Funfetti Cake Batter Buddies

This weekend we had our neighborhood block party! Did you know that the city of Mission, Kansas provides grants for block parties?! We applied, and were able to cover a lot of the food costs with the grant.  I made this yummy treat as a dessert! I have also made these with my Barstow kids and they gobble it right up! It really does taste like cake batter!

Ingredients: 

10 cups Chex cereal (1 box)

24 oz vanilla flavored Almond Bark

1 box Funfetti cake mix (any kind of cake mix would work)

1 cup powdered sugar

Directions:

Have the Chex ready to put the Almond bark on. 

 Melt Almond Bark according to the package directions. (About 2 minutes)

 Pour the cereal into a large bowl and drizzle the melted Almond Bark over the cereal. 

Mix gently with a spatula.

  Dump the cake mix and powdered sugar onto the cereal and mix gently until all the cereal is evenly coated. Because I doubled it, I added the powders to the Chex in a large grocery bag. 

Enjoy!

Adapted from: So Very Blessed

Chicken Chili

This chili is one of the easiest ever! Most of it involves opening a can and dumping it. If your name is Jessica Smith, the whole thing involves opening a can and dumping it in, more on that later!

I got this recipe from Niki, a colleague at Pawnee. Not only is she a great teacher, she is funny, stylish, and has such a huge heart for her students.  I think the original email that she shared with us, said I'm almost embarrassed to share this with you, because it is so easy! 

I have made this for new moms, Grey's dinner, and shared it with my friends who don't like to cook. It freezes great too!

So here it is.....

Niki Neal’s Chicken Chili

• 1 can chili Ro-tel
• 1 can Mexican Ro-tel with cilantro
• 3 cans of any white bean (pinto, butter, navy, great northern etc…) Drained
• 1 rotisserie chicken (Jess likes to use canned chicken, because it is easy. She LOVES her canned chicken!)
• 1 can of Stagg chili*…this adds thickness.

Mix together and simmer for 30 minutes. SO easy!! Serve with sour cream, cheese, and any other chili toppings you like.  This chili is kind of spicy! 

*Stagg Chili is the chili in the can, if you can't find Stagg any bean-less canned chili will do!