Easy DIY Hot Chocolate Mix gift

 Looking for an easy DIY gift for Valentine's day?

This will warm your Valentine's heart.

Target made it so easy, they are a one stop shop and we found everything we needed there.

Such as, this wonderful jar and wooden spoon, its versatile for Valentine or Christmas.

It has a wonderful wide mouth that makes it prefect for this hot chocolate mix.

On the back of Good & Gather Instant Nonfat Dry Milk we found the Festive Hot Cocoa Mix recipe to folllow. 

We measured out all the ingredients.

Combined all the dry ingredients.

Blended them together.

But found we had a few lumps in our powder sugar and cocoa.  

So, we did a quick run though our sifter. 

Then we were able to add our mini chocolate chips.

Transferred it to our jar.

Added our Favorite Day Mini Heart Marshmallow.

Our Valentine just needs to add four tablespoons per 8oz cup of hot milk or water.

You can even customize your Hot Chocolate with different versions. 

We used the Wondershop Dark Chocolatey Hot Coco toppers in one jar.

For Christmas we found at Target Nestle Toll House Morsels & More!

These have everything you need for a Peppermint Hot Cocoa cup.

We filled condiment cups with the Nestle Toll House Morsels & More and placed them in the jar to customize your cup to your taste. 

Stay warm!

Up-date:  Found this twin pack of jars in the dollar spot at Target. 

Not quite big enough to add the marshmallows but perfect size for the cocoa mix. I used the Avery 22808 labels and template. 

 

Dawn of Spring

Spring is only days away, it's taking its good old time to get here.   The snow has been slowly melting away and we can see our lawn now, with hints of green blades of grass. 

With the renewal of spring I can't wait to get out of doors. I have been making some changes starting with a healthier me.  I started Saturday with the Buddy Up Program.  I'm feeling the pain today, so I think I did something right.  After class my nephew and I came home and made our first fruit and vegetable smoothie.  The sound and look of it was not too impressive.  But my 10 year old nephew and 7 year old niece LOVED it and so did I, despite the color.  

Yes it's Green and just in time for St. Paddy's day!

Add some whip cream and green sugar crystals to these St. Patty shot glass 

And no one will be the wiser that it’s a good for you smoothie.  

         

Now I'm off to get ready for a bake sale fundraiser.