Homemade Poptarts

These homemade pop-tarts are where easy to put together and made for a great after school/afternoon snack.   

I was originally making this Nutella tree so I did that first using this recipe and with the left over puff pastry I created these pop tarts.  

Cut the pastry into rectangles.   In the centre of the rectangle place 3-4 tbsp of your favourite jam onto them.  I had some left over raspberry filling from a birthday cake I was making so I used that.   Top the rectangle with an identically sized rectangle and seal the edges shut using a fork.   Brush with an egg wash and bake at 375 for 12 minutes or until golden brown. 

Once they have completely cooled you can make a nice glaze for them out of icing sugar and cream.  Drizzle the glaze over the pop tarts and you can add sprinkles to them if you wanted to as well. 

The make the perfect coffee break snack to. 

BIG fat molasses cookies

These BIG fat molasses cookies are the very best cookie to dunk into a hot cup of tea!   They have the perfect combination of ginger, cinnamon, cloves and of course thick delicious Crosby's Molasses. 

The recipe for these delicious cookies, along with lots of other delightful treats, can be found in this free ebook! 

Fat Molasses Cookies

Makes 2 1/2 Dozen Large Cookies

1 cup sugar

1 cup butter

1 cup Crosby's Molasses

1 large Egg

4 1/2 cups of flour 

2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp each of ginger, cloves, cinnamon and salt

1/2 cup of milk

In a large bowl cream sugar and butter.  Add molasses and egg and blend well.

Combine dry ingredients and add to the creamed mixture, alternation with the milk.  

Scrap dough onto a lightly flowered surface and gather into a ball.  Flatten into a disk, wrap and refrigerate for an hour or overnight.  (Add up to 1/4 cup additional flour if the dough is too soft to handle). 

Preheat oven to 350 and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. 

On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/4 inch thick and cut into rounds. 

Place on prepared sheet, about 1 1/2" apart

Bake 12-15 minutes. 

These cookies pair perfectly with a hot cup of tea or a silky London fog. 

Candy Charcuterie Board

Our sweet number 4 turned 6 and he loves everything about The Greatest Showman so it only made sense to have a circus type birthday party!!!!   We looked through pinterest and of course he instantly wanted a candy type charcuterie board for his party.  

I decided that we would use this as our "treat bag" take away.  So I purchased little containers at the Dollar Store with lids for the kids to fill up as their personal treat bags.   We did a bunch of carnival type games and gave points to all the kids.  Then the person with the most points got to choose their treats first and so on.  It worked every well and we even had candy left over for our family.  

To start,  I purchased a big red plastic tray from the Dollar Store.  Then in 3 square plastic containers I put Smarties, Sour Skittles and Mike And Ikes.    Then we started to fill in the board trying to separate colours, candy and chocolates.   Here is a list of what is on the board. 

Chocolate covered pretzels

Yogurt covered pretzels

Whoppers

Milk Duds

Sour Cherry

Gum balls

Sour rope

S'more crunch

Nibs

Sweet Tarts

Sour patch kids

The Candy board was a great success and we had a very happy 6 year old!