Gracious Rain

Please, now before you say–“What the heck is an Peanut Butter Weeble?’ I’ll confess. I made it up.

But hear me out…

My intentions were good. Honestly. I found a wonderful sounding Peanut Butter Egg recipe. I made it and rolled eggs for about 400 years. Ok, ok…about an hour.

It felt longer.

Anyway, I put them in the fridge to set and then read the dreaded words

“dip in melted chocolate.”

I tried to remain calm.

You need to understand that some things just don’t work out all that well for a few of us. “Dip in melted chocolate” is one of those “things” for me.

Without sharing the gory and often humiliating details–let me just say, my history with chocolate dipping isn’t good.

Oh, my father–the professional CHEF could do it magnificently.

My sister can make her own dipped marshmallows—beautifully.

My daughters, I’m certain could pull it off without blinking.

But me…

truth is, I’m a melted chocolate, “why does it always fall into the pot” flunky. Ever seen “Fail Blog?” It’s sad to watch.

So, in the interest of being an Easter candy team player and trying my best to look like I did all this on purpose, I decided to use a new approach to dipping that I prefer to call plopping. Oh, it’s new.

My original hope was that the chocolate would just gracefully glide over the pb eggs and no one would be the wiser.

But alas…

it did not.

As I said, dipping chocolate and I are not exactly on speaking terms.

Being a trooper, however–I forged ahead and when I glanced back at my ridiculous work, all those little eggs began to look like a tiny army of silly men with very bad toupees.

I’m afraid the next, very natural step,

could

not

be

helped.

Sorry about the blurriness…we were laughing.

You are welcome to call yours anything you like. Even something as civilized as Chocolate Peanut Butter Easter Eggs will be fine.

But for me and mine–we know a Weeble when we see one.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Easter Eggs

Ingredients:

1/4 lb. butter

8 oz. cream cheese

1/2 t. salt

1- 1/2 tsp. vanilla

1- 1/2 cup peanut butter

4 cups powdered sugar

Soften and mix cream cheese and butter. Add remaining ingredients and chill for 2 hours. Form into eggs and dip in melted chocolate…

…unless you can think of something more fun to do with them.  hee hee

 

This week will likely be a decadent parade of easy, incredible Easter treats. You see, in my quest to find some really fabulous Easter crafts–a dreadful thing happened. I discovered that there were way more enticing goodies than there were things to make with egg cartons and tacky glue. So, it wasn’t actually my fault. I was completely…ahhh…overcome.

Yeah…that’s it.

These are a wonderful way to start.

Easter Bird Nests

Directions:

Melt 1/4 cup butter in medium saucepan. Add 16 oz bag of marshmallows and stir over medium heat until melted. Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla. Add 12 oz Chow Mein noodles and stir till well coated with marshmallow.

Place and egg size spoonfull in each cup of a buttered muffin tin.  Shape into nests by gently pressing a dent in the middle of each one. Let them set for an hour or so then add a couple of jelly beans or chocolate eggs.

Wrap each nest in a plastic bag before putting in an Easter basket.

Besides being really cute–they actually taste good too. Beat that!