CL Apartment Living: Easy and Delicious S’more Rice Crispy Treat

For my friend Isabelle’s birthday, I decided to try and recreate one of our favorite dining hall desserts from freshmen year. It was essentially a rice crispy treat plus many extra ingredients, including golden grahams, chocolate chips and possibly some oreos (but I left out the oreos). Basically, it was delicious – the perfect amount of chocolate, cinnamon and marshmallow – and honestly was one of the easiest and quickest desserts I have ever made. Try it out today!

You will need:

1 bag of mini marshmallows

1 bag of chocolate chips

1 box of Golden Graham cereal

4 tablespoons of Butter

1 package of oreos (optional)

Step 1: On your stove, slowly melt the butter and marshmallows together until smooth.

Step 2: In a large mixing bowl, combine the marshmallow mixture with your golden grahams until evenly coated.

Step 3: Using your stove or microwave (but only in increments of about 5 or 10 seconds), melt the chocolate.

Step 4: Pour your melted chocolate into the rest of your ingredients and combine well.

Step 5: If you chose to include oreos, crumble them up into little pieces and add to mixture as well.

Step 6: Put all of mixture into a greased 9 x 13 sized pan. Let set for 30 minutes. Store in room temperature place – not fridge! – or else they will get too hard.

All done and sooo delicious! How easy was that? Now, all over the internet I’m sure there are many different variations of this recipe, but, like I said, I thought mine were pretty tasty! If you find a better one, let us know!!

                                                                                                                       

Katie Maguire is a junior at Boston University, majoring in Public Relations with a minor in history. She is Sisterhood Chair of Kappa Delta Sorority and loves baking, working out and laughing with her friends!

“Espress” Yourself … Helpful Tips For My Coffee Lovers!

Coffee is by far one of my favorite things in the world, and being that the warm weather has now been graced upon us – that can only mean one thing in the Java World …. ICED COFFEE!

We all love Dunkin Donuts, and Starbucks is pretty amazing too… and until I figured out these helpful hints on how to make good iced coffee, I was going broke to get my caffeine fix…

So, for those of you who LOVE your coffee but think you don’t have the funds to pay for it… I’m here to make your summer a little bit better and share my secrets.

Helpful Hint # 1

Strength Is Everything!

The key to a good iced coffee is brewing it a little stronger then you usually would. (EX. – If you were making 6 cups of coffee, usually you would use 3 tablespoons of coffee grinds – for iced coffee, use 4!)

Helpful Hint # 2 (Thanks Mom!!)

Coffee Ice Cubes

Don’t Waste A Drop!! Take That leftover coffee from this morning and pour it in an ice cube tray, stick it in the freezer and WAALAHHH - No More Watered Down Iced Coffeee!

Helpful Hint # 3

Spice It Up!

Before you brew your coffee, add a teaspoon of cinnamon or nutmeg to the grinds (or whatever spice you like), then brew away! Before you know it, you’ve got cinnamon coffee (and the coffee ice cubes to ice it down with!)

LASTLY…..

Helpful Hint # 4

Add A Little Flavor

Flavored Coffee Syrups can help add to the delightfulness of a summer iced coffee. But, be careful with this one, because if it isn’t done right you can end up spending too much! My personal favorite (found in A&P and Acme Markets all over the U.S) is Torani . Torani Syrups are about $4.99 a bottle (cheaper if you order online!) and last forever! My personal favorite is the Sugar Free French Vanilla!

And just to throw it out here, my favorite brand of coffee is Folger’s, I totally agree with them, it is “the best part of waking up!”

Hope this helps you all find your favorite tasty, cheap, caffeinated beverage!

xOx

Kristin Marie

Marvelous Meal Makeover: Milk & Cookies Style

Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?

Attention fellow sweet-toothed chicas! Tame your milk & cookies craving with these healthier options.

Keebler’s 100 Calorie Right Bites

Great grab & go snack to keep in your backpack or purse.

• Fudge Shoppe Grasshopper (Tastes like a Girl Scout Thin Mint, but without the calories!)
• Mini Fudge Stripes

Kashi TLC (Tasty Little Cookies)

All natural, CHEWY, 7 whole grain blend

• Oatmeal Dark Chocolate
• Oatmeal Raisin Flax
• Happy Trail Mix  (My favorite! LOVE LOVE LOVE)

Silk Soymilk

Dairy-free, vegan, organic, DELISH. 1 cup has 100 calories and 6g protein.

• Vanilla (my fave)
• Chocolate
• Plain

Of course, Fat Free (Skim) Milk is a healthy choice:

1 cup has 80-90 calories, 8g protein, BUT it contains a few MORE grams of sugar than soymilk.

$$$ Saving Tip:

Visit Kashi and Silk’s websites to receive special offers and coupons!

P.B. Loco New Flavor! (We Can’t Wait to Try It!)

If you keep up with our blog, you know by now that we love peanut butter. In particular, P. B. Loco Brand. (We buy ours at Target!)