Imperfect Crazy Life

Chocolate River vs. Neapolitan Bombe! Since my kids are still little and learning to cook. We do teams for our cooking competitions. Big D and Little D were on a team. Well, Mickey and I were the other team. For this competition we decided to do a dessert one. We do a $10 limit. The teams have to come up with a dessert, name and present the dish. I have a lot of skills in the kitchen so I tend to let the little one I'm teamed up with take the lead. Big D has skills but not as much as I do. Mickey and I came up with what we are calling the Neapolitan Bombe. It is a Ice cream bombe. Since it's a Neapolitan, we have strawberry and vanilla ice cream. Chocolate is a chocolate brownie layer. We added a cookie fudge layer like in Dairy Queen cakes. Then lined the bottom with peanut butter cups chopped up. Then topped with cool whip and more peanut butter cups on the top. Big D and Little D make what they called a Chocolate River. It started with Rocky Road ice cre

Big D and I love Christmas. It's not about giving or getting presents. It's about that feeling! This Christmas was awesome! The love and atmosphere  was right on. This year we took the time to make ornaments for the tree since this was the first year together for Christmas. The kids loved making ornaments. Especially knowing they would have something they made on the Christmas tree. We use air dry homemade "Clay" to make the ornaments. You will need: 1 Box of Baking Soda 1 cup of Cornstarch 1 1/2 cups of water Mix all the ingredients in a sauce pan over medium high heat. Constantly stir until then mixture gets to hard to stir with a spoon. Allow the clay to cool for 15 minutes. It should be cool enough to tough. Now knead the dough for 5 minutes. The clay should be smooth. Keep the clay wrapped when not using it. The clay takes 1-2 days to day. More if the clay is really thick. Roll out the clay and shape your ornaments.