Ground Hog pancakes

To Go with our ground hog hot chocolate! We had to have ground hog pancakes and I again, I bow to Gourmet Mom on-the-Go!
I have to admit hers came out cuter but what my kids don't know won't hurt them! I'm a firm believer of that, policy especially when it comes to food related things! Who says you have to tell them that the brownies they love so much are filled with yummy delicious pureed vegetables! NOT ME! Mums the word! The ingredients needed:

GROUND HOG PANCAKES
Pancake batter
green food coloring
donut holes
mini mm's ( you will use these for eyes and nose) I did not use them. You may omit
mini marshmellows
peanut butter or butterscotch chocolate chips
and half an apple for each pancake you make.

A few of the ingredients! Go ahead and assemble the faces of the ground hog and
slice your apples in half! The apple helps to make the mound of the pancake.
Make your pancake batter according to directions and add green food coloring until it
is the color to your liking!

Assemble ground hog head

Take your donut hole and place your butterscotch or peanut butter chip on both sides of the hole.
These will form the ears. I used melted chocolate and dotted my eyes with a toothpick
and then I used red gel to make the nose! Gourmet mom's pancakes were cuter but like I said, use
what you have and your kids will still believe you are the bomb!

Place half an apple on bottom of plate. You could add peanut butter if you so desire.

Then place your pancake on top of the apple.

Cut a small hole out of the top of your pancake. I just dug a hole out. It looked more

realistic. Place your ground hog donut head in hole.

My little ground hog was so scared with what he saw that he dropped little ground hog
pellets all around his hole before he retreated back in!

Such a cute and adorable breakfast! Can't wait for the rest of the day! and once again, thank you
Gourmet mom on-the-go

Ground Hog Hot Chocolate

You all know how I absolutely adore celebrating any holiday possible! When I came across this I just knew I would add these to our day! You can even end the day with playing wack a mole!
These are absolutely the cutest things to have waiting for your children at all ages! An unexpected surprise was they slowly began to sink back into their hole as the hot chocolate melted them! It lended for squeels of delight!
I have to thank this fabulous woman! I love her sight and go there for many holiday ideas! (I can think up a few of my own occassionally).
For in detail pictures and directions please click GOURMET MOM. but, I am absolutely sure you will want to bookmark her and sign up to have her wonderful ideas sent straight to your email! I did! So, here's the main link.
Now, let me share, what you will need:
Ground Hog Hot Chocolate
Hot cocoa, mug and saucer
chocolate wafer cookies. ( I got mine at walmart and used their thin mint double fudge)
mini marshmellows (I cut the mini in half and then halved the half)
chocolate quik melts (choc chips won't be strong enough to hold your ground hog to the cup)
green sprinkle sugar
I used heart candies for the nose. You could use anything red.
Pictures should be self explanatory

He is absolutely adorable!

To make the face! I took one chocolate mint double fudge wafer and

used quik melt to stick two chocolate chips to the top to make ears.

I then took a mini marshmellow and cut that in half and then cut the half

in half again! Making 4 eyes total! I took two marshmellows and glued

them using chocolate to the wafer cookie and then used a tooth pick with

some melted chocolate and made eye balls on my marshmellows.

Be sure to use some of that melted chocolate to draw his shadow on the saucer.

Next for the nose and mouth. I couldn't find those adorable sprinkles that

Gourmet mom used so I just went to the cake aisle and improvised. You do

the same. Other suggestions could be red hots, sprinkles or even making your own

with a small heart cookie cutter and a fruit roll up.

I didn't think my ground hog stood up tall enough so I chose to glue my ground

hog head to another wafer making his body. I then used the quik melt and put it

onto the wafer and placed him to the inside rim!

With the whipped cream spray a generous amount, a huge mound right

behind your ground hog and sprinkle with green sugar! Also be sure to

sprinkle some green sugar on your saucer! VOILA, he is done!

OH no, there goes our ground hog! He is going back into his hole! This

year he didn't see his shadow! So, I just turned the saucer around.

bye bye Phil.

My daughter chose to save him with her spoon! I let mine rest

peacefully back in his hole and it flavored my cocoa very nicely!