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2-Ingredient Peanut Butter-Chocolate Truffles

Sep 01, 2019 Posted by: Jemelee Arcibal

This two-ingredient take on “Buckeyes” is so easy, your friends and family won’t believe it. A great one to add to your holiday cookie list.

Ingredients

1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury™ refrigerated peanut butter cookies 

1 bag (12 oz) semisweet chocolate chips (2 cups)

Steps

  1. Heat oven to 350°F. Shape cookie dough into 1 1/4-inch balls; place 2 inches apart on 2 ungreased cookie sheets.
  2. Bake 8 to 9 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool on cookie sheets 5 minutes. With buttered hands, shape each cookie into ball; refrigerate 10 to 15 minutes or until completely cooled. Meanwhile, line cookie sheet with waxed paper; set aside.
  3. In medium bowl, microwave chocolate chips uncovered on High 60 to 90 seconds, stirring until smooth.
  4. Dip cooled cookie balls, one at a time, into melted chocolate; place on cookie sheet. If necessary, reheat chocolate. Refrigerate truffles about 10 minutes or until coating is set.

By Pillsbury Kitchens

 

Expert Tips: Stir 2 tablespoons shortening into melted chocolate for easier dipping. Dress up your truffles by topping with chopped peanuts, or chocolate-covered peanut butter cup candies.

     

    FUN & EASY SCIENCE EXPERIMENT FOR PRESCHOOLERS

    Aug 31, 2019 Posted by: Jemelee Arcibal

    This science activity can be for all ages to enjoy but my preschooler loves this science experiment as it’s super easy and fun.  Warning: This is a parent/teacher hands on science experiment as well!

    Materials needed:

    • Mason Jars
    • Sticks/Pens/Pencils
    • String/Twine
    • Scissors
    • Borax
    • Water
    • Pipe Cleaners

    Source: Sixth Bloom

    Step by Step Science Project Experiment:

    Adjust the steps according to how many hearts you will be making and experimenting with.  To get the science of this project to really create some great borax crystals we used the method below.  To truly have a science experiment we adjusted the amount of borax in some of our jars to learn if more borax was needed for more crystals, less for less crystals etc. 

    1- Have a pot of water boiling on the stove.

    2- While your water is boiling, create hearts/shapes using your pipe cleaners.

    3- Attach a string onto your pipe cleaner heart/shape.

    4- Once water is boiling fill your mason jar up with boiling water.  Keep your preschooler at a distance when you are pouring this hot water into the mason jars. 

    5- Add 3 TBSP of Borax to every cup of water you pour into the jar

    6- Whisk your borax in the hot water until it’s dissolved.

    7- Place your pipe cleaner shape into your jar and attach to a stick/pen/pencil to set on top of jar and leave hanging.

    8- Let your little ones observe…we left ours overnight and the next morning when she woke up that was the first thing she ran to see was her hearts and they were beautiful borax crystal hearts!

    Easy Nutella™ Cookie Roll-ups

    Aug 26, 2019 Posted by: Jemelee Arcibal

    These surprisingly simple four-ingredient beauties made with pie crust will be a hit anywhere you serve them.

    By Pillsbury Kitchens

    Ingredients

    1 box Pillsbury™ refrigerated pie crusts, softened as directed on box SAVE $

    ⅔ cup Nutella™ hazelnut spread with cocoa

    1 tablespoon butter, melted

    1 ½ teaspoons coarse white sparkling sugar

    Steps

    1 Heat oven to 375°F. On work surface, unroll 1 crust; spread half of the hazelnut spread over crust. Cut crust into 16 triangles.

    2 Roll up each triangle into crescent shape; place on ungreased large cookie sheet about 1 inch apart. Repeat with remaining crust and hazelnut spread.

    3 Brush tops with melted butter; sprinkle with coarse white sparkling sugar.

    4 Bake 20 to 22 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.

    Expert Tips: 

    Nuts over nuts? Sprinkle 1/4 cup any kind of chopped nuts over the hazelnut spread before cutting into wedges.

    Use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into wedges. But don’t cut at lightning speed, or the crust will lift off the counter.