{"id":32935,"date":"2014-12-08T16:37:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T21:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/?p=32935"},"modified":"2014-12-11T15:49:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T20:49:44","slug":"family-holiday-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/diy\/family-holiday-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Holiday Ideas – Peanut Butter Ball Snowmen and Graham Cracker Holiday Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"

This holiday house and snowman graham cracker ball recipe tutorial is in part by #PandG and has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All ideas and opinions are mine alone. #CollectiveBias<\/p>\n

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Grandma was in town and we had so much fun keeping our tradition of making Holiday Gingerbread Houses (no bake!).  We make them every year with my 6 and 9 year old boys. Remember this<\/strong><\/a> and this<\/strong><\/a>? <\/p>\n

I love to share family holiday ideas, easy baking ideas<\/strong> <\/a>and so this holiday baking<\/strong><\/a> idea is perfect for you and your little ones!  Today I will show you how to make the Graham Cracker Holiday Houses as well as how to make the Peanut Butter Ball Snowmen!   We are obsessed with chocolate and peanut butter, so I created yummy Peanut Butter Ball Snowmen<\/strong> to go on our holiday<\/strong> houses!<\/p>\n

As we were shopping at Walmart, I picked up Honey Maid Graham Crackers (For the Holiday Houses AND Peanut Butter Snowmen), Skippy Peanut Butter (for the snowmen) and candy for decorating the houses.  These are SO simple and fun. .<\/p>\n

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Peanut Butter, Graham Cracker and Cream Cheese truffles dipped in white chocolate and stacked like adorable snowmen.<\/div>\t
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  1. 2 Sleeves of Honey Maid Graham Crackers (ground in food processor)<\/li>\t\t\t\t
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    1. Use a food processor to finely grind the Honey Maid Graham Crackers. Mix softened cream cheese and powdered sugar until a sticky dough forms. Scoop the dough into various sized balls. To keep consistent ball size, use measuring spoons and use the Tablespoon, Teaspoon and 1\/2 Teaspoon sizes. Freeze for 30 minutes.<\/li>\t\t\t\t
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       Then, it was time to make the Holiday Houses!<\/p>\n

      These are simple!  Use Honey Maid Graham Crackers<\/strong><\/a>, Royal Icing<\/strong><\/a> and\/or Skippy Peanut Butter<\/strong><\/a> as your “glue”, and candies!<\/p>\n

      We LOVE these easy to use icing bottles<\/strong> from Kuhn Rikon<\/strong><\/a>.  No mess and easy to use and clean up!<\/p>\n

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      We used the Honey Maid Graham Crackers as well as Skippy Peanut Butter (to stick on the roof tiles, etc) as well as royal icing. My boys loved using the Skippy peanut butter so that it blended in with the graham crackers!<\/p>\n

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      What great memories we made!  Do you have any fun traditions around the holiday with your kids? We would love to hear!<\/p>\n

      Click here to save<\/strong><\/a> $0.50 when you buy one (1) Honey Maid Grahams (12.2 oz. or larger)<\/p>\n

      SOURCES to create your own Peanut Butter Ball Snowmen:
      \n–       Honey Maid Graham Crackers<\/a>
      \n–       Skippy Peanut Butter<\/a>
      \n–       White Chocolate Melts<\/a>
      \n–       Orange Covered Sunflower Seeds<\/a> (Black<\/a>)
      \n–       Black Chocolate Candy Melts<\/a>
      \n–       Pretzel Sticks<\/a>
      \n–       Chow Mein Noodles<\/a>
      \n–       Shredded Coconut<\/a><\/strong> for Snow
      \n–       White Serving Platter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

      SOURCES to create your own Graham Cracker Holiday House:
      \n–       Honey Maid Graham Crackers<\/a>
      \n–       Skippy Peanut Butter<\/a>
      \n–       Peppermint Discs<\/a>
      \n–       Gumdrops<\/a>
      \n–       Sixlets<\/a>
      \n–       Sweettarts <\/a><\/strong>(used as shingles on roof)
      \n–       Red and Green M&M’s<\/a>
      \n–       Red Cherry Sours<\/a>
      \n–       Red and Green Mini Candy Canes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      This holiday house and snowman graham cracker ball recipe tutorial is in part by #PandG and has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All ideas and opinions are mine alone. #CollectiveBias Grandma was in town and we had so much fun keeping our tradition of making Holiday Gingerbread Houses (no bake!).  We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,92,31,704],"tags":[866,2764,1714,2766,2759,2765],"class_list":["post-32935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","category-crafts","category-diy","category-recipes","tag-christmas-2","tag-family-holiday-ideas","tag-gingerbread-houses","tag-graham-cracker-houses","tag-holiday-recipes","tag-snowmen-cake-balls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32935"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33174,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32935\/revisions\/33174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}