Blog Candy and Recipe's To Christmas 2010 comes to an End with Recipe #20 Coconut Lovers Chocolate Balls

Coconut Lovers Chocolate Balls

Close up (YUMMY)

Great for gift giving

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Ingredients for Coconut Lovers Chocolate Balls

Melt butter/margarine

Mix all ingredients except chocolate

roll into balls this is the easiest way
Cooper took the pic.....pretty good for a four year old



Rolled coconut ball put into refrigerator for at least 2 hours



Melt the chocolate



dip the coconut balls into the chocolate

Proof they are good Dusty LOVES them!!



Hello and welcome to the end of the Recipe's to Christmas 2010.
It has been a fun filled sweet journey filled with favorites and traditional recipes.
My family and friends have certainly enjoyed the sweet tasty ride of delectable goodies, and yet some will still be filled with these wonderful pleasing delights as they receive them in the mail as gifts.
The entertaining I have been able to bring to my blog has made my holiday time even better, I was able to bring the art of cooking and sharing to you and feed my need to create.

I have enjoyed the emails and questions I have had along the way and just knowing others around the world were able to make these scrumptious recipes and sharing the ideas with me made me as happy as HAPPY can be!!

THANK YOU!!!

I wanted to give you a little something in return some
BLOG CANDY

Yep you heard me right
this wonderful book by the
Taste of Home
Cookies
623 irresistible delights!
Perfect to add to your recipe collections.
The two cute spatulas are an added Bonus
they are too too cute.
I will ship anywhere so no worries!!
Please post on your blog to let others know
and/or Facebook and/or Twitter.
Leave a comment just to let me know which recipe is your favorite or you made or would like to make.


Here is the list of all  the recipes in case you missed any........
Recipe #1
Recipe#2
Recipe #3
Recipe #4
Recipe #5
Recipe #6
Recipe #7
Recipe #8
Recipe #9
Recipe #10
Recipe #11
Recipe #12
Recipe #13
Recipe #14
Recipe #15
Recipe #16
Recipe #17
Recipe #18
Recipe #19
Recipe #20
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Thank you for all your support through out the year!!!


HAVE A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
I will be taking a few days off mostly but if I can squeeze a little time in I will!!!
I will be leaving comments as much as I can!!!
Cyber Hugs,
Dawn Gallop



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Recipe #19 Cannoli



Cannoli's



Yummy!

Ingredients

Greased Pizzelle Press



Mix all ingredients together



Mix well



use a tablespoon and spoon onto greased iron



Once cooked use  a cylinder to roll the pizzelle



Ingredients for the filling









Mix until sugar dissolves



Use either a pastry bag or sandwich bag fill and squeeze into cannoli





Hello all well after yesterdays post the pizzelles, well now cannoli's!!! The girls at the scrapbook store call them Italian crack, lol! There is an authentic Italian pizza restaurant like two doors down from All About Scrapbook's store.  Everyone orders them and they are amazing! Whenever I have classes hubby orders one, and it is the biggest highlight of the night, that and his Stromboli. I sent these out to the job site, and to my neighbor!! They were a  big hit! Easy peasy too!!

Recipe #19 and only a few more days to go!! Are you about ready for Christmas?? Well I have just a few more gifts to get and then I will be about is ready as I can get! I will have just a bit more cooking to do too. I will be mailing out Crystal's package to Korea...yeah I know late but it just takes time...the only days I have even got to go shopping are the last two Sunday's so yesterday was Crystals day. We went to the mall for the first time this holiday season..and it was not as bad as I thought it might be.  We were able to shop for everything we wanted too.





Cannoli

1/2 cup of sugar

2 eggs

1/4 cup of butter/margarine

1/4 cup of vegetable oil

1/4 tsp. of baking soda

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 Tablespoon of white vinegar

3 Tablespoons of water

1 1/2 cup of flour

Mix all ingredients together, bake the pizzelles on the greased pizzelle iron then immediately wrap around the cylinder to shape. Fill with the filling and dust with powdered sugar.

Filling

2 cups ricotta cheese

1 cup of powdered sugar

1 tsp. of vanilla

1/4 cup of mini chocolate morsels

Fold together and fill the pizzelles to make the cannoli's!!

All done and YUMMY!!!

Check back for the next recipe! Blog candy too!!

Have a Beautiful Day! Cyber Hugs, Dawn Gallop

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Snowflake Spritz Cookies and a Bo Bunny Layout Using the Midnight Frost Line



Bo Bunny Midnight Frost



Amanda this January Snow 2010

Used the We R Memory Keepers Sew Easy tool note the stitching



The tag is the packaging and the straight pin I made with wire



Snowflake Spritz cookies

They come out so pretty

Ingredients for the Spritz cookies

Cream sugar and butter

Add flour gradually

You can make a log to place in the spritz cookie machine
I never do I just scoop into the cylinder

Note the snowflake comes out perfect

The first ones are never perfect but after a few they are!

They just come out so perfect and so EASY!!!!



Wilton Cookie Press



        Hi there wanted to bring you Recipe #18 with the lo, the snowflake spritz cookies.  If you have never used a cookie press well then you should, because they are awesome!! I had one back right after I got married and it never really worked well, so all these years I have been a little skeptical about buying a new one...for the same fear. Well one day when at Michael's and a coupon I thought yeah let me buy a new one and try it out. Well most defiantly worth the purchase. It really does work GREAT!! Wilton Cookie Press click HERE . I used the recipe in the booklet that came with it....oh cool is that!! I put the YouTube Video up so you can see it for yourself. AWESOME!!! I have made them several times since my purchase, they usually disappear quick. They are right tasty.
Spritz Cookie Recipe
1 1/2 cups of butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
2 Tablespoons milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. almond extract
3 1/2 cups of flour (all-purpose)
1 tsp. baking powder
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  First cream the butter and sugar together in the mixer, add the egg, milk, vanilla, and almond extract. Stir together the flour and baking powder gradually adding to the creamed mixture. Mix well now roll into a log if you wish, i just pack it into the cylinder of the cookie press and start pressing on your ungreased cookie sheet, (I use the stones) Do NOT chill the dough.  If using sprinkles do so before cooking on these. I added frosting so the sprinkles stuck to that instead of the cookie. If you choose to dye the dough just add a few drops of food coloring or even icing colors Wilton has them.  These are yummy!! Here are some more Wilton recipes click HERE.

The layout is a pic of my dd Amanda this past January in a snow we had.  I thought it was so perfect with those pp's. I bought these last week and there were only these two sheets left and a few of the embellies. I was eager to make this lo, remember I have not scrapped much this year.....this is only the second lo since March. So many other projects going on.  The pp are Bo Bunny, the stitching is We R Memory Keeper's the sewing tool, it works great!! I used the Fiskars wavy paper roller. The straight pin was just a little something I made with wire...the crystal was such a nice touch. Hope you like it!! Have a wonderful day!!! Until tomorrow.  Cyber Hugs, Dawn Gallop

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Recipe #17 Pizzelles and the Boys Make Fried Oreo's

Pizzelles

Close Up view they look like snowflakes

Ingredients for Pizzelles

Mix together all ingredients except flour and powder sugar

Mix well

Gradually add flour

Grease Pizzelle Irons and add one tablespoon to iron in center

Once done dust with powder sugar

                                         Bonus Fried Oreos

Ingredients for Fried Oreo's

Dusty mixing the Oreo dipping mix

Daddy helping Dusty Mix

Colby and Dusty continue to Mix

Silly Faces Oreo's Done

Yummy!! Who would have thought????

         Hello all I hope this Recipe brings you close to having all you holiday prep almost done or at least almost done.  I had to go get a mammogram done yesterday and was so exhausted after the appointment I was too tired to get on the computer last night. The appointment was so stressful they had no orders, no appointment for me or anything, the health dept.was closed so they could not even call. Finally someone came from the mammography dept. and knew the health dept. had called because they had not gave me any papers, and my hubby called for me. I have been trying to get this appt. since July!!! Since we fall into the category of no insurance we always get the run around! No joke! We had insurance once for four years and we had a baby (which we had maternity coverage) and the following year our premium went from $650.00 a month to $1,300.00 a month and yeah that was out of the question, and it hardly paid for anything.  Insurance companies are out to make money not spend!! Okay now I vented!! Onto happy things..... We had visited some friends of Bruce after the appt. and stayed longer than expected, his wife Bonnie was such a sweety and a super hostess. She had coffee and cookies waiting and the just a sweet heart, their doggie was such a smarty....had a great time!! We had to rush back, since we were in town I had wanted to stop at Wally World...but that was out of the question. (you know to get more cooky stuff)
           In my last post I had told you about hubby getting on board this cooking thing...which was so cute, he decided he would make those famous FRIED OREO'S    I did a quick search and printed the recipe from All Recipes.com and off they were to making them...I was right proud of daddy and they did so well. I have seen these are fairs, and carnivals...but have never tried them. It just sounded too gross but boy was I wrong...they are the devil! OMgosh!! They are Yummy with a capital Y! Never ever expected that!! Now I have a new carny food to purchase...LOL!!!  I feel like the double stuff would work better but when you live in the middle of Nowhere...lol you tend to use what is on hand. Let me know if you try them. 
Pizzelles
6 eggs, beaten
3 tsp. of baking powder
1 cup of butter melted
1 3/4 cups of sugar
2 Tablespoons of Vanilla flavoring (you can use lemon, anise, almond)
3 1/2 - 4 cups of flour (all purpose)
1 Tablespoon of vegetable oil
1/4 cup of milk
Powder Sugar for dusting
Mix together all ingredients except the flour and powder sugar.
Using the mixer on medium speed then gradually add the flour sugar and mix well until the mixture is dough like and can be dropped unto greased Pizzelle iron a tablespoon at a time. Usually bake on the iron for 30-40 seconds. They will burn so watch closely. You can use a waffle iron too...they will be thicker. Fun to make!!
This recipe is mine that I had over the years, I used to make them on the waffle iron, then we found a Pizzelle iron at Bed Bath and Beyond using that 20% coupon (sign up for their emails), it was so exciting to finally find one that was not a huge price. They one day coming back from the chiropractor we stopped at this tiny thrift store in the country outside a gas station and still in the box with a $15 tag a Pizzelle iron...I was like yeah!! So when I got to the cashier she said how about $8.00 (I didn't even haggle her) well YES!!!! So now I have two!! The kids love them and they are very light too. Easy for little hands.  Have a wonderful weekend!! Cyber Hugs!! Dawn Gallop

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