Chocolate Chip Cake

I wanted to make this cake with Samantha- I think she will have fun with it. I would love to make it with any of the other grand-kids- if they lived close enough...or maybe when I come to visit we could make it.

Ingredients:
1 pkg devil's food cake mix
1/4 c oil
2 eggs
1 1/4 c water
1 pkg chocolate instant pudding ( 4 serving size)
1 c chocolate chips (6 oz pkg)

Directions:

1. preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. pour oil into 9 x 13-inch pan and tilt pan until bottom is covered in oil
3. put remaining ingredients into pan
4. stir with a fork until blended - about 2 minutes
5. scrape sides and spread batter evenly in pan
6. bake at 350 degrees for 35 - 45 minutes (until toothpick comes out clean)
7. cake may be sprinkled with powdered sugar

Samantha's Appetizers for Thanksgiving

Alison was only really interested in the goldfish crackers.





Samantha slept over the night before Thanksgiving.
She made puppy chow and then in the morning she set up a whole table full of appetizers for her family to snack on when they arrived a while before Thanksgiving dinner would actually start. She made ants on a log and ants on snow.
Mostly we just found random things in cupboards and she found lots of small bowls or platters or trays for displaying them.

Samantha makes Puppy Chow

9 cups Chex type- rice cereal squares or Crisp-ix
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 1/2 c powdered sugar

Directions:
--put the chocolate chips and peanut butter in a large glass measure-cup
--heat in microwave for 30-40 seconds at a time -stirring after each time, until the chocolate chips are melted and are all stirred into the peanut butter
--mix until smooth
--measure cereal into large plastic bowl
--pour chocolate-peanut butter mix over the cereal and stir to coat it
--put the powdered sugar in a large plastic bag, add the coated cereal and shake until it is all well coated
--if you have any left after people get a chance to eat it then store the left-overs in a plastic zip-lock bag