Family Movie Night

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It’s Spring break and we had big plans for a beach trip. The kids were excited, I was excited. But unfortunately my husbands schedule changed last minute and we’ve had to cancel our trip. *tear* To make it up to the kids I have a week filled with fun activities that we’ll be doing at home and at local venues. Last night we had a family movie night! But not our usual family movie night, I went all out with a chili dog and snack bar. The kids loved it!

Here’s a list of the snacks I included:

Snack’rs Snack Mix

Snack’rs Yogurt Trail Mix

Snack’rs Yogurt Covered Pretzels

Snack’rs Mixed Nuts

Snack’rs Dry Roasted Peanuts

Popcorn

Carrots

Twizzlers

I went shopping earlier this week for our movie night and wanted to try a new recipe. I decided to make peanut butter filled chocolate cupcakes with ganache. Are you surprised? You know how we love our peanut butter and chocolate mix around here. ;) I adapted the recipe from Food Network to make mine semi-homemade.

To make your own peanut butter filled cupcakes bake your cupcakes according to package. Once they have cooled hollow out the center. I used the back of a large Wilton tip and found it worked great!

For the filling:
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened 
1 cup creamy peanut butter
1 1/4 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar
To make the filling combine butter and peanut butter until smooth. Slowly incorporate the confectioners’ sugar and mix 3-5 minutes. Put it into a pastry bag and pipe into hollowed center. I didn’t bother using a tip for this. 
Ganache:
4 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 heavy cream
For the ganache place chocolate chips into a bowl. In a small saucepan heat your heavy cream then remove and pour on top of your chocolate. Let it stand for a minute then whisk until smooth. Allow it cool for 5-10 minutes. Dip the tops of the cupcakes into the ganache and sprinkle chopped peanuts on top. You can place them in the refrigerator to help harden the ganache if it’s too runny.

How cute are these popcorn boxes? In case you’re wondering I found them at Hobby Lobby next to the carnival party supplies. The hot dog holders are in the same section.

We made these “cars” out of boxes. They’ve never been to a drive-in so this was fun for them. My son has plans for his. He wants to add headlights, backlights, and a steering wheel. Apparently I didn’t get creative enough with the wrapping paper and paper plates. :)

We began our movie night watching my daughter’s favorite movie, Beauty and the Beast. 

So it wasn’t the beach, but we sure had a fun movie night! Tomorrow we’re having a picnic at the park and going bowling. I can’t wait to see my toddler bowl for the first time!  

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  3. Rachel

    Those cupcakes look amazing! And I had no idea that ganache was that simple – just heavy cream and chocolate chips?? Very cool!

    Thanks for sharing!

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  4. susan m jensen

    Ganache I never made WOW it seems so easy. Cupcakes are my hubb’s favorite. I ‘ll make a cupcake cake May 2 nd. for his 88 th yep! seniors. I will make this one with special (lemon is his fav. ) I’ll add a few in center???? not sure yet. Coffee girls while cupcakes are baking hahahaha

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  22. Jo-Anna

    What a great idea! My kids would flip if I did something like this for our movie nights! I’m going to surprise them next weekend! Thanks for the idea, I love it!
    Jo-Anna

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  24. MJ

    Oh my these look amazing! Must try them soon :) Also very impressed by your pictures by the way, my kitchen has a marble top and the pics always look so messy… Thanx for sharing!

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  31. Alison

    Wow, you always amaze me!! Your photography is beautiful… and seriously HOW do you throw so many fun parties?! Thanks for sharing at oopsey daisy!

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  32. [email protected]

    OMG!! your cupcakes look so delicious that when I first saw the picture at a pin party I thought they were so hard to make. I pinned one of the images so that I make them with my kids. Thanks for sharing

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  38. Jelli

    These look fabulous! I love an Ina Garten chocolate cupcake with pb frosting recipe, and this reminds me of that…with a tad more work. That photo rocks, especially the cut-open cuppie, Thanks so much for making me drool!

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  41. Holly Lefevre

    What a fun party! Peanut Butter Filled Cupcakes – yes please and then some more! Your set is is fun and it looks like a perfectly fun night in!

    (I actually attended Rook. no 17 2 stooges viewing.)

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