Month: March 2018

DIY, Food, Homemade Gifts, Sweets

I decided I was going sugar free for the month of March. Then I made these and decided April was the better month to go sugar free. Also, who else here puts m&m’s in their theatre popcorn? I can’t be the only one. Asking for a friend here. What is it about sweet and salty together?

Have you ever had someone invite you over for a girls night, or a small get together, or supper and you ask “what would you like me to bring?” But really, you only ask because 9/10 the person usually replies with “just bring yourself!” Well, there will come a day friends, when someone will betray you and reply with  “just bring whatever is easiest! A snack or whatever. Nothing fancy.”

This recipe will save you. It’s not fancy. It’s not hard. But it is delicious. And it’s chewy. Best part? It’s sweet and salty, so best of both worlds. If there were two worlds.

You definitely should bring this to your next girls night. Watch Hugh Grant dance in his underpants in Notting Hill. Or raise your hands and say “Amen sister” when Bridget Jones is trying to get her wobbly bits to fit into her jeans. Whatever movie you watch, or whatever it is your bring these to… they’ll be appreciated.

My best friend and I are going to Banff for the week over spring break and we plan on having movie nights and eating junk food. Please comment your fave chick flick and fave snack, Preferably sweet and salty. I thank you in advance, my trainer will not. Just kidding, I don’t have a trainer.

Caramel Pretzel Bark
 
Save Print
Sweet and salty caramel pretzel bark. It's easy and so addicting!
Author:
Ingredients
  • 2 cups pretzels
  • 1 cup of butter
  • 1 cup of brown sugar
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • sea salt
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350* and cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper
  2. Place your pretzels evenly in a single layer
  3. In a small saucepan, melt the butter and brown sugar over medium heat. The caramel will start to bubble and thicken
  4. Remove once the caramel has thickened and add the vanilla
  5. Pour evenly over the pretzels and bake in the oven for 5 minutes
  6. While its in the oven, melt your chocolate in the microwave and pout into an icing bag
  7. Pour the melted chocolate over the caramel in little squiggles and top with some sea salt
  8. let cool completely, cut into squares and refrigerate
  9. Enjoy!!
Notes
This recipe is adapted from 3 fois par jour blog

You guys can check out the original recipe here… among tons of others! I have both her cookbooks, her first one is my favourite cookbook I own. Which is saying a lot because I own a ton. Like if we weighed them, they would probably weigh a ton. The Blog is call Trois Fois Par Jour

SaveSave

SaveSave

SaveSave

Olive Juice

I found Rocky Mountain Decals on Instagram and fell in love with their removable wallpapers. I wanted Olive’s room to feel “light and airy, and a place she could come and be herself.” Just kidding. I had no clue what I was going for, nor what I wanted it to look like. So up until I found these wallpapers, her room didn’t feel like much of anything. Putting up the wall paper just made everything look so put together. I’m in love with it. It’s my favourite room in the house, other than the pantry where I hide my secret candy stash.

They have so many options for different looks. The best part is that its removable and doesn’t damage your wall, and it’s extremely forgiving. Dane had to peel it off a few times when he was applying it if it wasn’t lined up perfectly (sometimes it pays to have a perfectionist as a husband!)

They have so many options to choose from, and its most definitely not limited to kids rooms! I wanna do our ensuite bathroom in the black and white floral. Just have to convince Dane:) Please, please go check them out! They’re Canadian and super helpful to work with. Ok, enough talking.

Rocky Mountain Decals are offering you guys an exclusive 15% off your own wallpaper with the code OLIVEBELL. So go browse and start baking the cake now to convince your husbands that you need this!

Thank you so much Rocky Mountain Decals for partnering with Olivebell to bring Olive the cutest little room where she can destroy all of the instagram worthy things. Like the books that are more decor than anything. And the white jelly cat bunny she threw in the toilet.

What it looked like before. Lovely init?

 

SaveSaveSaveSave

SaveSave