DIY Mother’s Day Paper Flower Bouquet

DIY Mother’s Day Paper Flower Bouquet

Chocolate Covered Cherry Brownie Bombs

Chocolate Covered Cherry Brownie Bombs

Totally creative?

Yes!

Ingredients

• 1 box of brownie mix and the fixin's it takes to make them
• 1 can of chocolate frosting
• 3 to 4 cups of milk chocolate chocolate chips
• 1 can of cherry pie filling

Instructions

Bake the brownies as directed and let cool completely. Do not overcook the brownies, crunchy brownie bits don't make for good bombs.
Crumble the made brownies and mix in about 3/4 a cup of chocolate frosting. If you've made cake pops before, you want a similar consistency. 

You may need to add a little more, but you want to start out on the low side and add more if you need it.

Once you have it the consistency needed (stays together easily but isn't too sticky to roll into balls), start with about 1 TBSP of brownie frosting mixture. 

Form it into a ball, but then make a hole in the middle that you can drop one cherry from the pie filling into.
Top with a little more of the brownie/frosting mixture and do your best to seal the cherry in.

Once you have all your bombs made, pop them in the freezer for about 20 minutes.

While they are hardening up in the freezer, melt your chocolate. You may need a little more or a little less depending on how heavily you coat the bombs.

After the 20 minutes, take them out of the freezer and keep them in the refrigerator. 

Working one bomb at a time, drop it into the melted chocolate, pull it back out, and tap off the excess chocolate.

Place it on wax paper and wait for it to dry completely.

5 Minute Dessert: Pineapple Pie

5 Minute Dessert: Pineapple Pie

INGREDIENTS

• 1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple (don't drain)
• 1 cup sour cream
• 2 (3.4 ounce) packages vanilla instant pudding mix
• 1 store bought graham cracker pie crust
• Cool whip

INSTRUCTIONS

1. In a large bowl mix crushed pineapple, sour cream and vanilla pudding mix.
2. Pour into pie crust and spread evenly.
3. Chill.
4. Before serving top pie with cool whip.

EASY TASSEL FLOWERS

EASY TASSEL FLOWERS 

HOW TO MAKE EASY TASSEL FLOWERS

MATERIALS:

• yellow yarn
• green yarn
• green pipe cleaners
• fabric glue or hot glue gun
• scissors
• serving fork, 1-1.5 inches wide

DIRECTIONS: 

Tassels are easy to make with a fork. It may take you a tassel or two to get the hang of this technique. Don’t get discouraged, you’ll soon be a pom pom making pro!

1. Gather materials.
2. Place a pipe cleaner along one side of your fork.
3. Wrap the fork and pipe cleaner with yellow yarn. Be careful to keep the wrapped area of yarn about 1 inch wide.
4. Wrap the yarn 25-30 times around the fork.
5. Twist the pipe cleaner together around the end of the yarn. Wrap it 3 times down the stem and then back up toward the flower ( you are forming the base of the stem).
6. Cut a 4-inch piece of green yarn and tie it around the base of the flower (between the last tine of the fork). Remove the tassel from the fork.
7. Not the green yarn tightly two (2) times.
8. Trim the ends of the green yarn close to the knot.
9. Cut a 8-inch piece of green yarn. Add a dot of glue near the green knot and attach the green yarn. Wrap the flower from the green knot down to the stem, wrapping the yarn close together so no yellow yarn shows.
10. Wrap the green yarn until it is about 1/4 inch from the end, add a dot of glue to the flower base and secure the end of the yarn.
11. Cut the loops of the yellow yarn with scissors.
12. Use a fork or metal tool to fray the yarn slightly.
13. Fluff the top of your flower and trim any stray threads.
14. Enjoy your dandelion!

Hand Flower

Hand Flower

Enjoy!