Give yourself credit. Whether a viewer can do it better doesn't matter - you are doing a TH-cam video whereas we are just sitting back watching. You go girl.
I love the cream cheese mints! We used to make them for every wedding, baby shower, you name it. The only difference is we pressed the mixture into rubber molds so we had leaves, roses, tulips, stars! It was a group effort and I have great memories of a bunch of us sitting around the table making mints. Thank you for bringing these memories back for me!
Bless your heart you need to order the precut parchment squares and circles. It’s better than all the fluff of trying to get that thick paper to work especially in small dishes.
Hey, young lady! Don't be so hard on yourself! There is no way you can know all aspects of prep or cooking. 😊 I've been cooking for many years, holidays and all but I am still learning all the time! In fact, I've learned things from you too! Great video and presentation. I enjoy you and your family. God bless all here!
You're such an easy and sweet person to learn from, great instructions. Especially loved the Bible verse at the end. New subscriber here and can't wait to check out the rest of your videos. Thank you, Merry Christmas and God bless you always 🤗
I just watched your video from 3 days ago. I can totally relate about height. I was 5'3"; I recently lost an inch. I can barely reach my stove top when cooking. I have to sit on my walker to buzz around my kitchen. I am partially disabled. I can't walk long distances or from one room to another without struggling. So, I sit on my walker and buzz around my kitchen. I have a hard time holding my arms up when mixing food on the stove. If I wasn't partially disabled, I would stand on a footstool to reach into my instant pot or a pot on the stove. It's challenging. One of my best friends is 4"9', and she has to look up to me!!! I'm not that much taller then she is, which is funny. We joke about it all the time. So don't feel bad. Besides, being short has it's benefits. That means we have to have our husbands reach things for us. Shows them they are needed. 🤣 From other TH-camrs, they fold the wax paper on the bottom of your pan and then cut the corners so it fits inside the pan with a hang over this side. You got this!!!! God bless you and your family. ❤
9:07 love the description, candy ball things. 😊 If it involves peanut butter you have my attention. A quick candy that's no bake is 1 package chocolate chips, half a package butterscotch chips. Melt over double boiler. Add half to one package chow mein noodles and mux well. Drop by spoonfuls on parchment paper and let set. I have also added raisins , craisins or dried cherries on occasion.
My sisters and I just made peanut butter balls last weekend. My granddaughters love to help us roll the balls. I get the job of being the "dipper". LOL
I spray bottom of pan with cooking spray then cut 2 pc parchment width and up sides each way in pan base, allows you to lift out and pull away after set. Allows you to cut perfect squares or bars.
😂 Amber, I remember helping my mom make these cream cheese/powdered sugar candies for my wedding back in 1973! She had these little rubber type candy molds of roses, bells, and I think a leaf. You are right, they tasted good.
I’m absolutely mesmerized watching whatever you make. I like how you demonstrate & describe the method & measurements. Even the little blips are fun. Than you for adding happiness to my days.
Love at 18:18 I promise we aren’t even paying attention to your stove! We all know you clean! anyone who judges has problems! Thanks for this amazing video can’t wait to try this stuff!❤❤
These are all so beautiful and delicious looking! I’m not a great baker either but I love no bake treats to give out at this time of year. Thanks bunches! 🌻💕
Actually, if you leave the top of the graham cracker peanut butter mix a little rough, your chocolate topping will nestle into those tiny spaces and stick to the bottom layer really well! When I smooth it out, I found the layers tended to separate. If you score the chocolate layer before it is 100% hardened I think you will find cutting it goes smoother.
Spray your pan before you put the parchment paper down and it sticks down. Also scrunching parchment paper up helps. Great easy recipes! Thanks for sharing!😊
A trick I learned from another youtuber - crinkle up the parchment paper into a ball then open up and spread into your pan. It really does work and makes it so much easier to get it to stay in the pan
Hi. For those that can't have peanut butter, I am one of those, whenever a recipe calls for peanut butter I substitute unsweetened salted Sunflower seeds butter. I think it's not exactly the same taste, but I think it kinda tastes a little like peanut butter. Grin. 😊 Cali Lady
Your threats look so good. I’m going to try them all. My family is going to be extremely excited because I hardly ever make anything sweet. Thank you for sharing these easy recipes.
Amber, can you possibly mix food colorings that your son can have to achieve the green color that you were looking for? Also, to get into the corners of your baking dishes, I use the bottom of my metal measuring cups to press things down. It works very well for so many different recipes and it also helps to make it easier to have them level throughout the dish.
Spray the bottom of your PAN before you laid the parchment paper down that always helps.And then just a little bit of cooking spray inside the parchment paper.Will also help bring your other stuff out❤
My parchment paper hack is put the sheet of parchment under the pan, cut the paper in towards the corners of the pan. Then flip over the pan and put the cut parchment into the pan.
First time seeing your video. Popped up when I searched Christmas treats 💝 These look so good! Thanks for taking time to make this video 💝 Hope you have a Very Merry Christmas 🎄💝
Parchment paper tips to try: Scrunch the paper into a ball with your hands as if you're getting ready to throw it away, but then unscrunch it and it will be less apt to move around. I have also seen Kelly over at "Kelly's Korner" use clothes pins to hold the paper in place until she's ready to pop the pan into the oven. I've never tried that, but it looked easy enough and it did hold the paper in place.
I love you show. Parchment paper work, space we need to go into five pieces. Cut one to fit the bottom of the dish. Then measure the four side’s cutting about a inch higher than dish. Another way is a three way cut measure from one side across the bottom and to the next side leave these sides a little longer about 3 inches. Then cut the remaining two sides and put in place after your dish is finished you can use the one long piece to lift your dish from the pan.
Set the dish on your parchment paper and cut from the edge to each corner. The paper will fold into the dish easily. For the mints, have you looked at gel food coloring? A small bit will yield a bright color. (Not sure if they make some that your son can have.)
Crumble your parchment up to help relax it and then we reopen and use. Can also cut slits in the sides that go up the sides to fold easy in the tray. ❤
Cut your parchment into 2 wide strips that will fit into the pan and hang over each side about 2-3 inches .... and use a binder clip to fasten to sides
First time watching you and you're great bc you're very relatable. When I make brownies or rice Krispy treats I cut 2 strips of parchment and spray corners with non stick. I also use a tad of spray to hold the parchment and t shape them. Then you are able to pull the bottom right up and out to cut.
While scrunching the parchment paper between my hands into a ball, I hold it under running water. Wringing the water out and it will lay perfectly in the pan
I just saw a trick where you measure out the parchment one inch bigger then your pan and then you lay your pan on top and cut squares out of the corners of the parchment so that it looks like a plus sign. then when you put it in your pan the parchment paper lays smooth in the corners and sides. I hope that makes sense. LOL!
Hi there I learned from another video I had seen on lining parchment paper is that if you roll it up like a ball or just really just half to wrinkle it and it will lay better or you can cut the corners it will lay better
@@FeedingtheByrds only once a year for my spritz Christmas cookies. I had the last one for about 10 years and it cracked where you put the decorative disc.
hi ! new to your channel ! great ideas ! what I do for the parchment paper is I crumble it up a bit and then put it in the dish seems to fit in better :)
Give yourself credit. Whether a viewer can do it better doesn't matter - you are doing a TH-cam video whereas we are just sitting back watching. You go girl.
Thank you so much!
Ball the parchment paper several times and it will go into the dish easier.
Great tip!
Thanks for the tip!
I was coming to suggest this!
Thanks for the tip!! I struggle with parchment paper not fitting in my pan.
Well thank you for coming to let us know @@emileecarreker2994
Turn your pan upside down and mold the parchment to the outside of the pan. When you turn it right side up, it should slide right in perfectly.
Ahhh!! Such a good idea.
Don't put yourself down girl. You be you. You make some awesome treats.
Thank you! 😍
I recently learned if you wet the parchment paper and ball it up it will sit perfectly in any pan - I tried it and wow, it worked!
Such a great trick!
This has been my go to for a few years. Cuts the stress out of dealing with parchment.
I love the cream cheese mints! We used to make them for every wedding, baby shower, you name it. The only difference is we pressed the mixture into rubber molds so we had leaves, roses, tulips, stars! It was a group effort and I have great memories of a bunch of us sitting around the table making mints. Thank you for bringing these memories back for me!
I love that!!!
Bless your heart you need to order the precut parchment squares and circles. It’s better than all the fluff of trying to get that thick paper to work especially in small dishes.
❤🙂
Oh good idea!!
Hey, young lady! Don't be so hard on yourself! There is no way you can know all aspects of prep or cooking. 😊 I've been cooking for many years, holidays and all but I am still learning all the time! In fact, I've learned things from you too!
Great video and presentation. I enjoy you and your family.
God bless all here!
Thank you so much! Yes, we can always still learn.
I think u can spray the pan and ball up the parchment then open back up (like a ball of foil) it helps it stay in the pan....
That's what my friend Mandy said!
You're such an easy and sweet person to learn from, great instructions. Especially loved the Bible verse at the end. New subscriber here and can't wait to check out the rest of your videos. Thank you, Merry Christmas and God bless you always 🤗
Thanks for subbing! I am so glad you're here!
I swear I gained weight just watching you make these delicious treats.....my mouth was watering!!! Thanks for sharing, I love the no bake feature!!!!
😁😁😁these really were so good
I just watched your video from 3 days ago. I can totally relate about height. I was 5'3"; I recently lost an inch. I can barely reach my stove top when cooking. I have to sit on my walker to buzz around my kitchen. I am partially disabled. I can't walk long distances or from one room to another without struggling. So, I sit on my walker and buzz around my kitchen. I have a hard time holding my arms up when mixing food on the stove. If I wasn't partially disabled, I would stand on a footstool to reach into my instant pot or a pot on the stove. It's challenging. One of my best friends is 4"9', and she has to look up to me!!! I'm not that much taller then she is, which is funny. We joke about it all the time. So don't feel bad. Besides, being short has it's benefits. That means we have to have our husbands reach things for us. Shows them they are needed. 🤣 From other TH-camrs, they fold the wax paper on the bottom of your pan and then cut the corners so it fits inside the pan with a hang over this side. You got this!!!! God bless you and your family. ❤
Loved reading this!! And yes, I am definitely dependent on him to reach things for me 😁😁
I really enjoy your videos,You bake like me😊We could be besties😂😂😂
The cream cheese mints turned out so pretty🙂 ❤
They really did!
Here's an idea.... when doing the peppermint patties, maybe dip them in melted chocolate!!! YUMMY!!!
If you try it, let me know how it is!
Homemade Junior Mints!
9:07 love the description, candy ball things. 😊 If it involves peanut butter you have my attention. A quick candy that's no bake is 1 package chocolate chips, half a package butterscotch chips. Melt over double boiler. Add half to one package chow mein noodles and mux well. Drop by spoonfuls on parchment paper and let set. I have also added raisins , craisins or dried cherries on occasion.
My sisters and I just made peanut butter balls last weekend. My granddaughters love to help us roll the balls. I get the job of being the "dipper". LOL
Ooo!!! Love this. I need to try it.
I spray bottom of pan with cooking spray then cut 2 pc parchment width and up sides each way in pan base, allows you to lift out and pull away after set. Allows you to cut perfect squares or bars.
Such a good tip!
😂 Amber, I remember helping my mom make these cream cheese/powdered sugar candies for my wedding back in 1973! She had these little rubber type candy molds of roses, bells, and I think a leaf. You are right, they tasted good.
ditto in 1978
I love this!!! They are so good
I'm here for all the fun treats. These all look and sound delicious 😋🤤
Thank you 😋
@@FeedingtheByrds you're welcome, friend. Hope you're doing well this lovely Thursday.
I’m absolutely mesmerized watching whatever you make. I like how you demonstrate & describe the method & measurements. Even the little blips are fun. Than you for adding happiness to my days.
Yay! Love that you enjoy it
Love at 18:18 I promise we aren’t even paying attention to your stove! We all know you clean! anyone who judges has problems! Thanks for this amazing video can’t wait to try this stuff!❤❤
Thank you!
Hands are the best tools we have.
Agreed!
Not sure if you know it, but your son's reflection was in the microwave. That was so cute and funny. I just kept rewinding and watching it.
😁😁 he's hilarious! Always messing with me
If you spray a little cooking spray on the bottom of the 8×8 and press the parchment paper down it will stay in place Love this hack ❤️
Love it!
These are all so beautiful and delicious looking! I’m not a great baker either but I love no bake treats to give out at this time of year. Thanks bunches! 🌻💕
Thanks so much! 😊
These are definitely easy enough for even us non-bakers
Actually, if you leave the top of the graham cracker peanut butter mix a little rough, your chocolate topping will nestle into those tiny spaces and stick to the bottom layer really well! When I smooth it out, I found the layers tended to separate. If you score the chocolate layer before it is 100% hardened I think you will find cutting it goes smoother.
Oh great tips!
I never miss an opportunity to hit something with a meat mallet. Love these recipes!
Ha! I love that too!
Spray your pan before you put the parchment paper down and it sticks down. Also scrunching parchment paper up helps. Great easy recipes! Thanks for sharing!😊
Great idea!!
A trick I learned from another youtuber - crinkle up the parchment paper into a ball then open up and spread into your pan. It really does work and makes it so much easier to get it to stay in the pan
Yes, great tip!
Awesome recipes Amber I’m going to make them all this weekend. Thanks for sharing and hope your week is going good. Merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you! You too!
Hi. They all looked very tasty thank you for sharing ❤
Thank you for watching!
Hi. For those that can't have peanut butter, I am one of those, whenever a recipe calls for peanut butter I substitute unsweetened salted Sunflower seeds butter. I think it's not exactly the same taste, but I think it kinda tastes a little like peanut butter. Grin. 😊 Cali Lady
Oh good tip!
... my Grandmother taught me to just crumple up the Parchment paper, then uncrumple it and it's easy to put into the dish you're using. :)
That's what my friend Mandy does too!
@FeedingtheByrds ....🙂😊👌🏻.. Miss Mandy ...is that " Mandy in the Making "(?) I do so enjoy her Channel as well.
🙂
Yep. She's my closest friend!
@FeedingtheByrds ..Awww ! 😊 How wonderful...well, it certainly is fitting that you two are close Friends!
Thank you for replying, Miss Amber.🙏🏻😊✨️
She's the best!!! Yes. Love her.
Your threats look so good. I’m going to try them all. My family is going to be extremely excited because I hardly ever make anything sweet. Thank you for sharing these easy recipes.
Yay! Hope you all love them
Amber, can you possibly mix food colorings that your son can have to achieve the green color that you were looking for? Also, to get into the corners of your baking dishes, I use the bottom of my metal measuring cups to press things down. It works very well for so many different recipes and it also helps to make it easier to have them level throughout the dish.
Oh great idea!! I'll try that out
These all look amazingly delicious, thank you.
You are so welcome!
Love these treats
Thank you!
Yum, Yum, Yum! Thank you so much! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Same to you!
I crumble up the parchment first then fit it. I buy the ready cut but still crumble it up.
Good tip!
Spray the bottom of your PAN before you laid the parchment paper down that always helps.And then just a little bit of cooking spray inside the parchment paper.Will also help bring your other stuff out❤
Great tip!
Thanks for sharing! All these look yummy! I might need to try them all. (I also hate when the glass dish makes that noise on the counter!).
Yes!! I need to be better about just having a towel handy
I just found your videos and love them! Most of all, I appreciate that you give a Bible verse at the end of each video. God bless you and your family!
Welcome to my channel, I’m so happy you found me. Thank you so much!
Blessings always
Thank you!
Parchment tip: wet and crumple up the parchment and it will form more easily to pan. 😊
Great tip!
They all look so delicious
Thank you!
Take your parchment paper and crunch it up and then straighten it back out it will stay where ever you put it
Love it.
Love all these recipes 😊❤
Thanks so much 😊
I use nonstick foil and it works great. I mold it to the pan upside down and it fits right into the pan.
Great tip!
I have been making these peanut butter chocolate bars for many years. They are so good!
SOOO good!
My parchment paper hack is put the sheet of parchment under the pan, cut the paper in towards the corners of the pan. Then flip over the pan and put the cut parchment into the pan.
Great tip!
I'm definitely going to try a couple of these!! Thank you ❤
You're so welcome!
I started these recipes tonight I can’t wait to try them
How were they?
@@FeedingtheByrds I only manage to get the garam cracker one right n it was soooo good
Oh n the cinnamon twist omg I’m making them as a snack for now on
Good night Amber and thank you for sharing your yummy snacks
You are so welcome!
Awesome treats, thanks 👍🙏🏻👍🙏🏻
Our pleasure!
My family is going to love these recipes❤
Wonderful!
Loved the kid you could see in the microwave dancing!!!
😁😁I didn't even notice in editing.
I literally just crushed graham crackers with my meat mallet a couple of hours ago. If you use the nobbly side it's so much easier 💚
LOL I use that little ol' meat mallet for lots of things. I use it also to crack my ice that I buy by the bag before I put it in my freezer.
Such a great Multi-use tool!
First time seeing your video. Popped up when I searched Christmas treats 💝
These look so good! Thanks for taking time to make this video 💝
Hope you have a Very Merry Christmas 🎄💝
You are so welcome! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas.
Everything looks so yummy! Thanks for posting
You're welcome!
I have made thousands of the cream cheese mints, we always used mint molds though when we made them.
YES! I have seen them that way many times.
We make the chocolate pb bars!! We always use the crunchy pb and we sometimes add sprinkles on the chocolate while it's still wet, soooo good!!
Oh yum!! That's a great idea
These all look so good and easy!! I can’t wait to try them!
Hope you enjoy!
I love I seen your child in the microwave dancing beside the camera that is real life. Great job
😁😁they are always messing with me
I buy pre cut parchment on Amazon. I also put a tiny spray of oil in the pan, that'll make the paper stay down much better.
great tip!
I wonder if cookie butter could be used instead of peanut butter
Oh definitely!
All of the treats looks great! I might try make the butterfinger rounds for Christmas. 🙂❤️
You should!
Parchment paper tips to try: Scrunch the paper into a ball with your hands as if you're getting ready to throw it away, but then unscrunch it and it will be less apt to move around. I have also seen Kelly over at "Kelly's Korner" use clothes pins to hold the paper in place until she's ready to pop the pan into the oven. I've never tried that, but it looked easy enough and it did hold the paper in place.
These are great ideas!!!
Question where did you get your containers that have those pretty labels that you had the sugars in??
Great ideas ❤
Thank you! 😊
I love you show. Parchment paper work, space we need to go into five pieces. Cut one to fit the bottom of the dish. Then measure the four side’s cutting about a inch higher than dish. Another way is a three way cut measure from one side across the bottom and to the next side leave these sides a little longer about 3 inches. Then cut the remaining two sides and put in place after your dish is finished you can use the one long piece to lift your dish from the pan.
Thanks for the tips! Will definitely try this.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
Set the dish on your parchment paper and cut from the edge to each corner. The paper will fold into the dish easily. For the mints, have you looked at gel food coloring? A small bit will yield a bright color. (Not sure if they make some that your son can have.)
Great tip!
Crumple the parchment paper up first and it will fit better. I actually cut it into strips that fit the pan.
Nice!
Crumble your parchment up to help relax it and then we reopen and use. Can also cut slits in the sides that go up the sides to fold easy in the tray. ❤
Great tip!
lol- my mom used to make those for wedings showers..i havent had them in sooo long..now i must make them.
That's what I remember them from!
Ball up and crinkle the parchment paper it makes it more playable to use!
Great tip!
Cut your parchment into 2 wide strips that will fit into the pan and hang over each side about 2-3 inches .... and use a binder clip to fasten to sides
Thanks for the tip!
First time watching you and you're great bc you're very relatable. When I make brownies or rice Krispy treats I cut 2 strips of parchment and spray corners with non stick. I also use a tad of spray to hold the parchment and t shape them. Then you are able to pull the bottom right up and out to cut.
That's a great tip!
I'm so glad you decided to watch. Merry Christmas!
If you wad up your parchment paper first then spread it out in your pan and it will fit the corners better.
Thanks!
Like your recipes
Thank you so much 😊
I make my own peanut butter i bet these would be amazing with it.
Oh so good!
Crumble the parchment paper or you can also wet the parchment paper, the parchment paper is parched. Both of those options work well.
Great tip!
Wet the parchment paper and it is easy to mold to your pan.
Great tip!
If you use an off set spatula that will help spread things
I need to get one of those
These recipes looks so good
Glad you like them!
While scrunching the parchment paper between my hands into a ball, I hold it under running water. Wringing the water out and it will lay perfectly in the pan
Oh!!! Good idea.
Amber, when measuring ingredients, either by measuring cups or spoons, you should always level off.
👍
Had them @ my wedding
❤️❤️
Take and cut the parchment the same size of the pan on both directions and take clips to hold the paper down on sides. I hope that made sense 😊
Thanks for the tips! It does make sense
You gave me inspiration to get up and mix up some yummies!! ❤️ (Ps...You can cut the corners to make the paper fit )
That's so great to hear!
I just saw a trick where you measure out the parchment one inch bigger then your pan and then you lay your pan on top and cut squares out of the corners of the parchment so that it looks like a plus sign. then when you put it in your pan the parchment paper lays smooth in the corners and sides. I hope that makes sense. LOL!
Great idea!!!
Hi there I learned from another video I had seen on lining parchment paper is that if you roll it up like a ball or just really just half to wrinkle it and it will lay better or you can cut the corners it will lay better
Love this!
Yummy 😋❤
Thank you!
Spray the pan or dish and the sides then put parchment paper in and press. Then add your contents.
Great tip!
I use a plastic fork. Broke off the middle tines then what you are dipping will slide off easily
That's a great idea !
Thank you. Is it pretty sturdy?
It's a decent one. I'm sure there are really really great ones out there. For me, we don't use it all that often so it's fine for what we need!
@@FeedingtheByrds only once a year for my spritz Christmas cookies. I had the last one for about 10 years and it cracked where you put the decorative disc.
Ha! I totally saw the reflection of your son (I think) dancing in your microwave. 😂
He's always messing with me 😁😁
cool
Im goi g to put these recipes in my christmas box for next year! Im done!!!
Sounds great!
hi ! new to your channel ! great ideas ! what I do for the parchment paper is I crumble it up a bit and then put it in the dish seems to fit in better :)
Welcome to my channel! Thank you for that tip.
Skip the parchment paper in dishes like that which do not need to be baked and use Siran wrap. It goes in much easier and does the trick.
Oh interesting. I didn't even think of that.