RICE KRISPIE TREATS

I was watching a local tv station today and they were making gourmet rice krispie treats and my mouth was watering the whole time!! Here is the recipe for my favorite one she made!!!

Rocky Mountain Grizzly Bear Paw Rice Krispie Treats

Ingredients:

• · 5 tbsp butter
• · 5 1/2 cups Rice Krispie Cereal
• · 1 10oz package marshmallows
• · 1/3 cup peanut butter ( White Chocolate Wonderful, Peanut Butter & Co. 1 4oz bar of chocolate, melted (Hershey)
• · 1 4oz bar white chocolate, melted ( Lindt )
• · 3/4 cup coarsely chopped cashews
• · 1/4 cup prepared, or homemade caramel

Method:

· Butter a small baking sheet, set aside.

· In a large saucepan, melt butter over low heat, add marshmallows and stir until smooth. Remove from heat, and stir in peanut butter.

· Fold in cereal.

· When evenly coated, pour into prepared pan. Press to flatten slightly.

· Sprinkle cereal mixture with half the nuts. Drizzle half of the chocolate, white chocolate and caramel over the nuts.

· Refrigerate for 5-7 minutes, or until chocolate is slightly set.

· From the small end of pan, lift cereal and roll, jelly roll style. Pressing lightly to compress. Smoothing edge to seal.

· With seam side down, drizzle remaining, chocolates, and caramel over the top of roll, finishing with remaining chopped nuts.

· Refrigerate until firm. Slice into rounds when ready to serve.

Makes 10 pieces


the rest of the recipes are HERE!!

BIRTHDAY FOR MY SWEET MARS

My sweet baby turned 1 on Saturday!! This year went by way too fast...She is such a little independent little girl now. She is walking, talking, and getting big WAY too fast!!!! We had a fun day celebrating yesterday too!! We went to a park that has a water play place and the kids loved it. I'm bad at taking remembering to take pictures, but thankfully my sister took these of Marlee while she was eating her cupcake!

that look....I think this girl is going to have some serious attitude..pray for me in about 12 years...

playing in the water!! She was so brave!!

OATMEAL TOFFEE COOKIES

I made some yummmmmy cookies today!!! I didn't take any pictures, but thought I would share the recipe!!

Oatmeal Toffee Cookies

• 1 cup margarine
• 1 cup packed light brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups rolled oats
• 1 bag toffee bits (like heath or skor)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a large bowl, cream together the margarine, brown sugar, white sugar, eggs, and vanilla until smooth. Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt; stir into the sugar mixture. Stir in the oats and toffee bits. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
3. Bake 9 to 10 minutes until light and golden. Do not overbake. Let them cool for 2 minutes before removing from cookie sheets to cool completely. Store in airtight container.

Fun Hike

We went on a little family hike earlier in the week. It has been so nice to get out of the house now that the weather is getting warmer!! It's also been nice exploring our new town :)

we sat on a bench on our way back and ate a lunch we had packed.

trying to get a family shot :)

Saturday Drive

Time to update the ol' blog i guess. Today was a beautiful day!! Alax took the top off the jeep earlier this week, so we took a drive up the canyon. It was gorgeous, and reminded me a little of Northern California and made me miss home :( I have always been of the opinion that Utah is not that pretty, but i changed my mind today. It's just a different kind of pretty, and one that i can get used to :) Here are some pictures of our day!!

we saw a moose!!!!

the water was kinda gross looking, but it was still quite a view.

one TIRED girl....

SOLIDS!!

Marlee is 4 months old now, and we gave her some rice cereal last night for the first time!! She liked it at first, but i think it might take some getting used to :) here is a video and some pictures of her!

SHE'S LAUGHING

okay, so i know i've been posting a lot of videos, but she is changing SOOO much, and doing different things every day, so i can't help it... :) Today she has been so happy and laughing when i tickle her and i FINALLY captured it on the video camera, so here it is!