Lower division continuation of week 6...

 This week was very eventful! From the heavy rains and thunder storms to the lanterns, masks, chocolate balls, and toy playing! We enjoyed the pools and playground when it was weather permitting. The big kids put skits on for us today. The children enjoyed coloring and making paper airplanes. Yesterday we had so much fun making chocolate balls, then decorating them with sprinkles and eating them! Everyone made fancy lanterns with crayons and markers, and we decorated silly masks! During play time some of us built cities and railways while others cooked dinners in the kitchen set! What a great week we had!

This is a great recipe to try at home...

No-Bake Chocolate Rum Balls From Spice And Spirit, The Complete Kosher Jewish Cookbook

Ingredients: (I tripled this recipe to make about 45 nice sized cookie balls - maybe large-walnut size)

• 8 ounces tea biscuits, either plain or chocolate
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 tbsp cocoa
• 1/2 cup water (if using butter, so you could use milk instead of water)
• 2 tbsp rum (or rum flavoring, though the real thing is preferable, not that we had any!)
• 2 tbsp margarine (can substitute butter for this, of course)
• 1/2 cup coconut and/or sprinkles and melted chocolate (optional)

Instructions: Crush biscuits into small bowl. I used an electric chopper this time, but kids can do it by hand by placing cookies in a bag and pounding with something.  Mix sugar, cocoa and water in a small pot. Stirring constantly, bring to a boil and remove from flame. Stir in margarine, and when it has melted, pour mixture over crumbs and mix. Form into small balls and roll balls in coconut and sprinkles or decorate with melted chocolate and sprinkles as we did.

Great Tip-How To Melt Chocolate: simply place in a cooking bag and insert into your electric kettle (kum kum) after you've boiled some water. Once chocolate has melted, cut a tiny hole at the tip of the bag and squeeze out to decorate! Much simpler than the double boiler method! Just make sure to discard that water that you used to heat up your plastic bag!

Looking forward to shabbos party and a great end of the week!

MJ