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Here’s what I made for dinner tonight…yum!  It was delish! 

This recipe will definitely need to be scrapped (let me clarify…scrapbooked…not thrown away).    :^)

It is called Creamy Pesto Chicken and Bow Ties…but I altered it a bit and added some tomatoes and spinach.  It was sooo good!

Creamy Pesto Chicken and Bow Ties

• 3 cups uncooked bow tie pasta
• 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
• 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast, cubed (4 breast halves)
• 1 (10.75 oz.) can Cream of Chicken Soup
• 1/3 cup pesto
• 1/2 cup milk
• 5 oz. frozen chopped spinach, thawed
• 14.5 oz. can Italian Style diced tomatoes

Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain.

Meanwhile, heat butter in skillet. Add chicken and cook until no longer pink, stirring often.

Add soup, pesto, milk, spinach and tomatoes. Bring to a boil. Cook over low heat 5 minutes or until done. Stir in drained pasta and heat through.

I’m thinking it would be good with mushrooms too…maybe next time!

I was asked to share a photo of the mummy treats I made so I’m just popping in with a quick post.  My friend, Mary Ann, made some and I thought they were so cute!  So I had to try them for a little party tomorrow.  Too bad mine don’t look so good.  lol.

I don’t know where my friend saw the idea but I found directions here.  She used Little Debbie Devil Cremes instead and they were yummy so that’s what I chose.  She also laid them each into 2 cupcake liners overlapped which makes a cute “coffin”.  Instead of the mini M&M’s, I found some candy eyes at Walmart.  Oh, and I used homemade frosting too.

Isn’t it a cute idea?

Boston Creme cupcakes = seriously yummy!!!

Just had to share.  :0)

You can bet I’ll be scrapping this in a 6×6 page!  But in the meantime, here’s the recipe.  Enjoy!

Boston Creme Cupcakes

1 1/4 cups whole milk

1 (3.4-ounce) box vanilla instant pudding and pie filling mix

1 teaspoon vanilla

18 pre-made cupcakes baked from a yellow cake mix

1/2 cup heavy cream

1/2 package (6 oz.) semisweet chocolate morsels

Combine milk, instant pudding mix, and vanilla in a large bowl. Beat mixture for 2 minutes, or until it thickens. Place mixture in refrigerator for 15 minutes. Spoon filling into a pastry bag fitted with a medium-size plain tip. Fill cupcakes with vanilla pudding filling by inserting tip into top of cupcake and squeezing filling into each cupcake.

Heat cream in a small heavy saucepan over medium heat until bubbles appear around the edges. Remove from heat, add chocolate morsels to pan, and whisk until smooth. Cool slightly.  Spoon or drizzle glaze over cupcakes, or dunk the tops into the glaze. Refrigerate until set, at least 1 hour, before serving.

*note- The original recipe called for 1 Tbsp. of vanilla but I cut it down to 1 tsp.  It also called for 12 cupcakes but I was able to fill 18 with the filling.  And the original recipe called for double the ingredients for the chocolate glaze but it was way too much so I cut it in half…the amount above should be about right.

Edit:  To answer your questions…I used a medium to large size tip. It could have been a bit smaller but I went with what I had and it worked fine. You will be able to tell when the cupcake has enough filling…it starts to swell. 

I have filled cupcakes in the past with regular frosting (learned this from my mother-in-law years ago) but I was afraid these would get mushy from the pudding filling.  Not the case!  The pudding kept the cupcakes nice and moist.  Nothing worse than dry cake, huh? 

I’m taking a break from the Christmas cards today to share a recipe page I recently made.  I’ve been making Paula Deen’s mac & cheese for a while now and since it’s one of our favorites, I wanted to scrap it for my girls.

Just a simple color-blocked layout paired with a House Mouse image.  The cheese is by Hambo.

Have a stress-free, enjoying the holidays kind of day!

stamps- House Mouse Chef Amanda, Hambo Stamps cheese; paper- red, Apricot, white, Apricot d.p.; ink- Memento Black, SU! Apricot; accessories- Labels 10 Nestabilities, Copics, button, thread; fonts- CK Ali’s Hand and LD Jumpy.