This blog post is part of a paid SocialMoms and #HostessHoliday blogging program. The opinions and ideas expressed here are my own.
We have had such a great holiday weekend. This is one of my husband’s very few weekends off from church. (Minister’s families know how that can be.) So our Thanksgiving holiday was awesome. Thursday we gave thanks to God, ate a huge feast with 30 family members, and cheered on our home team (Seahawks) for a big win. We put up our Christmas tree and decorations on Friday. Saturday night we went to the drive-in theater for a kids movie double feature. Then, Sunday we had a great time using Hostess snacks for a DIY Ornament Bar. It was just one of those really great weekends with family.
How was your Thanksgiving holiday?
Each year my sister does a ginger bread house with our kids, but here at home, we planned something even funner (and easier for mommy) – an edible ornament bar. Sunday morning, we headed out in freezing temperatures (we are getting some cold weather here in the Seattle area, how’s it for you?) to get some fun things to decorate our Hostess snacks with. At our local Walmart we found colorful icing, small candy coated chocolate balls, sprinkles, and even some gummy candy that pulled apart like strings. My six year old and I were both excited to create edible ornaments and the boys were most excited about eating them.
My Princess and I had fun decorating the DING DONGS and sno balls – turning them into an edible ornament was pretty fun. During decorating my Little Man just wanted to eat them. So finally after too many appeals on his part, I gave in and handed him an undecorated DING DONG. (I may or may not have called him a DING DONG for continually pestering me…)
I knew right from the start that I wanted to make cake pops with the Twinkies. Or as I like to call them – mini edible ornaments. I simply pulled apart the Twinkies in a bowl using my hands. I formed them into balls about the size of two or three bites (depending on who is taking the bite) and dipped them into melted white chocolate. I pushed a cake pop stick into them and let them dry on parchment paper. Once dry, I let my Princess decorate them to her heart’s content.
Once were done decorating these Hostess snacks, the Hubby and Little Man came to the counter to enjoy the fruits of our labor. Taking a break from football, they were in heaven sampling our edible ornaments. These would make fun little treats to give to the neighbors for a holiday gift. Even the mailman, garbage man, and teacher would enjoy them as well, don’t you think?
What fun food activities does your family enjoy at the holidays?
If you’d like to use the printables I created for the DIY Edible Ornament Bar you can find them in this PDF:
Edible Ornament Bar Printables
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I sure could use this for the kids gifts this holiday! and to donate as well.
I love the edible Christmas ornaments!
These treats look delicious! My grandsons would love if I bought these treats and made edible ornaments out of them! How fun!
Everything looks good…I have never tried the sno balls before. I will have to be on the lookout for those. Thanks for the chance
This is a cute idea! Thank you for the post
I love the decorated Sno Balls and Ding Dongs, so cute and easy for kids to do.
I totally love these edible ornaments they look so good to give as gifts too. I can’t wait to make these with the kids hope we make more than we eat lol. Thank you for sharing this yummy idea.
I totally love these edible ornaments they look so good to give as gifts too. I can’t wait to make these with the kids hope we make more than we eat lol. Thank you for sharing this yummy idea.
Creative and delicious goodies…I love it. Thanks for the idea.
That’s alot of twinkies!
Great ideas for making Christmas Ornaments out of snack cakes — very creative.
Those DIY Edible Christmas Ornaments are adorable! My daughter and I love to make sugar cookies and frost then decorate them!
such fun ideas. I love making ornaments with kids.
This would be something fun for my daughter and I to do together. She would love decorating everything and I like how simple it is by taking the baking out of the equation.
Hostess is where it’s at when it comes to holiday goodies and decorating. Thanks for the post.
Ornaments that you get to eat?! That sounds brilliant. Thanks for the craft time idea.
These look so yummy I might have to break my diet and make some. LOL!! Thanks for the wonderful giveaway and Happy Holidays 🙂
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I love the decoration, would love to try it for these holiday season.
free money is a good thing Thank You
CUTE!! This is great for craft time.
So many twinkies!s
Homemade cookie ornament cups are fun to decorate, and are perfect for holiday cookie exchanges, too.
Thank for the fun ideas.
This would be such a fun activity to do with the kids! Very creative!
I love the ideas! These are actually doable and does not seem like they would be a disaster in my house! My sons are 5 and 7 and would love this!
Twinkies for everyone!
So many great ideas for some really good treat during the Christmas holidays, I like them all!
What a fun idea! The snowballs look particularly cute decorated.
Very cute idea. Will try it with my granddaughter
Love these ideas. Great way to “bake” with kids.
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Not sure the Twinkies would last long enough here to decorate!
What a fantastic idea! Thank you for sharing.
I would love the $100 to buy a new microwave mine is going on 7.
How cute! And yummy — although I wouldn’t really want to eat a Christmas ornament that had been hanging for a while, but twinkies would probably keep 😉 And of course, we’d have to make extras for eating BEFORE hanging the others!
such a cute idea!
Fun to make and eat, you can’t go wrong with that!
Wow, those are some very elaborate decorations!
Very creative Thanks for sharing!
These are so adorable…seems like it would be so much fun to make! We enjoy making Reese’s like chocolate/peanut butter bars for the holidays!
I love all these cute ideas!! i like being able to buy things already pre made and pop them together for family time!
What a smart idea ill have to try it
We love Hostess Brand as they are always fresh! Thanks for some great ideas to do with the kiddos!
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Hostess are so delicious. I use to take them to school sometimes.
These are so cute. I would love to make some of them with my daughter
I remember eating Hostess snacks when I was a child. Love them. Thanks for the giveaway!
Such a great and fun way to get the kids involved!
I would use for new pillow for everyone.
That is so cool!
I wouldn’t have ever thought of making cake pops from twinkies!
I love these “almost home made recipes!” They are huge time savers when you have tons of holiday things to do! The most fun part of holiday baking is the decorating and with these great ideas, you still get to do just that!
I would love to make Edible Ornament Bars with my family!!!!
Neat ornament idea!
Fun ideas! This would be a fun, quick, and easy project to do with my kids!
Hostess is our camping staple very year-no other brand cuts it! Thanks for the giveaway http://www.parentinghealthy.com
What a fun project to try w/ my boys!
I could use this right now for sure. Don’t really like Hostess though, trying to eat healthier.
Those look so festive! And I know they will taste yummy!
The Edible Christmas Ornaments look so cute and delicious!
looks like fun for the kids
This is a fun, inexpensive idea!
very cute
How cute! I love the edible ornaments and they look easy to make!
These treats look really good. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I don’t know if I have the patience to decorate a Snoball….those are my absolute favorite Hostess product!
I’d love to try the decorating snow balls idea!
how festive and fun! Id like to make these
Great ideas!! Thanks
Yummy! We love hostess, never thought to do something like this, very creative might have to see about doing it next year.
I love Hostess brand snacks! The edible ornaments are so cute. I’ll have to try it with my son. =)
I will definitely be trying these ideas next year with my four kids.
Adorable! You all did such a great job. They all look so yummy.
I love these ornaments! It would be so much fun making them as a family. I think that my husband and I would have as much fun as our children would in making them and then eating them!
Not a fan of twinkies, but your decorating looks awesome.