Sunday, October 9, 2011

Peanut butter honey play dough

I found this great recipe for peanut butter honey play dough! Here is what you need...

1cup smooth peanut butter
3cups powdered sugar
1\3 cup honey
1 1\2 tsp vanilla extract
Food coloring, optional

Combine all ingredients in a large bowl; mix thoroughly until "dough" begins to come together. Do not over mix. If you like add a few drops of food coloring to the dough and mix. Store dough in an airtight container at room temperature for up to one week. I do not recommend this dough for kids under the age of two. Enjoy creating with your little ones or for yourself.

Here is a recipe for homemade peanut butter also....

HOMEMADE PEANUT BUTTER

Use  3 or 4 cups of roasted, unsalted peanuts (we buy ours in the bulk food section).  Put the peanuts in a food processor (unfortunately, this is the one essential gadget to making your own nut butter.  I don't think anything else would have the power to make the nuts into butter).  I usually fill ours with peanuts until it is level with the top of the blade attachment.   Add a couple of pinches of salt.  Turn the food processor on and process until the peanuts are ground into little bits.   Next, while the processor is still going, open up the chute on the top processor and start streaming a little bit of cooking oil (we use canola) into the mix.  Stream the oil in slowly until you reach the desired consistency of your peanut butter.  I've never measured, but I would guess I use just a tablespoon or two of oil total.  Put it in a container with a lid and store it in the refrigerator.

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