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Leprechaun Pies!

March 8th, 2012

St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, so I thought I would bring back and oldie – but a goodie! – Leprechaun Pies! Today, I’ll be showing you how to repurpose empty baby food jars and make delicious Leprechaun Personal Pies!!

First thing you need to do is gather approximately 10 baby jars. Be sure to take off the label and run them through the dishwasher.

Next, you will need the following ingredients:

12 oz of White Chocolate Chips (or one bag)
1/2 cup Whipping Cream
8 oz. Cream Cheese, softened (or one package)
1 tsp. Green Food Coloring
1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
1 cup Powdered Sugar
2 Cups Whipping Cream, Whipped Until Stiff
2 Graham Cracker Crusts (I was lazy and didn’t make my own!)
1 package Andes Mints (or check your bulk candy section in your grocer!)

Cooking Instructions (a little different from last time):

In a large, microwave-safe bowl, combine the white chocolate and 1/2 cup of the whipping cream. Microwave on high power, 30 seconds at a time, stirring after each time, until the chocolate is completely melted and the mixture is smooth.
With an electric mixer, beat the rest of the ingredients into the chocolate mixture until everything is evenly blended – adding just enough green food coloring to give it a nice green hue.
Pour the whipped chocolate/graham mixture into the jars until they are just about full and place one Andes mint into the center of the mix.
Secure the lids back on the jars and allow to chill in the refrigerator for about 4 hours or overnight.
To give these personal pies a little pizazz (I love alliteration), I created these toppers for the lids - and you can download them here for free! And they fit a 2″ paper punch perfectly!

And to give these little pies a bit more flare, I zig-zag stitched the tops to scraps of white fabric.

And then secured them to the tops of the jars with white yarn.

Cute, simple, and recycled! Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day!

If you download the toppers and make your own personal pies, please email me or leave a link of the pictures!

Until next time!

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Green on the Brain

March 17th, 2011

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! I took this picture of Mr. Bruce Wayne last year, and it’s just too cute not to share again :)

And since it’s one of the greenest days of the year, I thought I would give you guys a little sneak peak at what I’ve been working on at home…

I’ve got this small nook-type area in my apartment that over the holidays was a perfect spot for my Christmas Tree. But now that the holidays are over, this empty space has been calling at me. It says, ‘Turn me into a craft corner!’ And so, I have decided to do just that.

The last couple of weeks I have been perusing the internet, searching for ‘craft corner’ inspiration. And then I came across this picture via Martha Stewart (of course):

I decided that I’m going with all white furniture with splashes of green, yellow, aqua and neutral as accents. It’s no secret that my favorite color is green, so when I saw this I knew it was fate!

I can’t wait to get everything together and share with you all! Do any of you have a craft corner or room to boast about? I would love to see pictures, so if you do please share them on my Facebook wall!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you all!

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Leprechaun Pie!

March 16th, 2010

So I’ve been holding onto these baby food jars my friend Ashley has been giving me for some time now. And yesterday I decided to put them to good use! While this project was not originally on my list for this week, I just had to include it! Today, I’ll be showing you how to repurpose empty baby food jars and make Leprechaun Personal Pies, perfect for St. Patrick’s Day!

First thing you need to do is gather approximately 10 baby jars. Be sure to take off the label and run them through the dishwasher.

Next, you will need the following ingredients:

12 oz of White Chocolate Chips (or one bag)
1/2 cup Whipping Cream
8 oz. Cream Cheese, softened (or one package)
1 tsp. Green Food Coloring
1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
1 cup Powdered Sugar
2 Cups Whipping Cream, Whipped Until Stiff
2 Graham Cracker Crusts (I was lazy and didn’t make my own!)
1 package Andes Mints

Cooking Instructions:

In a large, microwave-safe bowl, combine the white chocolate and 1/2 cup of the whipping cream. Microwave on high power, 30 seconds at a time, stirring after each time, until the chocolate is completely melted and the mixture is smooth.
With an electric mixer, beat the softened cream cheese, the green food coloring, the vanilla or peppermint extract and the powdered sugar into the chocolate mixture until everything is evenly blended.
With an electric mixer, beat 2 cups of whipping cream until it is stiff. Gently fold the whipped cream into the white (or green rather!) chocolate mixture, taking care not to deflate the cream, until no white streaks remain.
Take your baby food jars, fill them about 1/4 of the way up with crushed graham crumb crust.
Pour the whipped chocolate mixture into the jars until they are about 3/4 full. Basically, just don’t fill them to the top.
Secure the lids back on the jars and allow to chill in the refrigerator for about 4 hours or overnight.

After you have allowed the pies to chill, reopen then and place an Andes mint in each jar. Looks so yummy!

Replace your caps – and now for a surprise! To give these personal pies a little pizazz (I love alliteration), I created these toppers for the lids – and you can download them here for free!