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Family Movie Night

Created On: April 4, 2012  |  Updated: April 7, 2018  |   48 Comments  

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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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Katie
12 years ago

Those look amazing! I just love peanut butter and chocolate desserts! Yum!

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Homegrown Beanes
12 years ago

Love this idea! The cupcakes look great.

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Jo-Anna
12 years ago

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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Debbie {visual eye candy}
12 years ago

What a fun idea! I bet your kids loved it! Those peanut butter cupcakes look delish!!

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MJ
12 years ago

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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Kaylee @ Couponing & Cooking
12 years ago

Those cupcakes look amazing! Can’t wait to try them!

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Jo-Ann
12 years ago

These cupcakes look so yummy. I will have to try them. My husband loves anything with peanut butter in it. Thank you for sharing.

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Sarah
12 years ago

This is an adorable idea! My kids always want to have a movie night and adding the little cars is so cute! The peanut butter chocolate cupcakes look amazing! I would love for you to share this at my link party
https://thewinthropchronicles.blogspot.com/2012/04/share-it-link-party-6.html

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Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust
12 years ago

What an awesome table! And great cupcakes. I totally want to do that with my daughter this summer – mix it up a little. :)

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six sisters
12 years ago

What a fun movie night!! And the cupcakes look heavenly! We hope you’ll be back to our “Strut Your Stuff Saturday”. We loved having you! -The Sisters

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Colette
12 years ago

Visiting from SugarBee… what a great post. Love the cars, love the cupcakes… love everything!

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Alison
12 years ago

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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Crystal
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12 years ago

You’re so sweet Alison, thank you!!

xoxo
Crystal

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shirley@motivatedmommyoftwo
12 years ago

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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shirley@motivatedmommyoftwo
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12 years ago

Sorry I meant to say at a link party

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Sarah Avila
12 years ago

This is super cute! What a fun mom you are! And those peanut butter filled cupcakes….. Yum!!!

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Alexis @ we like to learn as we go
12 years ago

That is such a cute idea! I love the car boxes and the cupcakes look awesome! I would definitely be bummed not to be able to go to the beach, but it looks like you had fun! I would love for you to link it up to my link party. I know my readers would love it too! https://weliketolearnaswego.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-i-learned-wednesday-5.html

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Heather
12 years ago

sounds like a great spring break, and the cupcakes look amazing

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Heather
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12 years ago

love your blog – new follower

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Mandy @ Sugar Bee Crafts
12 years ago

Thanks so much for linking to Take-A-Look Tuesday – you were featured today!
–Mandy, http://www.SugarBeeCrafts.com

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Taylor-Ann
12 years ago

I love a good family night. I would love it if you linked it up to my new link party.

https://momslifevents.blogspot.com/2012/04/show-off-mondays.html

Can’t Wait to see what else you create.

~Taylor

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Jelli
12 years ago

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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sue @ cakeballs. cookies and more
12 years ago

firstly how fun, secondly yummy treat!

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