Holiday Recipes - From All Of Us

[Minnymouth]

Okay folks, here's a thread to put your favorite/best tasting holiday recipes, whether it be Thanksgiving or Christmas. Candy, cookies, pies, dressing, etc.

Me, I'm still looking for lots of the old fashioned candy recipes that my grandparents used. Have a lot of my mom's old recipes passed down thru the generations. Recipes for cakes, hard rock candy, brownies, etc.

Share your favorites with us and let us try them too..........

I will post some of my own later......

YUM - YUM - HELLO LBS........

New Years Resolution - take the excess off!!!!!!

[whatamess]

I have some GREAT pie recipes I will post, when I dig them out...good idea!!
WAM

[Bandit]

No Bake Cookies

INGREDIENTS
1 3/4 cups white sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup butter
4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
3 cups quick-cooking oats
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

In a medium saucepan, combine sugar, milk, butter, and cocoa. Bring to a boil, and cook for 1 1/2 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in peanut butter, oats, and vanilla. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto wax paper. Let cool until hardened.

This is very easy to make but you have to watch the time close when they start to boil. Underboil & they come out soft & runny. Over boil & they come out very hard. I always have to toss the first batch because they are runny, but you can correct it if they stay together enough to put them into the oven for a couple of minutes to get the moisture out. So, it is better to underboil in that sense if you want to salvage.

[Minnymouth]

Thanks Bandit, had misplaced my recipe (can't spell) for these.

SOOOOOOOO, now I can make me some TONIGHT............

HELLO 'CHOCOLATE'...................

[jane taylor]

Turtle Brownies

1 box German chocolate cake mix
1 stick butter (I use the real thing)
3 eggs
1/4 cup water
1 pkg. caramels
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 6 oz. pkg. semi-sweet choc. chips
1 cup pecan pieces

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 13x9" cake pan. Melt caramels with 1/2 can sweetened condensed milk over low heat and set aside. Mix cake mix, butter, eggs, and water on high speed for 3 minutes. Pour 1/2 batter in pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Take out of oven and pour caramel mixture over and sprinkle with chocolate chips and peacn pieces. Top with remaining batter. Bake for 25-30 more minutes. They will be gooey! Frost warm cake with the following:

Frosting
1 stick butter
3 heaping Tablespoons cocoa
6 Tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 box confectioner's sugar

Bring first three ingredients to a rolling boil. Take off heat and add vanilla. Beat in confectioner's sugar.


This is sinfully rich, but worth every calorie! Even better when warm and served with vanilla ice cream and a strong cup of coffee

[Minnymouth]

OH MY GOSH - YUM!!!!! YUM!!!!

I'll weigh 500 lbs by Christmas...............lol..... just reading all these......

Love it............

[Bobby'sGirl]

One size fits all punch

At our family holiday get togethers we have a mix of all ages and attitudes toward imbibing alcohol. With my post BK budget I can't afford a variety of drinks and beverages to meet all needs. I tried this approach at the last family party and worked great...everyone from 2 to 200 (exaggerating, some 90 year olds, but no true Methuselahs) enjoyed this:

For a serve yourself "bar" I set out skewers of pineapple chunks, cherries, strawberries and lime wedges on skinny drink straws. I had a punch bowl with a mix of sparkling water and white grape juice and behind it I set bottles of vodka, malibu rum and pinot noir and pitchers of pineapple juice, orange juice, cranberry juice and mixed berry juices and had several shapes of plastic glassware and stirrers. Ice buckets with crushed ice and shaped cubes and lots of fun for all. Didn't break my budget, either!

[Minnymouth]

Annual "Christmas/New Year's office party is at my home every year...... has been for the last 7 years.

Everybody brings their own "brew" and we all put in on snacks, mixers, and munchies.

We have a great party at a small expense for each of us.......

We do the same thing in the summer time with a "Annual Cookout"....

PS.... My neighbors are friends with the people I work with so we invite the neighbors too....... that way we distrub NO ONE.....

[Bandit]

Dressing.

I don't know a recipe but I do this from heart when I make a turkey. It is probably about 1/2 to 1 cup of each.

Apple
Walnut or Pecan
Mushrooms
Oysters
Celery
Onion
a little sage
Can of chicken broth

Chop that all up real small & add it to two bags of seasoned cubed bread crumbs, then stick it inside the turkey JUST BEFORE the turkey goes into the oven (not the night before).

Keep some to the side to heat up by itself & add that in when you pull the dressing out of the turkey belly. This stuffing comes out a little dark in color but it is yummy to me.

I don't chop everything real small & leave some of it chunky so everyone can see what is inside & get & different bite of flavor.

[Bandit]

vodka, malibu rum and pinot noir

mmmmm! I can think of a lot do with those. I don't just mean getting drunk (that too), but using them in baking & flambe.

[Bandit]

Turtle Brownies

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They will be gooey! Frost warm cake with the following:



Bring first three ingredients to a rolling boil. Take off heat and add vanilla. Beat in confectioner's sugar.


This is sinfully rich, but worth every calorie! Even better when warm and served with vanilla ice cream and a strong cup of coffee

Yummy! I bet that Turtle Brownie is good. It kind of reminds me of a turtle cheesecake that my friend who owns a bakery makes. It comes out huge and has turtles in it & on top.

[whatamess]

Christmas gifts that are cheap and not scoffed at...

Do you think cookies and baked goods are to cheap to give as gifts???? I wonder as we are short on cash for the teachers and stuff this year.
I'll dig out my recipes....'WAM

[kl030505]

OH MY GOSH! I've never met anyone else who knows how to make German Chocolate Bars (that's what I call them!) I adjust the recipe a bit because I don't like nuts and I don't frost them, but I make these frequently for parties and pot lucks. People LOVE them

1 box German chocolate cake mix
1 stick butter (I use the real thing)
3 eggs
1/4 cup water
1 pkg. caramels
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 6 oz. pkg. semi-sweet choc. chips
1 cup pecan pieces

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 13x9" cake pan. Melt caramels with 1/2 can sweetened condensed milk over low heat and set aside. Mix cake mix, butter, eggs, and water on high speed for 3 minutes. Pour 1/2 batter in pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Take out of oven and pour caramel mixture over and sprinkle with chocolate chips and peacn pieces. Top with remaining batter. Bake for 25-30 more minutes. They will be gooey! Frost warm cake with the following:

Frosting
1 stick butter
3 heaping Tablespoons cocoa
6 Tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 box confectioner's sugar

Bring first three ingredients to a rolling boil. Take off heat and add vanilla. Beat in confectioner's sugar.


This is sinfully rich, but worth every calorie! Even better when warm and served with vanilla ice cream and a strong cup of coffee

[Bandit]

Do you think cookies and baked goods are to cheap to give as gifts???? I wonder as we are short on cash for the teachers and stuff this year.
I'll dig out my recipes....'WAM

Not at all, whatamess. I have done that many times & spent hours & days whipping up huge batches of cookies. I do have 2 big kitchen aid mixers & 3 big ovens here that make it go fast. The hardest ones are the cut outs where you put icing on, all the rest are fairly easy.
Thumb print cookies with raspberry, orange & strawberry in the middle, no bake, & shortbread with powder sugar are awesome.
Then I throw in the chocolate chip, peanut butter & oatmeal cookies. Pecans balls with powder sugar are & easy & delicious.
People enjoy them & it beats spending hours walking around like a clone at malls which I hate doing.

You just have to put the ginger, & mint cookies in a seperate container to make sure the whole box wont taste like mint.

I would rather have a tin of 10.00 in home made cookies than a trinket that will end up in the attic or a 20.00 shirt that I may not ever wear. But I am a big cookie eater over the fall & early winter. Home made are the best gifts!

I always hook up with the older crowd to make me afgans(sp) & knitted scarfs to keep my face warm. I love the home made ones