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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Floats are just fun!
And floats based on our very favorite Harry Potter theme are absolutely magical!
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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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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!
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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!
Mom is my Rolo unroller!
Place a Rolo on each pretzel square…
After a few minutes in the oven…
Push a pecan half in some of the Rolos…
Press a cracker down into some of the Rolos…
Use the melted chocolate to dip each pretzel half…
Drizzle some of rah white chocolate on the pecans…
Lets add some color!
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.
The beginning of something wonderful!
Play the saltines on the baking sheets…
Pour on the deliciousness…
Sprinkle with toffee chips…pecans and mini chips…
Pop back in the oven 3-4 minutes …remov and let cool…
store in airtight container.
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
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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.
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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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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And here we begin!
Mix the cake mix as directed on package…
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
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!
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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So True! 🙂
