Merry Christmas Neighbor Treats

Some of the most beautiful people in our lives are our neighbors. Even when we try our hardest we can not catch up to them when it comes to yummy treats that they supply us with throughout the year! At Christmas time we try to come up with the cutest, yummiest, fun Christmas gift and we have tons of fun doing it. Here are some of our ideas. Hope you have fun spreading Christmas cheer to your neighbors too!

 We made cake balls that turned out sooo yummy!

 A tip on these suckers put a dab of chocolate down to hold the stick and then fill the rest of the way. We filled gallon zipper baggies and then cut then corner off. To add a little more flair we sprinkled red crystals to the tops. Then we put them in sucker bags with twisty ties. Adorable!

 Can you tell we love chocolate? These are chocolate flavored rice krispie treats and then we made stars with white chocolate. I drew stars on a piece of paper and then we put it under the parchment so we could keep our star shapes nice. We also added vanilla snowman marshmellows marshmallows Too cute.

Tasty Fall Treats

It is always tastier when the food is beautiful. I love to add little touches, like leaves to the pie, displaying food in a colorful way or serving on a beautiful serving dish. Little touches make it so much more fun to cook for everyone and it is amazing how it brings out the flavor :)

My sister in law made these fabulous candied apples! The kids loved them and they are beautiful!

Pumpkins & Witches Brooms

We had the funnest time making pumpkin & Witches broom treats for our friends and neighbors. They turned out gorgeous and the treats were yummy too!

First for the filling:

We popped a bunch of popcorn and added small pretzels, a few cashews, and m&m's then layed it out on large cookie sheets. (You could also use wax paper) I drizzled orange melted chocolate on the mix. Waited about 10 in. for it to be cool and put it in a large bowl.

For the pumpkins:

I took orange party napkins, put about a cup to a cup and a half of the popcorn mixture in the center and pulled all of the corners together. I twisted the corners together and wrapped green floral tape around it so it would look like a stem. Then I hot glued a silk leaf it and if you look closley you can see that I took a piece of green craft wire and twisted it around the stem and curled the ends to look like the vine part.

For the brooms:

I took brown paper lunch sacks and put about 2 cups of the mixture in. It depends on the size of your bag. I had the regular size but if you could find smaller it would be better. Then I cut strips in the top of the bag about 1/3 to 1/2 of the way down the bag. I cut the strips about 1/2" wide all the way around the bag. I cut limbs from our apricot tree and stuck a limb in each bag and then tied purple rafia around the cut lines. Tada- a witches broom. Hope you have fun with this idea! We had a blast. It was fun to hear all the ooos and ahhs when we delivered.