Mom's Series: Bear Poop

My mother likes to collect recipes she finds from magazines, newspapers, friends, TV shows..you name it and give them to me when I come to visit her in Georgia. I tell her all the time how much I love them and appreciate them.. however, I haven't been showings so... So in honors of the recent Mother's Day I finally decided I was going to work my way through these recipes, when I remember..lol!!

I started with one I received last summer when I spent 3 weeks with my mother and Aunt Dottie (who is turning 101 in a few weeks!). I was going through a very difficult personal time and found it relaxing to write some of the recipes she had on index cards, then of course cheating and taking pictures of the index cards with my iPad. :) It made the time a bit easier and of course made me smile with the thoughts of creating some of these things for the kids!

First the recipe:

Bear Droppings:

And this is what I did...

I had 1 cup of chocolate chips and about 2 oz. of almond bark.

Instead of adding shortening, I added coconut oil. 1 tbsp.

While all that was melting I measured out 2/3 cup dried cranberries and 2/3 cup a peanut butter trail mix...

Then choose to put in some marshmallow for fun.. Not because that's what bears eat...

Mixed it all up and set aside patiently awaiting its warm/hot chocolate bath!!

Once the chocolate, almond bark and coconut oil had melted all together, I removed it from the heat and set it on a hot pad...

Then I added the dry to the melted... Stirred it all up.. Then dropped by the tablespoon full on to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper..

Then placing it in the refrigerator to chill for a nice after school treat!

What will I create next on this wonderful stack of recipes mom gave me?!? Maybe one a week! How about Mondays?! OK sounds good to me too!!

See you next week for Mom's series!

<3 T

Simply Always, Tina