Easiest Dessert Ever

I love having a dessert to snack on after dinner.

 I also like being able to bring goodies to my family when we come to visit for the holidays.

This is the perfect recipe for all the above, and it's super easy.

If I can do it, you can do it. promise.

 Behold---Crockpot Candy

1 jar (16 oz) dry roasted, unsalted peanuts

1 jar (16 oz) dry roasted salted peanuts

1 pkg (12 oz) semi-sweet chocolate chips

4 oz sweetened german chocolate (green packaging) broken into pieces

3 lbs (two 24 oz pkgs.) white almond bark, broken into pieces (some packages of almond bark may have candy coating on the package instead)

Put ingredients into a 4 or 5 quart crockpot in EXACT order as listed. Cover and cook on LOWEST setting for 3 hours. DO NOT remove lid! Turn off and allow to cool slightly. Mixture will not be melted but will be soft. Mix thoroughly and drop by teaspoon size cookie dropper or a teaspoon onto wax paper. Let cool thoroughly. Makes approximately 150 - 170 pieces, depending, of course, on how large you make the pieces.

The lowest setting on my crockpot is "Warm," and that works perfectly for this recipe. Do not put the crockpot on "Low" because it will literally cook the chocolate. You will have a burned chocolate mess. Not speaking from experience or anything... 

The recipe makes a TON of candy, so this is perfect to make as teacher gifts. I usually make some to keep at home and make some to take to work.

The only problem is figuring out how to stop eating them!

Here's the original link to the recipe.

Thanks for hosting Steph & Katie!

Halloween Recap & Pinterest Fail

Hope everyone had a safe & happy Halloween yesterday! I dressed up for work trick or treat as Raggedy Ann.

What a sweet doll! :) haha

And we're back again linking up this week with Beautiful Mess & Keep Calm & Carry On for

Saw it. Pinned it. Did it.

Today's post should be called Saw it. Pinned it. Screwed it up. Because that's exactly what I did.

Everyone has seen the iced coffee recipe from Pioneer woman floating around on Pinterest.

Looks delish, right?

I had gotten fed up with spending so much money at starbucks when I could just make it at home myself.

As you know already, I'm not Mrs. Susie Homemaker by any means, so when I read PW's recipe, I knew I needed to follow it to the letter.

Since she used enourmous container, I needed to use them too.

So, I bought two of these on amazon for $25 each. As well as the cheese cloth and strainer since I had none of these items on hand. I also bought a pound of coffee at starbucks.

After following all the instructions, I was so excited to try my first glass of iced coffe. I am not a patient person, so it was a big deal to let the coffee steep for so long. After pouring the liquid (I'm not even going to call it coffee.) into a pitcher, I noticed it was the consistancy oil. Oh well..maybe this is just a side effect of making it at home. I'm sure it will taste fine.

Nope.

 It was terrible. And the worst part is that I have no idea how I messed it up. Usually I can say specifically where I deviated from the recipe and shouldn't have, but I can't think of a single thing I could have done wrong. 

Now I'm stuck with huge container and cheese cloth that I will probably never use again. Typical.