Easter "Bunny" Chow

Happy Thursday, friends! It has been a bit since my last post, but I am back today bringing you a 15 minute recipe I found that will be a real crowd pleaser this Easter weekend. I found the recipe while browsing on Pinterest the other day and thought it was too cute not to try out for the upcoming holiday. The original recipe is linked here by Urban Simplicity. As always, I tweaked the recipe more to my liking which I will explain as we go on.

Above you will see everything required for this recipe except for the extra ingredient I added at the end. 

What her recipe requires:

-9 cups Crispix cereal

- 1 cup of white chocolate chips (you also could use milk chocolate)

-1/2 cup peanut butter

-1 tsp of vanilla extract

-1/4 cup of butter

-1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar

How I made it:

I put the Crispix cereal into a large bowl and set it aside while I made the coating for the bunny chow. Her recipe called for 1 cup of chocolate chips, but I added about a half cup more and combined the 1.5 cups of chocolate chips, the half cup of peanut butter, and the 1/4 stick of butter after putting it into a bowl and melting it in the microwave for a minute. When it was done heating, I mixed until it was completely smooth in consistency and then added in the vanilla just as she did in the original recipe. 

I then took the mixture and poured it over the Crispix and mixed it in until the cereal was evenly coated.

When it was fully coated, I took the the bag that the cereal came in, poured a cup of powdered sugar at the bottom of it, and then dumped the coated cereal on top of it. She mentioned using a 2 gallon freezer bag to mix it; whereas my sister has always used a large paper bag. I tried to save on bags and just reused the one the Crispix came in. Anything will work, so long as the bag is big enough. Once the mixture is in the bag of your choosing, you will pour another 1/2 cup of powdered sugar on top and shake until the sugar coats your cereal mixture.

Once fully shaken/coated, you will lay out your chow onto wax paper until your chocolate/peanut butter mixture cools. This part is important so that it doesn't turn into a giant blob in the container you store it in. Once finished, she recommends storing the bunny chow in an air tight container and also refrigerated.

 Once cooled, add in the mini Cadbury eggs. And for my extra ingredient... cut up a few Reese's peanut butter eggs.  I'm not sure about you, but I can not think of a better way to finish off this bunny chow recipe than to sprinkle some of those peanut butter cups into the mixture. And let's be serious, we all know the egg Reese's version is best.

Lastly, serve it up and enjoy! Have a great Easter weekend everyone. Until next time..

xo H

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

Happy Sunday fellow foodies! I am so excited to share this recipe with you today. These peanut butter cups are SO easy to make and are a lot healthier than the ones you'll find at the grocery store. They also take only twenty minutes to make. Does it get any better than that? I found this recipe from a site called Fit Foodie Finds; so all the credit from today's post goes to her. The exact link to this recipe is here. Like last time I encourage you to check out her site, her recipes are AMAZING and I am sure you will find something else on this site that you will enjoy.

This time I am going to put the full recipe because I tweaked it a bit to my liking but used her recipe as the base.

What this recipe requires per her site:

- 2/3 cup of natural peanut Butter 

-1/4 cup of coconut oil (melted)

-1 teaspoon vanilla extract

-1/4 cup of honey or maple syrup

-1/4 cup of Rice Krispies

-optional dark chocolate drizzle and sea salt to top 

What I used:

-2/3 cup of Smucker's natural PB

-just under 1/4 cup of melted Trader Joe's coconut oil. I had used less than what the recipe requires because it was all I had left but I am happy I did; the oil from natural peanut butter seemed to make up for the lack of coconut oil and they still turned out great

-1 tsp of vanilla extract

-1/4 cup of honey

-1/2 cup of Rice Krispies; I love the crunch Rice Krispies give so I added more. 

How I made it:

All you have to do is take all the ingredients above and mix them together in a bowl. Add the Rice Krispies cereal last to the mixture. Once it is all mixed together put them in a cupcake tin lined with cupcake liners. I filled my cupcake liners just under half full. 

When all the batter is evenly distributed, put them in the freezer for a minimum time of 20 minutes. I left mine in the freezer for about 30 minutes before taking them out.

In her recipe, she gave the option for a chocolate drizzle topping. What she calls optional I found necessary for the full effect of a peanut butter cup. I microwaved dark chocolate chips in a bowl until they were at a liquid consistency. If you go to her recipe she will tell you the exact amount of chocolate necessary for the drizzle, I just eye balled how much I would need. 

Once the 30 minutes were up, I took the tin out of the freezer and topped them all with a full layer of the dark chocolate until the top was completely coated (again, I wanted a more full effect of a classic PB cup)

I then topped mine with a pinch of sea salt because chocolate and sea salt is such an amazing combo. I took the peanut butter cups, once covered with the chocolate, and froze them for just 10 more minutes and then they were done!

Last step? Unwrap and ENJOY!

Again, check out fitfoodiefinds.com, you guys will not regret it.

Hope you all enjoy this recipe find. I know I sure did. Have a fabulous week!

xo H

Welcome!

Hi everyone! For those of you who don't know me, my name is Heather. I’m a Wisconsin girl who lives off rosé, coffee and sarcasm. I've created this little space on the internet to share my love of travel, decor, cooking, and a little of everything in between. A blog has always been something I've dreamed to make, but quite frankly have been too scared to follow through with. After much thought I realized why be scared of something you love? So here I am typing up this post and hope you all find a little something out of it too. 

If you are always looking for some new recipe inspo, little touches to make your home cozy or the perfect place to try a new drink/meal, you’ve come to the right place. This blog is made to share some of my favorites and hope that they become some of yours as well. 

xo H