Cake Batter Buddies

One of the awesome things about a blog is that is can be made into a book! I want to start occasionally posting our favorite Hardy recipes to the Blog....because one day....deep sign....my littles might want these for their own....

Chex Funfetti Cake Batter Buddies

Ingredients:

5 cups Chex cereal (I used Rice Chex, but Corn Chex would work great!)

10 oz (5 squares) vanilla flavored Almond Bark

1 1/2 cups Funfetti cake mix (any kind of cake mix would work)

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1 tsp vegetable shortening

Directions:

1. Melt Almond Bark according to the package directions, adding vegetable shortening to thin (I heard that you can make it without the shortening, but it worked great for me to use it).

2. Pour the cereal into a large bowl and drizzle the melted Almond Bark over the cereal. Mix gently with a large spoon or spatula.

3. Dump the cake mix and powdered sugar onto the cereal and mix gently with large spoon until all the cereal is evenly coated.

4. Enjoy!! It's so good! :)

We can't get enough of these! My littles love them! Just wanted to share!

Strawberry Bread

Lila Ray made Strawberry bread at school today! She was so excited....sister loves a project and a recipe is one of her favorite things...from start to finish she is in it! She brought home a little piece in a baggy and let us all sample a little taste! She was so cute...smiling ear to ear and so proud! The bread was amazing too! Here is the recipe for Lila's strawberry bread!

Strawberry Bread

3 cups flour          

1 tap salt

1 tsp baking soda

2 tsp cinnamon 

1/2 tsp ginger

1 3/4 cup sugar

1 1/4 cup vegetable oil

4 eggs, beaten

24 oz. frozen strawberries, undrained

2 T lemon juice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 large loaf pans. Sift together flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, and ginger. Set aside. In a large bowl mix sugar, oil, and eggs. Add strawberries and lemon juice. Mix in flour mixture. Pour into loaf pans. Bake 1 hour. Cool before removing from pans.

(2 large loaf pans=3 medium= 6 small)

Enjoy! 

Cake Batter Buddies please

 On my refrigerator I have a dry erase board where I jot down things I need at the store...a running list of sorts. Yesterday when I glanced at it I noticed a new addition......

Unfortunately for me you can't buy cake batter chex mix at the store, but fortunately for Riggs I thought it was so cute that I made it for him anyway. It'a a new Pinterest favorite at the Hardy house..it may be borderline an addiction.  

Chex Funfetti Cake Batter Buddies

Adapted from: So Very Blessed

Ingredients:

5 cups Chex cereal (I used Rice Chex, but Corn Chex would work great!)

10 oz (5 squares) vanilla flavored Almond Bark

1 1/2 cups Funfetti cake mix (any kind of cake mix would work)

1/2 cup powdered sugar

1 tsp vegetable shortening

Directions:

1. Melt Almond Bark according to the package directions, adding vegetable shortening to thin (I heard that you can make it without the shortening, but it worked great for me to use it).

2. Pour the cereal into a large bowl and drizzle the melted Almond Bark over the cereal. Mix gently with a large spoon or spatula.

3. Dump the cake mix and powdered sugar onto the cereal and mix gently with large spoon until all the cereal is evenly coated.

4. Enjoy!! It's so good! :)