I'll be away on a girls getaway this weekend, and over the St.Patty's day holiday. I love St.Patrick's Day and dying food green. Green milk, green pancakes, green cookies, green whatever! Each year I typically dye the kids' milk green and make green pancakes, followed by corned beef and cabbage for dinner with green beer (for the adults!) and a green themed dessert. And no, we're not Irish.
To make up for being gone, today the kids and I made green cookies. We did this last year, and my son still remembers it! So, now it has apparently become a tradition of sorts.
We cheated and used a store bought sugar cookie mix and during the mixing process I added a few globs of green food coloring gel. The kids rolled the dough in to balls and threw them on the cookie sheets. I smooshed the cookies down a bit and then the kids topped with festive sprinkles.
For the girls trip I decided to make rice krispie treats. One of the gals has gone insane and gave up chocolate and hard alcohol for Lent. Who does that? And when there is a girls weekend involved!? :) So, this dessert was just for her. I tried to be festive and make the treats green, but clearly I didn't put nearly enough green dye in the melted marshmallows. So I added some of those festive sprinkles to the top of the treats after the cereal/marshmallow mix had been pressed down in to the pan.
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