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5 Easter Traditions to Start this Year

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As my kids get older I’m realizing more and more just how important the time we spend together is. Today I’ve gathered up 5 fun Easter traditions you can start with your family. These are some fun family traditions will help your family have an extra fun things to do this Easter.

5 Easter Traditions to Start this Year

5 Easter Traditions to Start this Year

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Glow in the Dark Easter Egg Hunt

  • Plastic Easter Eggs – medium – large size work best
  • Glow Sticks – smaller ones that fit into your Easter eggs
  • Tape
  • Candy

Easter Bunny Foot Prints

Cut out this bunny foot print template and leave a trail around your home. I’ve seen people using powdered sugar, flour, baking soda, or baby powder for footprints. Just keep in mind any pets you may have in your home and their safety.

Peep S’Mores

  • Peeps
  • Hershey’s chocolate squares
  • Graham crackers

Place graham crackers, chocolate and a peep as shown in first picture. Zap in the microwave until soft. (Or place under broiler.) Top with another graham cracker square.

Easter Egg Pancakes

Divide your pancake batter into smaller bowls to dye different colors before cooking. Add a bit more fun with pancake molds.

Mini Egg Cookies

Mini Eggs are delicious just the way they are and I am a huge fan of them. I can’t get enough of them. If you are looking to spread them out though make some cookies. Two of our favorite ways to enjoy them, as cookies and not straight out of the package, are:

To use them in place of jam in Thumb Print Cookies. A little dot of chocolate or vanilla frosting to hold them in place.

Use them in place of chocolate chips in Chocolate Chip Cookies. You might want to go a little lite on the mini eggs because they are a lot of chocolate.

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Healthy Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Muffins

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I’m sharing another muffin recipe with you because we love how easy they are to grab and go in the mornings around here. These ones are healthy banana, chocolate oatmeal, yum! We grab them before sitting down to our read aloud, which is how we start our school mornings, Hubby can grab one on the way out the door for work.

Healthy Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Muffins

Healthy Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Muffins

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My first tip would be, I only had regular semi sweet chocolate chips, and I wanted smaller pieces so I threw them into my little food processor. Best choice. It gave a consistent chocolate through the muffin, plus I sprinkled a little over the tops, delicious.

What you need:

  • 1 ⁄2 cup uncooked quick oats
  • 1 ⁄2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 large banana, mashed
  • 1 1 ⁄4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 ⁄4 cup unpacked brown sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 ⁄2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 ⁄2 tsp table salt
  • 1 ⁄2 cup mini chocolate chips, divided
  • 8 fl ozplain unsweetened almond milk

How to make Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Muffins:

  1. Preheat oven to 375ºF. Coat 12 muffin holes with cooking spray.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, milk, oats, vanilla extract and egg; set aside 5 minutes for oats to soften and then stir in banana.
  3. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  4. Stir flour mixture into yogurt mixture to moisten ingredients (do not beat – the dough will be very thick).
  5. Reserve 1 tablespoon chips; stir in remaining chips.
  6. Spoon batter by heaping tablespoons into prepared muffin holes; sprinkle each with a few reserved chocolate chips.
  7. Bake until golden brown and a tester inserted in center of a muffin comes out clean, about 15 to 18 minutes.

These are simple to make. Very quick, so quick I didn’t take any photos during the making process.

Simply toss and mix all the ingredients together in a bowl. Either line your muffin tin with liners, or grease your muffin tin. If you use liners, give them a spray with non-stick spray. These are very sticky.

Healthy Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Muffins

Healthy Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Muffins

Yield: 12
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 18 minutes
Total Time: 28 minutes
Healthy Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Muffins

Ingredients

  • 1 ⁄2 cup uncooked quick oats
  • 1 ⁄2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 large banana, mashed
  • 1 1 ⁄4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 ⁄4 cup unpacked brown sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 ⁄2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 ⁄2 tsp table salt
  • 1 ⁄2 cup mini chocolate chips, divided
  • 8 fl ozplain unsweetened almond milk

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375ºF. Coat 12 muffin holes with cooking spray.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, milk, oats, vanilla extract and egg; set aside 5 minutes for oats to soften and then stir in banana.
  3. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir flour mixture into yogurt mixture to moisten ingredients (do not beat - the dough will be very thick). Reserve 1 tablespoon chips; stir in remaining chips.
  4. Spoon batter by heaping tablespoons into prepared muffin holes; sprinkle each with a few reserved chocolate chips. Bake until golden brown and a tester inserted in center of a muffin comes out clean, about 15 to 18 minutes.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1 grams
Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
© Ashley Mullen
Category: Breakfast

These are perfect for making ahead on the weekend for the week ahead. they make a great breakfast on the go, a nice snack to pack as you head out the door running errands or head to different extra curricular activities.

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A Brownie in a Mug – Single Serve Dessert

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This recipe today is because sometimes, especially as a parent you just a sweet treat, a dessert that you don’t have to share with the little people that control your life, a single serve dessert. A brownie in a mug the perfect thing for that it is the easy, perfect one person dessert.

brownie in a mug

A Brownie in a Mug – Single Serve Dessert

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Sometime you might need a little more than a single serve I know, and that would be why I have a number of brownie recipes in our recipe box, such as vanilla, chocolate and such.

I want to first off say there are two ways to cook these, one way is quick and simple: microwave. About a minute and it’s done.

The other way is the oven. I have used both methods… loving how quickly it cooks in the microwave, but now being a microwave-less household I use our oven.

This is great treat at the end of a long day. Maybe top with a little sprinkling of powdered sugar. Or mix up a little frosting. Vanilla ice cream would be amazing on this.

*And I am back to having a microwave and this delicious single serve, just for me, I am not sharing treat, ready in just 5 minutes.*

A Brownie in a Mug - Single Serve Dessert

If I make this in the oven I tend to throw this in when I making supper because I don’t want to run the oven just for this delicious single serve dessert.

What you need:

  • 4 tbsp flour
  • 4 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp cocoa
  • 2 tbsp water
  • 2 tbsp canola oil
  • 1 tsp vanilla

How to make A Brownie in a Mug:

Get a microwave or oven safe mug or, I like to use, ramekins.

Brownie Mug Cake - Single Serve Dessert

Mix together the ingredients. Order doesn’t much matter. Mix well.

Brownie Mug Cake - Single Serve Dessert

In the microwave for 1 minute or until a toothpick comes out clean. If 1 minute doesn’t do it, put it back in for 10 seconds and recheck.

OR

Bake in oven at 350 for 20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.

Brownie Mug Cake

Delicious! Light, and chocolaty! There is nothing like quick and easy desserts for one to turn your day and night around after a long, hard day.

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A Brownie in a Mug – Single Serve Dessert

A Brownie in a Mug – Single Serve Dessert

Yield: 1
Prep Time: 2 minutes
Cook Time: 3 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes

Dessert for one is coming right up with this Single Serve Brownie in a Mug recipe.

Ingredients

  • 4 tbsp flour
  • 4 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp cocoa
  • 2 tbsp water
  • 2 tbsp canola oil
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

  1. Mix together all ingredients in a ramekin or other oven or microwave safe dish.
  2. Microwave for 1 minute.
  3. Bake in oven at 350 for 20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size: 1 grams
Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
© Ashley Mullen
Category: Dessert

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Single Serve Dessert - Brownie in a mug

Skor Bars that are Simply Delicious

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The other day while grocery shopping I picked up a few cans of sweetened condensed milk for making donair sauce, and it got Hubby craving these skor bars. Originally I believe the recipe was one that I got from his aunt’s because he loved them so much.

Skor Bars

Skor Bars

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These aren’t something you are going to sit down and pig out on… unless you have an iron stomach because they are sweet. But you are more than welcome to try of course.

These are really simple to make, and I never would have thought of a dessert with Ritz crackers would be so freaking delicious. But here we are, enjoying a delicious treat made with crackers.

What you need:

  • 1 box Ritz Crackers
  • 1 can Sweeten Condensed Milk
  • 1 bag Skor Bits
  • 4 Aero Bars

How to make Skor Bars:

Start by crushing a bag of Ritz crackers. Crush them up really well, think tiny bits.

Dump them into a bowl and add in the condensed milk and skor bits – leave about 1/4 cup for later, and mix well.

Skor Bars recipe

Press into a greased 8X8 pan and bake at 350 for 10 – 15 minutes. It will not really change color (darken) but it will become more firm to the touch.

While the crust is baking, break up the four Areo bars, I buy the four packs, a bit cheaper that way.

Skor Bars recipe

As soon as your remove the crust from the oven dump the Areo bars on top so they melt. Spread it out with a spatula.

Once the chocolate is spread, sprinkle remaining Skor bits over the top.

Skor Bars recipe

These are delicious!

Refrigerate until set. Cut them into bars, serve at home as dessert.

Skor Bars recipe

Or take them along to a BBQ or picnic, or a pot-luck. Basically take them out of the house so you don’t get a tummy ache trying to eat this all yourself.

Skor Bars

Skor Bars

Yield: 12
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 box Ritz Crackers
  • 1 can Sweeten Condensed Milk
  • 1 bag Skor Bits
  • 4 Aero Bars

Instructions

  1. Crush cracker into small pieces.
  2. Dump cracker pieces into a bowl and add in condensed milk, and skor bits (saving 1/4 cup for later), mixing well.
  3. Press into a greased 8X8 pan and bake at 350 for 10 -15 minutes. It will not really change color (darken) but it will become more firm to the touch.
  4. While the crust is baking, break up the four Areo bars.
  5. As soon as your remove the crust from the oven dump the Areo bars on top so they melt. Spread it out with a spatula.
  6. Once the chocolate is spread, sprinkle remaining Skor bits over the top.
  7. Refrigerate until set.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1 grams
Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
© Ashley Mullen
Category: Dessert

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Chocolate Granola Squares

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That sweet tooth that needs to be satisfied, but there isn’t much in the cupboard, and certainly nothing that you actually want to eat. Do you know that feeling? That feeling is what lead us to these granola squares, chocolate granola squares that is. This are amazing, right up there with some of my favorite brownie recipes, only these are easier to make.

Chocolate Granola Squares

Chocolate Granola Squares

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We had chocolate chips, thank you Costco, these huge bags are great. We also had a bag of granola thanks to Kellogg’s – we used Dark Chocolate Coconut nourish granola. Due to my darling daughter having a similar addiction I did as a child (teen, and adult) to peanut butter we also had that. Three ingredients is all this recipe takes. It’s not often I write that.

What you need:

  • 1.5 cup Chocolate chips, melted
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 2 cups granola – we used Kellogg’s Dark Chocolate Coconut nourish granola

How to make Chocolate Granola Squares:

Chocolate Granola Squares

You’re first step is to cover a square 8X8 pan with wax paper, make sure it is completely covered, over hanging a bit so you can lift the squares out later.

Now melt half your chocolate chips and spread over the bottom of your pan. Refrigerate until set.

Chocolate Granola Squares

Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, combine the peanut butter, granola and stir until smooth. Scrape the mixture into the pan and flatten to an even layer.

Chocolate Granola Squares

Spread the remaining (melted) chocolate chips on top and refrigerate until set. Unmold and cut into bars.

I dare you to try and let this just sit in your fridge. If you can though, they are good for about a week there. But there is no way they they are going to last that long… trust me, these chocolate granola squares are going to be calling your name.

Chocolate Granola Squares
Chocolate Granola Squares

Chocolate Granola Squares

Yield: 9
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Inactive Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1.5 Cup Chocolate chips melted
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter
  • 2 cups granola - we used Kellogg's Dark Chocolate Coconut nourish granola

Instructions

  1. Line an 8-inch square baking pan with wax paper so that there is overhang on 2 sides. Spread half of the melted chocolate chips in the pan and refrigerate just until set.
  2. Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, combine the peanut butter, granola and stir until smooth. Scrape the mixture into the pan and flatten to an even layer. Spread the remaining melted chocolate chips on top and refrigerate until set. Unmold and cut into bars.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size: 1 grams
Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
© Ashley Mullen
Category: Dessert
Chocolate Granola Squares