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Posted: 12/17/2007 2:13:12 PM | Wow!There sure are alot of great bakers on this site.I'm especially fond of sponge toffee.WWill have to try that one when my neice comes down.I'm wondering if anyone out there can help.I lost a recipe for Chocolate Pepermint Snowball cookies.They look like chocolate pecan balls but have mini mint chocolate chipits in them.These were really to die for and I don't even care for peppermint.So if anyone has this one,I'd greatly appreciate it.Thanks in advance for looking. | |
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Posted: 12/17/2007 2:30:27 PM | Moon, Hi, what do you put into your Christmas gift baskets, do
tell puhlleeeze. You've talked about your baskets a time or two
before, so..............oh, and what size are the baskets, more or less.
This would be a good thread in and of itself. Thanx muchly.
Anyone have a recipe for mint wafers, without the Ritz crackers
or any crackers for that matter, just the white mint inner layer
covered in chocolate?????
 Brazos, Fern | |
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Posted: 12/17/2007 2:39:55 PM | Hey Fern!
Just look up a thread called "Christmas Baskets" here. There are lots and lots of super ideas. I stick an entire mishmash of things in my baskets. Anything from cookbooks to little nicknaks. Homemade candies, cookies, preserves. Knitted dishcloths. My sisters just love em!
OT: Last nite I did make 6 of the Cranberry/Orange loaves. Wonderful, tasty and downright super with a good cup of java! | |
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Posted: 12/17/2007 6:01:37 PM | I'm sorry.. is some setting I have wrong?
I have to tell you.. the Cranberry loaves I made.. omg .... I am sad to see the end of that bag of cranberries from Sams.
That is the PERFECT recipe. Toasted with a hint of butter and a cup of cider or coffee or tea and you'll think you died and went to heaven!
I musta done my baking right... everything is done and I have ONE (1) EGG left!
Now if only people werent talking about paying me to bake!
Much happiness you guys! | |
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Posted: 12/18/2007 9:33:07 AM | Twistie? For me you have a lot of settings wrong! 
I am not male, am older than 44, and live in another Country gal!
Anyway, all is good, I say as I enjoy my cranberry loaf!
Happy holidays! | |
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Posted: 12/22/2007 1:04:04 PM | A little late in the game, but I finally tried 2 cookie recipes yesterday. Sinful good and rich.
Both recipes are on the BHG website, Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
http://www.recipezaar.com/185614
and Almond Joy Cups, can't find the link any longer, so here it is:
Almond Joy Cups
1 (18 1/2 ounce) package fudge cake mix
1 egg
1/2 cup margarine, melted
3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup evaporated milk
14 large marshmallows
7 ounces flaked coconut
1/4 cup evaporated milk
3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 tablespoons margarine
1/2 cup sliced almonds
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease mini-muffin tins.
In a bowl, combine cake mix, egg, melted margarine and flour until well blended. Roll into 1" balls and place in prepared mini muffin pans. Press into bottom and up sides of muffin cups. Bake in preheated oven until set, approximately 10 minutes.
While cups are baking, combine 1/2 cup white sugar and 1/2 cup evaporated milk in microwave safe bowl. Microwave 2 minutes on high, until mixture comes to a boil. Sit in marshmallows until melted, then stir in coconut until well combined.
Spoon into baked shells while mixture is still warm.
In a microwave safe bowl, combine 1/4 cup evaporated milk, chocolate chips and 2 tablespoons margarine. Microwave on high 1 minute, remove and stir until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth. Stir in almonds until well coated. Spoon over coconut mixture and spread to cover.
Cool completely before removing from pans. Store in refrigerator or freezer.
Makes 6 dozen. | |
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Posted: 12/23/2007 11:06:14 PM | I just made the Chocolate-Covered Cherry Cookies, but made them in mini-muffin pans--they turned out GREAT, but the key was to not overfill the muffin wells (I actually made them twice, as I ruined the first batch by overfilling the muffin wells!!!). I also used the paper cups instead of greasing the pans.
Because my computer is so old (I swear it has arthritis, as it doesn't work well in cold or humid weather--truly!!), I couldn't call up the site you listed, but I am sure that it is the same recipe that I used, as I did a search before I made them and all the recipes were the same (EXCEPT--the reason I did the search was to get a consensus on putting the frosting on before I baked them, which most of the recipes did call for and that's what I did.).
I'll be happy to post the recipe if no one knows what I am talking about (and if anyone cares!!).
While I had the muffin pans out, I also made Peanut Butter Cup Cookies, which are a nice change from the usual Peanut Blossoms:
PEANUT BUTTER CUP COOKIES
1+3/4 cups flour
1 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 t. vanilla
2 t. milk
40 miniature peanut butter cups (frozen, then unwrapped, then frozen again--it's easier to unwrap them when they are frozen)
Preheat oven to 375°.
Sift together flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
Cream together the butter, peanut butter and sugars until fluffy. Beat in egg, vanilla and milk. Add the flour mixture, mix well.
Shape into 40 balls (NOTE: I used a round measuring teaspoon like you would use a melon-baller, and at that, pinched away some of the dough) and place each into an ungreased min-muffin well (although the recipe didn't call for it, I tried to make an indentation in the dough with a wooden spoon handle, which didn't work well (the dough was too sticky), and then switched to the round end of a plastic chopstick, which worked better; I think making the indentation was a good idea).
Bake for about 8 minutes; remove from oven and immediately press a frozen peanut butter cup into each indentation so that the top of the peanut butter cup is even with the top of the dough. Refrigerate (to slow the melting of the peanut butter cup); when cool, carefully remove from pan.
With both these and the Chocolate-Covered Cherry Cookies, I did a test run of two cookies each, so I knew what I was shooting for, size-wise, temperature- and time-wise, etc.
And speaking of measuring dough (for all my other recipes), I finally broke down and bought a scoop (on the box it says: size 50, 5/8 oz., stainless steel) at the restaurant supply store which, at $11.+, I thought was pretty pricey. But for the first time, all my recipes made the exact number of cookies they said they would. And as I usually make cookies for presents (neighbors, friends--holidays, birthdays, etc.), it is nice to finally have some uniformity to the sizes.
Rx | |
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Posted: 12/24/2007 6:42:16 PM | I just made a bunch of chewy Pecan Pralines that I am giving as gifts this year. I have a Pecan Tree in my backyard and it has produced bags and bags of Pecans.
In Saucepan, cook 2 cups Sugar and 2 cups Light Corn Syrup to 245 degrees; remove from heat. Stir in gradually, one cup Half and Half, one cup Whipping Cream (unwhipped) and one stick of butter (1/2 cup). Return to heat and heat to 242 degrees. This may take a while and you will probably have to keep turning up the heat to reach the 242. Remove from heat and stir in 1 tsp Vanilla. Stir in 9 cups Pecans. Drop onto buttered cookie sheets or I layed foil out on the kitchen counters and it worked great.
My Brother, who is extrememly picky about everything, said these were the best he had ever tasted! | |
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Posted: 12/24/2007 6:53:21 PM |
I just made the Chocolate-Covered Cherry Cookies...they turned out GREAT
I was thinking the same thing and noticed I'd printed the recipe in 2003. Can't say why I had waited so long to make them...ehh. Just glad I did and have managed to squirrel away enough there's some to enjoy after Christmas dinner tomorrow!!  | |
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Posted: 12/25/2007 6:56:43 AM | StacisMom--
Thanks for the praline recipe; I was looking for a good one.
But--NINE cups of pecans??
You leave me no options but to either plant a pecan tree or find a POF millionaire.
Rx | |
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Posted: 1/18/2008 2:48:09 PM | Twistie,,, are those fresh whole cranberries or can dried cranberries be used? Hope you get this. I suppose I can always experiment
Take care | |
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Posted: 1/19/2008 12:06:26 AM | okay need some valentine's day hint for simple things....
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Posted: 1/19/2008 12:34:21 PM | If you take a layer cake recipe and pour it into one square pan and one round pan, you can make a heart by positioning the square cake so that it appears as a diamond and then cutting the round cake in half and putting one half each on the top two sides of the diamond.
This is one of the first things I ever baked as a child--memorable because I used a cup of milk in the icing instead of 1 tablespoon. It ended up as a heart-shaped island in a sea of icing. | |
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Posted: 1/20/2008 1:05:44 AM | This was in my email...
A little background:
Nieman-Marcus, if you don't know already, is a very expensive store; i.e., they sell your typical $8.00 T-shirt for $50.00. Let's let them have it! THIS IS A TRUE STORY!
My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a Nieman-Marcus Café in Dallas , and we decided to have a small dessert. Because both of us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the 'Nieman-Marcus cookie.' It was so excellent that I asked if they would give me the recipe, and the waitress said with a small frown, 'I'm afraid not, but you can buy the recipe.' Well, I asked how much, and she responded, 'Only two fifty -it's a great deal!' I agreed to that, and told her to just add it to my tab. Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement, and the Nieman-Marcus charge was $285.00! I looked again, and I remembered I had only spent $9.95 for two salads and about $20.00 for a scarf. As I glanced at the bottom of the statement, it said, 'Cookie Recipe-$250.00.' That was outrageous!
I called Nieman's Accounting Department and told them the waitress said it was 'two fifty', which clearly does not mean 'two hundred and fifty
dollars' by any reasonable interpretation of the phrase. Nieman-Marcus refused to budge. They would not refund my money because, according to them, 'What the waitress told you is not our problem. You have already seen the recipe. We absolutely will not refund your money at this point.' I
explained to the Accounting Department lady the criminal statutes which govern fraud in the state of Texas . I threatened to report them to the Better
Business Bureau and the Texas Attorney General's office for engaging in fraud. I was basically told, 'Do what you want. Don't bother thinking of how
you can get even, and don't bother trying to get any of your money back.' I just said, Okay, you folks got my $250, and now I'm going to have $250
worth of fun.' I told her that I was going to see to it that every cookie lover in the United States with an e-mail account has a $250 cookie recipe from Nieman-Marcus...for free. She replied, 'I wish you wouldn't do this.' I said, 'Well, perhaps you should have thought of that before you ripped me off!' and slammed down the phone. So here it is!
Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can possibly think of. I paid $250 for this, and I don't want Nieman-Marcus to EVER make another penny off of this recipe!
NIEMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (Recipe may be halved)
2 cups butter
24 oz. chocolate chips
4 cups flour
2 cups brown sugar
2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
2 cups sugar
1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
5 cups blended oatmeal
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp vanilla
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder. Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate chips, Hershey Bar, and nuts. Roll into balls, and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet.
Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 112 cookies.
PLEASE READ THE RECIPE AND SEND IT TO EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS! THIS IS REALLY TERRIFIC!!
Even if the people on your e-mail list don't eat sweets send it to them and ask them to pass it on. Let's make sure we get these ladies $250.00 worth. Enjoy the cookies, they really are good. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2008 9:51:48 PM | giggles on heart shaped cake island icing memory, ty I will see if I can try to do that.... ((less milk lol))
OMG on Nieman Marcus Cookie Recipe!! GGGGGGrrrr on the ripoff, but Sweet on sending it round the world
Thanks Ladies  | |
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Posted: 8/30/2008 9:45:21 AM |
Posted By: Gotmail?
I bake for people who are sweet to me all year....people who help me wiht riding my daughter to school, to/from events.......several people come to mind.
I am an anise NUT, so these are MUSTS:
Biscotti
Pizzelle
if anyone has any old family recipes for pizzelles- always looking for more :) (not off the internet, i can google search just fine) or dare I say gaufrettes and you have a gaufrette iron please please let me know if it was passed on to you through your family. I am trying to find an old fashioned french iron and am not sure if the belgian iron will work for the thinness i am looking for. I have checked williams sonoma, but they just carry the thicker version that is more like a pizzelle, though I find it so ironic they sell the damn wafers in the store .
any help is appreciated | |
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