Make the 4th of July POP even more with these yummy treats from Family Fun.
Hands-on Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Serves: 1 per sandwich
Ingredients
Mini ice-cream sandwiches
Sprinkles or nonpareils
Colorful cupcake liners
Instructions
First, skewer mini ice-cream sandwiches on popsicle sticks.
Then, press the exposed filling into a plate of sprinkles or nonpareils.
To keep mess to a minimum, serve the pops in colorful cupcake liners
Give everyone’s favorite Tex-Mex appetizer a patriotic makeover.
Ingredients
1 bag blue corn tortilla chips
Cooking spray
Aluminum foil
Monterey Jack cheese, shredded
Salsa
Sour cream
Instructions
Place blue corn tortilla chips on a foil-covered baking sheet coated with cooking spray.
Sprinkle the chips with shredded Monterey Jack, then bake at 350° for 5 to 7 minutes.
Top the nachos with salsa and sour cream.
These rabble-rousers are a blast to make and eat!
Ingredients
hot dogs
prepared breadstick dough (we used Pillsbury brand)
skewers
cubed cheese
mustard
Instructions
Simply wrap hot dogs in prepared breadstick dough (we used Pillsbury brand) and insert a skewer, letting it protrude at the top.
Bake the dogs according to the dough package’s instructions. Add a triangle of cheese for a topper, tie on a tail made from ribbon or aluminum foil, and squirt on stripes of ketchup and mustard.
Send your family’s taste buds soaring with a nest of these bald eagle treats. To make half a dozen, follow the recipe below.
Ingredients
1/4 cup of white chocolate chips
6 large marshmallows
Finely shredded coconut
Chocolate sandwich cookie (we used a chocolate-covered Oreo)
6 Cashews
Black decorators’ gel
Instructions
Melt 1/4 cup of white chocolate chips according to the package directions.
For each bird, drop a large marshmallow into the melted chocolate, using a spatula to coat it well.
Remove the marshmallow from the chocolate and roll it in finely shredded coconut, leaving one end uncovered.
Immediately set the marshmallow, coconut free end down, atop a chocolate sandwich cookie.
Let the chocolate set a bit, then use a toothpick to make a hole in the side of the marshmallow and insert a cashew for a beak.
Finally, add black decorators’ gel eyes
Rally the kiddie corps to help with thesefun-to-prep bites.
Ingredients
12 ounces white chocolate chips
Strawberries
Blue sugar or edible glitter
Instructions
Melt 12 ounces of white chocolate chips in a microwave according to the package directions (make sure the container and the berries are dry; even a little moisture will alter the texture of the candy).
One at a time, dip strawberries into the chocolate and then into blue sugar or edible glitter.
Set them to harden on waxed paper.
Makes 35 to 45 decorated berries.
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Have a BLAST this 4th of July! God Bless America!!!
*I was not compensated for passing these recipes on to you. Family Fun is cool. That is all.
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