Merry Christmas!

On behalf of all of us here at Bites Desserts, we hope you all have a very merry Christmas! Tis the season, so cherish the memories and enjoy this time with friends and family. With visions of sugarplums dancing in your heads. Happy holidays!

Holiday Gift Guide - DIY Treat Bags

The holidays are approaching, but have no fear we are here to help. Today we are going to share with you a great DIY gift idea: Treat bags.

The first thing you need is a cute favor bag: we used our No Peeking Holiday Favor bag (available here or check here for more options). 

The second thing you need is some treats. You can either buy the treats or make them yourself. We filled our treat bags with our homemade peppermint bark popcorn (available here) and mini chocolate chip cookies., but there are so many other options like candy, brownies, nuts, trail mix, sugar cookies...you get the idea. 

Once you're done you can tie some twine or ribbon around the bag,,and you're done! Give them to your friends, use them as favors for holiday parties, or stuff them in those stockings. Treat bags are one gift that everyone will love!

If you don't want to do it yourself, you can buy our treat bags here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/110216229/peppermint-and-chocolate-popcorn-5-mini

Easy DIY Peanut Butter Cups

Looking for an easy way to curb that chocolate craving? Try this EASY recipe for home made peanut butter cups. If you don't like peanut butter, you can also use other fillings. I used graham cracker crumbs and marshmallow fluff to make s'mores cups. They were amaaaazing!

What you need:

Chocolate: Any type (white, milk, dark)  and in any form (bars or chocolate chips)

Mini Cupcake Pan

Mini Cupcake Liners

Jar of Peanut Butter

 or

Graham Cracker Crumbs and a Jar of Marshmallow Fluff for the S'mores Cups

What to do:

Step 1: Melt your chocolate any way you see fit. It doesn't matter if you use the microwave or a double broiler.

Step 2: Line a mini cupcake pan with cupcake liners of your choice. I chose some basic silver ones.

Step 3: Pour some melted chocolate into the liners so that you have the covered the bottom of the liners with chocolate. The liners should be less than half full of chocolate.

Step 4: Use a mini ice cream scoop (or spoon) to scoop some peanut butter on top of the chocolate. I used crunchy peanut butter for an extra crunch but any type of peanut butter will do.

If you want to make the s'mores cups, after you have poured some melted chocolate on the bottom of the liners, top the chocolate with graham cracker crumbs and a spoon of marshmallow fluff.

Step 5: Pour the remaining melted chocolate on top of the filling. You should see no filling. You can use a spoon to smooth out the chocolate. If you want to be adventurous, top the cups with sprinkles or graham cracker crumbs.

Step 6: Place the mini cupcake pan in the fridge and let the cups set for 15-20 min. Once the cups have hardened, take them out of the fridge and enjoy!

You can package them up and share them with friends. I like to package them in a nice cellophane bag with a bow. They also make cute and easy favors, especially if you're having a halloween party this year :)

take a bite!

xoxo

It's Almost Christmas and You Don't Have Any Gifts?! Well DIY

Couldn't find any amazing gifts this holiday season? Why not bake something? We've attached some of our creations that we gave as gifts. Hopefully you can play with these ideas and create your own special gifts for the people on your list. The gift of baked goods not only is more personal and fun but it is a known fact that a way to a persons heart is through their stomach :) So, this holiday season we created bites boxes for our loved ones. Each box contains an assortment of bite size desserts. We made coconut truffles, peppermint truffles, bite size rice krispy treats, and even lemon truffles. We are currently working on Santa hat mini cupcakes. To keep with the season, we used festive sprinkles and kept everything green, red, and gold. If you are running out of ideas, don't worry you still have time to create your own bites box. Look up some of your favorite recipes and start baking! Only 2 full days left!

coconut truffles

bites boxes

peppermint truffles

completed bites box