I just discovered this recipe and had to give it a try. It sure beats standing by a pot and stirring and stirring. BUT I must admit – the pictures below show a half burnt peanut brittle. I don’t have pictures of a good one because I was out of peanuts! But the part that was not burnt was GREAT! **So warning – if you have a new microwave shorten the cooking time!!** Microwave Peanut Brittle Ingredients: 1/2 cup dry roasted peanuts 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup light corn syrup 1 pinch salt 1 tablespoon butter 1 teaspoon […]
Read MoreTasty Tuesday: Cranberry Sauce
Last thanksgiving my Uncle was in town and he gave me a HUGE hand in the kitchen. We were expecting 22 guests from my side of the family. But my husband’s grandfather had passed away the previous Saturday, so the funeral fell on the same afternoon as our big Thanksgiving Dinner. Luckily my Uncle saved the day and did nearly everything in the kitchen while I followed him with the camera! One of the recipes he made was this cranberry sauce. It was my first time to ever seen cranberry sauce made (who knew the cranberries actually pop!) and it […]
Read MoreTasty Tuesday: Dinner Rolls in the Shape of a Turkey
Look at these adorable Turkey Dinner Rolls!!! These only take a few simple ingredients and will surely be a dinner conversation piece! Ingredients: 2 Rhodes Texas™ Rolls or 2 Rhodes™ Dinner Rolls, thawed but still cold 1 egg , beaten sliced almonds, slivered almonds, chopped pecans, pepper corns Instructions:Flatten one roll for the body and place on a large sprayed baking sheet. Cut a narrow piece out of the remaining roll to be used as a head and neck. Roll it into a rope shape and place on one side of body to form a slight curve. Cut head piece […]
Read MoreTasty Tuesday: Simple Pilgrim Hat Cookies
I love something that is a delight to the children – yet simple to do! These No-Bake Pilgrim Hat Cookies fit that description! Pilgrim Hat Cookies Ingredients: 1 cup vanilla frosting 7 drops yellow food coloring 32 miniature peanut butter cups 1 package fudge-striped cookie 32 mini orange Chiclets gum Combine frosting and food coloring. Dip the top of the peanut butter cup in yellow frosting and position over center hole of cookie, forming the hatband and crown. Add gum as “buckle.” Repeat with remaining cookies. Makes 32 cookies. (Recipe taken from Taste of Home) If you like these then […]
Read MoreTasty Tuesday: Simple Turkey Cookies
These are the cutest and simplest Turkey Cookies I have seen – and notice – they are “no-bake”! That’s my kind of cookie!!! Turkey Cookies 40 fudge striped cookies 1/4 cup chocolate frosting Two 5 oz. pkgs. chocolate covered cherries 20 pieces of candy corn Place 20 cookies on a flat surface, solid chocolate side down. With frosting attach a chocolate-covered cherry to the top of each base cookie. Position another cookie perpendicular to each base cookie; attach with frosting.With a dab of frosting, attach one piece of candy corn to the front of each cherry for the […]
Read MoreTasty Tuesday: How to Make a Princess Cake
Yesterday I posted – how to throw a princess party and today I want to share with you how to make a princess party cake! Princess Cake Ingredients Shortening Flour 1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix 2 (16 ounce) packages vanilla frosting A couple drops of food coloring – your choice Cooking Instructions 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 2-quart ovenproof Pyrex glass mixing bowl with shortening and dust with flour. 2. Prepare cake as directed on box. Pour batter into prepared bowl. 3. Bake 50-60 minutes or until cake tester inserted into center comes out clean. […]
Read MoreTasty Tuesday: Red, White and Blue Desserts
This is a super-easy, no-cook trifle! My friend Rachel made this last summer and I have been saving the recipe for an entire year to make for this 4th of July! I am so excited to make it! Isn’t it gorgeous! Star-Spangled Triple Berry Trifle2 pkg. angel food cake (comes in rectangles)2 pkg. frozen mixed berries (thawed) – do not drain the juice from the bag6-8 vanilla pudding cups1 12oz container of cool whipFresh strawberries to decorate the top 1. Cut up the angel food cake into little squares 2. Layer the trifle like this…angel food cake squares, then berries […]
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