Fall Baking and Crafts!

This weekend was a fun time spent with a wonderful friend doing some baking, crafts, and catching up to celebrate the fall season! We made some amazing food to snack on and each did a fun craft while we drank our apple cider and visited!

We made our own hot apple cider, mini apple pies, pumpkin fluff, candy corn rice krispies, and cut up some fresh orange watermelon from my garden! For crafts, we made a fall wreath and a couple country votive candle holders.

Hot apple cider recipe:

64 FL oz (one jug) Honey Crisp Apple Juice

5 sticks of cinnamon

1 tsp clove

1 tsp allspice

-Simmer for about 20 minutes to enhance flavor then enjoy!

Our candy corn were super simple.

Candy Corn Rice Krispies:

--We dyed normal rice krispies an orange color with red and yellow food coloring. Then we dipped one end in chocolate almond bark and the other in white chocolate.

Apple pie bites:

1 tube of original Cresent rolls

1 granny smith apple cut into 8 pieces

2 Tbsp brown sugar

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp clove

1/4 tsp allspice

2 Tbsp butter

Chopped walnuts (optional)

--- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine brown sugar, clove, allspice, and cinnamon. Roll out each Cresent roll and spread with melted butter. Sprinkle with sugar combination and a few chopped walnuts. Place the apple on top of that and roll up the Cresent roll. Top with more melted butter and sugar mixture. After doing all eight bites, bake for 12 minutes. Take out of the oven and allow to cool for about 5-10 minutes before serving. (Optional- drizzle with a little caramel sauce before eating)

Pumpkin Fluff:

1 tub whipped cream

1 1/2 cups pumpkin (I used some I had frozen in my freezer from our home grown pumpkins but canned will work too)

1 tsp pumpkin spice

1 pkg vanilla pudding mix

1 cup dark chocolate chips

---Combine all ingredients in a bowl and serve with graham crackers and/or sliced apples!

-For our wreath craft, we bought a stick wreath at walmart and glued a sunflower and some pinecone to a corner to add a little color.

-Then we also took small votive candle holders and hot glued short pieces of broken twigs to the sides to create some fall table decor.