SUPER EASY Three Ingredient Chicken Bar-B-Q

I love the taste of chicken and pork B-B-Q, but I have always been slightly intimidated to try to make it myself.  Finally after my husband’s favorite Bar-B-Q restaurant closed down, I realized that I was going to have to take the bull by the horns (or chicken by the beak?) and come up with an easy recipe to make it at home.  Honestly this could not be any easier…all you need is 3 ingredients, a crock-pot, and some time.

Step 1:  Add to crock pot; 6-8 boneless chicken breast, 1 jar of BBQ sauce, and about 20 ounces of Coke or Pepsi.

Step 2:  Cook on low heat for 7 hours.

Step 3:  This is a personal preference step…I like to ladle out all of the Pepsi/Coke.  This gets rid of all of the fat and extra soda that has not been cooked into the chicken.

Step 4:  Use a fork to shred the chicken and add another jar of BBQ sauce to replace all that you ladled out.  Return to cook on low heat for another hour.

Step 5: Serve!!

And that is it….super easy right?!  We like to serve ours with coleslaw on top, but again that is personal preference.  This recipe could easily feed 8 to 12 hungry people depending on how big the chicken breasts are.  You can also freeze leftovers and reheat in the crock-pot with barbeque sauce for another meal.  Let me know if you give it a try :)

Last-Minute Super Duper Easy Peanut Butter Eggs (only 3 ingredients)

I absolutely LOVE peanut butter eggs at Easter (ok who am I kidding...all year round!) so I decided I would attempt to make my own this year.  Of course, I procrastinated and waited until the last minute and was then quite shocked when I read some recipes and realized how hard they could actually be to make.  So I went on a mission to come up with an easier recipe.  After some serious searching and experimenting I came up with a recipe that follows the same formula as the peanut butter fudge I make at Christmas. Only three ingredients are needed and they taste, if I do say so myself, AMAZING! 

Ingredients:  18 oz jar of peanut butter (any brand), regular size can of cream cheese frosting, and toll house chocolate chips.

 

Combine the peanut butter and frosting in a bowl and then put the bowl in the freezer for approximately 30 minutes to firm up.

Shape the mixture into egg shapes and then place back in the freezer for another 30-45 minutes to firm up.

Next, you want to melt your chocolate chips and then dip the peanut butter eggs in the melted chocolate.  If you want to decorate with sprinkles do so immediately before the chocolate hardens.  I then put them back in the freezer for about an hour to firm up.

Lastly, I put my eggs in cupcake holders and stored in the fridge.  I would imagine the fridge is the best place to store them as they might get soft if left out for longer than a couple of hours.

Easter Cake Pops

Cake pops are a fun, easy, and yummy project!!  The kids absolutely love them, and they can be customized for any holiday...we made Easter ones today!  These would also make yummy treats for birthday parties.  Here are the super easy directions:

1.  Bake a boxed cake following the instructions on the box.

2.  Crumble (yes, I said crumble) the cake up in a bowl

3.  Add a tub of frosting and mix with a spoon.

4.  Roll your concoction into balls (or you can make Easter egg shapes).

5.  Using Wilton Meltable chocolate melt the chocolate according to package directions.

6.  Dip the lollipop sticks in chocolate and then insert halfway into the cake balls.

 7.  At this point, I put the cake pops in the freezer for 30 minutes to harden.

8.  Melt more chocolate and dip the balls into the chocolate.  Hold upside down to let excess chocolate drip.

9.  If you are going to decorate you need to do so immediately before the chocolate harden.  I stuck my pops in a cardboard box with holes poked in it to dry.

Once they are completely dry you can put them in bags and tie with ribbon.  I used Wilton brand bags but plastic sandwich bags work just as well.