Blueberry Breakfast Grilled Cheese

This sandwich is a new twist on a old favorite. It's sweet and fruity, surrounded by crunchy toast! There are great things about the breakfast food: its so easy to make and you can make it with any kind of fruit! Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, peaches.. such great possibilities!

Ingredients: (Makes 4 sandwiches)
8 slices sandwich bread
4 ounces of cream cheese, softened 
1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoon butter
0.75 cup fresh blueberries (or any fruit)


Directions:
Heat a skillet to medium-high heat. 

Mix together the cream cheese and confectioners' sugar. 

Make like a grilled cheese: Butter one side of each piece of bread. On one piece of bread (with butter on one side), spread the cream cheese mixture onto the other side. Place the bread, butter side down and cream cheese side up, on to the skillet. Place a handful of blueberries onto the sandwich, and top with another piece of bread, butter side up. Cook for about 5 minutes on one sides, then flip and cook for 3 minutes on the other side. 

Comment below: which fruit do you use in your Breakfast Grilled Cheese?

Source: Once a Month Meals

Peach Raspberry Popsicles

A healthy, yet sweet treat that will satisfy any sweet tooth. A creamy greek yogurt based popsicle, combines fresh peaches and raspberries to make a treat that anyone would love!

Ingredients:

1 cup fat free greek yogurt

1 cup fresh raspberries

1 peach, skinned and chopped

1 teaspoon lemon juice

2 tablespoons sugar

Directions:

1. Place the raspberries in a blender, and blend until smooth. Push the mixture through a strainer to strain out and discard any seeds.

2. Place the mixture back into the blender and add the greek yogurt, peach, lemon juice, and sugar and blend until smooth.

3. Pour the mixture into popsicle molds and put the in the freezer until frozen. 

Enjoy! :) 

Source: fooddonelight.com

Rice Krispy Treat Sparklers

"Simple ingredients come together for a fun, kid-friendly treat."

- Rachel Lacy

Ingredients:
3 tablespoons butter
1 10-ounce bag of mini- marshmallows
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 cups of Rice Krispies cereal
Strawberries (1 per sparkler)
Blueberries (3-4 per sparkler)
Star shaped cookie cutter
Food skewers or lollipop sticks
Festive ribbon

Directions:

1. In a large pot, melt the butter over low heat. Once its melted, add the marshmallows and stir until melted. Stir in the vanilla. Remove from heat and stir in the rice puffed cereal, until thoroughly coated. 

2. Spread the cereal out onto a sheet a wax paper. Allow the mixture to cool and firm. Once cooled, cut out star shapes with your cookie cutter.

3. Arrange each sparkler as follows (bottom to top) 1 strawberry, 3 blueberries, and top with star shaped rice krispie treat. Tie the ribbon onto the bottom. 

Enjoy! :)

Source: 5minutesformom.com

 

Berry Flag Pull-Apart Cake

 

"This showstopping flag dessert combines sweet vanilla cake with colorful strawberries and blueberries for a patriotic 4th of July treat."

-Christina Stanley-Salerno

Ingredients:

For Vanilla Cake:

2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

2 cups sugar

1 cup milk

3/4 cup vegetable oil 

4 eggs

2-1/4 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For the Frosting:

2 (8 ounce) packaged of cream cheese

1/2 stick of unsalted butter, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted

For the Topping:

25-30 Strawberries, cut in half and thinly sliced
3/4 cup blueberries

Directions:

1. Make The Batter: Preheat oven to 350°. Place 20 cupcake liners in 2 (12 cup) cupcake pans. In a large mixing bowl, beat together the eggs and sugar until slightly thickened, about 1 minute. Add the flour, milk, oil, baking powder and vanilla and beat for another minute, until batter is smooth and creamy. Fill each cupcake liner 1/2 to 3/4 of the way full.

2. Bake The Cupcakes: Bake for 18 - 21 minutes, or until a toothpick in the center comes out clean. Take the cupcakes out of the pan, and set them out until the have cooled completely.

3. Make The Frosting: With an electric mixer, beat together the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla extract until smooth. Slowly add in the confectioners' sugar and beat until thoroughly combined.

4. Assemble The Cake: Ice each cupcake. Deceorate 4 cupcakes with 4 rows of blueberries. With the remaining 16 cupcakes, decorate with 4 rows of 2-3 strawberries. Line the cupcakes up side by side, with the blueberry cupcakes in the far left corner to resemble a flag. Serve immediately or chill for up to 2 hours. 

Enjoy :)

Source :spoonful.com

Brownie And Fruit Kebabs

 

The perfect dessert for a fun day! It has fruit, chocolate, and marshmallows! You can even drizzle it with more chocolate! And best of all.. its on a stick! The kids will love this. Its an easy dessert, that you don't need a plate and fork to eat, so you can spend more time watching the fireworks! 

Ingredients: 

9x13-inch pan of brownies (chilled and cut into 1 inch cubes)

1 pint of blueberries

1 pint of strawberries, hulled

Bag of Large Marshmallows

Hot Fudge Sauce for drizzling (optional)

Wooden Skewers

Directions: 

1. Alternate putting brownies, blueberries, strawberries, and marshmallows onto skewer

2. Drizzle with hot fudge sauce

Enjoy! :)

Source: melskitchencafe.com

Stars and Stripes Cookies

 

"Celebrate the freedom to express your creativity with this recipe for NESTLÉ TOLL HOUSE Stars and Stripes Cookies.An inspired display of American pride - these star-shaped cookies are decorated with red juicy strawberries and plump blueberries on velvety white cream cheese - all topped with a sprinkle of chocolate chip mini morsels.These star-spangled cookies are the perfect Independence Day treat."

-verybestbaking.com 

Ingredients:
1 pkg of Nestle Toll House Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookie Bar Dough
1 pkg of Light Cream Cheese, at room temperature
1/3 cup of Sugar
24 fresh, medium Strawberries, sliced
3/4 cup of fresh Blueberries
2 tbsp of Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Mini Morsels  

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350º

2. Roll cookie dough between two pieces of wax paper, until it is 1/4 inch thick

3. Cut the dough into star shapes and place on an ungreased baking sheet

4. Bake 10-12 minutes, or until light golden brown, use a knife to press the sides to keep the star shape. Let cool completely

5. Beat the cream cheese and sugar in a small mixing bowl until fluffy

6. Spread the cream cheese mixture on top of the cookies. Top each cookie with strawberries (facing outward to resemble a star), blueberries and chocolate mini morsels

Enjoy! :)

Source: verybestbaking.com

Caramel Apple Dip

Caramel Apple Dip

This is so easy to make, it is only 5 ingredients. It is very quick to make. Everyone loves this dip! 

Ingredients:

8 oz package of Cream Cheese, softened

1/2 cup of Brown Sugar

1/4 cup of Powdered Sugar

1 tsp of Vanilla Extract

1/2 - 2/3 cup of Hershey's SKOR candy bites

Directions:

Mix all of the ingredients together with a mixer. Serve with Granny Smith Apples for dipping

Enjoy :)