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Different Types of Breads

Various Ways of Cooking Turkey

Turkey thanksgiving dinner

For the leftover Turkey from Thanksgiving,

Turkeys Sandwich

Turkey Burritos

Pasta Dishes

Sweet Potato Cream Cheese Pie Recipe

Ingredients
CRUST

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup cake flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1/3 cup ice water
  • 1 cup butter-flavored Crisco, frozen and cut into small pieces
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar

    FILLING
  • 1 cup baked sweet potato (peeled), packed
  • 3 eggs, slightly beaten
  • 6 oz. cream cheese, softened
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/4 cup butter, melted and cooled

Direction

  1. For the crust:
    • In food processor, combine the flours and salt.
    • Add the shortening pieces and pulse until dough resembles coarse crumbs.
    • Set aside. In a small bowl, beat together the egg, vinegar, and water.
    • Add egg mixture to the flour mixture and combine with a fork, just until the dough comes together
    • Do not over mix. Form dough into 2 discs, wrap in plastic, and chill for at least one hour overnight.
    • Roll out one piece of pie crust into a 12-inch circle.
    • Fit into a 9-inch deep-dish pie pan and flute edges.
    • Reserve 2nd piece of dough for another time by freezing it.
  2. For the filling:
    • Preheat oven to 350°F. Mash sweet potatoes.
    • Add all the other ingredients to sweet potatoes and mix with mixer until smooth.
    • Pour into pie shell.
    • Bake for 20 to 30 minutes or until set.
    • Remove from oven.
    • Cool completely.
    • Garnish with whipped cream.

Delicious Holiday Lollipops Recipe

Makes 6 lollipops.

Ingredients

  • 3 1/4 cups white chocolate melts, from 2 (12 oz.) pkgs.
  • 6 tsp. oil
  • 1/4 cup red candy melts
  • 1/4 cup green candy melts

Other things needed.

  • Round Cookie Treat Pan (Cookie pans with 6 (3 1/2″-diameter, 1/4″-deep) round molds)
  • Coarse red and or green decorating sugars
  • 6 (6″ long) lollipop sticks

Directions

MELT CANDY:

  1. In microwave-safe bowl, microwave 3 cups white chocolate melts with oil on Medium 1 minute; stir.
  2. Microwave in 30-second intervals until melted and smooth. In separate bowls, microwave red, green candy melts and remaining white chocolate melts on Medium in 30-second intervals until melted and smooth; transfer to separate plastic food storage bags. Snip 1 corner of each bag.

MAKE LOLLIPOPS:

  1. Sprinkle decorating sugar around inside edge of some molds.
  2. Pipe dots of assorted candy colors into molds to cover. Swirl with toothpick. Carefully cover halfway with candy-oil mixture.
  3. Place sticks in molds; cover with additional candy-oil mixture. In other molds, cover bottoms completely with decorating sugars.
  4. Carefully cover halfway with melted white mixture. Place sticks in molds; cover with candy-oil mixture.
  5. Let stand until set, about 2 hours. Remove from molds.
  6. Enjoy and happy holidays.

Holiday Red Raspberry Chocolate Bars

Recipe by Karen Brickhouse

Makes 36 bars

Ingredients

  • 2½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup finely chopped pecans
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) cold butter or margarine
  • 1 jar (12 oz.) seedless red raspberry jam
  • 1 2/3 cups Hershey’s milk chocolate chips, Hershey’s raspberry chips, or Hershey’s mini kisses, brand milk chocolates

Directions

  1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 13*9* 2-inch baking pan.
  2. Stir together flour, sugar, pecans, and egg in  a  large bowl. Cut in butter with pastry blender or fork until mixture resembles coarse crumbs; set aside 11/2 cups crumb mixture.
  3. Press remaining crumb mixture o the  bottom of the prepared pan. Stir jam to soften; carefully spread over the crumb mixture.
  4. Sprinkle with chocolate chips. Crumble remaining crumb mixture evenly over top.
  5. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely in pan on wire rack; cut into bars.


Easy Dinner rolls for the Holidays

Prep: 30 min. and rising time / Bake:15 min. /Makes: 1 dozen

  • 3 cups All-purpose flour
  • 2 tbsp. Sugar
  • 1 pkg. (1/4 oz.) active dry yest
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1cup water
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • Melted butter

Steps

  1. In a bowl, combine 2 cups of flour, sugar, yeast, and salt. In a saucepan, heat water and butter to 1200- 130°.
  2. Add to dry ingredients; beat until blended. Add egg; beat on low speed 30 seconds, then on high for 3 minutes. Stir in the remaining flour (batter will be stiff). Do not knead. Cover; let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 30 minutes.
  3. Stir the dough down. Fill 12 greased muffin cups half full. Cover and let the dough rise until doubled, about 15 minutes.
  4. Bake at 350° until golden brown, 15-20 minutes. Cool 1 minute before removing from pan to a wire rack. Brush tops with melted butter.

Easy Slow Cooker Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe


Prep: 25 min. Cook: 3 hours Makes: 12 servings

Ingredients

  • 2 boneless skinless turkey breast halves (2 to 3 lbs. each)
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ½ tsp. pepper
  • 3 fresh thyme sprigs
  • 2 Tbsp. butter
  • 1 cup whole-berry cranberry sauce
  • 1 cup apple cider or apple juice
  • ½ cup chicken stock
  • 1 envelope onion soup mix
  • 2 Tbsp. maple syrup
  • 1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
  • ¼ cup all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup water

Directions

  1. Place turkey in a 5- or 6-qt. slow cooker; sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  2. Add thyme and dot with butter. Combine cranberry sauce, cider, chicken stock, onion soup mix, maple syrup and Worcestershire; pour over turkey.
  3. Cook, covered, on low 3-4 hours or until a thermometer inserted in turkey reads at least 165°. Remove turkey and keep warm.
  4. Transfer cooking juices to a large saucepan; discard thyme sprigs. Combine the flour and water until smooth. Bring cooking juices to a boil; gradually stir in the flour mixture until smooth.
  5. Cook and stir until thickened, about 2 minutes. Slice the turkey; serve with gravy.

Easy Home-made candy canes

Things needed

1 1/2 cups semisweet or
white chocolate chips, 9 oz.
1 tsp. oil
36 pretzel rods
snowflakes sprinkles, sprinkles, crushed candy, and any other candy

DIP PRETZELS:

  1. Line baking sheets with wax paper. In microwave-safe bowl, combine chocolate chips and oil; microwave on High in 20-second intervals, stirring, until melted and smooth.
  2. Dip each pretzel halfway or three-quarter way into chocolate, spreading with small spatula or back of spoon and allowing excess to drip off.

    SPRINKLE COATING:

3. Immediately sprinkle pretzels with sprinkles, or candies. Place on baking sheets. Let dry, about 1 hour.