Homemade Cadbury Cream Eggs

Oh my word.  Sometimes it’s so worth it to subscribe to a billion email magazines hawking everything from automatic toothbrushes to smoker life insurance . Every once in a while, you get a gem. And this recipe is a gem.

Instructables has a post about how to make homemade Cadbury Cream eggs. I LOVE those things. I don’t want to copy the entire recipe here (wouldn’t be right), but I’ll show you the basic recipe ingredients.

* 170g (1/2 cup) light corn syrup
* 58g (1/4 cup) butter, room temperature
* 375g (3 cups) confectioner’s powdered sugar (icing sugar)
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* yellow food coloring
* 1 (12 ounce) bag milk chocolate chips

Here’s the Instructable’s page with the full recipe. The author says that the hardest part may be connecting the chocolate moulds, but it’s learned with some patience. I think it’d be worth it.

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Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies

My daughter made these. Oh my word, get ready for the cookie of your dreams!! We found a basic cranberry-white chocolate cookie recipe and then, as is our custom, tweaked it to perfection. We dried our own cranberries for this (in a dehydrator, it’s SO less expensive than buying the packages stuff, which also tends to have additional sugars and preservatives). If you’re interested in how a dehydrator works, I wrote a review of the Nesco product that I bought.

Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies
makes 24 cookies

• 1/2 cup butter (no margarine!)
• 1/2 cup brown sugar (we make our own, see our brown sugar recipe here)
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• pinch of each: cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger
• 1 Tablespoon brandy (we used whiskey; you can also use pure vanilla)
• 3/4 cup white chocolate chips
• 1 cup dried cranberries

In one bowl, mash the butter. Add the sugars to make a grainy cream. Add the egg and mix well.

In a second bowl, add the flour, baking soda, and spices. Combine the bowls and add the brandy/whisky/vanilla.

Add the chips and berries and mix lightly.

Scoop cookie dough onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-15 minutes. Don’t allow the cookies to overbake.

You may want to stock up on the diet supplements before making these– they are SO good that you may easily eat half a dozen without even realizing it!!! They are not heavy in the stomach. Best served with hot, regular tea. YUMMMMMM!

The Cutest Christmas Cookie I Have Ever Seen

Look at this! Isn’t this adorable! It’s so cute, we can’t bear to eat it. It’s still in the container, lol.

CUTE!!!

It’s a little chocolate-covered cherry, with a Hershey’s kiss for a head. I love the chocolate-dipped sliced almonds for the ears. Whoever made this was really creative. We got it as part of a Christmas cookie set. The cookies were all homemade, and were all good. Some were SPECTACULAR. There was this cookie that had cranberries, white chocolate chunks, and walnuts. It just about knocked my socks off, lol. Thankfully, whoever made the cookies included the recipe in the box. I will love them forever, lol. The cookies came from my husband’s workplace. He paid a small nominal fee for a box of assorted cookies. It was a nice way for the little organization to raise money, especially when fund-raising and banking jobs and jobs in general are difficult to find.

The kids may make this little mouse cookie sometime. It’s SO cute!!!

Four Foods on Friday #126

HOO BOY! This week’s FFoF is about chocolate!!!! I’ve had this *thing* about chocolate recently, even requiring an emergency dose this past week!

Here’s the challenge for this week:

Tell me four things that you have made from scratch with chocolate (or just candy if you don’t/can’t have chocolate).

Oh dear. You may have well as asked me about rv insurance quote or something. I rarely bake, and I rarely bake with chocolate! I just eat it.

Well, in the past I *have* baked with chocolate. I’ll have to recall those olden days!

1. Peanut butter cookies with Hershey’s Kisses on top. YUMYUMYUMYUM. Now you know why I don’t bake anymore!

2. Chocolate milk. :-p Well, yeah, I made it from scratch! I STIRRED the powder into the milk!

…uhhhhhh…..

3! Brownies. OK< boring answer, I know. EVERYONE has made brownies, yah. But I am desperate for answers!

…one more to go, one more to go….

4….. ummmm….. oh dear. I’m stuck. OH WAIT! I once made chocolate pudding pie! Does that count?

Wow, this was hard! I like eating chocolate, but I am too impatient to bake with it. It’s so much better popped into my mouth.

Buckeyes: Dessert From Heaven!

I spotted these at Your Fun Family and started drooling. Oh I just love peanut butter and chocolate! It doesn’t love me, so there’s always that supplements for weight loss in the back of my mind.. *sigh*

Well, Melissa graciously allowed me to copy her recipe and share. We are making these very soon! Melissa didn’t say how many this recipe would serve, so I’m guessing it when I include it.

Buckeyes
Serves 1. Well, OK OK I guess you’ll have to share… serves 2.

INGREDIENTS

* 1 1/2 cups peanut butter
* 1 cup butter, softened
* 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
* 6 cups confectioners’ sugar
* 4 cups semisweet chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS

1. In a large bowl, mix together the peanut butter, butter, vanilla and confectioners’ sugar. The dough will look dry. Roll into 1 inch balls and place on a waxed paper-lined cookie sheet.
2. Press a toothpick into the top of each ball (to be used later as the handle for dipping) and chill in freezer until firm, about 30 minutes.
3. Melt chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave in 15 second intervals stirring in between until melted.
4. Dip frozen peanut butter balls in chocolate holding onto the toothpick. Leave a small portion of peanut butter showing at the top to make them look like Buckeyes. Put back on the cookie sheet and refrigerate until serving.