You guys, the holidays are here!! I know I say this every year but I can’t even believe how quickly time goes. It seems like we were just here, brewing our hot chocolate and building snowmen. Time goes so fast. Which is all the more reason to spend less of it worrying about things and more of it enjoying family and friends! So I say, let’s party! Seriously, get your family and friends together and enjoy the season.

And if you are going to be gathering friends and family you’ll obviously need a simple yet yummy treat idea. What about ALL the treats? Like literally, all the fun holiday treats. It’s quite simple, just throw them together and call it a dessert board. You’ll look like a rockstar and it couldn’t be simpler.

Christmas Dessert Board:

Doesn’t this dessert board look amazing…and so yummy? And seriously, it was so simple to put together. The trick to an amazing dessert board is to get a variety of items. The more variety you have the better the board looks. Let’s brainstorm ideas for your board…

Shopping List:

• Mini Sugar Cookies
• Mini Cupcakes
• Red & Green Gummies
• Red & Green M&M’s
• Gingerbread Cookies
• Hershy Kisses
• Peppermint/Chocolate Pretzels
• Toffee
• Truffles
• Caramels

Once you start shopping you will find so many options for your dessert board. Simply purchase items that look good to you and match your color scheme. I promise it will all come together perfectly.

Once you have your items, let’s talk about how to present your board. I have this round board which I love, but you can use any board you have. A cutting board or a tray works great, you can even use a cookie sheet. Don’t get caught up on details, just use what you have, it will be amazing.

Here’s one I found that’s similar to what I have pictured here

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Building your dessert board is super simple. I like to use three bowls on my boards, it just looks nice to have an odd number. Add the three bowls and then build the board around them. Just start to place your food in groups around the bowls and spread around the board. Start with the largest items first and work your way through to the smaller items. The trick is to fill in all the spots. Don’t leave any empty spaces.

That’s it! You will have a simple and yummy dessert to serve your guests.

Have fun serving this simple dessert board.

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Do you guys feel like I do about the holidays? There are so many wonderful things about the season and I just love gathering with family and friends to celebrate. The food, the games, the parties, the lights, the fun, it’s all very magical.

And all very exhausting.

Right?! Does anyone else feel like they need a long winter’s nap after Christmas ends each year?

I’m determined to simplify things for myself and for you as you celebrate this wonderful season with your family this year and this Christmas snack mix is just the thing to ease a little of your burden this holiday season. It’s SO easy to throw together-you literally just buy all the things and throw it together. And it tastes great and looks cute too!

I’ve made this peanut buttery because…yum! Who doesn’t love the combination of peanut butter and chocolate?! There’s only one problem, once you start eating, it’s hard to stop.

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Christmas Snack Mix: 

This is SO simple to make and you can totally tweak it to suit your needs. Delete an ingredient or add one of your own. You can really do anything you want, but here’s a peek at what’s in mine:

• Reese’s Puffs Cereal
• Peanut Butter M&Ms (in Christmas colors)
• Popcorn
• Peanuts
• Marshmallows
• Pretzels
• White chocolate covered pretzels
• Mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup trees

I was going for a good balance of sweet and salty and of course, I wanted lots of peanut butter and chocolate.

This is also really easy to package up in a cute jar. Just add a bow and you’ve got a great neighbor gift! So easy!

Have FUN making this Christmas snack mix!

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~Written by Danetta~

One of my family’s favorite traditions is our Christmas movie night. We invite the cousins over, get pizza and eat lots of yummy treats! Oh yeah, and we squeeze in watching a Christmas movie! It’s such a fun night that my kiddos look forward to all season.

This year we chose to make The Grinch our feature film…we love all versions of this movie!! It was such a fun night filled with all things green, and I’m excited to share all of the details with you.

How to Host a Grinch Party:

Throwing an amazing party doesn’t need to be stressful. That’s the number one secret of throwing an amazing party…keep it simple so you can enjoy it as well!

Let’s talk about all of the green and Grinchy (yes it’s a word ;)) details!

Where does every great party start? With the food of course! We had some fun and simple Grinch treats that were a huge hit with our party goers.

Grinch Popcorn:

This Grinch popcorn could not be simpler. Start with clear plastic cups, add a cute heart sticker and fill it with yummy chocolate popcorn.

To make the popcorn, I used green melting chocolate and simply drizzled it over plain air popped popcorn. Top it off with green M&M’s and you have a simple and yummy Grinch treat.

Grinch Rice Krispie Treats:

I have to give credit to my cute hubby for this next idea. He brainstormed these cuties and I love the way they turned out. And best of all, it’s as simple as making Rice Krispie Treats!

Simply make the Rice Krispie Treats as directed splitting the batch. You won’t need as many of the red Rice Krispie Treats you will only need about a 1/4 of the batch for the red. Add the food coloring after the marshmallows are melted.

When the Rice Krispies are set, use a heart shaped cookie cutter to cut your Rice Krispies making these cute Grinch hearts.

Grinch Cupcakes:

How cute are these!? Simply make your favorite flavor of cupcakes and add these cute cupcake toppers, this is my favorite recipe for cupcakes.

Here are the cute cupcake toppers to print. You can right click and save this tag to your computer, open in a program like Word or Pages then size how you want and print.

Or, here’s a PDF file with a bunch of tags on it that you can just print and use:

Grinch Cupcake Toppers

Grinch Punch:

This drink might just be my new favorite! It is very tasty, and could not be simpler. We mixed our ice cubes with Sprite and for the adults we used Mountain Dew…seriously, so good!

Grinch Punch

Print Recipe

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• Author: Amber & Danetta
• Prep Time: 10 Minutes
• Total Time: 10 minutes
• Yield: 2 Ice Cube Trays

Ingredients

For the Ice Cubes:

• 1 Package Lemon-Lime Kool-Aid
• 1 1/2 Cups Pineapple Juice
• 1 Cup Sugar
• 1 1/2 Cups Water

Pour Over:

• Sprite
• 7-Up
• Mountain Dew

Instructions

Mix all of the ingredients for the ice cubes together. Pour into ice cube trays and freeze.

Pour over your drink of choice.

Now that we have the food taken care of, let’s talk about what we are going to do at this party…other than watch the Grinch of course!

Grinch Party Games:

Grinch Bingo:

Playing bingo while watching the movie adds a little fun to your movie watching experience. Here are several blank bingo boards ready for your guests to fill in. Have each player fill in the squares with things they expect to see while watching the movie. If you are playing with kiddos who know the movie well enough and can “stack” the answers, tell them they will be switching their boards after they are all filled in. That way you don’t have anyone trying to line up their answers.

Here are all of the boards you can print.

You can right click and save this tag to your computer, open in a program like Word or Pages then size how you want and print.

Or, here’s a PDF file with the bingo boards on it that you can just print and use:

Grinch Bingo Boards

Grow the Grinch’s Heart Party Game:

This ended up being a fun game that was super simple. I got clothes pins and used hot glue to attach these heart buttons on them. When each guest comes, give them a clothes pin. The rules of the game are simple, no one can say the word Grinch. If you hear someone say it, you take their pin. The person who ends up with the most pins wins!

This has been such a fun tradition for my family, I hope it becomes one of your too!

Have FUN throwing this Grinch party!

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I kind of feel like any excuse to create something out of donuts is perfect-it doesn’t have to be much of a reason to convince me. Everyone loves donuts, right? So why not use them to help you celebrate every great occasion? (Mostly I just want to create things with donuts so that I can eat the donuts).

I also know that when you are planning a Christmas party, anything that is easy to throw together but is also going to please your guests is exactly what you need. Which is why I used Christmas parties as an excuse to create something fun with donuts! A donut tree! Seriously, this thing is so simple to make and you know your guests are going to love it.

Lately, I’ve been seeing lots of food trees for Christmas parties like trees made of cheese or vegetables, but I couldn’t help but wonder why no one was making a donut tree! So I did it.

Donut Tree for Christmas Parties:

I am not kidding when I say this is easy to make. Takes hardly any time. I made a cute little cardboard tree to go under it which took a little longer but was still easy. You can make that part or if you already have something great to create your tree on, just skip to the actual donut tree.

Cardboard Donut Tree Tray:

Supplies Needed:

• Red Foil
• Cardboard
• Tape

To make this to go under my tree, I simply cut the shape of a tree out of cardboard box. You can make this as big or small as you want, depending on how big you want your tree to be.

Then we covered it with red foil. You can grab red foil in the same spot that you’d get normal foil.

Donut Tree Instructions: 

Supplies Needed:

• Donut Holes (This will depend on how big you want your tree. We used 2 full packages from our grocery store)
• Hershey’s Kisses in holiday colors

I started with the first layer and just laid out the donuts in the shape of a tree. Then added 2-3 layers on top of that.

Then I simply added Hershey’s kisses upside down throughout the tree to look like little ornaments and some at the top to look like a star. So easy!

Then serve it at your party! (Or for Christmas breakfast maybe?) You can refill as needed throughout the party.

Have FUN serving this Donut Tree at your Christmas party!

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‘Tis the season for baking all kinds of yummy treats! Baking at the holidays is fabulous for several reasons. Of course, they taste great! It’s also a fun way to spend time with family and friends and a great way to set traditions that your kids or family will remember through the years.

One of my favorite things to bake at the holidays are cookies and I’m always on the lookout for new recipes and new cookie ideas. If you like to mix it up a little with your holiday baking, you will love this collection of favorite Christmas cookies! They all look out of this world amazing…it will be hard to choose which ones to bake first (such a happy problem)!!

Grab your mixer and cookies sheets because this list will put you in the mood to bake!  And you will probably want some milk on hand…because you can’t have cookies without milk for dipping!

What’s your favorite Christmas cookie? Do you have cookies that you love and bake every year?

I’ve got a wide range of new favorite Christmas cookie ideas for you-some are chocolate, some are mint, some are cute and some are simple. You’ll love these great holiday cookie recipes.

If you’re a cookie lover like me, maybe you should throw a fun cookie themed party this year? Here’s a couple of ideas for you:

• How to Host a Christmas Cookie Exchange Party
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25 Favorite Christmas Cookies:

Peanut Butter M&M Christmas Cookies:

Eggnog Cheesecake Cookies:

Peppermint Kiss Thumbprint Cookies:

Snowball Christmas Cookies:

Reindeer Oreo Cookie Balls:

Christmas Swirl Sugar Cookie:

Peanut Butter Blossoms:

Peppermint Whoopie Pies:

Grinch Cookies:

Melt in your Mouth Eggnog Cookies:

NutterButter Reindeer:

Chocolate M&M Cookies:

Santa Claus Pretzel Bites:

Christmas Sugar Cookie Truffles:

Frosted Sugar Cookie Dip:

Hot Chocolate Cookies:

Copycat Lofthouse Sugar Cookies:

Mickey & Minnie Oreo Cookies:

Santa’s Belly Cookies:

Red Velvet Oreos:

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Gingerbread Men:

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Thin Mint Oreo Cups:

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M&M Cookies:

Have FUN baking these favorite Christmas cookies and creating some new traditions!

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When you think of caramel apples you probably think of Fall usually right? I love caramel apples so much (they’re so yummy!) that I wanted to do a holiday twist on this classic so that we could eat them even longer. And also, how fun is it to make something this pretty for the holidays?

I think this pretty snowball white chocolate caramel apple would make a perfect gift to take to a friend at the holidays, especially when you package it up all pretty like this!

It looks pretty and tastes GREAT! (I know-I gobbled them up.) And if you package it up all nice it makes a great gift for the holiday season.

Fun right?! Would you want to receive this?

Snowball White Chocolate Caramel Apples:

Supplies Needed:

• Granny Smith Apples
• White Melting Chocolate
• Caramel (or ingredients to make your own)
• White Sprinkles
• Blue Sprinkles
• Cellophane Bags
• Ribbon
• Snowflake Ornaments

Instructions:

I just found a recipe on the internet to make caramel to dip our apples in. Use any recipe you prefer for this step.

Dip your apples in caramel and let them set up completely. (I put mine in the refrigerator for a few minutes.)

Once they are totally set up, melt your white chocolate.

Get your sprinkles ready to work with. Mix about 2 parts white with 1 part blue.

Now dip the apples in your white chocolate and then sprinkle with the sprinkle mix.

And let it all set up again.

Then package it up all pretty. I used sheer white and blue ribbon and a cute little snowflake ornament that I found at the craft store.

Love how these turned out!

Have FUN eating and giving these snowball white chocolate caramel apples this holiday season!

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You know that when Christmas time rolls around there are a million treats that you want to bake, eat, buy and share with friends and family right? How do you even decide what to make or eat?

I thought it would be great to have a roundup of fun Christmas treat ideas that are not only yummy, but cute and fun too, sure to put a smile on your face! Here’s 25 FUN Christmas Treats for you to bake this year for the holidays!

Seriously! Do you see how fun those all are?! How are you going to decide which of these fun Christmas treat ideas for make first?! I love them all. Cute Christmas bark, Christmas trees, reindeers and penguins, brownies and snowmen. It’s perfect.

25 Fun Christmas Treats:

Snowman Chocolate Bark:

Reindeer Cupcakes:

Christmas Tree Oreo Pops:

Homemade Peppermint Patties:

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Christmas Trees:

Grinch Cookies:

Disney Cookies:

Oreo Penguins:

Christmas Marshmallow Pops:

Reindeer and Snowmen:

Santa Hat Cheesecake Bites:

Snowman Oreo Balls:

Pretzel Reindeers:

Rice Krispie Treat Christmas Tree:

Hot Chocolate Marshmallow Cookie Cups:

Brownie Christmas Trees:

Snow Globe Cookies:

Christmas Light Cupcakes:

Chocolate Covered Preztel Snowmen:

Melted Snowman Bark:

Grinch Popcorn:

Rudolph Brownies:

Chocolate Christmas Trees:

Snowman Marshmallows:

Christmas Tree Krispie Treats:

Have FUN making all these Christmas treat ideas!

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