Chocolate Raspberry Ornaments
Recipe Ingredients:
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
15 vanilla wafers with creme, crushed
1/3 cup seedless raspberry jam
Finely chopped toasted almonds
Toasted coconut
Recipe Instructions:
Melt chocolate chips until completely melted and smooth. Allow cooling slightly. Place cream cheese in a large mixing bowl. Pour melted chocolate over cream cheese and mix together until very smooth. Fold in vanilla wafer crumbs being sure to cover all the crumbs with the chocolate mixture. Refrigerate 3 to 4 hours or until chocolate is firm. Once firm, shape chocolate mixture into balls. Roll half the candy balls in the toasted almonds and the other half in the toasted coconut. Store in the refrigerator to keep them from becoming too soft.
Candy Cane Marble
Recipe Ingredients:
1 pound dark chocolate
1 pound white chocolate
30 small peppermint candy canes
Recipe Instructions:
Put dark chocolate in a microwave bowl and heat on high setting in microwave 2 to 3 minutes or until chocolate is melted and smooth. Stir chocolate about every 30 seconds to make sure lumps are melting. Put white chocolate in microwave bowl and heat like dark chocolate. Put candy canes in a large freezer bag. Using a rolling pin break the candy canes into different size pieces. Place half the crushed candy canes in a strainer and shake small crumbs into dark chocolate. Place the remaining crushed candy into strainer and shake crumbs into white chocolate. Line a 9X9X9 baking pan with heavy aluminum foil. Spread dark chocolate out into bottom of pan. Spread white chocolate over the dark chocolate in pan. Sprinkle the rest of the crushed candy canes over the top. Cover and refrigerate for about 2 hours. When hardened break up pieces of candy by dropping straight down on the counter.
Honey You Shouldn't Have Devilled Eggs
Recipe Ingredients:
12 hard-cooked eggs
1/3 cup mayonnaise
4 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
2 tablespoons finely shredded Cheddar cheese
2 tablespoons honey mustard
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Recipe Instructions:
Hard boil, shell and rinse your eggs. Slice eggs in half. Carefully remove the yolks and place in a large mixing bowl. Place egg whites on a platter. Cook 4 bacon strips to very crisp. Drain, allow to cool and crumble. Mash egg yolks with a fork. Blend in mayonnaise, crumbled bacon, cheese, honey mustard and pepper. Place a spoon full of yolk mixture into each egg white. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. Sprinkle paprika on top of eggs before serving
Put a Bow On It Corn Bake
Recipe Ingredients:
1 box corn muffin mix
3 eggs
1 cup milk
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 (15.25 ounce) can whole kernel corn, drained
1 (14.75 ounce) can cream-style corn
Recipe Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Pour muffin mix into a large mixing bowl. Add eggs and milk. Blend until muffin mix is just moistened. Add butter, salt and pepper and mix well. Fold in both cans of corn. Grease a 2-quart casserole dish. Pour corn mixture into casserole. Bake uncovered for 45 minutes or until knife comes out clean when inserted in the center of casserole.
Cherries In The Snow
Recipe Ingredients:
1 can cherry pie filling
1 small jar of green Marcino cherries
1 small package chopped pecans
1/2 bag of miniature marshmallows
1 container of whip topping, thawed
Recipe Instructions:
Place cherry pie filling in a mixing bowl. Mix in green Marcino cherries. Add pecans and marshmallows. Fold in whip topping being sure to mix well so all ingredients are incorporated together. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Yuletide Breakfast In a Package
Recipe Ingredients:
1 pound bulk pork sausage, cooked and crumbled
1 cup shredded Swiss cheese
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
2 (9 inch) unbaked pastry shells
6 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup milk
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/3 cup chopped sweet red pepper
1/3 cup chopped green pepper
Recipe Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place cooked crumbled sausage in a large mixing bowl. Fold in both cheeses. Place one pie shell in a pie plate. Place half the sausage mixture in the pie shell. Place the other pie shell in a pie plate. Pour rest of the sausage mixture in the shell. Whisk eggs, milk, onion and both peppers in a separate bowl, making sure eggs are blended in well. Pour half the egg mixture over the first pie shell and mixture. Pour the rest of the egg mixture over the other pie shell. Bake one hour or until knife inserted in the middle comes out clean. Let stand 10 minutes before cutting and serving.
Jolly Ole St Nick Ham
Recipe Ingredients:
1 (5 pound) fully-cooked, bone-in ham
1/2 cup apricot preserves
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup of water
1 cup of orange juice
Recipe Instructions:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Blend together apricot preserves and Dijon mustard in a mixing bowl. Score the ham with shallow criss cross cuts. Spread preserves mixture over the whole ham. Gently pat brown sugar over the top of the preserve mixture. Mix water and orange juice together in a bowl. In a large roasting pan pour orange juice and water in bottom. Place the ham on a roasting rack in roasting pan. Bake approximately 1 1/2 hours or until ham is heated thoroughly. You may need to add a 1/2 to 1 cup of the orange juice/water to the pan as your ham cooks and the liquid evaporates.
Reindeer Bread
Recipe Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
3/4 cup pumpkin puree
6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped pecans, divided
1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
2 tablespoons heavy cream
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Recipe Instructions:
Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add one egg at a time mix well after each addition. In a separate bowl blend together flour, baking soda, salt, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg and the ginger. Slowly stir 1/3 of the flour mixture into the sugar mixture. Then stir 1/3 of the pumpkin into the sugar mixture. Next stir in 1/3 of the flour and then the rest of the pumpkin. Finally stir in the last of the flour mixture. Gently fold in chocolate chips and 3/4 cup of pecans. Grease and flour a 9x5 inch loaf pan. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Pour mixture into loaf pan and sprinkle with remaining pecans. Bake for one hour until a knife inserted in the middle of the loaf comes out clean. Cool completely. For the icing stir together the confectioners' sugar and heavy cream. Add cinnamon and nutmeg and stir until smooth. Drizzle icing over bread loaf when completely cooled.
