Ice Cream Sundae Pops!

One of the things the kids wanted to do was make different types of Popsicles this summer. The first kind we tried were ice cream sundae pops. We started with these ingredients:

Dixie cups, Popsicle (craft) sticks, peanuts, peanut butter, hot fudge (not heated up), Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and vanilla ice cream.
You can use whatever combination of treats you like. We are big peanut butter & chocolate lovers in this house, so that's why we chose these.

Everyone started out with a layer of peanuts in the bottom of the cup:

Then everyone added whatever else they wanted in whatever order they wanted in between layers of ice cream:

When it was almost full, we added a last layer of ice cream and a popsicle stick:

After a couple of hours in the freezer, we got them out, cut/tore off the paper cup....

and enjoyed them!

These were YUMMY! They were a little big though, so next time I will either get smaller cups or only fill these half full. Either way, the kids called this a success & something that we want to do again!

S'Mores!

One of the things that always makes our summer list is S'Mores. We love traditional S'Mores, and we love them with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, but this year, we thought we would also try the Girl Scouts Thanks-A-Lot cookies because they have shortbread & chocolate in them. (and we have a lot of GS cookies left....) We even got the marshmallows that are specifically for S'Mores! (They are flat and rectangular.)

Jeff got the fire going & the kids started roasting their marshmallows.

It's always fun to sit around and eat sweets together. ;0) And I'm glad we did this before it got too hot!