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Holiday

Holiday Party Pinwheels Recipe

October 16, 2019 by Lisa Pinney

If you need a great little appetizer for the upcoming holiday season, you’re going to love this one!  I made this for a party I was catering last Christmas and it was a delight to everyone who tried it!  The color of the pretty green spinach wrap along with the red provided by the pomegranate arils make a lovely presentation.  It provided a delicious appetizer option for the vegetarian guests.  I’ve already added them to our family’s party food list for this year!

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Halloween Butterbeer Floats Recipe

October 7, 2017 by Lisa Pinney

Floats are just fun!

And floats based on our very favorite Harry Potter theme are absolutely magical!

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Perfect Holiday Rib Roast Recipe

December 22, 2015 by Lisa Pinney

We had our family Christmas party and just like the last 3 years, Christopher and I have made a Rib Roast part of our tradition!

This roast cooked exactly this way always turns out perfect!

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Holiday Party Recipes

December 20, 2015 by Lisa Pinney

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We had our family Christmas party a little early this past weekend…

my daughter in law and I try to plan it this way so that the kids

aren’t bombarded with so much Christmas in just a couple of days!

I’d thought I’d share a few is our party recipes

in this post that were quick and easy!

[ingredients]

[method]

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Our Easy Party Punch

1 bottle Simply Orange Juice

1 bottle Simply Orange with Pineapple

1–2 liter Sprite—well chilled

I placed the juices in the freezer about an hour

before I was going to make the punch.

When ready to assemble,

pour the juices along with the spite into your punch bowl.

add ice cubes and enjoy!

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Rolo Delights

1 bag Rolos-unwrapped

1 bag square pretzel snaps

2 cups pecan halves

ghiradelli white chocolate melts

ghiradelli chocolate melts

red and green candy melts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

On your baking sheet fill with the pretzel squares.

place a Rolo on each square.

place baking sheet in oven for 3-4 minutes.

Remove from oven…working quickly,

press a pecan half into some of the Rolos.

Onto remaining Rolos, place another pretzel on top

and press down a bit.

Place in refrigerator until they firm up.

Now melt 1/2 cup each chocolate melts, 1 at a time, and decorate Rolos by dipping in various colors and drizzling with various colors.

You can certainly let your creativity fly on this one!

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Mom is my Rolo unroller!

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Place a Rolo on each pretzel square…

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After a few minutes in the oven…

Push a pecan half in some of the Rolos…

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Press a cracker down into some of the Rolos…

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Use the melted chocolate to dip each pretzel half…image

Drizzle some of rah white chocolate on the pecans…

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Lets add some color!

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Gorgeous and delish!!

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Redneck Toffee

2.1/2 sleeves Saltines

2 sticks butter

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup chocolate chip minis

1 cup toffee bits

1 cup chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Place saltines in solid layer on baking sheets.

Bring butter and brown sugar to a boil;,let simmer 3-4 minutes.

Pour over crackers on baking sheets.

 Use a pastry brush to make sure all crackers are covered.

Sprinkle the toffee, pecans and chocolate chips

evenly over the crackers.

Place in oven 3-4 minutes; Remove and let cool completely.

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The beginning of something wonderful!

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Play the saltines on the baking sheets…

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Pour on the deliciousness…

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Sprinkle with toffee chips…pecans and mini chips…

Pop back in the oven 3-4 minutes …remov and let cool…

store in airtight container.

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Southern Blackberry Jam Cake Recipe

November 28, 2014 by Lisa Pinney

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 I saw this recipe a few months ago and just knew I had to make it for the holidays!

It also gave me just another reason to buy my favorite Blackberry Jam and Cracker Barrel!

 Southern Blackberry Jam Cake

[ingredients]

[method]

 
 The delicious ingredients…
 
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Cream the butter and sugar…
Add the eggs…
 
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Spoon in that AMAZING Blackberry Jam…
 
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Look how deliciously purple the batter turns!
 
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Add the dry ingredients…
 
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and the buttermilk…
 
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Get those toasted pecans ready..
 
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Toss them along with the raisins into the batter…
 
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Pour the batter into your 2–9 inch… greased and floured pans…
 
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Mmmm…smells heavenly after baking on 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes…
I kept performing the toothpick test at 30 minutes because I’ve never cooked a layer cake that long…
I recommend this as each oven is so very different…
 
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Cool about 10 minutes and turn them out to cool completely…
 
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In your saucepan, add the butter, brown sugar, vanilla, corn syrup and milk…
 
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I just melted it all on low until all the ingredients were smooth…
 
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Add the confectioner’s sugar and whisk until smooth…
 
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You’ll want to pour between the layers and on the sides and top while it’s slightly warm…
 
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It will be very drippy…
 
But just keep working with it with your knife or spreader..
 
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It will all come together like this!
 
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I added a bit of the jam and some blackberries on top!
 
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It was yummy!
 
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Definitely a Southern treat!
 
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Southern Blackberry Jam Cake Recipe

  • Author: Lisa Pinney

Ingredients

Scale
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup butter, room temperature
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup seedless blackberry jam
  • 1 3/4 cups cake flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 tsp cloves
  • 1 tsp allspice
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 cup finely chopped pecans
  • 1 cup raisins
  • Caramel Frosting:
  • 2 1/4 cups brown sugar
  • 1 1/2 sticks butter
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 3 TBSP white corn syrup
  • 4 1/2 TBSP whole milk
  • 2 1/4 cups confectioners sugar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray or flour 2 –9 inch round baking pans.

With mixer, beat sugar and butter until light and fluffy.

Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each one.

Now add the blackberry jam until all combined.

In another bowl, sift together the flour, soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, allspice and salt.

Add the dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk. Scrape down sides of mixing bowl.

Add the vanilla, pecans and raisins, mixing on low until everything is incorporated.

Bake 40 minutes or until cake pulls away from side of pans. Remove cake from pans and add caramel icing.

Making the Caramel Icing:

Melt all ingredients except confectioners sugar on top of stove.

Remove from heat and add sugar.

Stir or cool until it has a glazed look and is of spreading consistency. Spread on cake.

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Momma’s Fruit Cake Recipe

November 24, 2014 by Lisa Pinney

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I  know that Fruit Cake usually gets a really bad rap!

Well, if you’re brave enough to try this one, I think you’ll have a new appreciation.

Mom and Granny started baking this cake in 1979, and in the past 10 years, we’ve made it even better by adding Pineapple Rum!

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Spiderweb Halloween Dip Recipe

October 29, 2014 by Lisa Pinney

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Continuing with the Spider Web theme, you’ll be a hit at your party with this easy but spooky dip!

You can buy all the ingredients and layer it yourself…or cheat like I did!

At our Winn Dixie, they have these trays already prepared and then I just added the topping…can’t get any easier than that!

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Kaia’s Creepy Monster Eye Cake Pops Recipe

October 28, 2014 by Lisa Pinney

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Hoping to share a bit of Halloween Party Recipes with you this week.  
This weekend, my sweet Kaia, reminded me that we needed to make her cake pops for her school party.
 You know how much I LOVE to cook and bake…but the ONE time I tried cake pops it was a disaster!  
 
Well, my Kaia, found my Cake Pops cookbook…and for a month…every time she came over, has sat and read me
step by step recipes of just how easy it is to create these lovelies!  
And I told her that she made it sound so EFFORTLESS and NON SCARY for Grandma when SHE reads the instructions!  
So, because I love her so, we waded into the forbidden waters…and we really did pretty good…
and I didn’t cry…and I didn’t have to take any medication…
Kaia was pretty proud of me and of how the Pops turned out 🙂

 [ingredients]

[method]

And here we begin!

Mix the cake mix as directed on package…

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Noah loves to watch his sister cook!
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We baked our cakes in the 2–9 inch pans…
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After they were baked…we added the container of frosting to our mixing bowl…
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 And then the cakes…
Mix it until the cake is combined with the frosting in a lovely doughy stickiness…
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Taking a break to lick the spoon…the best part of baking!!
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Even our assistant got a taste!
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Scoop a 1 inch size dough ball into your hand…
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Gently roll it into a ball…
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Use the melted chocolate to dip the cake pop sticks in and push it gently no more than half way into the cake…
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She’s adorable!!
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We put them in the freezer to chill…
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Then we melted our candy melts and gently swirled each pop…
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Because these were going to be scary monster eyes….they did not have to look smooth or perfect…
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We then put the blob of candy melt for the eye color and Kaia used a mini chocolate chip for the pupil…
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Isn’t that just the most perfect monster eye cake pop that you’ve ever seen??!!
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Noah approves as well!
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Look at the whole bunch of them!
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Now they’re wrapped and tied and ready to be enjoyed by 16 hungry 1st Graders!
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Kaia now wants us to create the cake pops shaped like cute little striped boxes of popcorn in the recipe book…
and the popcorn is made with little pieces of marshmallows…
and it is oh, so easy, Grandma!  🙂
 I love her!!!

If you are ever in need of cake pops in the Pensacola area…you should visit my friend, Meghan’s site Sweet Meegz!  

She makes the prettiest and tastiest cake pops ever!  Her cakes are always awesome!  

She can fashion anything out of fondant ….

she also told me I could do the cake pops without a breakdown!  

Thank you, Meghan!  🙂

https://www.facebook.com/sweetmeegz5

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Kaia’s Creepy Monster Eye Cake Pops Recipe

  • Author: Lisa Pinney

Ingredients

Scale
  • 1 box cake mix of your choice–We used the only one I had on hand…the Duncan Hines Marble…and we just threw the little chocolate packet in with the cake mix
  • 1 container of already prepared frosting…we used Duncan Hines Classic Chocolate for this recipe
  • 2 packages of your color of choice of Wilton Candy Melts
  • 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips

Instructions

For cakes, add the ingredients as on the cake box. Mix well.

You can bake the cake in a sheet pan or in 2–9 inch round pans for the time posted on the box. When done, cool a bit on a wire rack.

Next, dump the cake back into your mixing bowl and add the 2-3 TBSP of frosting. Mix it until it’s all combined and you can form a cake ball.  If you need more frosting, add it 1 TBSP at a time.

Then taking a small scoop, put a good size amount in your hand and very lightly roll it into a ball.

Take about 1/2 cup candy melts, any color, and melt them–you’ll need this to secure your cake pop sticks to the cake pop.

Dip the stick in the melted candy, gently push it in the cake pop…about middle way—pushing too far will cause the stick to come through the cake pop.

If you’re lucky enough to have a cake pop holder…or Styrofoam board, you can then push the stick in, one by one, until all are done and then freeze them until they are good and cold through and through…about 45 minutes to an hour.

When frozen, melt the color of candy melt that you’re going to use to dip the cake pop.

Working gently and quickly, swirl the cake pop in the melted candy until you get it all covered as you want it. Put them back in the freezer to firm up.

Kaia and I then chose the color for the Monster eye…melted that chocolate and put it in our piping bag…gave each cake pop a blob…then Kaia took a mini chocolate chip and pressed it into each one for the pupil.

We again let them firm up a bit and they were ready to be packaged and trimmed for the party!

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Sweet Potato Crescent Bake Recipe

October 23, 2014 by Lisa Pinney

 

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Sweet potatoes are one of my very favorite veggies!

This recipe turns them into a very decadent breakfast item or dessert–you can’t go wrong!

My work buddies said it tasted just like Thanksgiving 🙂

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Momma’s Christmas Candy Recipe

December 23, 2012 by Lisa Pinney

So True!  🙂

 My most favorite holiday memories is being in the kitchen with 
my Mom and my Granny Phillips.  
We would stay in there for hours making goodies–
peanut butter balls, coconut candies, Tiger Butter…
What fun we had!  
I can still remember Granny sitting at the kitchen bar 
watching me and Mom getting all the candy made.  
We would usually eat pizza for dinner–
Granny loved pepperoni pizza!
We had much fun laughing, talking and baking together.  
She would always spend the night afterwards.
I cherish those precious memories and I miss her so! 
 I hope you and your family make some 
special memories this season.  
It’s never too late to start traditions 
no matter how big or how small.  
There’s nothing like family and sweet memories!
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 Had to share one of my very favorite candies 
my Mom makes at Christmas.  
It’s ridiculously simple but just so very very wonderful!  
It’s so quick and easy to make…
always turns out perfectly…
it’s great to give as gifts…
and it would be fantastic made with white chocolate too.  
We just didn’t quite have time to try that idea this Christmas!  
 
 Momma’s Christmas Candy   
 
8 oz Ghiradelli Chocolate 
(you can use any kind you like, but we looovvee Ghiradelli!)
1 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
2 cups dry roasted unsalted peanuts
Place the chocolate in a microwaveable container.  
Microwave on high at 20 second intervals, stirring well until smooth and melted.  
Be very careful not to burn.  
Add the peanuts and marshmallows, 
stirring until coated with the chocolate.
Drop by teaspoonfuls onto wax paper.  
Let sit in a cool place until candy hardens.  
Place in a pretty container and enjoy!
 The good stuff….
 

 

My sweet Momma making the candy 🙂
 



Marshmallows!!!
 



1 1/2 cups to be exact…
 

 

Getting ready to melt the chocolate…
 
 
Remember..20 seconds and stir…
it should only take 2 – 3 times…

 

 

Add the marshmallows…
 

 

And the peanuts…
 
 
Drop onto wax paper with a teaspoon…

 



Like so…
 

 

Before long, you have this beautiful mountain of chocolaty goodness to share! 
 

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