Pumpkin Cake Pops

Ok these look hard but are super easy to make. I thought they looked like fun I will be making tons of these this year!!

Ingredients

• One 13×9 cake – make it from scratch, or make it from a box.
• 1/2 cup cake frosting – use already made
• Orange candy melts, or white candy melts colored with oil-based food coloring
• Green Tic Tacs (for the stems)

Special Equipment

• Lollipop Sticks
• Wax paper
• (optional) Edible Pen or Marker to make jack-o-lantern faces
• styrofoam block
• toothpicks

Instructions

1. Start by making the cake and letting it cool completely. Cut the corner crusts off to help the cake mixture keep a nice consistency.
2. Spoon the cake into a large bowl and crumble it up with a pastry cutter.
3. Add in the frosting. Combine with the pastry cutter.
4. Form the cake/frosting mixture into quarter-ish-sized balls and place them on a baking sheet lined with wax paper.
5. Melt the chocolate in the microwave or on a double boiler, according to package instructions. Be careful not to overheat. Dip a lollipop stick about 1/4″ into the chocolate and then halfway into the cake ball.
6. Repeat the process on all of the cake balls. Now, somehow finagle your freezer so that you can pop the whole baking sheet in to chill for about 10 minutes.
7. Get your candy coating ready. Dip each cake pop in and roll it a bit, using a knife or spoon to help get it coated. Use a toothpick to skim off any excess coating.
8. Push the green Tic Tac into the top as a stem immediately, because the candy coating sets up fast. Use the Styrofoam block to hold the pops until the candy sets up.
9. Once dry, feel free to draw on faces with an edible pen. Enjoy! :)

~Brie~

Juice Box Mummy

Ok moms, dads, grandparents, and whoever has small children here is a fun and easy halloween project to do

What you'll need:

• Empty cardboard juice box container
• 2 tablespoons rice
• Fold top sandwich bag
• Tape
• Black and white construction paper
• Scissors
• Glue stick
• 2 medium wiggle eyes
• White craft glue

How to make it:

1. Cut open the top of the juice box container, rinse and dry thoroughly.
2. Place rice inside sandwich bag. Roll up the bag and secure with tape. Place bag of rice inside juice box and tape the top closed.
3. Cut a piece of black construction paper, large enough to cover the top half of the front of the juice box. Glue it in place.
4. Tear white construction paper into strips and glue them around the box, leaving a small section of the black paper visible for the eyes.
5. Use white craft glue to attach two wiggle eyes to the black paper.

Tips:

1. Instead of rice, use sand or pebbles, enough to add some weight to the box so that it does not fall over.
2. Construction paper is available in large packages at your local discount department store.
3. A glue stick works better than white craft glue for a smooth, flat finish.

~Brie~

My Baptism!!

Well everyone it is official I had the honor of choosing and being baptized into what I believe is the truest church in the world!!

My baptism was just BEAUTIFUL!!!

My mother in law Linda did the opening prayer. The bishop was there to not only baptize me but he also talked about the importance of baptism. The Jane one of my wonderful visiting teachers gave a talk on baptism. It was beautiful and I know that she was speaking right to me and that Heavenly Father was giving her just the right words to say. After that I was baptized and the feelings are felt were beyond anything that I have ever in my life felt. I was so over joyed and comforted. Then we can back and Nolan gave a talk on receiving the Holy Ghost which was wonderful. My darling husband Adam did the closing prayer which I was very thankful for.

The best thing about my day was all the people that were there that surrounded me in love and kindness. I am truly blessed to be part of such a true church that treats everyone like family.

And the first fruits of repentance is baptism; and baptism cometh by faith unto the fulfilling the commandments; and the fulfilling the commandments bringeth remission of sins;
Moroni 8:25

~Brie~