Brandy Cherry Balls

Brandy Cherry Balls
1/2 Cup maraschino cherries, quartered
2 Tablespoons Brandy
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
1 cup butterscotch chips
1 8 ounce package cream cheese
2 cups mini marshmallows
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
2 Cups flaked coconut

Marinate cherries at least 4 hours or overnight in brandy Melt Chocolate chips and butterscotch chips and add cream cheese. Stir in cherries, marshmallows and walnuts and refrigerate until cold enough to roll into balls. Roll in coconut. Refrigerate. The longer the better. The flavors intensify.

Holly Cookies

30 large marshmallows
1/2c.marg. Melt and stir over low heat
add 1 tsp. green food coloring,
1 1/2 tsp vanilla and
4 c.corn flakes.
Drop TBSP.on wax paper
add 3 to 4 red hots. cool.
These look like Holly Leaves. Enjoy!

Mound Bars

2 c. crushed graham crackers
1/2 c. sugar
1/2 c. butter, melted

Mix together and bake in 9x13 inch pan in 350 degree oven for 7-8 minutes.

Mix
2 cups coconut with
1 can sweetened condensed milk.

Spread on top of baked crust.
Bake 15 minutes.
Remove from oven.

Melt
1 (12 oz.) package chocolate chips .
Spread on top.
Cool then cut into bars.

Toffee Cookies

1 sleeve saltine crackers
1 cup brown sugar, packed
2 cups semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips
1 c.Butter
1c. finely chopped nuts

Preheat oven to 400*.
Cover a small cookie sheet with sides with foil; spray with Pam.
Melt butter & brown sugar in a med. saucepan bring to a rolling boil and cook approximately 3 minutes, stirring often. Place all crackers on foil.
Pour sugar mixture on crackers and spread evenly.
Bake 5 minutes.
Mixture should boil but not burn.
Remove from oven and sprinkle chocolate chips evenly on top.
Cover with foil and let set 3 min.
Remove foil and Spread choc.chips with spatula as frosting a cake.
Sprinkle Nuts on top ,press slightly.
Place in refrg.
About 1 hour.
Break into pieces.Store in refrg.

Cake Mix Cookies

Quick and Very EASY...and so good!

1 cake mix Lemon
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
Mix together. Drop by teaspoon on cookie sheet 2 inches apart. Bake at 350* degrees for 8-10 mins. Cool on rack. Makes 12-15 cookies. Many variations; white cake with choc. Chips, chocolate cake with white chips, etc. (you can frost these with lemon and putting sprinkles on them)

Almond Joy Cocktail

I haven't tried this because I'm not a drinker...but it does sound good.

1/2 oz Amaretto
1/2 oz White creme de cacao
1/4 oz Coconut cream
2 oz Cream

Pour ingredients together and shake.

Twix Bars

I hear this is very good! almost better than the real thing.

35 unwrapped kraft caramels
1/4 cup water
1 box Lorna Doone shortbread cookies (40 cookies)
2 12 oz. bags milk-chocolate chips .

1. combine caramels with water in small pan, melt over low heat.
2. place the cookies side by side on ungreased cookie sheet.
3. spoon a dab of caramel onto each cookie, then place all the cookies in the refrigerator until the caramel firms up.
4. in the meantime, melt chocolate chips in double boiler or microwave heating 1 min on high, stir, then 1 more min.
5. remove the cookies from frig. resting each cookie on a fork, dip into chocolate. tap the fork on side to knock away excess chocolate. place on wax paper and cool at room temp. this will take several hours but the bars will set the best this way. putting in the refrigerator for 30 min will speed up the process.

One Bite pecan Pies

4 oz cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup flour
1 egg
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cups finely chopped pecans
3 oz semi sweet chocolate chips, melted

Beat cream cheese and butter with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add flour; mix well. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour or until chilled. Preheat oven to 375°F. Divide dough into 24 balls. Place 1 ball in each of 24 greased or sprayed miniature muffin pan cups; press onto bottoms and up sides of cups to form shells. Beat egg lightly in small bowl. Add brown sugar and vanilla; mix well. Stir in pecans. Spoon evenly into pastry shells, filling each shell 3/4 full. Bake 25 to 30 min. or until lightly browned. Let stand 5 min. remove tarts from pans. Cool completely on wire racks. Drizzle with melted chocolate. Let stand until set.

Kit Kat Bars

very rich, can cut into small pieces

Ritz crackers ( 3 sleeves)
1 1/2 c. graham crackers, crushed
3/4 c. brown sugar, packed
1 c. white sugar
3/4 c. butter (must be real)
1/3 c. milk
1 c. butterscotch chips
1 c. semisweet chocolate chips
3/4 c. peanut butter

Put graham crackers, brown sugar, white sugar, butter and milk into a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Boil for 5 minutes.
Spray a 9"x13" pan with butter flavored cooking spray. Put a layer of crackers in the bottom of pan and pour 1/2 of the mixture over it. Put another layer of crackers and pour the remaining mixture. Add one last row of cracker.
In microwave melt butterscotch chips, chocolate chips and peanut butter together, stir every 1 (one) minute until nice and smooth. When melted, spread evenly over the top.
After it has cooled a bit, score the bars. Then let cool completely. Put in the refrigerator. After set up, cut into bars and store in an airtight container.

Payday Bars

1 cup sugar
1 cup white corn syrup
1 cup peanut butter
1 teasp vanilla
6 cups Rice Chex
1 cup peanuts

Put Rice Chex and peanuts into a large mixing bowl and set aside.
mix sugar and syrup in a pot...Bring to a boil and cook for 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in Peanut butter and vanilla. Pour over Rice Chex and peanuts, Mix together. Pour into a buttered 9x13" pan. Cut into squares while still warm.
Makes 24 squares

Easy Snowman Cookies

These sound easy - and just adding a few to a cookie plate would be really cute

White chocolate covered oreos (available now at Holiday time)
1 tube black icing (NOT GEL)
1 tube orange icing (NOT GEL)
1 tube of another color icing, red, blue, green -whatever, just not a GEL icing.
Plain M&M's

Onto the flat top of the oreo, pipe on black dots for eye's and mouth. Pipe on an orange nose.
On the side use a small dot of icing to "glue" on M&M's, one on each side, as "ear muffs"
Use the colored icing to go across the top to connect the "ear muffs"
Let the icing dry - and you have an easy cute snowman head!!
You can make your own icing, but black is hard to get really dark, unless you use Wilton cake color. Buy the black in the little tube - and make the other colors.

TEMPTING TOFFEE CRISPS

12 whole graham crackers
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup butter ( do not use margarine )
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup semi sweet chocolate morsels
1/2 cup almonds, chopped

Preheat oven to 350. Arrange graham crackers side by side in single layer in Stoneware Bar Pan. In saucepan, combine brown sugar, butter and vanilla. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally with Bamboo Spoon until mixture comes to a full boil across the surface.
Continue boiling 4 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove saucepan from heat and immediately pour mixture evenly over crackers. Bake 10 - 12 minutes or until bubbly and lightly browned. Remove pan from oven. Sprinkle with chocolate morsels. Allow to soften then spread evenly over baked crackers using Large Spreader. Chop almonds using Food Chopper. Sprinkle over chocolate. Cool completely. Refrigerate until chocolate is firm. Break or cut into pieces.

Yield: about 2 dozen pieces

Microwave Peanut Brittle

I know I said that Grandma Solomon's peanut brittle was the best I had ever tasted...Well this tastes just like hers but oh so much easier to make....I'm sure if she was still with us, this is how she would make it...I don't remember her having a microwave.

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup white corn syrup
1/4 teasp salt

1 cup dry roasted peanuts
1 tblsp butter
1 teasp vanilla
1 teasp baking soda

In a 4 cup glass Pyrex measuring cupc, stir together sugar, syrup, and salt. Microwave on high for 3 minutes, remove and stir in peanuts. Return to Microwave and cook for 3 minutes on high. Remove from microwave and stir in Butter, vanilla and baking soda (it will foam up). Pour onto a greased cookie sheet or foil (or if giving as gifts spray pie 3 pans with pam and divide into pans. Spread with a greased spoon WORK FAST. the thinner you can spread the easier it is to eat.

do not double this recipe.

Eggnog Bread Pudding

Serves 8.

1 loaf stale French bread ----- betting cinnamon raisin bread would do great
1 quart eggnog
3 eggs
2 tablespoons vanilla
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup sugar

1. Heat oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 9x13x2-inch pan.
2. In a large mixing bowl, crumble the bread and pour the eggnog over it, letting it sit until bread is soft, at least 20 minutes and even overnight.
3. In a smaller bowl, beat together the eggs, sugar, and vanilla and stir into the bread and eggnog mixture. Add the raisins and mix well.
4. Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes, or until knife comes out clean. Let cool before cutting.
. Serve with a little whipped cream, if desired.

S&S TREATS (sweet 'n salty)

1 cup light corn syrup 1 cup sugar
1 cup peanut butter
1 10.5oz. bag Fritos (or pretzels)
10 Hershey bars 1.55oz. size

Grease a 9x13 baking pan and pour the Fritos (or pretzels) into the bottom of the pan. Boil the corn syrup and sugar over medium heat. After they come to a boil, stir in the peanut butter. Pour the hot mixture evenly over the pretzels or Fritos.
Layer the Hershey bars** on top of the hot mixture and spread chocolate as it melts. Cool and cut in squares or break up. (put the pan in the fridge to harden the chocolate and cool the mixture, it cuts better and sets the chocolate.)

Triple Chocolate Peanut Clusters

2 lb's almond bark (or white chocolate)
1 12 oz. semi sweet chocolate chips
1 12 oz. milk chocolate chips
1 24 oz. jar unsalted dry roasted peanuts
Melt choclates in electric skillet on lowest setting or in double boiler.
Stir in peanuts and drop by spoonsfull on waxed paper.
Let cool completely.
Get ready for rave reviews

Raisin Cashew Drops:

2 cups (12 oz.) semi sweet choc. chips
1 can (14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk
1 tblsp. light corn syrup
1 teasp. vanilla extract
2 cups coarsely chopped cashews
2 cups raisins

In a heavy saucepan over low heat, melt ch. chips with milk and corn syrup for 10 -12 min., stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat, stir in vanilla until blended. Stir in cashews and raisins. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper-lined baking sheets. Refrigerate for 3 hours or until firm. Store in the refrigerator. Yield 2 1/2 pounds.

Crustless Buttermilk Pie

1 1/2 cups sugar 1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup biscuit mix
1/3 cup melted margarine
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix ingredients with electric mixer. Pour in well-greased 9-inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes until firm.

FROZEN VELVET

this sounds really yummy....kind of like peaches and cream

1 8oz pkg cream cheese
1 cup mayo(I use Hellmans)
1/4 cup icing sugar
2 cups mini marshmallows
1 14 oz can peaches chopped in small pieces
8 marachino cherries chopped
whipped cream or 1 envelope dream whip prepared

Mash cream cheese in a mixing bowl Add mayo and icing sugar...beat to combine. Stir in marshmallows,well drained peaches and cherries Fold in whipped cream or dream whip Pack into a mold or empty cans(I use empty hunts tomato sauce cans,but whatever size you have on hand. Cover with plastic wrap and put in freezer at least overnight. Just before serving run warm water over can for just a second,remove other end from can and slide onto serving plate. Cut into 1 in slices...top with a dollop of whipped cream or dream whip and top with a cherry. I promise you this is smooth and creamy and not overly sweet. Keep a couple cans of this in the freezer for unexpected company. It sounds like a lot of work,but makes up in a couple of minutes.

Strawberry Magic Cake

ooooooooooo this sounds good....This would be really good in the summer but I don't think I can wait that long....

1 10oz pkg. miniture marshmallows
1 box yellow cake mix prepared as directed on package
1 3oz box strawberry jello
1 16oz. box frozen sliced strawberries, slightly thawed, but do not drain
2/3 cup cold water

Spread marshmallows evenly over the bottom of a greased 10x13 baking pan. Spread prepared cake batter evenly over marshmallows. Sprinkle dry jello powder evenly over the cake batter. Spool slightly thawed strawberries here and there over jello powder and then drizzle evenly with 2/3 cup water, but do not stir. Slip cake carefully onto center rack of a 350o oven, and bake 55-60 minutes or until top is golden brown. Let cool in pan at least 30 minutes before cutting. Serve with Cool Whip or whipped cream. Refrigerate leftovers. Freezes well