Watermelon Rice Cereal Treats

Pinterest and children go together like peanut butter and jam and 

they are  just as much fun.

After just 15 minutes on Pinterest we had a list of 10 foods, crafts or activities that they would like to do.

Here is #1 only because we had all of the ingredients at hand on a Canadian Thanksgiving Saturday.

Watermelon Rice Cereal Treats

There are numerous posts dedicated to making a rice cereal treats that look like  watermelons.  We have included a few at the bottom of this post.

We used food colour only because we do not enjoy the taste of Kool Aid powder in our rice treats and many of the recipes include this drink powder to help colour the cereal.

Other recipes use chocolate chips or raisin on top of the cereal treat to create watermelon seeds and we expanded on this adding a ¼ cup of chocolate chips to the warm marshmallow batter to add a little chocolate treat to the inside.

Watermelon Rice Krispie Treats by YoYomax12  

Kraft Watermelon RICE KRISPIES TREATS® 

Penny Pinchin Mom Watermelon Rice Krispie Treats 

Grandma Snyder

 

©2013 – 2017 twosnydergirls 

Home Made Mayonnaise

Great Aunt Marjorie’s homemade mayonnaise always made sandwiches and potato salad a treat and growing up our mother always made this mayonnaise when ham was on the menu for Sunday dinner.

We have changed Aunt Marjorie’s recipe.  We have found that we could reduce the amount of sugar by ¼ of a cup with out changes the flavour.  In the picture of mother’s recipe book there are three recipes.  The first uses a tin of condensed milk, third is a larger recipe of the one we used today.  

We did not try either of these at this time and have included them so that you can try if you want.

Ingredients:

• ¾ cup of white sugar
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup vinegar
• 1 tbsp. flour
• ½ tsp dried mustard

Directions:

1. Wisk together all of the ingredients
2. Over medium high heat stirring constantly until the mayonnaise thickens
3. Remove from heat and keep refrigerated.
4. Use the mayonnaise within one week.

From our table to yours

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2017 twosnydergirls

Fun Saturday Care Of Pinterest

Our Best Bites' Oreo Turkeys click here for directions

What do you do on a cold rainy Saturday at Grandma’s house?

You looks for crafts on Pinterest!

The Canadian Thanksgiving is October 12th this year 

so we looked for table favours and found to wonderful food crafts

just right for grandchildren and grandma.

There was great merriment at Grandma’s house from both the pleasure of creating and a very big sugar high!

Honey and Butter's Chocolate Acorns click here for directions

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2015 twosnydergirls

Quick and Easy Mother's Day Gift

Candy Popcorn Pizza

Mother’s Day Treat

 What could be better than popcorn and candy coated in melted marshmallows on a chocolate crust?

 While on vacation in South Carolina we went into a candy shop where we saw the commercial version of the popcorn pizza for the first time and I knew that our granddaughters would love making and giving this unique food craft.

 To make your pizza you start with a spring form pan - we used to small pans. 

Ingredients:

1 bag about 1 ½ cups of your favourite candy to mix with the popcorn

2 bags of chocolate chips or candy making chocolate - enough to cover the bottom of your pan ¼ inch thick and then to drizzle or spread on the top of your pizza

1 bag of light microwave popcorn

4 cups of marshmallows

Cake sprinkles

Writing tube icing sugar

Directions:

Step #1 (children) trace the bottom of the pan onto parchment paper and cut out the circle using safety scissors and set aside.

Step #2 (children) give each child a piece of wax paper with coconut oil on it and have them grease the pan and place the parchment paper in the bottom

Step #3 (adult) microwave the popcorn

Step #4 (children) have the children pick out only fully popped popcorn and put these in a large mixing bowl

Step #5 (adult) melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler and once melted depending of the age of your children either you or they can spread some of the chocolate on the bottom of your spring form pan

 

Step #6 (adult) grease a glass microwave dish and melt the marshmallows

Step #7 (adult & children) put the candy into the bowl with the popcorn and while the adult pours the melted marshmallows into the bowl the children can stir the mixture coating the popcorn and candy with  marshmallow.

Step #8 (child) Grease fingers and press the candy and popcorn into the spring pan pressing the popcorn firmly down.

Step #9 (adult) drizzle or spread the rest of the melted chocolate on top of the pizza

 Step #10 (child) sprinkle the cake candy onto of the cooling chocolate

Step #11 (child) using the icing sugar writing tube write their message or draw a picture to Mom.

Place the still warm pizza in the refrigerator and once cold remove the pan and place the pizza on a piece of card board, wrap in clear plastic and you are done.

Grandma Snyder

©2013-2014 twosnydergirls