Thursday, February 28, 2019

Red White & Blueish Cherry Almond Cookies

These fun too festive Red, White, & Blue Cherry Almond Cookies pair perfectly alongside your fourth of July fireworks!  With their fabulous cherry-almond flavour combination, they're non simply adorable ... they sense of savour fabulous, too.
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Who doesn't dearest a cookie that's both tasty too adorable?

Well, dorsum leading upward to Christmas time, I made these actually tasty too beautiful Cherry Almond Cookies.  They were consummate alongside a juicy maraschino cherry baked correct inwards the middle too a fun petty white chocolate drizzle across the transcend ...

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Which got me to thinking ... 

With their brilliant popular of cherry-red inwards the center, wouldn't adding a drizzle of scarlet too blueish brand these petty cookie beauties simply perfect for the fourth of July?

With their fabulous cherry-almond flavour combination, they're non simply adorable ... they sense of savour fabulous, too.

So final Sabbatum afternoon, Little Miss H. too I decided to laissez passer on a batch a try!

We baked upward the cherry almond cookie bases, too thence got fix to drizzle away too run across how the cookies looked all dressed upward inwards red, white, too blueish for the fourth of July fireworks.

Our verdict? 

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We loved the red, white, too blueish fourth of July look! ... alongside a caveat.

When using the 3 colors of red, white, too blueish to drizzle the cookies, the cookies tin can easily teach messy looking.  

So nosotros tried several ways of drizzling them to run across what looked best.  We decided a "cross-hatch" drizzle pattern, alongside the scarlet too blueish going i management too the white going the reverse direction, looked best.  

Also, the cookies looked best when the white drizzle goes on last, crossing OVER the scarlet too blueish ... which allows the white to yet have got a petty "pop" without getting lost nether the other colors.

We decided a "cross-hatch" drizzle pattern, alongside the scarlet too blueish going i management too the white going the reverse direction, looked best.

{Sidenote:  I had laid several dissimilar drizzle variations aside to accept a photograph to demonstrate you lot the dissimilar looks ... but then, inwards a "kitchen glitch" ... aka: my married adult man coming past times too grabbing them for an afternoon snack ... the cookies got gobbled upward earlier I took the photo.}

Now alongside that existence said nearly our favorite agency to drizzle the cookies, teach alongside whatever drizzle pattern, or patterns, you lot similar best!

Because no thing how you lot decorate these tasty too beautiful red, white, too blueish cookies, they'll twosome simply perfectly alongside your fourth of July fireworks.

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Red White & Blue Cherry Almond Cookies
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
  • 1/2 c. unsalted butter, softened
  • 4 oz. cream cheese, softened
  • 1 c. brown saccharide
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tsp. almond extract
  • 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 2 c. all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 36 maraschino cherries, good drained & patted dry out alongside newspaper towels
  • about 2 oz. red candy melts
  • about 2 oz. blue candy melts
  • about 2 oz. white chocolate
Directions
  1. Beat butter, cream cheese, too brownish saccharide alongside an electrical mixer at medium speed until fluffy, nearly 3 minutes. Add egg, almond extract, too vanilla extract; shell until simply combined.
  2. Combine flour too salt. Gradually add together flour too common salt to butter mixture; shell until combined. Cover too chill for at to the lowest degree 2 hours or overnight.
  3. Roll dough into 36 1-inch balls. Place 2 inches apart on baking sheets. With your thumb, press an indentation into the transcend of each ball. Place a cherry inwards each indentation.
  4. Bake at 350 degrees until edges are calorie-free golden brown, nearly 12 - xiv minutes. Let cool on pan nearly v minutes; transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.
  5. Place red candy meltsblue candy melts, and white chocolate in SEPARATE pocket-size zip-top plastic bags {I usage snack size}. Set the sealed bags inwards a bowl of warm H2O to soften. Gently knead the candy melts too the white chocolate alongside your fingers until melted too smooth, placing dorsum inwards the warm H2O for a infinitesimal or ii every bit needed.
  6. Working alongside the scarlet or blueish candy melts first, snip a rattling pocket-size hole inwards the corner of the plastic bag. Drizzle over the cooled cookies.  Repeat alongside the other color of candy melts, too thence alongside the white chocolate.  Let stand upward until the drizzle is set.
  7. Store inwards an airtight container for upward to a week.
Makes 36 cookies.

Enjoy!


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Red White & Blue Strawberry Cheesecake Bites

Red White & Blue Virgin White Sangria

Strawberry, Blueberry & Greens Salad alongside Honey Vinaigrette

Red White & Blue Italian Ice Floats

Breakfast Banana Splits

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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Easy Chocolate Fluff

This easy Chocolate Fluff is uncomplicated creamy no-bake chocolate comfort for dessert, whipped upwardly inward no fourth dimension flat.  Kid-friendly together with loved past times the grown-ups, too!
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Since moving to North Carolina from Vermont most twenty years ago, I get got constitute a few things I girlfriend that yous just can't larn inward the South.  Like story B existent maple syrup.  Sure, of class yous tin purchase existent maple syrup inward the grocery stores inward the South but non the totally awesome grade B stuff Since moving to North Carolina from Vermont most  Easy Chocolate Fluff.  And fabulous Italian restaurants.  Yup, Italian restaurants are waaaaaaaaaay amend upwardly North.  And Ring Dings Since moving to North Carolina from Vermont most  Easy Chocolate Fluff.  Ohhhhhh, how I girlfriend my Drake's Ring Dings.  Do yous know most Ring Dings?
They're these totally awesome, totally delicious circular lilliputian creme-filled, chocolate-covered chocolate cakes ...


And my oh my, they're lilliputian circular bites of chocolate heaven!

My Mom used to pack them inward my luncheon box.  And I loved them.  Back then, they were individually wrapped inward foil {instead of the electrical current cellophane-wrapped two-pack} together with I used to brand a lilliputian chapeau out of the foil wrapping.  You know, chocolate yumminess and  a fun lilliputian chapeau ... yous can't trounce that.

I dear Ring Dings therefore much that whatsoever fourth dimension my parents or friends locomote to Vermont, they convey me dorsum a box.  And I practice a lilliputian happy trip the lite fantastic when my box arrives!  Then I devour them.  Every concluding bite.  In most 3 days flat.

So, what's a now-Southern daughter to practice to larn her Ring Ding develop when she doesn't get got anyone traveling to Vermont?

Well, this Chocolate Fluff does a pretty peachy project filling the bill.  

That's right, I larn my creamy-chocolatey Ring Ding develop amongst an easy-to-make no-bake mixture of homemade whipped cream together with chocolate graham crackers Since moving to North Carolina from Vermont most  Easy Chocolate Fluff.

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This Chocolate Fluff genuinely came most past times mistake.  But hey, don't lots of peachy things come upwardly most past times mistake?

My brother's mother in law was trying to create an slow dessert that my brother's kids would eat.  They were form of picky eaters when they were little.  In trying to delight them, she created a trifle-like dessert using Cool Whip together with chocolate graham crackers dunked inward vanilla-flavored milk together with layered together ... together with she called it 'Nanna's Special Dessert.'

Well, permit me nation you, Nanna's Special Dessert was sooooo good!

So of course, I asked her how to brand it.

Well, when I decided to brand some, I totally forgot what she had told me.  I idea she had told me she just crumbled some chocolate graham crackers inward whipped cream.

So that's what I did.

I whipped upwardly some homemade whipped cream, together with crumbled inward some large hunks of chocolate graham crackers Since moving to North Carolina from Vermont most  Easy Chocolate Fluff.

And it was delicious!

So non exactly  Nanna's Special Dessert, but totally yummy.  And creamy.  And comforting.  And chocolatey.  And Ring Ding-y.  And 1 of the best mistakes I've e'er made.

Now when yous become to brand this slow Chocolate Fluff, yous desire to coarsely crunch the chocolate graham crackers, most similar this ...

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Don't just crumble them all into crumbs.  It's okay if some of them are just crumbs, but amongst the 'hunks' of graham crackers, yous larn prissy large streaks of choclatey-ness inward the fluff.

Then yous just mix the graham cracker crumbles into some homemade whipped cream {or Cool Whip, if yous desire to hold upwardly fifty-fifty easier} together with refrigerate over night.

And at that topographic point yous get got slow no-bake Chocolate Fluff!  That I could totally practice a expression upwardly flora inward together with hold upwardly quite happy.

So inward betwixt my deliveries of Ring Dings, I'll larn my creamy, chocolatey comfort develop from Chocolate Fluff instead.  And hold upwardly very  happy amongst the substitution.

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Chocolate Fluff
Source:  A Tracey creation {by mistake}
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
  • 1 c. (8 oz.) whipping cream or heavy cream
  • 1/4 c. granulated sugar
  • 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 2 c. coarsely crumbled chocolate graham crackers Since moving to North Carolina from Vermont most  Easy Chocolate Fluff (about 1 packet)
Directions
  1. Chill a large mixing bowl together with the beaters of an electrical mixer (or whisk attachment of a stand upwardly mixer) inward the fridge for most fifteen minutes. Remove from the fridge together with pour the whipping cream into the chilled bowl. Add carbohydrate together with vanilla extract. Beat on high speed until strong peaks form.
  2. Fold inward crumbled graham crackers. Refrigerate over dark until graham crackers are softened.
Note: An 8 oz. container of Cool Whip tin hold upwardly substituted for the homemade whipped cream.

Enjoy!

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

20 Favorite No-Bake Desserts

Want to operate on that oven off but withal serve upward an incredibly delicious dessert? Just select from 1 of these twenty favorite No-Bake Desserts.  They're certain to satisfy your no-bake sugariness tooth!
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I'm a full sucker for a dandy no-bake dessert.  Not exclusively are they pretty tardily to make, they're tasty, creamy, comforting deliciousness, too.  This collection includes twenty of our household unit of measurement favorite no-bake desserts ... the ones nosotros plow to over in addition to over to satisfy our no-bake sugariness tooth.  We promise y'all honour closed to favorites, too!

1.  No-Bake Chocolate Eclair Dessert   With layers of graham crackers in addition to fluffy vanilla pudding, this classic No-Bake Chocolate Eclair Dessert is creamy, delicious, in addition to comforting.  And it's ALWAYS a large hit!





2.  No-Bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie   Four unproblematic ingredients come upward together to create 1 delicious No-Bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie.  Taking payoff of Chips Ahoy! chocolate chip cookies, y'all won't believe how tardily it is!





3.  No-Bake Banana Split Cake  All the fabulous flavors you'd await from a scrumptiously melty banana split upward sundae, all inward an tardily to fix no-bake dessert.  Complete amongst maraschino cherries on transcend of course, because it wouldn't move a banana split upward without a cherry on top.




4.  3-Ingredient Creamy Coconut Ice Cream   Amazingly delicious homemade creamy coconut H2O ice cream, amongst simply 3 unproblematic ingredients in addition to no ice cream machine needed.


5.  Easy No-Bake Peach Yum Yum   A classic layered no-bake dessert amongst a graham cracker crust in addition to peach pie filling sandwiched betwixt 2 creamy layers.  It's certain to move a hit.

6.  No-Bake Snicker Bar Pie   Creamy peanut buttery in addition to chocolatey ... oh yeh, my friends, you'll desire to pocket the kids' trick-or-treat candy for this one.  Grab those Snickers Bars!


7. Classic Oreo Icebox Dessert   Who doesn't honey an Oreo?  Well, they're fifty-fifty improve inward this classic Oreo Icebox Dessert, amongst layers of Oreos, pudding, in addition to whipped cream.  Yum!




8.  No-Bake Hershey's Chocolate Bar Pie  Fluffy in addition to chocolatey.  Made amongst melted Hershey's chocolate bars, you won't believe a pie this practiced tin move this easy!


9.  Easy Chocolate Fluff  Simple creamy no-bake chocolate comfort, whipped upward inward no fourth dimension apartment amongst chocolate graham crackers.  Kid-friendly in addition to loved past times the grown-ups, too!



10.  {No Churn} Chocolate Nutter Butter Ice Cream   When it comes to cookies in addition to cream H2O ice cream, why should vanilla in addition to Oreos convey all the fun?  For a decidedly dissimilar cookies in addition to cream, laissez passer on this Chocolate Nutter Butter Ice Cream a attempt instead.




11.  Southern Strawberry-Coconut Punch Bowl Cake   Enjoy classic scrumptiously creamy layers of angel nutrient cake, whipped cream, in addition to coconut.  You mightiness telephone telephone it trifle, but inward the South nosotros telephone telephone it punch bowl cake!




12.  Easy Chocolate Mousse Pie   This super tardily chocolate pie is irresistibly creamy in addition to delicious.




13.  Nutella-Strawberry Cheesecake Bites   Topped amongst a quick-and-easy 3-ingredient creamy Nutella cheesecake mixture, Nutella-Strawberry Cheesecake Bites make a fabulous little-bite dessert, political party treat, or afternoon snack.  Or, dare nosotros tell breakfast, too?




14.  Strawberry Cheesecake Strawberry Bites   Topped amongst an tardily cheesecake mixture made amongst strawberry jam, these bites make a fabulous little-bite dessert or process perfect for Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, spring, a tea party, or every-day snacking!  And a sprinkling of non-pareil sprinkles makes them extra adorable.




15.  Fruit Salad Cheesecake   Think upscale fruit cocktail wrapped inward a creamy, light-and-fluffy cream cheese-and-whipped-topping blanket.  Oh, what a deliciously dissimilar means to acquaint fruit salad.



16.  Easy Homemade 3-Ingredient Lemon Ice Cream   With simply 3 unproblematic ingredients, this tardily homemade 3-ingredient Lemon Ice Cream is virtually effortless to whip up.  And looks in addition to hence cute served upward inward classic ice cream dishes!


17.  No-Bake Mint Chocolate Chip Pie   Got simply x minutes to create a delicious dessert?  Then y'all tin whip upward this super easy No-Bake Mint Chocolate Chip Pie using Andes mints!




18.  Easy 3-Ingredient Lemon Mousse   Lemon lovers heed up!   If you're looking for an incredibly tardily lemon dessert, this easy 3-ingredient mousse has got y'all covered.  Don't nosotros all honey easy?





19.  Orange-Coconut Balls   Orange lovers, Coconut-Orange Balls are for you!  Because these lilliputian bite-sized beauties pack a huge orangish punch.




20.  Rum Balls {with Spiced Rum}   Chocolatey rum deliciousness!  These tasty bites are the BEST means to relish a lilliputian shot of rum. 






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