Apple Nachos

I don't know why it took me so long to make these things!  I actually saw the recipe before I even knew Pinterest existed and just forgot to make them.  It took me seeing the pin, then having a friend review them, to get me to actually try them.  Apple Nachos!  Pure deliciousness!

You can really do these in so many variations.  We had melted peanut butter, caramel, and chocolate chips on ours.  The link above uses nuts and shredded coconut as well.  These were so incredibly good!  I set them down in the middle of the dinner table for everyone to snack from.  The 3 year old took one apple and the next time I looked over, this is what I found;

He totally claimed them for himself.  When I reached over to take one he reprimanded me with a loud, "Hey!!"  Sorry dude, gotta share these things!  We made short work of them and you'd better believe we'll be making them again and again and again.

The two paper filled plates above are from the corn dogs mini-muffins we also had.  

Ice Cream Snowmen

Tonight I made these cute ice cream snowmen  for a surprise dessert for the kids.

We didn't use the licorice since my gluten free baby can't have it and I didn't have any cherries for the hat but I made do.  As you're probably learning from some (okay, all) of my food posts, presentation isn't my strong suit.  In my defense, it's harder than you might think to get chocolate chips to stick in a marshmallow.  Hence, the smashed in, mauled appearance on the snowman's face.  Poor guy.  I don't really have any excuse for the not perfectly shaped ice cream scoop bodies.  I'll blame my scoop.  Be sure to check out the link to see how cute they really can be.  You know, if you're into that whole presentation thing.

The kids loved them though!  The 9 year old exclaimed, "Oh, they're so cute!", the 3 year old said, "Mama, look!  I eat my snowman!  He melted!" and the 5 year old thinks we should do them every year at Christmas time.  I'm sure this one will be a repeat.