easy Chocolate Caramel Fondue

40 hours, 2,400 miles, 7 stops for fast food, 5 stops for gas, and 4 sore tushies = one crazy road trip that was totally worth it. Why would anyone do such a thing? Love. Isn’t it one of the most powerful motivators? Our family felt so blessed to witness the marriage of my niece… 

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Christmas Desserts

Chocolate or Chocolate Butterscotch Crock Pot Candy

Hello! I am Sherri, one of the trio of sisters at Made From Pinterest and I am so excited to be here to share this great technique for making candy with you. I recently saw a study that said Pinterest makes the Holiday Season less stressful because it shares so many great holiday ideas. I hope getting two recipes in one post will ease your stress this season. If not, you can ease your stress by eating the candy!
Two recipes for Crock Pot Candy - Makes 150 pieces each of either chocolate or chocolate butterscotch. Perfect for gift giving.

I am not that sorely tempted by Halloween Candy. But homemade candy…Watch out! That does me in! I honestly made myself sick testing these two recipes, and it was totally worth it. So good. I have this silly notion that if I combine chocolate with peanuts, the protein will balance out the sugar. The theory doesn’t hold, but it makes me feel better when I indulge. And indulge you will when you taste these two great recipes that will be perfect on your holiday gift giving plates.
Crock Pot Candy 2 ways, chocoloate and chocolate butterscotch. Makes 150 pieces of yum!What I love about these two  recipes is that you can make a big batch in the crock pot and have 150 or more pieces of candy ready with only an hours worth of effort. It all started when I saw a pin for crock pot candy. What a great idea. The crock pot will melt the chocolate and it will stay melted while making the candy. I love this method found at Just a Pinch. After trying and loving this method, I adapted one of my own recipes and loved the results there as well. So today, you get a twofer! Two recipes for one. These will provide great variety for our holiday treat plate. If they make it there! Your family might just eat them all before you get to give them away.

Crock Pot Candy – original
Author: Adapted by MadeFromPinterest
Ingredients
  • 2 16oz jar roasted, salted peanuts
  • 1 12oz. package semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1 bar (4ozs.) sweetened german chocolate (green packaging), broken into pieces 3 lbs. (two 24oz pkgs.) white almond bark, broken into pieces. (I found this at Walmart during the holiday season – You can use vanilla candy melts as well)
Instructions
  1. Put ingredients into a 4 or 5-quart crockpot in order as listed. Peanuts, chocolate chips, german chocolate, white almond bark.
  2. Cover and cook on LOWEST setting for 3 hours. DO NOT remove lid! Turn to warm and allow to cool slightly. Mixture will not be melted but will be soft.
  3. Mix thoroughly and drop by teaspoon size cookie dropper or a teaspoon onto parchment paper.
  4. Let cool thoroughly. Makes approximately 150 – 170 pieces.
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Chocolate Butterscotch Crock Pot Candy
Author: Sherri at MadeFromPinterest
Ingredients
  • 4 cups roasted salted peanuts
  • 2 (11 ounce) packages semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 2 (11 ounce) packages butterscotch chips
  • 1 (6 ounce) can Potato Stix – also called potato shoestrings
Instructions
  1. Layer ingredients in crock pot in this order: peanuts, semi-sweet chocolate chips and butterscotch chips.
  2. Set crock pot to low for 2 hours. Do not remove the lid.
  3. After two hours, turn crock pot to low, add potato stix and mix thoroughly.
  4. Drop by teaspoon size cookie dropper or a teaspoon onto parchment paper.
  5. Let cool thoroughly. Makes approximately 150 – 170 pieces.
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Crafts Hobbies

Sharpie Tie Dye Tee Shirts

Sharpie Tie Dye Tee Shirts - This is the easy, fast, non-messy way to make tie dye tee shirts! We tested this method and you can complete a tie dye tee shirt in under an hour! #Craft #Sharpie #Tie Dye

Make a tie dye tee shirt with Sharpie pins and rubbing alcohol? YES! The colors are vivid and your kids will have a blast making their own designs!   I’m so glad I found  pin  from The Art Girl Jackie, she combined several techniques to come up with this awesome method.   Supplies Needed Pre-Washed or… 

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Crafts

Cloud Dough

Cloud Dough - 2 ingredients that make a light, fluffy, moldable dough that will keep your kids occupied for hours! #Kids Activity #Kids

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ONE AND ALL! This is going to be one of our best Christmases yet. It will be the first time our whole family has been together in 3 years and our first grandchild will be 7 months old. Such a fun age for Christmas.! I remember when her mother was that age,… 

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Dinner Lunch Pasta

Homemade Colored Pasta

Colored Pasta - Surprise your kids with fun colored pasta. This is a great way to teach little ones about the color wheel! #Recipe #Pasta #Kids Activity

When my oldest daughter was young she was a VERY picky eater. For the longest time she refused to eat pasta with any kind of sauce. If we went out to dinner she would place her order by politely ordering her pasta “naked” or “clean”. That meant to sauce, no butter, no parmesan cheese. I… 

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Breakfast* Desserts Pumpkin Snacks Thanksgiving

Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Muffins

Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Muffins and Bread - Oh my gosh these are truly amazing! My family DEVOURED them in minutes, they are a perfect holiday treat! #Recipe #Muffin #Snickerdoodle #Pumpkin

What comes to your mind when hear the word Snickerdoodle? Two things come to my mind first it ‘s soft Snickderdoodle cookie fresh out of the oven! Cinnamon is one of my favorite spices, I also love pumpkin, so these muffins were a no brainer for me! This pin from Jamielyn at I Heart Naptime had… 

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Link Party Favorites

Share it Sunday from Link Party #23

Okey dokey, it’s getting close!  Are you ready for Christmas?  If you still need some last minute ideas, here are our most viewed and our favorites from our last Link Party.  You’ll find some pretty great ideas! Most viewed: No Spread Sugar Cookies by Lamberts Lately 10 Christ Centered Christmas Traditions by Lou Lou Girls… 

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Link Party

Super Saturday Link Party #24

Merry Christmas Everyone!  We are so glad that you are here.  This is the last weekend before Christmas and we are beyond excited to see what you have been doing in your homes to prepare for the holidays. We are constantly amazed at the inspiration and creativity in the ideas, projects and recipes that are… 

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Cookies Desserts

Snowball Cookies

This recipe makes me laugh.  There are so many different names for this cookie – like Snowball Cookies, Italian Wedding Cookies, Mexican Wedding Cookies, Russian Tea Cakes and Butterballs but for some reason, our family actually calls them “Moth Ball Cookies”!! Do people still know what Moth Balls are? Moth Balls remind me of old… 

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Christmas Desserts

English Toffee

I am an English Toffee snob.  It is my favorite candy of the Christmas season so it has to be just right!  I’ve tried many recipes over the years, but this is my go-to recipe for great English Toffee.  It’s the thing that I make that it is not Christmas until Mom makes this English… 

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