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No Bake Nutella Balls (chocolate truffles)

Here’s a new favourite truffle I added to our Christmas cookie boxes this year. I’ll share with you how to make No Bake Nutella Balls covered in chocolate with a few sprinkles to make them look festive. These were so delicious. I had a hard time not eating all of them myself. You can crush the graham crackers yourself, but I just purchased a box of crumbs. No Bake Nutella Balls Makes about 50 balls Adapted from The Carefree Kitchen Ingredients For the filling 1/2 cup of butter, softened 1 1/4 cup Nutella 1 cup graham cracker crumbs 2 cups icing sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla For the coating 1 1/2 cups meting chocolate (I used milk) Directions Combine all filling ingredients until a dough forms. You can add more Nutella or graham crumbs  if you feel the dough is too soft or dry. The dough should hold its shape once rolled.  Roll teaspoon size balls and place in a single layer in the freezer for 30 minutes.  Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or bowl over a simmering pot of wa...
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Marbleized Crayons - Gift Idea

Occasionally I like to post fun ideas for kids.

This time I was looking for something easy to make for my girls to take to daycare for their friends. I found this idea online of course.

You can use any silicone mould you like - they come in various shapes. I happened to have mini muffin silicone moulds already and I wasn't using them for muffins so they worked out perfectly for this project. Apparently this also works with mini metal cake moulds but I haven't tried that.





This is also a great way to use up broken crayons. I used new ones though. You can use any brand you like. The first night I had 5 boxes of 24 crayons (the Wal-Mart brand). If you do the math, that totals 120 crayons. Each mold took 2 1/2 crayons so I ended up with 48 crayons. The second night I used a combination of Disney crayons and Crayola. The Crayola were the hardest to peel (without a blade). Their paper is like construction paper and rips too easily but not in a good way.







Also, when you go to restaurants, bring home the crayons that they give the kids and start a collection. When you have enough, break them up and make these! The restaurant will only throw them away anyway.


Marbleised (Marbleized) Crayons - Gift Idea

What you need
  • Silicone moulds
  • Crayons
  • Sharp blade
Procedure
  1. Preheat the oven to 225F.
  2. Remove the paper from the crayons. I sliced a line from top to bottom with a blade. It was 100 times easier but be careful!! The blade is very sharp, if you're working too fast or not paying attention you might slice your finger off! Or you could just peel them but it takes much longer.
  3. Break the crayons into pieces. I was able to break mine into 4 or 5 pieces. 
  4. Place the broken pieces into the moulds filling them at least half way up. Try not to have any crayons hanging over the edge, you don't want them dripping over when they melt. You can match colours or get totally wacky.
  5. Bake the crayons for about 15 minutes or until they're completely melted. Remove them from the oven. You can put them in the freezer if you have room but it's really cold here right now (since it's winter and all) so I put mine outside and they were hard in less than 10 minutes.
  6. Pop them out of the mould and repeat the process until all the crayons are used up.
Check these out. I got the idea from these blogs.
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  1. UnknownDecember 18, 2011 at 12:39 PM

    Love this, great idea!

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  2. The Better BakerDecember 18, 2011 at 2:24 PM

    I cannot imagine that mine is the first comment about this awesome gift idea....I MUST try them. THANKS!!

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