Brody's Pick

This post has nothing to do with clean eating as my previous post was about. I have been incorporating better choices into my day by keeping fresh fruits and veggies on hand, but this time spent in the kitchen was all about FUN! One of Brody's most favorite things to play with are balloons. Really, so simple, yet blown up balloons creates hours of play for him. So I found an idea on Pinterest that incorporated balloons in the kitchen. We took a few of the balloons and blew them up smaller than the ones we usually play with, and washed them up and set them out to dry.  Next, I took a pan and lined it with wax paper. I took some chocolate almond bark and microwaved it in a glass bowl. I did it in 30 second intervals until it was smooth.  Make sure the balloons are completely dry and start dipping! Brody, or should I call him Spiderman today, loved this part. Hold them by the tied end and dip the rounded part.  The ones that we dipped several times held up better than the ones that were only dipped once or twice.  Put them on the wax paper and refrigerate. I had some fresh strawberries in the fridge so I decided to dip some of them as well :) After the chocolate has had time to harden in the refrigerator, take the pan out.  The instrustions were to pop the balloon and peel it out of the chocolate bowl, but I found that instead of popping, if you squeezed the balloon it pulled it away from the bowl a lot easier than peeling. Last of all, we filled the chocolate bowls with chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. This was fun and delicious! If you decide to try this, I suggest spraying the balloons. I think they would have been easier to remove from the bowls. I think next time we are going to do white chocolate bowls with strawberry ice cream! Yum! Hope you'll give it a try and let me know how yours turns out!!