Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Truffles

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Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Truffles, Wedding Deserts

I am always looking for some fun new tasty recipe that I can make for my friends.  Today I found a great recipe and I thought I would share it with you. The great thing is about these “Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Truffles” is that they taste so good you could even make them and serve them at a wedding reception! They are delicious!

Prep Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes -Yield: 3-4 dozen

Ingredients

For the Truffle:

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup creamy peanutbutter
• 1 cup all purpose flour
• 1/4 tsp kosher salt
• 3/4 cup mini Reese’s Pieces

For the Coating:

• 12 oz chocolate candy coating, melted
• 2 oz vanilla bark (candy coating), melted
• 1 Tbsp peanut butter

Instructions

1. In a mixing bowl, beat butter with brown sugar and peanut butter until creamy. Add flour and salt. Fold in the mini Reese’s Pieces.
2. Using a one tablespoon scoop, drop balls onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Freeze for two hours.
3. Using a toothpick, dip each frozen truffle into melted chocolate candy coating. Tap on side of bowl to remove excess chocolate. Repeat until all truffles have been coated. In a small bowl, mix melted vanilla bark with peanut butter. Pour into a small ziploc bag and snip off the corner. Drizzle over the chocolate coated truffles. Allow to set, about 10 minutes. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to two weeks. ENJOY!

Love is in the Air

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Best Way to say I Love You, I Love You, Romance, Romantic

Relationships can grow stale if you don’t make an effort to freshen or liven things up.  My friend told me the best idea.  It’s simple, very low cost and very unique.

What you have to do is buy a package of glow in the dark stars, the kind made to stick on your walls (google Glow in the Dark Stars to easily find them very cheap).  Now stick the stars on your ceiling above your bed and spell out a message like “I Love You” and that night when you turn off the lights your message will be revealed.

 

Affordable Wedding Favors

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Candles, Candy, Little Bags of Candy, Personalized Wedding Gifts, Wedding Favors

Weddings are expensive.  The second you come up with the money to pay for a fabulous cake, you find you are short for the right napkins.  You get those paid off and now you need money for wedding favors.  Luckily that happens to be one of the areas that if you can be a little creative, you can save some money.

You don’t have to splurge on expensive favors for your guests, which if you aren’t careful can end up costing you thousands of dollars.  But not to worry … I’ll help you come up with a solution that won’t break the break.

Idea #1 – Candle With Care

Anyone who has ever visited a dollar store knows you can get individually wrapped taper candles for next to nothing.

But a simple candle isn’t very personal.  So you’ll also want to pick up some ribbon and card stock.  You are going to take a simple candle, wrap it with a personalized ribbon and a sweet note.

The idea is that you are going to tie a simple bow around 1 (or two) of the candles.  If you have a little more money to spend you can use the bigger candles that are just slightly more expensive.  You should find that both styles will be available at almost any dollar store.

While that by itself would make a nice wedding favor for your guests, you’ll want to personalize them by printing up a nice note on folded card-stock, which you can get at any office supply store.  You can print the name of you and your groom and the date of your wedding on the left and on the right some sweet and simple sentiment.  Maybe something like …

When you see a falling star to night, make a wish, it will come true because I wished and I found you.

or maybe you would like ….

I wish dreams were like wishes, and wishes came true, cause in my dreams I’m always with you.

Idea #2 – Simply Sweet

Candy is another cheap wedding favor idea. You find a number of different ways to give out candy as an inexpensive wedding favor. One way to do this is to purchase a pretty fabric and some ribbon, cut the fabric into small squares, put a few small pieces of candy on each square and pull the corners together and tie with the ribbon. This is not only a very inexpensive wedding favor idea but it is also a very simple idea which can be assembled at the last minute. Another way to use candy as a wedding favor is to purchase small tins and fill them with the candy of your choice. You can purchase the candy in bulk to keep the price down and separate the candy into small portions for each guest. A final way to give candy as a wedding favor is to buy candy bars with personalized wrappers. The wrappers can include your name and wedding date and even a picture of the two of you. This can be very affordable especially if you are ordering in bulk and are only using one design for the wrappers.

Idea #3 – A shot of the Sweet Stuff

Another idea is to find some cost effective shot glasses or candle holders at the dollar store or a discount store.  Fill it with your favorite candy, wrap it in a bow and attach a card with your names and the date of your wedding to make it more personal.

Making a Wedding Time Capsule

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Family, Love, Marriage, Tradition, Wedding Time Capsule, Wedding Traditions, Weddings

I heard about the coolest thing today.  It’s called a wedding time capsule.   I knew about the tradition of saving a piece of the wedding cake to eat on your 1 year anniversary, but this is something that really caught my attention.

Wedding time capsules are one of the wedding trends that’s really revving up brides today is the addition of a time capsule to the wedding prep proceedings. Yes, the wedding time capsule is a growing trend — to the point where you can buy a pre-made kit from many web sites.  But you don’t need to do that.  It’s always better to make your own.  They are far more special that way.

In kit form, your wedding time capsule takes the form of an attractive tin, in which you place various mementos such as photos and videos as well as predictions for the future; then, you seal it all up with some festive stickers, to help discourage premature peeking. You decide ahead of time how long you’ll wait until you open it again, like on your 10th anniversary? 25th anniversary? And then you write a stern directive to yourself on the tin to help you keep to the agreement.

Although most people equate a “time capsule” with something you bury in the ground, burying your wedding time capsule isn’t a great idea. Not only does that subject the contents to extreme temperature variations, but with the US Census recently reporting that the average American moves every five years, chances of you leaving behind a buried capsule before the hoped-for anniversary rolls around are high indeed. Instead, keep yours out of the elements and somewhere relatively kind — avoid damp attics, but a climate-controlled closet would be just perfect.

For those of you who like to make your own, like me, mostly because some of us just like to do things our own way, and a wedding time capsule is no exception.

A great way to do that is to get close friends and family members in on the fun. Have them scribble up some predictions for your marriage and life or perhaps marital advice. Take advantage of a pre-wedding party to snap photos of your intimates, and tuck the photos into the capsule. If you really want to motivate people to get involved, hold some kind of drawing for participants, such as a wedding raffle and give away a box of fine cigars, a bottle of bubbly or even an afternoon at a spa or a nice bottle of perfume.

Besides pictures and videos, here are some other things you will want to include in your wedding time capsule ….

• A newspaper from the day of your wedding
• A fashion magazine.  Always fun to look back at those
• A copy of your wedding guest registry
• A nicely printed copy of your wedding vows
• A sealed love letter from you to your spouse and from your spouse to you.
• A list of things you want to have done in the time between now and the time you open the time capsule.

And don’t forget when you are adding in photos also include them of your friends and family, especially your parents.  They won’t be around forever and having those memories to look back on one day will be a great thing to have.
While you’re at … why not let others in on the action?  There are number of ways to go about it. One is to compose a list of predictions for everyone to guess at — the whole experience is similar to filling out a junior high slam book, and just as fun. For example, ask participants to predict:

• How many children you’ll have,
• what kind of household robots you’ll have,
• how many career changes you’ve gone through,
• what major nation we’re closest to, and which one we’re mad at,
• what animal is the trendiest pet,

… and so on.

Another is to ask your wedding party and close friends to compose short letters to you. Give them each envelopes, and instruct them to tell you on the outside when it’s time to open the envelope. Some will simply say “fifth anniversary,” “10th anniversary,” or “when your first child is born.” Others will get more creative — and you’ll probably find it’s terrific fun to stretch out the time capsule concept in this inventive, unpredictable way.