Spring Snacks

Peep S’mores

Peeps S’mores: A spring twist on the famous camping treat, s’mores. As the weather gets nicer, s’mores start coming back in style. Accordingly, I found a simple recipe with Peeps substituted for the marshmallows on Pinterest. I had never seen this idea before and thought it was adorable, especially for Easter and the springtime. Instead of putting a boring old marshmallow on a stick and roasting it, replace it with a Peep. If you can get over the fact you’re sticking a stick into a cute bunny or chick, then these are a perfect treat for you. For a rainy day, you can start up your stove top and roast them over that. Not as “campy,” but just as delicious! After you roast the marshmallows you need your other s’more must-haves, chocolate and graham crackers. Put them all together and you’re golden.

Frosted Sugar Cookies

There’s nothing better than those springtime sugar cookies. The bright colored frosting, the light crumbly cookie and rich frosting are unbeatable. They are simple, presentable and delicious. If you’re interested in making these cookies then you have multiple options: you could whip up sugar cookie mix from scratch, or you could buy a roll of Toll House sugar cookie dough (like me). Warning on the Toll House dough: it is very, very, very addictingly good. You can put the dough into balls of any size, whether you want to make bite size or MEGA cookies, and then just bake them for however long your heart desires, or the directions desire. When they are done, let them cool, and then frost away. To decorate the cookies, I made a cream cheese frosting and then separated it out and dyed it into bright, cheerful, spring colors. Now you have your classic spring sugar cookie.

Lemon Puppy Chow

Lemon bar puppy chow is a sweet spring twist on two all time favorites; puppy chow and lemon bars. It’s a “bored on a Sunday” or “need snack to bring to school” kind of treat, because it’s quick and simple to make and addicting. It’s made with lemon curd (a lemon jelly) and white chocolate, instead of peanut butter and chocolate that normal puppy chow is made of. I found this on Pinterest earlier this month and since I had made puppy chow before, I thought making it would be doable. It totally was. Very simple steps and the few ingredients made it almost impossible for me to mess up, which is saying something. Surprisingly, my lemon bar puppy chow looked identical to the puppy chow in the Pinterest picture and it tasted just as good as it looked. Now, I have a go-to dessert for my school lunches and the best after-school snack.