Make Your Own Gluten Free Drumstick Ice Cream Cone with Reese's Spread

We received a Reese's Spread from influenster.

I wish I took a picture of it when it came in the mail, but my husband was pretty excited to try it out! ... so, the box was tossed and an empty jar. lol
He described the Reese's Spread tastes like what you'd expect PB Cup would taste like if you put in the microwave & stirred it up.

So, he enjoyed it on ritz crackers. And we decided to try it with something else.

You know those Drumstick Ice Cream cones? with the caramel center. since going gluten free, i miss those. a lot. so, I decided to make my own!

Alright, let's get started.

Here are the things that you will need:

Reese's Spread*

Gluten Free Sugar Cones  (Our local grocery store carries the Joy brand)

Caramel Sauce (I use Torani brand**)

Vanilla Ice Cream

Magic Shell - Chocolate or Chocolate Fudge

Knife

1. Grab the knife. Spread the Reese's Spread inside the cone.

2. Put a little bit of ice cream in. Then a little bit of caramel sauce.

3. Add a little bit more and then a swirl of the caramel sauce again. Basically repeat step 3 until the desired amount of ice cream is accomplished. End with ice cream on top.

4.  this part is a bit messy. Do this part over a plate. Pour the magic shell over your ice cream cone, slowly! The magic shell drips quick, so, be prepared! Pour the desired amount over your ice cream.

That's it! Super easy, and delicious!

* If you don't like Reese's or have a nut allergy, you can use a chocolate spread or a different kind of spread.

** the syrup caramel classic has gluten though, be sure you purchase the sauce

Just to let you know that I received these products complimentary from Influenster for testing purposes.

Prepared meals - Italian Chicken

One of the things that Steve and I want to do this year is not eat out as much.

I’m going to start posting meat sales that I plan on buying, and the frozen meals that I’ll be making, along with the recipes. The meals will serve 2 – 3 people. If you want to serve more, just double the recipe.

We buy our meats from Hen House (a local grocery store in Kansas City). I know that many of you don’t have Hen House, but you can use the main meat for whenever your favorite meat shop has the meat that I list on sale.
This week’s meat sale:
Chicken Breasts $1.99/lb – I bought 6 total breasts (for 2 separate meals)

I’ll be making Italian Chicken.  (Make sure you print the “To Cook” part twice for each separate meal so you don’t forget what you’re cooking and how to cook it!)

Ingredients:
Wet Bag:
3 Chicken Breasts
Add ¼ Cup liquid Egg

Dry Bag:
¼ cup parmesan cheese
¼ cup bread crumbs
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper

Wet Bag:
3 tablespoons Italian Dressing
and
3 tablespoons butter


ITALIAN CHICKEN
To Cook:
Thaw. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a baking pan with cooking spray. Remove chicken and place in bread crumb mixture to coat. Drizzle 1 tbsp of dressing and top each with butter pad. Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes.  Uncover the last 10 minutes for the top to brown.

Put all these bags into a gallon bag for one meal, and put the how to cook in each meal bag.

Perfect Quaker Cookies

I'm not sure if you've noticed at the side, there is a button for TangoPony. We are both a part of KCEtsy Street Team (it's pretty awesome, and you should join if you're in KC)

On her blog, she posted the Perfect Quaker Cookies!

picture source

I don't know about you, but I do love me sommmme good Oatmeal Raisin cookies!

Check out her post for the recipe and her adventure to the grocery store searching for the perfect Quaker Cookies!

Blueberry Spinach Smoothie

Child #1 doesn't care for vegetables... so, he always says that green foods makes him sick.

We usually hide vegetables in their foods, but he always somehow finds them and picks them out.

I've been on a smoothie kick lately, it first started by me purchasing Jamba Smoothie Mixes. They're delicious by the way! But I figured that I need to do something healthier.

I made my own Blueberry Spinach smoothie.

1 cup frozen blueberries
~3 cups of spinach (take the stems off if you need to)
1 frozen banana (peeled, of course)
1 frozen peach (i usually have it peeled, but it's not necessary)
1 container of plain greek yogurt (our favorite greek yogurt is Oikos)
1/4 cup apple juice

Serves approx. 3 - 4

put it all together in a blender and mix until smooth.

I have to make sure I make these "green" smoothies not the color green. Child #1 will start questioning! So, I thought that blueberries would 'hide' the green color.

The boys loved it! They couldn't taste the spinach, and it's definitely a do again!

I totally took the picture of the smoothie late, we were all enjoying the smoothie so much, that toward the end, I was like, "Oh no! I need to take a picture!"

Smores in a Cone

Smores in a Cone? Yep! On Father's day, we had the grill going, and any time we have the grill going... we always make smores! My mother in law mentioned that she heard someone talk about making smores in a cone! So, we tried it out!

I'm so bad at taking picture of what we used. So, I meshed pictures together! Hahaha, I know So classy!

Here are the items that we used:

So, take one piece of the Hershey rectangle, and break it in half. Put it in the sugar cone, and tear the marshmallow in half, put the first half in, then two more Hershey chocolate piece. then put the second half of the marshmallow on top of the chocolate pieces.

Wrap it up in a foil.
Put it on the grill!

It depends on the heat of the grill, we put it on for about 8 minutes. 

When you open it, be careful because the top marshmallow that we put on top is going to be all over the foil.

The kids loved it. I did too... so much that I ate two! :)

I think next time, I'll use the mini-marshmallow, so I wouldn't need to tear any large marshmallows apart.


Let me know if you gave it a try!