I am not in the mood for any more baking… especially considering we still have tins of Christmas cookies left. So instead of the Snowballs I had thought about making this week… we instead made stuffed apples/apple dippers.
I do not have an exact recipe for this. It is more of a ‘to taste’ sorta deal but super easy and I highly recommend it! This was a childhood favorite of mine.
Apple Dipper Filling: Mix approximately 1/2 a stick of cream cheese, 1/2 cup of peanut butter and 1/4 cup of honey.
Core an apple (if you do not have a corer – just slice the apples and serve with dip on the side).
Stuff the apples with the filling.
Slice the stuffed apples in thick slices.
Serve with extra dip.
Enjoy!
Last week just before the weather turned (it has been cold and rainy all this week), we enjoy yet another sunny day at the cider mill. This time we were joined by both Gammy and Nana. We didn’t go to our normal u-pick farm but rather a historic mill along the river. It has a very different atmosphere. The kids played on the rocks, found snails and clams in the stream and dared each other across a rickety bridge. The highlight came at the end as we discovered very unusual acorns in the parking lot. We collected lots of fuzzy Gnome Hats (acorn tops) for our nature table.
This week’s Unplugged Challenge theme was fruit. We have been doing so many things with apples over the past few weeks (you can scroll through my past blog postings to see more of our apple activities) it was hard to choose the one thing I wanted to label as our Unplugged activity. I decided to share photos from our trip to the cider mill to watch the cider press in action. It was very noisy but the kids thought it was really cool.
I would also encourage you to check out our Apple Print Project. The apple prints turned out great… although I think the kids had more fun playing with the huge box of stamps Gammy unearthed when she went in search of stamp pads for us.
We spent the morning at Gammy’s yesterday and took advantage of her seemingly endless supply of art materials (this time rummaging through her entire box of stamp pads). We made our apple prints to go along with our Week Four, Johnny Appleseed theme.
This was a very easy craft! All we did was take a couple apples and cut them in half (some lengthwise, some crosswise) and then used red and green ink pads. You have to press the apple very firmly to get a ‘full’ apple shape. Some we even had to rock slightly… I guess a straight cut really isn’t as straight as you think. If you take a close look, you can really see the star in the middle of some of the cross cut apple prints.