the infamous cheerio treats…

December 22, 2016January 3, 20171 Comment

Well I don’t necessarily have the means to buy you all Christmas gifts (but trust me if I could get each and every one of you some J.Crew camp socks…just take my word that I would.) But this recipe I am about to share with you is the best gift I could give ya. Cheerio Treats have been in my family for a few years now and get devoured by the pan within a few hours of being made without fail every single time. They have been a crowd pleaser when it was my turn for Student Board snacks back in high school and are solely by themselves my favorite food group. I am hyping these up a ton, but basically they are just rice krispie treats…with cheerios…literally that’s it. I honestly don’t remember the exact story as to why my mom decided to make them with multigrain Cheerios one night but we have never gone back since. So if you’re lookin’ to whip up a batch this holiday season (and trust me, you should) here’s all you need to do:

No bake!!!! Best served after cooling for around 30 mins.

Full time to prepare: 10-15 mins.

Ingredients: 3 tablespoons butter, 1 bag of mini marshmallows, 5 cups of multigrain cheerios, (optional) any toppings you want to add (I’m a large fan of mini m&m’s or festive sprinkles…)

Place 3 tablespoons of butter in a bowl and microwave until melted, usually around 30-45 seconds.

Add in marshmallows and microwave for 1 min. Stir until all butter is mixed in with the marshmallows and it is more of a sticky frosting consistency.

Pour in your 5 cups of Cheerios and stir until they are completely coated. Pour into any sized pan you desire. (the smaller the pan, the thicker the treats will be…aka I am a big supporter of smaller pans and less but thicker treats…what is sharing??)

Let cool in the pan until they are full able to cut cleanly (and eat a few off the spatula while you’re at it…no one is watching..)

Serve and enjoy with your family and friends! These are seriously the biggest hit with my family just for fun, to bring to school and have the pan be gone in 3 seconds with all my sweet tooth friends, or to make at sleepovers at 11 pm (guilty.) Let me know if you end up making them and how they turn out!!!! I hope your holidays are being spent relaxing and eating plenty of treats with your loved ones!

Until next time!!!!

xoxo, “yeah I may have eaten half the pan by myself while taking pictures” Ally

holiday happenings

December 20, 2016January 3, 2017Leave a comment

Hey friends! I am going to work on a few more posts to put up later this week but for now I thought I would just update you on life!

Well, I have officially survived my first semester of college. Not sure if survived is the best choice of the word, but it is over and quite honestly I am thrilled to begin a new semester filled with new classes, but this time not having to figure out the whole meeting people thing because I have already been blessed with quite a few fun friends to hang around that I already miss so much!!!! I never thought I would say it, but I got home Thursday night, and I already miss Kansas. Although it is super nice to be back in my own room and be able to make my own breakfast (dining hall eggs I am more than over…), it will for sure be a long month without some of my friends that live in other states. Honestly, it was less than 72 hours that I saw Rachel and it was already too long for me.

After dropping off my roomate at a halfway point between us (miss you maddie) my dad and I finished off the drive home late Thursday night and I’d be lying if I said my first stop wasn’t a bath. My mom had just got back from some last minute Christmas shopping and caught me just in time to let me use this and oh my it is the best thing ever! Crabtree&Evelyn has for sure become one of those things that I will never admit to but I am turning into my mother with in terms of how much I adore it. It has always been her go-to spot for gifts for her coworkers and as I am getting older I 100% agree!

I just also designed some bloggy Christmas cards of my own to send out to readers to thank them for stickin with me and joining in on the fun! I have a contact form below I will keep open until Thursday night if you would like one as well!!!

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Well that’s about it for the quick wrap up! I am off today to finish up my Christmas crafting and maybe whip up a batch or two of my infamous “cheerio treats”…thanks again for that one mom…check back on the blog later this week for a surprise dealing with those delicious treats…maybe even a recipe who knows…

Stay warm and finish those finals strong to all my pals still pushing through those last days of school! Until next time!

xoxo, “do you think Santa does round trips to NYC and back at a discounted rate?” Ally

links i love 12/9/16

December 9, 2016January 3, 2017Leave a comment

(First off, yay for pre-scheduled posts like this one that I was so excited to have go up today until I realized that I never actually pressed schedule…so hello from real time and happy actual Friday…)

Happy Friday (& Stop Day for me!) I am more than thrilled to have my first semester of college classes behind me (ASK me how stoked I am to never take a geography online quiz ever ever ever again!!!!!!!) Four finals and I am out of here and home for winter break for an entire month! Until then, here’s what I’ve been keeping up on mid-study breaks this past week!

1// I’m the biggest pajama junkie and theeeeeeseeeee i neeeeed.

2// Did you see how fricken adorable the sneak peek of Alpha Chi’s Christmas cards are this year via my insta???

3// Carly is one of my FAVORITE bloggers (I think I have established that a trillion times on here) and her gift guides are seriously what I wait for all year long. As I get older I honestly have trouble making a list for my parents of what I want (and trust me, college makes you realize how little you actually NEED), but these never fail to make me find more than a few things I suddenly “need”…

4// NEED THIS REMINDER FINALS WEEK.

5// absolutely in love with this sweater and want it in all three colors I think I’ve decided…(lol tbt to two links ago when I said making a list of what I want is hard…)

6// my roomate and I and our roomie besties two floors up (hi rach & molly) are kind of obsessed with outdoing each other on our roomie Christmas cards and THIS made me die while finding fun ideas..

7// I have already shed a few tears at Pentatonixs Christmas work but this one is a whole new level of real real good..

Until next time, happy studying!

xoxo,

“what do you mean my dorm doesn’t allow me to bring in a real Christmas tree…?”

Ally