Coffee Ice Cream

Coffee Ice Cream

Base ingredients:

4 C heavy cream
                                                                    2/3 C sugar (or to taste)                                                              
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 C whole milk

Add:

2-3 Tbsp (per taste) coffee crystals

In a bowl whisk cream, sugar and crystals until

sugar and coffee has dissolved completely 

Add milk and vanilla

Cover bowl and chill for at least an hour-

 I did over night for the sugar to dissolve

Make according to you ice cream maker

Use the base and chage the add in:

Maple Nut use maple syrup and extract add nuts

Chocolate Add chocolate syrup and crushed oreos

Strawberry Add strawberry syrup and chopped strawberries

Pumpkin and Sausage Stuffed Shells

1 jar Aldis Pumpkin Chipolte Pasta Sauce**

abt 15  lg pasta shells

mozzarella cheese

1lb  package ground sausage (could use hot or sage sausage)

Boil shells until al dente. Drain

Fry up sausage with bell pepper and mushrooms or any other veggie you would like - onions or zucchini might be good - would be great place to use leftover vegggies

Pour a small amt of sauce on the bottom of the baking dish. Place drained empty shells on top of the sauce and spoon fill w the sausage mixture. Pour the remaining sauce on top of the shells and sprinkle w cheese Bake at 350 until hot and bubbly

** I did find a recipe for a pumpkin chipolte sauce here  if you don't have an Aldis - I have not tried it

Chocolate Mint Overload Version 2

I've talked abt my dtrs

favorite cake

Mint Chocolate Overload

Well this year it had

 to be adapted because 

I couldn't find 

pirouettes

or Andes chips

I chopped up Andes candies

 for the top

and used 

Walmarts version 

of Thin Mints

So instead of

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Malacadas (Portuguese Donuts)

A Fat Tues tradition in my house

 is making Malacadas

Malacadas

 (Portuguese Donuts)

6 C Flour

1 C sugar

2 pkg. Yeast                                               

 1 ¾ C lukewarm warm water

 (abt 80-100 degrees)

4 eggs        

     2 tsp. salt                                                    

 2 tsp. vanilla                                             

 1/3 C melted shortening

I use

oil

Cinnamon Sugar

Mix yeast with 

a small amount

 of water and sugar

 until dissolved

 (proofed)

 Do not use metal utensils. 

Add 1 cup of water

 and 2 cups of flour

. Beat well and add

 the other ¾ cup of water

 Set in a warm place

 - without drafts

My grandmother

 always put a towel

on top of the bowl so...

in family tradition....

 to rise until doubled

 – about 1 hour. 

Then add sugar, fat, 

eggs and flavoring. 

Mix well and add 

remaining flour

 to make a soft dough.

 Knead well and place

 in a well-greased bowl.

 Allow to sit in

 a warm place

 until doubled

 – about 1 hour.

While waiting

 put cinnamon sugar

in a paper bag

Take a small amt 

of dough and pull 

it into fun thin shapes

 Pull into pieces 

and fry in deep 

fat til dark

drain with

 a paper towel

This is the part us kids

 were allowed 

to do - shake them

 in a paper bag

Aren't these

 yummy looking??

Black Forest Cake

This is the cake

my hsb wants for his b-d every year

1 choc cake mix

1 can frosting

1 can cherry pie filling

Grease Bundt pan

Make cake according to

package directions

Pour 3/4 of batter into the pan

top with cherries

I place them in the middle

using abt 1/2 the can

cover the cherries w remaining batter

the cherries rise to the top 

so I try to put them

so that the batter

hits the pan while baking

heat the frosting enough

to be pourable

top w remaining cherries

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Butterscotch Gingerbread Trifle

Butterscotch Gingerbread Trifle

Make gingerbread as per pkg instructions

make butterscotch pudding as per instructions

cut gingerbread into squares and layer on bottom

spoon butterscotch pudding on top 

repeat 

if you are doing it for a party

I would be more careful 

on the layers 

so that you can see each one

but since it was just for 

the 3 of us 

I just layered it on

add whip cream
I had mini gingerbread cookies 

and you are done!


you can always use any cake mix
and any pudding mix
I usually alternate this one
with chocolate cake and
peppermint flavored pudding
(just add flavoring to vanilla pudding)
you can crush mints and sprinkle on the layer
or if for adults only creme de menthe

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Easy Mint Choc Cookie Crackers

These are very simple and easy

Ritz type crackers

chocolate almond bark

peppermint candies -smashed

dip crackers in the chocolate

 that has been melted in a double boiler

this type of tongs works best

because you can hold the crackers

on their sides

Shake off excess

put on parchment paper 

while still wet

sprinkle crushed peppermints on top

allow to harden

And viola!

Easy Peasy..

You need to make a ton 

because they go fast

I have used white bark

with sprinkle etc

A great way to use up leftover

decorations

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