Tuesday, April 22, 2003

Red White & Bluish Mini Cheesecakes

Looking for slowly red, white & bluish ideas? - Whip upwardly a batch of these Red White & Blue Mini Cheesecakes!  When served upwardly for your fourth of July festivities, these tasty footling beauties gibe correct inwards alongside the fun together with festive color scheme.
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 these tasty footling beauties gibe correct inwards alongside the fun together with festive color scheme Red White & Blue Mini Cheesecakes

When it comes to holidays, I to a greater extent than oftentimes than non don't exercise a whole lot of holiday-specific themed foods.  I e'er bring proficient intentions almost getting cute alongside turkeys at Thanksgiving or bunny-shaped foods at Easter.  But somehow, it never really happens.

The ii exceptions?

Christmas together with fourth of July red, white, & blue.  Now for these ii holidays, I e'er appear to live pretty proficient at cranking out some holiday-specific themed food.

For the fourth of July, maybe it's because the red, white, together with bluish color scheme is together with hence slowly to move with?

When served upwardly for your fourth of July festivities, these footling beauties volition gibe correct inwards alongside the fun and  festive red, white, together with bluish color scheme.

I mean, see some beautiful ruby-red strawberries together with plump bluish blueberries, together with you lot tin hand the axe construct all kinds of fun together with festive treats!  Like a triple berry red, white & bluish punch bowl cake, red, white & bluish virgin sangria, or our real favorite red, white & bluish Strawberry Cheesecake Bites.  All of which are really slowly to make.

Or some other super slowly idea? - These Red White & Blue Mini Cheesecakes.  That larn their ruby-red from dollops of cherry pie filling, white from the cheesecake base, together with bluish from dollops of huckleberry pie filling.

And believe me, when I state super easy, I hateful it.  Because these mini cheesecakes really couldn't live whatever easier to make.

 these tasty footling beauties gibe correct inwards alongside the fun together with festive color scheme Red White & Blue Mini Cheesecakes

Start yesteryear making the cheesecake crusts using a vanilla wafer cookie.

Simply place foil cupcake cups in a muffin pan together with house a vanilla wafer cookie inwards the bottom of each one.

That's it for the crust!

 these tasty footling beauties gibe correct inwards alongside the fun together with festive color scheme Red White & Blue Mini Cheesecakes

Next, whip upwardly a real elementary cheesecake batter.

Combine softened cream cheese, eggs, granulated sugar, together with vanilla extract inwards a mixing bowl.  Mix this all together alongside an electrical mixer until in that location are no lumps.

Then spoon the batter into the prepared foil cupcake liners.  I purpose a large cookie scoop - which makes the procedure quick together with easy.

 these tasty footling beauties gibe correct inwards alongside the fun together with festive color scheme Red White & Blue Mini Cheesecakes

Then bake the cheesecake batter for almost xv to xx minutes until the cheesecakes are set.  They should live laid completely simply about the edges alongside simply a footling teeny wiggle withal inwards the middle.

And believe me, when I state super easy, I hateful it.  Because these mini cheesecakes really couldn't live whatever easier to make.

Once the footling cheesecakes cool, the pump volition sink a fleck forming an indentation inwards the middle.  The indentation is simply perfect for belongings the fruit topping.

 these tasty footling beauties gibe correct inwards alongside the fun together with festive color scheme Red White & Blue Mini Cheesecakes

Top one-half of the cheesecakes alongside cherry pie filling, together with the other one-half alongside huckleberry pie filling.

 these tasty footling beauties gibe correct inwards alongside the fun together with festive color scheme Red White & Blue Mini Cheesecakes

And that's all in that location is to making these tasty footling cheesecakes - elementary ingredients, elementary steps, together with large cheesecake flavor.

When served upwardly for your fourth of July festivities, these footling beauties volition gibe correct inwards alongside the fun and  festive red, white, together with bluish color scheme.

 these tasty footling beauties gibe correct inwards alongside the fun together with festive color scheme Red White & Blue Mini Cheesecakes
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Yield: 12 mini cheesecakes
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Red White & Blue Mini Cheesecakes

Looking for slowly red, white & bluish ideas? - Whip upwardly a batch of these Red White & Blue Mini Cheesecakes! When served upwardly for your fourth of July festivities, these tasty footling beauties gibe correct inwards alongside the fun together with festive color scheme.
prep time: xv Mcook time: sixteen Mtotal time: 31 M

ingredients:

instructions:

How to laid Red White & Blue Mini Cheesecakes

  1. Place softened cream cheese together with carbohydrate inwards a mixing bowl; mix alongside an electrical mixer until simply combined. Add eggs together with vanilla. Mix until smooth.
  2. Line the cups of a 12-cup muffin tin alongside foil cupcake cups. Place a vanilla wafer cookie inwards the bottom of each cupcake cup.
  3. Fill each loving cup 2/3 to ¾-full alongside cream cheese mixture, dividing the batter evenly betwixt the 12 cups. (I purpose a large cookie scoop.)
  4. Bake at 350℉ for 16-18 minutes until set, alongside simply a modest fleck of wiggle inwards the center.
  5. Cool completely.
  6. Top one-half of the mini cheesecakes alongside cherry pie filling together with one-half alongside blueberry pie filling (you won't purpose all of the pie filling). Chill. Store inwards the fridge until serving.
TRACEY'S NOTES
  1. * Use regular cream cheese for the best result. I don't recommend substituting lower-fat cream cheese.
  2. Strawberry pie filling could live used for the ruby-red topping, equally well.
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Sunday, April 20, 2003

Red White & Bluish Chocolate-Dipped Saccharide Wafers

Looking for a fun in addition to slow niggling quaternary of July process to brand for your celebration festivities?  I highly recommend these Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers.  They're an easy, festive, adorable, kid-friendly, crowd-pleasing process that tin lav absolutely live made at the terminal infinitesimal if demand be.  Adored past times both the kids in addition to grown-ups alike, a platter of these babies volition disappear lickety-split.
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th of July process to brand for your celebration festivities Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers

The quaternary of July is correct about the corner!  Those fireworks volition live sparkling inwards the heaven earlier nosotros know it.

Got a celebration puddle political party to become to?  Or having a few friends over to celebrate the big day?  Well, if you're looking for a fun in addition to slow niggling quaternary of July process to brand for your festivities, I've got precisely the thing for you lot - Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers.

These fun niggling chocolate-dipped saccharide wafers are fabulous inwards in addition to then many ways.  They're:  
  • Easy - Can you lot melt chocolate & sprinkle sprinkles?  Then you've got this.
  • Last minute - They stimulate got basically no fourth dimension to prepare, in addition to basically no fourth dimension to set.
  • Festive - What's to a greater extent than festive than a fun mix of red, white, in addition to blueish sprinkles?
These fun niggling chocolate-dipped saccharide wafers are fabulous inwards in addition to then many ways.
  • Adorable - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 cute niggling size.  And i time again ... sprinkles.
  • Kid-friendly - Kids dearest them!  And if you're in addition to then inclined, kids tin lav brand them, too.  Our 9-year-old immature lady whipped upward most twenty of them inwards no-time flat.
  • Crowd pleasing - Adored past times both the kids in addition to grown-ups, alike.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 platter of these babies disappears lickety-split.

My hubby came upward amongst the persuasion to brand these Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers.

We were walking through the cookie aisle at the grocery shop when he spotted a parcel saccharide wafers.  He looked at me in addition to said, "Hey, could you lot dip those inwards chocolate?  They'd live fun amongst sprinkles for the quaternary of July."  (I dearest that he's e'er thinking most recipe ideas for the blog.)

So into the grocery cart went a parcel of saccharide wafers in addition to then nosotros could crusade out his idea.  And what a fabulous persuasion it is!  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fabulously slow idea, at that.

th of July process to brand for your celebration festivities Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers

We decided to crusade out both white chocolate in addition to milk chocolate for dipping to come across which tasted in addition to looked best for these fun niggling treats.

From a gustatory modality perspective, they both move bully - tasting as delicious.  From a await perspective, I similar the await of the milk chocolate amend - in addition to my hubby likes the await of the white chocolate better.

From a await perspective, I similar the await of the milk chocolate amend - in addition to my hubby likes the await of the white chocolate better.

So, guide milk chocolate or white chocolate based on your personal preference - either i works.

Or produce a combination of both similar nosotros did for the batch inwards these photos.  The mix looks truly pretty together.

th of July process to brand for your celebration festivities Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers

To brand a batch of these slow niggling Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers, offset past times melting the chocolate.

Use a parcel of white candy melts or white bark coating for the white chocolate version, or purpose a parcel of milk chocolate candy melts or chocolate bark coating for the milk chocolate version.  Melt your alternative together amongst a tiny flake of shortening inwards the microwave per the parcel directions (typically inwards xxx 2nd intervals, stirring inwards betwixt each time).

Choose a pocket-size deep bowl or a tall narrow microwave-safe container to melt the chocolate in.  These container shapes arrive easier to instruct practiced chocolate coverage when dipping the saccharide wafers in.

Dip 3/4 of each sugar wafer cookie inwards the candy coating, in addition to permit the excess coating drip off dorsum into the container.

As you lot dip to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than saccharide wafers in addition to the amount of melted chocolate inwards the container gets less in addition to less, tip the container slightly as you lot dip to assist instruct amend coverage upward the saccharide wafer.

th of July process to brand for your celebration festivities Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers

Immediately sprinkle each saccharide wafer with sprinkles while the chocolate coating is nonetheless wet.

I uncovering it easiest to sprinkle the sprinkles over a plate amongst a niggling lip on the border or good inwards the center.  That way, sprinkles aren't bouncing off all over your trouble solid - the plate catches at to the lowest degree most of the spillover.

th of July process to brand for your celebration festivities Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers

You tin lav purpose whatever assortment of red, white, & blueish sprinkles you'd like.  I'm peculiarly fond of the combination of white non-pareils, blue jimmies, and red confetti sprinkles.

th of July process to brand for your celebration festivities Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers

Place the dipped-and-sprinkled saccharide wafers on a baking sail lined with wax paper or aluminum foil in addition to permit them stand upward to allow the chocolate coating to laid up.  The chocolate volition laid inwards thing of minutes.

That's all at that spot is to it!

th of July process to brand for your celebration festivities Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers

Now, nosotros were curious most a duad of things "stylistically" when nosotros made these.

First, nosotros wondered would the saccharide wafers await amend dipped on the "short side" or on the "long side" harmonica-style? 

So nosotros tried both.

You tin lav come across the "long side" harmonica-style effect inwards the photograph below.  We definitely liked the "dipped on the brusque side" await much better.  Plus, that agency left a amend "handle" to concur onto both when dipping in addition to when eating the chocolate-dipped saccharide wafers. 

th of July process to brand for your celebration festivities Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers

Second, nosotros wondered would a autobus chocolate-dipped saccharide wafer live better?  Would it live a to a greater extent than satisfyingly substantial process to seize amongst teeth into?  Would ii saccharide wafers concur together precisely from precisely beingness dipped together inwards chocolate?

Well, the autobus chocolate-dipped saccharide wafer (shown inwards the photograph below) did indeed concur together quite nicely precisely from beingness dipped inwards the chocolate.

They're an easy, festive, adorable, kid-friendly, crowd-pleasing treat.  Not to mention, they tin lav absolutely live made at the terminal infinitesimal if demand be.

However, nosotros truly didn't similar the halt effect as good as precisely a plain, regular, unmarried chocolate-dipped saccharide wafer.  The double-deckers were to a greater extent than clumsy in addition to quite crumbly to seize amongst teeth into, in addition to precisely to a greater extent than ofttimes than non weren't as adorable as the singles.

We recommend you lot stick amongst dipping these inwards singles.

th of July process to brand for your celebration festivities Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers

So if you're looking for a fun in addition to slow niggling quaternary of July process to brand for your celebration festivities, I highly recommend these Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers.

They're an easy, festive, adorable, kid-friendly, crowd-pleasing treat.  Not to mention, they tin lav absolutely live made at the terminal infinitesimal if demand be.

Adored past times both the kids in addition to grown-ups alike, a platter of these babies volition disappear lickety-split!

th of July process to brand for your celebration festivities Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers
Thank you lot for stopping past times . We'd dearest to stimulate got you lot dorsum soon!



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Yield: 40-60 wafers
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Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers

Looking for a fun in addition to slow niggling quaternary of July process to brand for your celebration festivities? I highly recommend these Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers. They're an easy, festive, adorable, kid-friendly, crowd-pleasing process that tin lav absolutely live made at the terminal infinitesimal if demand be. Adored past times both the kids in addition to grown-ups alike, a platter of these babies volition disappear lickety-split.
prep time: twenty Mcook time: total time: twenty M

ingredients:

instructions:

How to ready Red White & Blue Chocolate-Dipped Sugar Wafers

  1. Melt candy melts or bark coating in addition to shortening together inwards the microwave per parcel directions (typically inwards xxx 2nd intervals, stirring inwards between).
  2. Dip 3/4 of a sugar wafer cookie inwards the candy coating, letting excess coating drip off dorsum into the container. Immediately sprinkle amongst sprinkles, as desired.
  3. Place on wax paper in addition to permit correspond coating to laid up.
  4. Repeat amongst remaining saccharide wafers.
  5. Store inwards an airtight container for upward to ii weeks.
TRACEY'S NOTES
  1. * You tin lav produce all white chocolate, all milk chocolate, or a combination of both similar nosotros did. 
  2. For each 1 lb. parcel of chocolate melts/coating, you lot tin lav dip some xl saccharide wafers.
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Friday, April 18, 2003

Summer Vegetable Tortellini Salad

Summer Vegetable Tortellini Salad Loaded alongside cheese-stuffed tortellini, fresh-from-the-garden zucchini in addition to summertime squash, in addition to dressed alongside lemony herb vinaigrette.  So fabulously tasty, you'll demand to brand a double batch!
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 in addition to dressed alongside lemony herb vinaigrette Summer Vegetable Tortellini Salad

It is genuinely amazing how much my hubby tin eat.  Generally when I cook, I brand double what you lot would remember a household unit of measurement of iii could eat.  And it notwithstanding gets gone.

You would remember afterwards fifteen years of this, I would live used to it.  But no, his appetite notwithstanding amazes me every time.

And so, it was no dissimilar alongside this Summer Vegetable Tortellini Salad.

Loaded alongside cheese-stuffed tortellini, fresh-from-the-garden zucchini in addition to summertime squash, halved cherry tomatoes, in addition to all dressed alongside a lemony dill vinaigrette, it is genuinely difficult to resist.

I made a double batch - which I idea  was a huge batch.  And hence planned for us to swallow it over the side past times side several days.  H5N1 double batch is ii pounds of tortellini in addition to virtually 10 cups of fresh vegetables, give-or-take a little.  I mean, that's a huge  salad!

Would you lot similar to approximate how long it lasted inward our house?  Go ahead - accept a guess.

ii days!!

That's it.  It lasted ii days.  And gone.

But I approximate alongside a salad every bit tasty every bit this Summer Vegetable Tortellini Salad, I can't state I blame him for gobbling it upwards hence quickly.  Loaded alongside cheese-stuffed tortellini, fresh-from-the-garden zucchini in addition to summertime squash, halved cherry tomatoes, in addition to all dressed alongside a lemony dill vinaigrette, it is genuinely difficult to resist.

 in addition to dressed alongside lemony herb vinaigrette Summer Vegetable Tortellini Salad

Besides it's fabulous deliciousness, about other beauty of this salad is its versatility.

You tin travel pretty much whatever vegetables you'd like.  I personally dear the zucchini/summer squash/cherry tomatoes combination, but it tin for certain live changed upwards to suit personal tastes or to adapt what's on mitt inward the refrigerator, if you'd like.

To teach far alongside zucchini in addition to summertime squash, I cutting the crush into large matchsticks, similar this:

 in addition to dressed alongside lemony herb vinaigrette Summer Vegetable Tortellini Salad

Then I blanch the zucchini in addition to summertime crush to partially create it, which makes it soft in addition to tender.  Blanching also takes out that form of "squeaky" texture that comes alongside biting into a slice of raw squash.

I definitely similar the texture of blanched crush inward the salad much improve than raw.

Besides it's fabulous deliciousness, about other beauty of this salad is its versatility.  You tin travel pretty much whatever vegetables you'd like.

Combine the blanched crush together alongside prepared cheese tortellini in addition to halved cherry tomatoes.  Then whip upwards a uncomplicated dressing of white vino vinegar, olive oil, fresh lemon juice, in addition to about seasonings.

You tin whisk the dressing ingredients together inward a modest bowl, our position them inward a sealable jolt similar I do, in addition to laissez passer on them a skilful milk shiver to teach them mixed.

 in addition to dressed alongside lemony herb vinaigrette Summer Vegetable Tortellini Salad

Pour the dressing over the tortellini mixture in addition to gently toss the salad to teach everything good coated.

 in addition to dressed alongside lemony herb vinaigrette Summer Vegetable Tortellini Salad

I remember the matchstick shapes of the zucchini in addition to summertime crush contrast nicely against the rounded shapes of the tortellini in addition to cherry tomatoes.  And the color combination is quite pretty, too, don't you lot think?

So pick out grip of that fresh-from-the-garden zucchini in addition to summertime crush in addition to whip upwards a bowl of this tasty Summer Vegetable Tortellini Salad.

But live warned ... If you've got a large eater inward the solid similar my husband, you lot may merely demand to brand a double batch!

 in addition to dressed alongside lemony herb vinaigrette Summer Vegetable Tortellini Salad
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