LOVE LOVE LOVE my weekends

So apparently this weekend for me has been all about Pinterest recipes.  I love them so much when I find a good one, and they have really helped out my husband and I make our food stretch...which is good because we don't always have the money to keep it stocked. 

Anywho~ today I decided I would use some of my Saturday time to make what I have dubbed double chocolate chunky bark.  It's a recipe that I found on Pinterest and I've added some of my own touches and methods to it.

Of course I always have my faithful helper underfoot awaiting any little droplets.  I was extra careful with this recipe however because it does have the chocolate in it.

 

These are what you'll need to make this delicious delight.  I think that's what I love most about this treat...it only takes 4 ingredients!!  The other thing that I loved most about it was when I was in the mood to make it I already had every ingredient on hand...win win!

First you're going to want to melt your chocolate chips.  Now one thing this recipe DID dirty a lot of dishes for me, but I didn't want things to mix, and I wanted to make sure it was right. 

So after you melt your chocolate chips you're going to want to add your cereal.  Now the recipe called for 5 cups of cereal, and I didn't measure mine out I just kept pouring until it seemed like all the pieces would be covered.  It did use all our cereal (sorry hon!) but I figured this treat was worth it.

After your cereal is coated with the chocolate you'll want to melt your white chocolate and I used the whole block of almond bark but it was too much with what I ended up doing.  When your white chocolate is all melted you will want to add peanut butter.  The recipe I copied this off of had black and white chunks and mine has a bit of a tan tint to it (what can I say I LOVE peanut butter and couldn't stop shoveling it in...) so it all depends on how you mix it up.  The heat from the white chocolate will melt the peanut butter just fine and it smells so amazing.

So this is the finished product!!  You can put this in whatever you want...silicone cupcake molds would make the perfect portion sizes but I didn't have any that weren't minis and I don't have any regular cake molds so I just put it out on foil and laid it out on my cookie sheet.  It's in the fridge cooling right now and I so can't wait to cut into it and eat some.  We have a big pizza cutter rocker style that I will use to cut it up.

Enjoy!!

Chunky Monkeys

Ok guys sorry for the absence I was kind of having a time of it so I didn't get on for awhile...sorry for those of you who were actually reading it...which is probably not many anyway. 

So my hubs and I are cookie fanatics and I LOVE eating raw cookie dough but I've been told over and over and over that it's "bad for me" and I "can't have it" but I eat it anyway. 
Soooo with the recent -healthy bandwagon- I've been searching for recipes that would be healthier for us, and I came across these.  I've decided to call them chunky monkeys because the main ingredient for them (the one that you use the most anyway) is bananas.

Here is a photo of all the ingredients you'll need:

This is what they look like going into the oven and really coming out...they have no rising element so they come out looking like no bakes, they're just baked so it makes them better because the chips are gooier.  Also yours truly is allergic to bananas unless they've been cooked in some way so this recipe had my attention from the top.

So ok these were good...not that great...but acceptable.  I decided to not put them up because honestly we didn't devour them like I thought we would.  Then I had one this morning...they were amazing!!  It's crazy to me how they could be that much better after sitting out all night and I really don't know why or how...my hubs had 5 of them this evening instead of the 1 the other night so I'm not complaining lol. 

Enjoy!