This is what my currently sleeping husband and children will see in the morning when they wake up on Valentine’s Day…

Cute right?  Let me explain.  My dad is a little “crazy” about more than one thing.  Besides PB & Chocolate (and a few other things;-)) he LOVES to celebrate!  Holidays, Anniversaries, Birthdays or other special occasions – he loves to celebrate them all!  My mother, my sister and I have been the fortunate beneficiaries of his ‘celebration obsession’ for years!**  That being said, the flowers, teddy bears and boxes of chocolates above are Valentine’s Day presents from my dad (Crazy Richard) to my girls (his only granddaughters).  Isn’t he awesome??  The only thing I can really take credit for are these…

PB No-Bake Kisses! Yum!  Here’s what you do…

Ingredients:
2 c. sugar
1/2 c. milk
1 stick oleo (shortening)
3 T. cocoa
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. Krema creamy PB
3 c. oats

-Boil sugar, milk, oleo, cocoa and vanilla for 1 minute.  (Tip : shortening = gross in my cookbook so I ALWAYS use butter, which may cause some added difficulty making these kisses but in the end flavor is more important to me than presentation)
-Remove from heat
-Stir in PB and oats
-Cut equal sized squares of aluminum foil and wax paper placing wax paper on top
-Place globs of oat mixture onto wax paper to cool and harden

-Before these get too hard (just a few quick mins) fold up wax paper and foil into pyramid shape and place love note in the top (I used folded tissue paper)
-Then mold the foil around the glob of oat mixture until its shaped like a Hershey’s Kiss!  Viola!

Now I forgot the wax paper tonight (oops!) so my kisses aren’t going to be so easy to eat.  Oh well.  I have made these before with PB rice krispy treats and they worked awesomely.  Maybe for Father’s Day…

**Funny story about Crazy Richard: when my husband and I were first married my dad continued to be the wonderful, “crazy” dad that he is and sent me flowers and such for every Holiday and milestone in my life.  My poor husband just couldn’t compete!  Eventually my mother told my dad he needed to let the new man in my life be the one to buy me flowers.  That kind of was a little bit of a rough time for my dad…until I had my first little girl!  She turned into my very lucky replacement, and now I have two adorable girls who have been able to reap the benefits of Crazy Richard’s ‘celebration obsession’!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

♥ Kimberly