Back to School Snacks with Walkers Shortbread Minis!

Disclosure: I am a Blog Ambassador for Walkers Shortbread. I was provided free product to try and was not compensated for this post. All thoughts are my own.

If your household is anything like mine, you're in the midst of back to school prepping! Summer flew by and all of a sudden there's clothes shopping, supply shopping, even classroom wish lists! I have one entering high school, one beginning 8th grade, and one that began pre-kindergarten in the summertime. One thing I don't worry about as much is what my kids will be eating. Each of them have their own tastes and what they prefer, and the older kids enjoy preparing their snacks and lunches.

As you know, I'm an ambassador for Walkers Shortbread. Every month I get a fun shipment that never fails to inspire me, and this month was no different. My most recent shipment was this wonderful collection of Walkers Minis of all their best cookies, just in time for back to school! This includes Walkers newest addition, the Mini Crunchy Oatmeal Cookie. The Mini Crunchy Oatmeal Cookie is made of all natural ingredients such as whole wheat flour, creamery butter and whole grain oats. These come in little resealable packages of 28 bite-size cookies, perfect to throw in the snack bag or lunch box and eat as much or as little as my kids want. The fact that all Walkers products contain all natural ingredients, and the list of what's in each cookie is so short makes it nice not to worry that they'll overindulge in a bunch of processed foods during school and at snack time.

These little cookies are a fun snack on their own, but we decided to take it a fun step further and create a cream sandwich filling to make little bite size cookie sandwiches! Since the cookies are all natural and quality ingredients I kept the cream filling the same way. These would be a fun after school snack, or you can even put them in little snack bags and toss them in their lunch boxes. If they aren't eaten right away, I would recommend refrigerating them, or even throwing them in the freezer. RiRi likes the way the chocolate chip ones taste when they've been frozen, plus that way by the time they're ready to snack on them they will have defrosted a bit by snacktime and will still be wonderful!

Walkers would like for you to try out these delicious treats, and are offering an opportunity to purchase them on the walkers website with the exclusive code just for my readers. With the promo code "KMHSCHOOL" you can buy two Walkers products and get one free at walkersus.com! Keep in mind that the promo code is good today through August 29th.

The resealable package is awesome!

Also, for one lucky reader of mine, you can win a package that includes one bag of each of the flavors in the mini product collection. It includes the following:

• Mini Crunchy Oatmeal Cookies
• Mini Chocolate Chip Shortbread
• Mini Shortbread Fingers
• Mini Shortbread Rounds

Just enter through the Rafflecopter below, leave a comment saying which flavor your kids (or you) would be most interested in trying, and in the meantime use the promo code to get some delicious, quality, and guilt free goodies!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

...and now to build those cute mini sandwich cookies!

Cream Filling Ingredients:

• 2 egg whites
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

In a small saucepan or double broiler, combine egg whites, sugar and cream of tartar.

Heat over medium-low, whisking consistently, until sugar has dissolved and egg whites are frothy. 

It should have a somewhat shiny appearance.

Immediately transfer to a bowl and beat on high adding vanilla. Continue to beat until stiff peaks form.

The texture should be thick and sticky.

Using an icing tip, apply cream to mini cookie, then place a second cookie on top. 

Pictured are the Crunchy Oatmeal and Chocolate Chip Shortbread Minis, but I did make a few with the Shortbread Rounds. Those were delicious as well!

Don't forget they're the perfect size for snack bags. You can pre-make them and pop them in the freezer!

Enjoy!