Sloppy Joe Cups

I've been trying to come up with some more kid friendly recipes that my kids will actually approve of!  They can be so picky sometimes!!  This one was a pretty big hit...with both the little kids, and the big one!

Sloppy Joe Cups

Prep Time: 20 minutes Cook Time: 13 minutes Difficulty: EASY Serves:10

You will need:

1 lb hamburg meat

1 can Sloppy Joe Mix

6 oz Shredded Cheese

1 pkg Biscuits

1 Muffin pan

Preheat oven to 375

Ground the hamburg meat. Drain and pour in can of Sloppy Joe mix, let simmer on low for about 5 minutes stirring occasionally.

Flatten and stretch each biscuit 

Press biscuits into sprayed muffin pan, making individual cups.

Spoon 1 tbsp of sloppy joe mixture into each biscuit cup.

Bake for 10 minutes {at 375}

Sprinkle shredded cheese over top of each cup and cook for additional 3 minutes

These are also good with BBQ sauce instead of sloppy joe mix!  Just substitute can of sloppy joe mix for 1/2 cup of bbq sauce!  Goes great with broccoli or fruit salad...or all by themselves!

Attack of the robot spaghetti

Last night for dinner we decided to get creative and have some fun!!  I've been wanting to try this recipe I found with the kids so I figured it would be a good night for it!  They loved it!!  We voted on the name for it and have decided to call it "robot spaghetti" =)

Robot Spaghetti

You will need:

• A handful of spaghetti noodles, broken in half
• 1 package of hot dogs 
• 1 BIG pot
• Boiling water

1.) Cut the hot dogs in either 1/2's or 1/3's

spaghetti noodles in half.  hot dogs in 1/3's

2.) Now have your child push noodles into their hot dog pieces.  Let them use as many noodles as they want!

3.)Now it's time to boil your robots!!  {This step is where the big pot comes in!!  We had a hard time fitting more than one Robot into a pot, so we had to do them one at a time.}

4.) Boil for 7 minutes, or until spaghetti is fully cooked.

5.) Enjoy!!!  

Toppings: We topped ours with butter and parmasean cheese {that's how my kids eat their spaghetti} but you could top it with cheese, marinara sauce, or even eat them plain!

Snowman Straws

The kids and I got into the Holiday spirit today by cranking up the Christmas music and doing fun holiday crafts/baking.  We started off our Christmas Eve morning with a "special" cup of Hot Cocoa!!  Here is what we did...

Snow Man Straws:

For each snowman straw you will need: 

• 1 straw
• 3 marshmellows
• 1 Hershey kiss (optional)
• small handful of mini kisses
• frosting to help the kisses stay on (also optional but very helpful!)

First:  you are going to stick the straw through the marshmellow, bottom end first!  (Helpful tip! GET THICK STRAWS! The ones I had on hand bent very easily, and it worked find, just made it more difficult)

REPEAT with all three marshmellows

Next you will need to put a small dab of frosting on one mini kiss and then stick it to the marshmellow.  You could also just push the mini kisses into the marshmellow.  

After the face is on, you can choose to add buttons, or in our case we decided our snowmen needed hats!  For the hats we used one Hershey kiss (candy cane flavored!)  and a small line of frosting to help it stick.

And now you're ready to drink! We waited to make our hot chocolate until after the snowmen were almost done so that way it'd still be nice and hot when we were ready to drink.

My boys gave this recipe a  "two thumbs up!"      =)