More VBS Snacks – Tiger Tails

Today is day #3 of our 2023 Wild Life VBS adventures. I did not take any pictures today. We had another photographer on site who was able to float around from station to station.

I have not yet shared the last of the snacks I made for this week. My last set of VBS snacks was the Tiger Tails. All that was needed for these was the long pretzel rods, white chocolate, red and yellow food coloring and either milk or semi-sweet chocolate.

These are my favorites, and I think they might be the kids’ favorite too, but they also took the most amount of time to make.

Part of the challenge in making these was that my white chocolate was not melting properly. I melted it over a double boiler. I melted it in the microwave. But neither of those was working. My chocolate was like one big globulous lump, and all the oils were separating. Finally I just decided to add heavy whipping cream to the mix, making it like a white chocolate ganache, and all turned out just fine.

Once I had the chocolate melted to the right consistency, I added red and yellow food coloring to make it orange.

My next challenge came when I started dipping the pretzel rods into the chocolate. The chocolate kept sliding off. But once again, I just kept working with it, figuring it out as I went along. I tried a few different tactics, but I found what worked the best was to dip them and then to spread the chocolate on the pretzels with a butter knife. FINALLY, I got them all done. I made roughly 200 Tiger tails in all.

Once the pretzels were dipped, I laid them on layers of wax paper to dry. Then I melted the milk chocolate and drizzled them all by dipping a fork into the melted chocolate.

Once again the Tiger Tails were layered between sheets of wax paper until they were all done.

These are tomorrow’s snacks. I know the kids are going to love them. I know a lot of the volunteers who are looking forward to them too.

Here is a recap of all the different snacks for this week’s Wild Life Adventures, in the order they were served to the kids:

96 Mud & Worm Cups

103 Noah’s Ark Bags

106 Circus Treat Bags

200 Tiger Tails

There are no treats for Friday since we will be having a big BBQ instead, inviting the kids and their parents. But I made ALL these treats for the week, all by myself, with no help from anyone. It was a lot of fun treats, and they all took a lot of time, but it was definitely worth it and was a labor of love. 🙂

All the treats for the kids may be done, but now it is time to start making all the goodies for this week’s coffee cart, for both the adults and the kids to enjoy. This is a busy week, for sure. But I don’t get into nearly as much trouble when I am busy as I do when I am not busy. 🙂 What is the saying – Idol hands are the devil’s playground, or something like that?!

Have a great day and make everyday great. Stay safe and stay well. ‘Til next time.