Hot Fiesta Dip-Amanda's Cookin'

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Best Ever Hot Cocoa

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Granola Bars

2 cups rolled oats
1 cup quick-cooking oats
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 cup raw almonds
1-1.5 Tbsp olive or canola oil
1/3 cup pure maple syrup
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup vanilla-flavored almond milk
1/4 cup shredded coconut
Non-stick cooking spray

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven or toaster oven to 350 degrees F.

Process 2 cups rolled oats in blender or food processor until they become flour-like. Mix "oat flour" with dry ingredients (except coconut) in a bowl.

Add all wet ingredients to the dry mixture and stir until well combined.

Spray a small baking dish (about 5 inches x 12 inches, or similar) with non-stick cooking spray. Add mixture to the dish, pressing it down with a spatula. Sprinkle coconut on top.

ELVIS PEANUT BUTTER BANANNA CREAM PIE

STORE BOUGHT GRAHAM CRACKER PIE CRUST
LARGE BOX BANANNA INSTANT PUDDING MIX
CREAM CHEESE
WHIP CREAM
POWDERED SUGAR
PEANUT BUTTER
BANANNAS
MILK

MAKE PUDDING ACCORDING TO DIRECTIONS FOR PIE. POUR IN CRUST
MIX 4 oz of cream cheese with 1/2 cup smooth peanut butter or more to taste beat with hand mixer till blended. add 3/4 cups powdered sugar beat again till blended. hand mix in 8 oz cool whip till smooth and creamy. Put this on top of the pie. refrigerate. when serving drizzle with chocolate syrup ( opps i forgot the sliced banannas on top of the pudding)

Easy Crushed Lemon Drop Sugar Cookies

INGREDIENTS:
1 package Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Mix
1/3 cup butter, softened
15 Lemon Drops, crushed
1 tablespoon Lemon Juice
1 teaspoon Lemon Zest
Glaze:
1 cup powder sugar for glaze
4 teaspoons lemon juice for glaze
Combined cookie ingredients and bake according to package instructions. Remove cookies from oven when edges begin to brown and center is set. Let rest on cookie tray for 5 minutes then remove to cooling rack and drizzle/spread glaze on each cookie while still warm.

Christmas Greetings!

Merry Christmas 

                            and 

                                  Happy New Year

            To each and everyone of you!                  

S'More Cookie Bars

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Sugar Cookie Icing

1 cup powdered sugar

2 teaspoons milk

2 tsp corn syrup

1/2 teaspoon extract (vanilla or almond!)

Simple ingredient list, right? 

Add your powdered sugar to a medium sized bowl and to that bowl add your milk and your corn syrup.  Mix well.  Then add your extract and slowly add more milk and corn syrup until you get the consistency you prefer. 

Twas the month after Christmas

                                        Twas the month after Christmas
                                              and all through the house
                                     nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.

                                The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd taste...
                                  all the holiday parties had gone to my waist.

When I got on the scales there arose such a number!
When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber)

I'd remember the marvelous meals I'd prepared;
the gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared.

The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese.
And the way I'd never said, "No thank you, please."

As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt,
and prepared once again to do battle with dirt---

I said to myself, as only I can--
"You can't spend a winter disguised as a man!"

So--away with the last of the sour cream dip,
get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip.

Every last bit of food that I like must be banished,
'til all the additional ounces have vanished.

I won't have a cookie--not even a lick,
I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick.

I won't have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie,
I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.

I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore---
but isn't that what January is for?

Unable to giggle, no longer a riot,
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all and to all a good diet!!

Pineapple Cranberry Ham

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Breakfast Bread Pudding

• 12 slices white bread
• 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, cubed
• 12 eggs
• 2 cups milk
• 1/3 cup maple syrup
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
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• Remove and discard crusts from bread; cut bread into cubes. Toss lightly with cream cheese cubes; place in a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. In a large bowl, beat eggs. Add milk, syrup and salt; mix well. Pour over bread mixture. Cover and refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
• Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes before baking. Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 40-45 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes before cutting. Yield: 6-8 servings.

Cake in a Can ( what I sent to Brad in Iraq)

INGREDIENTS
8 oz butter
8 oz bittersweet chocolate
6 whole eggs
6 Tbs sugar
1/2 C flour
Caramel cream cheese frosting
1 1/2 pounds cream cheese
1/2 pound butter
1/2 pound confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup caramel



DIRECTIONS
Melt butter and chocolate together.

Whisk eggs and sugar together.

Whisk melted chocolate mixture into egg and sugar mixture. Whisk in cake flour.

Pour cake mix into a tin can or container, bake at 350 degrees F for 20-25 minutes until outside of cake is set and center is still soft.

Top cake with your choice of toppings while still hot.

For icing: Cream butter and sugar. Fold in cream cheese.

Finish with caramel and vanilla.