No Bake Cookies

Today was my boys' last day of school.  To celebrate we have been eating these.

Lots and lots of these.

Peanut Butter Play Dough

Yesterday, my boys and I made an old favorite.  It is a peanut butter play dough recipe given to me by my aunt, back when I was a little girl.

They can play with it just like a normal play dough, with the advantage of being able to eat their creations.  One of their favorite things to create with this play dough is "peanut butter cookies".  Looks like the real deal and tastes great without the baking time. ;)

There are a lot of recipes like this out there in blogland, but I still prefer this one due to the fact that it is super easy, not too sweet, and has no sugar or corn syrup.  This recipe makes a large batch - - way more than my boys can handle in one sitting, so plan accordingly.

Peanut Butter Play Dough

2 cups powdered milk
2 cups peanut butter
1 cup honey

Mix all ingredients together until well incorporated, then dump onto countertop and knead until smooth.  Then let the kids make things and eat 'em up.

A couple quick notes:

1.  The kind of powdered milk necessary for this recipe is the fine stuff, like is pictured below.

 

2.  Since this recipe contains peanut butter and honey, I would not use it for anyone under the age of two.

 

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Extra Mini Icebox Cakes

Yesterday was son #3's Mom and Me day at preschool.  Mom and Me day is a chance for the preschooler and their mom (or other adult) to teach the preschool how to do something.  We decided to demonstrate how to make mini icebox cakes.  It was fun.

Saltwater Kids has a great tutorial on how to make them.  We follow it pretty closely, except we don't use quite as much cream between each layer and we use homemade chocolate wafer cookies - so much better. (Recipe found here.)

I made a couple in jars, as usual, to give to friends.

We made a bunch of extra mini versions to give to the preschoolers.

We made a tag and attached one to each cake that explains how they are to be stored and eaten. You can download it for free here.

It was a good day!