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Feb
27
2013

MAKE YOUR OWN INSANELY EASY CHOCOLATE BARS! My mom taught me how to do this recently and it’s the best thing ever. It doesn’t require very many ingredients and the only cooking skill you need is the ability to operate a microwave. Ingredients: A bag of chocolate chips Whatever mix-ins you want in your chocolate bars. I used dried blueberries, sliced almonds, and salt, but other than dried fruit and nuts you could also use marshmallows, other kinds of candy, your favorite cereal, crushed up potato chips, cinnamon, graham crackers, coconut, or anything else you think would taste good! Either some waxed paper or tinfoil or a pan greased with butter (or anything else that will keep the chocolate from sticking without ruining the taste). If you’re feeling fancy you could try pouring them into a mold, but again you’ll have to grease it first. A microwave Directions: Prepare your pan/wax paper/foil/whatever you’re using. Heat up the chocolate chips in small amounts in your microwave. I like to do it in a mug cause it’s easier to manage than a big bowl. It’s very easy to heat chocolate too much and ruin it, so microwave the chocolate chips in 20 second intervals and stir in between each heating. It’ll melt faster than you think! Pour the melted chocolate into your designated receptacle.  Sprinkle on your mix-ins! You can also try putting them in your container/on your paper first and pouring the chocolate over them, like I did. Heat up more chocolate chips if needed and repeat the process until you’ve made as much as you’d like. Put you chocolate in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to cool and harden. Take it out of the fridge. If you greased your pan properly, it should pop right out (if you used wax paper, you should be able to peel it off). You can cut your chocolate into bars or wedges by scoring a line along the top of the chocolate using a knife where you want to cut it, and then carefully breaking it with your hands—it should break right along the line you made. Eat them! These would also make super cute and easy gifts wrapped in some colorful paper or foil. 

MAKE YOUR OWN INSANELY EASY CHOCOLATE BARS!

My mom taught me how to do this recently and it’s the best thing ever. It doesn’t require very many ingredients and the only cooking skill you need is the ability to operate a microwave.

Ingredients:

  • A bag of chocolate chips
  • Whatever mix-ins you want in your chocolate bars. I used dried blueberries, sliced almonds, and salt, but other than dried fruit and nuts you could also use marshmallows, other kinds of candy, your favorite cereal, crushed up potato chips, cinnamon, graham crackers, coconut, or anything else you think would taste good!
  • Either some waxed paper or tinfoil or a pan greased with butter (or anything else that will keep the chocolate from sticking without ruining the taste). If you’re feeling fancy you could try pouring them into a mold, but again you’ll have to grease it first.
  • A microwave

Directions:

  1. Prepare your pan/wax paper/foil/whatever you’re using.
  2. Heat up the chocolate chips in small amounts in your microwave. I like to do it in a mug cause it’s easier to manage than a big bowl. It’s very easy to heat chocolate too much and ruin it, so microwave the chocolate chips in 20 second intervals and stir in between each heating. It’ll melt faster than you think!
  3. Pour the melted chocolate into your designated receptacle. 
  4. Sprinkle on your mix-ins! You can also try putting them in your container/on your paper first and pouring the chocolate over them, like I did.
  5. Heat up more chocolate chips if needed and repeat the process until you’ve made as much as you’d like.
  6. Put you chocolate in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to cool and harden.
  7. Take it out of the fridge. If you greased your pan properly, it should pop right out (if you used wax paper, you should be able to peel it off). You can cut your chocolate into bars or wedges by scoring a line along the top of the chocolate using a knife where you want to cut it, and then carefully breaking it with your hands—it should break right along the line you made.
  8. Eat them! These would also make super cute and easy gifts wrapped in some colorful paper or foil. 

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Jun
17
2012

DIY: Candy Nails

Inspired by my insatiable lust for candy, this polish from Sephora, and hours of ogling photos of lolita nails with pretty 3-d elements.

YOU NEED:

  • Base polish in a bright candy color (I used a Sally Hansen polish called Flaminglo)
  • Clear nail laquer
  • Nonpareil sprinkles

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Paint your nails with one coat of your base color. Allow to dry thoroughly.
  2. Fill a small container with some of the nonpareil sprinkles. Paint one nail at a time with a thick coat of clear polish—you need plenty on there so that the sprinkles will stick—and then dip the nail into the sprinkles.
  3. Pat down the surface of the nail lightly to distribute the sprinkles so that you have a single layer of sprinkles on the surface of the nail. At this point, you’ll probably need to delicately remove extra sprinkles that are stuck anywhere you don’t want them, or add a few sprinkles to any empty spots. Allow to dry.
  4. Gently cover the sprinkles with several coats of clear polish to hold them in place. Give your nails plenty of time to dry, and keep in mind that because you’ve used so much of the clear polish, they’ll take longer to dry than a regular manicure.

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