Chocolate Eclair Cake

Ingredients:
1 cup water
1/2 cup butter
1 cup flour
4 large eggs
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 large box (5.1 ounces) vanilla instant pudding
3 cups milk
1 8 oz. container cool whip
chocolate syrup

Directions:
1.  Preheat oven to 400F. Lightly grease a 9″x13″ Pyrex dish.

2.  In a medium saucepan, melt butter in water and bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Stir in flour. Mix in one egg at a time, mixing completely before adding another egg. Spread mixture into pan, covering the bottom and sides evenly.  Try to get it up the sides of the pan the best you can.

3.  Bake for 25 - 30 or until golden brown.  You may want to check it occasionally, you don’t want to overcook the crust.  Remove from oven and let cool (don’t touch or push bubbles down).

4.  Beat cream cheese in a medium bowl.

5.  In a separate bowl, beat instant pudding and milk.  Once thickened, slowing add pudding to cream cheese and beat until there are no lumps.  Let cool in the refrigerator.

6.  When the crust is completely cooled, pour filling into crust.  Top with layer of cool whip and chill until ready to serve.  Before serving, add chocolate sauce to top.

Enjoy!

Wordless Wednesday

 

My oldest turned 8 this weekend.  Time goes way too fast!

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8 Year Old Birthday Treats

Okay, I'm going to be brutally honest here, the one thing I despise are those little bags of stuff (junk) kids bring home from birthday parties.  I always end up throwing most of the stuff away and I feel really bad.  One exception is all those pencils I seem to accumulate.  I collect those and them give them to teachers to give out as prizes (ha ha ha)!

So my oldest is having a kids birthday party this year for his 8th birthday.  I know I needed to put together gift bags for the kids, but I wanted it to be useful items (and on a budget).  This is what I came up with:

Here is what was included and how it breaks down in cost.  I was able to get all this stuff at Dollar Tree.  The theme of his party was Monsters University and I found these really cool fruit snacks which just made the gifts!  I needed to make 12 gifts.

Green Plastic Cups - Came in pack of 4 for $1 each = $3 total

Monsters Fruit Snacks - Came in a pack of 3 for $1 each = $4 total

Straws - Came in pack of 6 for $1 each = $2 total

Vanilla Wafer Packages - 20 in pack for $1 = $1 total

Smarties Candy - 20 in pack for $1 = $1 total

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 So overall, I spent $13, so it was a little over $1 each to make the party cups!



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