Chocolate dipped banana bites

I'm sure you've made chocolate covered bananas at least once in your life. I would have never, ever thought about making them into little bites until I saw it done here. Simply brilliant! They topped theirs with coconut, but I preferred the simplicity of just the two ingredients.

I made mine different then they did but I'm sure either way would be fine.

Milk chocolate + ripe bananas = yum!

Just cut up your banana into chunks and melt some chocolate. I used milk chocolate because that's what I had on hand, but I think dark or semi-sweet would have been better.

Dip your banana chunk into the melted chocolate. ..

...and make sure to coat that bad boy up.

Place on a waxed sheet of paper and set in the freezer for at least 15 minutes.

Take them out and enjoy. The banana firms up real nice and has an ice-creamy texture. So good!

Ry-pie didn't like the idea of sharing, but she was kind enough to let Cal J lick her fingers at least. Kids are gross! :)

Felt sweets

One of my good friend's daughter just turned 4. I wanted to make her something cute, and thought what 4 year old wouldn't like a nice array of delicious sweets! Felt sweets - naturally! How 'bout cookies, cupcakes, and donuts - [in my best Homer Simpson voice]- mmmmm....donuts! Take a look. I think she'll like them.

And I hope you do too!

Pop-tarts

Santa brought Caleb a diner for Christmas, (not a kitchen of course, that's girlie). Lol. I've been making him "food" for it ever since. One of the easiest and cutest things was...Pop-tarts!

Now I'd like to say that we don't normally have these in the house....but who am I kidding, my mother-in-law (the best) brings them over....as little treats for Caleb. And yes, I'm guilty of indulging in them once in awhile too.

Supplies:
Different sheets of felt (light brown, white, and other colors)
Fabric markers
Sewing machine, thread
Glue



I just started off with two rectangular shapes of light brown felt. (You can make two pop-tarts from one piece of felt. Just cut in half lengthwise, and then again cross-wise.)


Sew around edge leaving an opening at the bottom to turn inside out.

Turn inside out and stitch closed.

Take a piece of white felt and cut out a piece that looks like this...


Then glue onto "pop-tart".

Take some fabric markers, and just dot all over the white "frosting" part for the sprinkles. I've seen other felt food like cupcakes, cookies and such, with beads stitched on for the sprinkles. But I think these look cute as is.

Done.

To make them even cuter I did the same thing as above but scalloped one corner to make it look like there was a bite taken out of it. Before I sewed the two pieces of felt together I slipped in a red piece of felt with the same scalloping as the "filling", (strawberry of course).



I'll post some more "food" projects that I've done later. Enjoy your weekend!