Peanut Butter and Chocolate Acorns

I've spent the last few weeks planning a birthday party for my daughter.  Since it's October, the party will have a fall theme.  Searching online for ideas, I came upon this recipe (at throughthelooking glass.com, a blog which apparently no longer exists).  The chocolate acorns exist though and they are so cute, so easy, and so delicious, that I had to share the recipe.

There are just three ingredients. Here's what you need:

 1. Nutter Butter Bites  (These are the little dollar snack size packages often found near the cash register, not the big packages of cookies).

2. Hershey Kisses

3. And Chocolate Chips

Instructions:

1. In a microwave safe dish, melt about 1/8 cup chocolate chips to use as "glue",

2. Assemble acorns - Hershey's kiss for base of acorn, then a Nutter Butter Bite for acorn cap, and finally a chocolate chip for the stem, using the melted chocolate "glue" to hold them together.

3. Refrigerate for a few minutes to harden before serving.

Wouldn't the squirrels love these?

 And the kids (even the big ones) too!

How much fun is this?

This post is linked to:

Flaunt It Friday #421 at Chic On a Shoestring Decorating
Thursday Favorite Things at Follow the Yellow Brick Home
Amaze Me Monday #286 at Dwellings
Talk of the Town #146 at Knick of Time

Acorns...Felted & Glittered

I've been having fun this week crafting with acorns...lots and lots of acorns!

 

I purchased a bag of felt balls from a vendor at Fiber College just because I liked them.  There are directions for making your own on Pinterest here.

 

The easy part was collecting the acorns...we have lots of oak trees in our neighborhood.

 

I learned the hard way that before crafting with acorns, you need to heat them in the oven at 200 degrees for two hours to kill any acorn borers that may be living in them. (If you skip this step, the acorns will get wormy...guess how I know?)

 

 

  

After the acorns had cooled, I sprayed them with a clear acrylic finish to seal them and add just a little sheen. (I used Krylon Matte finish).

 The final step was using a hot glue gun to attach the felt balls to the acorn tops.

 

 

 

I think I will use these as dinner party favors and Thanksgiving decorations. They are so cute and colorful that I could see them being used as jewelry and embellishments as well.

 

But...I couldn't stop there.



I decided to try coating some of the real acorns (pre-baked, of course) with Modge Podge and rolling them in glitter, twice. I love how they came out! Maybe I'll use them on a holiday table, wire them to a wreath,  or tie them on Christmas packages.

  

 

 

These little "acorns with attitude" were super easy and lots of fun to do.

Happy holiday crafting!