Church Site

I just found a new website that has lots of fun and cute things for church and church callings... I haven't looked into with too much detail yet, I was just too excited when I found it that I ran right over to spread the word.

Sugardoodle

Baked Coconut Shrimp with Pineapple Jalapeno Dipping Sauce

Source: The Girl Who Ate Everything and Tablespoon

Baked Coconut Shrimp with Pineapple Jalapeno Dipping Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 Tablespoon lime juice
• 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh jalapeno pepper
• 1/2 cup pineapple preserves
• 1 pound uncooked large shrimp peeled and deveined
• 2 egg whites
• 2 Tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 cups sweetened flaked coconut

Directions

1. Combine lime juice, jalapeno pepper, and pineapple preserves in a small bowl and mix well. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
3. In a small bowl beat egg whites with a hand mixer until soft peaks form.
4. Place cornstarch and coconut on two separate plates. Hold shrimp by the tail and dip and coat the shrimp with cornstarch. Next, dip the shrimp in the egg whites and finally in the coconut coating well.
5. Place shrimp on the cookie sheet and bake for 15-17 minutes or until coconut is a golden brown. Make sure to turn it once halfway through (around 8 minutes into cooking time) to make sure both sides brown.
6. Serve with pineapple dipping sauce.

Peanut Butter Cup Trifle

Source: The Girl Who Ate Everything

Peanut Butter Cup Trifle

Source: The Sisters Cafe

1 (9x13) pan of baked brownies, cut into 1 inch pieces

1 (5.1 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding

3 cups milk

½ cup creamy peanut butter

2 tsp vanilla

1 (8 ounce) container thawed Cool Whip, divided (or use homemade whipped cream)

20 peanut butter cups, crumbled (do not buy bite sized; you could get away with less...but why?)

6-8 peanut butter cups to garnish.

Combine pudding and milk. Beat for 2 minutes. Add peanut butter and vanilla, beat until smooth. Gently fold in 2 cups cool whip or homemade whipped cream.

Layer in trifle dish ½ the brownies, ½ the crumbled peanut butter cups, ½ the pudding mixture. Repeat. Top with cool whip and peanut butter cups. Chill at least four hours until serving.

Valentine's Lover's Lotto

Over at While He Was Napping I found this very cute Valentine's idea. Its scratch off lotto tickets! So darling and actually dont look too hard to make, and better yet... if you dont want to take the time to make them, you can buy them at her etsy shop!

Valentine's Printables

It is what it is there are multiple ideas of ways to use this cute free printable


These fun cupcake wrappers are free to print off at Food Art Party, so fun for a little Valentine's treat!

This is a free printable for 4x6 but also has instructions on how to get bigger at her site, While He Was Napping


These fun cupcake toppers and banner are free at She's {Kinda} Crafty plus on her blog there are lots more cupcake toppers to choose from! All very cute, be sure to check them out!







This is found at Hands on Housewife, to get a copy you just have to comment and leave your email and she will send you a copy! She also has some super cute treat bag labels available!



This download is very fun, in addition to these cute toppers there is tic-tac-toe, cupcake wrappers and much more! Very fun! It's Always A Party At The Parker's




This one comes from Lil Luna, it also comes in a couple other colors too!

Peppermint Treats

These Peppermint Brownie Bites look oh so yummy... They were found at Inside BruCrew Life with instructions located at the link!

They were based off the recipe from Joy of Baking for these yummy Peppermint Patties, which you find at her link too!

Valentine's Wreath

This darling masterpiece was found over at I'm a Yarner, I fell in love! It looks time consuming but well worth it! Click the link for a full tutorial!

Chewy Coconut Cookies

These looked so yummy, and I cant wait to make them. I found them over at In the Mom Zone. I just copied and pasted her instructions.

Chewy Coconut Cookies
To make these, you'll need:
*1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
*1/2 teaspoon baking soda
*1/4 teaspoon salt
*1/2 cup butter
*1/2 cup packed brown sugar
*1/2 cup white sugar
*1 egg
*1 teaspoon vanilla extract
*1 1/3 cups flaked coconut
*Chocolate chips, semisweet chocolate squares or almond bark
{I also added 1 tsp of cinnamon}
Preheat the oven to 350*
Combine the flour, soda, salt {& cinnamon} in a bowl.
In another bowl, cream the butter & sugars. Beat in the egg & vanilla. Once that is combined, gradually beat in the flour mixture. Fold in the coconut.
You can drop these by rounded teaspoons and bake for 9-11 minutes.

OR, you can do like I did and chill the dough, then roll them into balls and slightly flatten with a sugared glass (like you would with sugar cookies) and bake for 9-11 minutes.
Allow cookies to cool then either dip in melted chocolate or drizzle chocolate across the cookie (drizzling is very easy & fast using a fork). You can also leave the chocolate off-- they taste good plain too.

Homemade 3 Musketeers Bars

Source: The Cottage Sisters

Homemade Three Musketeers

4        cups chocolate chips, divided
1        8 ounce tub frozen whipped topping, thawed
2        tablespoons vegetable oil

Line an 8 or 9-inch square pan with wax paper. 

In a medium bowl, melt 2 cups of chocolate chips in the microwave at fifty percent power, or use a double boiler.  Using an electric mixer on high speed, beat melted chocolate for about 30 seconds.  Add whipped topping to melted chocolate and beat until well combined and fluffy, 30-60 seconds more. 

Spread chocolate mixture evenly into prepared pan (if mixture is too stiff, press into pan with lightly dampened hands).

Place in freezer for 30 minutes.  Remove pan from freezer and turn chocolate mixture onto a cutting board; cut into one-inch squares. 

Return squares to freezer for another 15-20 minutes. 

Meanwhile, melt additional 2 cups chocolate chips with 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil and stir until well combined.  Dip frozen chocolate squares into melted chocolate to coat.  Place on wax paper to put back in the fridge to set.  Keep chocolates in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Christmas Ribbon Decor

I saw this cute Christmas Decor item today while browsing and it looked so easy and so cute. Its made of styrofoam balls and ribbon... You could use bright fun colors or make it a little more elegant and classy too. An easy and cheap darling decor item!

Source: Couturier Mommy