Smore's (new take on homemade smore's)

                                                 New take on Smore`s at home

My daughter saw a recipe for smore's made at home and my husband decided to change it up. So glad he did because these are absolutely delicious! I hope you enjoy them as much as we do!

Ingredients

 

 

Beat

 

1 cup (250ml) shortening

1 cup (250ml) packed brown sugar



1/2 cup (125ml) granulated sugar

2 eggs

1 1/2 tsp (7ml) vanilla extract

mix well 

 

Stir in

 

2 cups (500ml) all-purpose flour

1 tsp (5ml) baking soda

1/2 tsp (2ml) salt

 

Mix well
 

(this is a cookie dough recipe without the chocolate chips)

 2 bags of chocolate chips

2 bags of mini marshmallow's

Directions

 

 

Pre-heat oven to 375F

1) You will need muffin stones or tins. I use muffin stones. Make sure you use some butter or flour to rub on the sides of the muffin pans so the dough doesn't stick to it, makes it easier to remove when they are baked. We used flour. But would use butter next time.

 

2) The dough will be sticky, so you want to add flour until the dough becomes firmer to work with.

 

3) Roll dough into a good size ball and place in the greased muffin pan and push down with a glass or a tart shaper to make a pastry shell. Bake the shells first for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly golden.

 

4) Once  the shells are baked  place enough chocolate chips to cover the bottom of the shell. You can always add more or less depending on how much chocolate you want in them.

 

5) Then fill the rest of the pastry shell with mini marshmallows.

 

6) Bake in the oven until the marshmallows are golden brown. Each oven varies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Batter

 

 

 Dough ready to roll

 

Golden brown marshmallows

 

 

 

 

 Finished treat

 

 

 

Hope you enjoy these as much as we did. The cookie dough was such a nice touch rather then the graham crackers.

 



Pizza Rolls

                                                                  PIZZA ROLLS



I started to change the way we are eating. Buying less processed frozen food and trying to make fresh healthy alternatives. These Pizza Rolls are time consuming but very easy to make and are yummy! I make enough to freeze so the kids can enjoy them when ever they want! I like to deep fry them, cool them off and freeze them. They freeze well!                    


                                                                  INGREDIENTS

 

 

 

                                            4 or 6 pkg     Egg roll wrappers  (Zehr's sells them)



                                            can buy 2 or 3 if you just want  to do a small batch
                 Pepperoni ( I buy Ziggy's from Zehr's in a larger bad seems to be the best value)
                                                    Pizza or mozzarella Cheese grated (large 450g)
                                     Pizza Sauce ( I buy Presidents choice in a squeezable bottle)
                                  (Also add veggies, bacon and other meats, I just did simple ones)
                                                                   small bowl of water

fork

                                                                         deep fryer

Directions

Make sure your deep fryer is on and is ready to go

1)Lay a bunch of egg roll wrappers on a flat surface

2)add pizza sauce, as much or little as you like

3)add your meats, then veggies, and then cheese last, as much as you want of each

4)fold over the wrappers and rub the seam with water on your finger, make sure its sealed

5)wet the fork and press down on the ends, make sure they are sealed together

6)place as many egg rolls as you can in the deep fryer

7) once they are golden brown on one side,  flip them to brown the other side because they float.

8)once golden brown on both sides take out and place into a strainer or on some paper towels, then place on cooling racks.

9)they are ready to eat, you can eat them just like that or dip into some pizza sauce

10)after they are cooled off you can freeze them in freezer bags. When you want to warm them up when they are frozen I heat he oven to 400F and cook them till they are warmed through, they remain crispy this way.




                                                                      Add pizza sauce

                                                                         Add pepperoni

                                                                       Add cheese

                                                 Folded over and seams joined with water

                                                           
                                                        Press down ends with a wet fork

          
                                                                 Finished pizza roll

Merry Christmas & Happy New year!

Wishing all my viewers a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! I hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday with your family and friends. I hope you can try out some of my recipes over the holidays and please let me know how they turned out. Enjoy from our house to yours!

Newfie Snow Ball`s

Newfie Snow Ball`s

 

 

 

 

Ingredients

 

 

 

 

3 cups of granulated sugar                         720ml 

3/4 cup butter                                             180ml

1 1/4 cup milk                                            300ml

3 cups quick rolled oats                             720ml

        1 cup coconut, unsweetened fine               240ml        

12 tbsp cocoa                                             180ml

 

 

 

 

In a large pot combine sugar, butter and milk. On med high heat you want to melt and bring the 3 ingredients  to a boil.

 

When it boils,  remove from heat, don't stir the mixture, pour in the oatmeal, coconut and cocoa, then mix well until all blended together.

 

Allow mixture to cool down so you can roll the mixture into balls with a scoop and roll into coconut.

 

Place on a platter and put in fridge or freezer  till they set.

 

 

I don't like my snowballs to chocolaty so I cut the cocoa in half. These are very easy to make. I love these.

You can also just drop the mixture on platters and not roll into coconut, they are great they way as well.!

Enjoy!

 

 

 

                                                           Mixture all blended.

 

 

 

 

                                                           Snowballs



 

 

 



Mini Pecan Tarts

Mini Pecan Tarts

 

 

 Ingredients

 

Tart Shells

 

 

1/2 cup butter, softened                 125ml

1/2 pkg cream cheese, softened      250g

1 cup all purpose flour                   250ml

 

Filling

 

 

2 tbsp butter                                  30ml

3/4 cup packed brown sugar       175ml

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla                                   5ml

3/4 pecans, chopped                   175ml

 

icing sugar optional 

 

 

 

Baking Directions

 

 

Pre-heat oven to 350F. For tart shells, beat butter and cream cheese in a bowl until smooth. Add flour, mix until a soft dough forms.

 

Shape dough into 1 inch balls. Place balls of dough into ungreased cups of mini muffin pan. Dip mini tart shaper in flour, press into dough to form tart shells.

 

For filling; place butter in small bowl, microwave on high for 30 seconds or until melted. Stir in brown sugar,egg and vanilla.

 

Chop pecans then add to the filling and mix.

 

Fill each tart shell with nut filling using a small 1 inch scoop.

 

Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Place on cooling rack. Sprinkle with icing sugar if desired.

 

 

I turn my oven down to 325F. I find with my oven 350F is to high! These are amazing tarts. Great for any party or occasion.! One of my favourite recipes.  I hope you enjoy them as much as we do!

 

 

 

                                                            liquid mixture

 

 

                                                           dough in tins





 

 

 

                                                           finished tarts 



 



Peanut Butter Blossoms Kisses

Peanut Butter Blossoms Kisses

 

 

 

Ingredients:

 

 

48 Hershey chocolate kisses - 1 bag

1/2 cup shorting                                        125ml

3/4 cup creamy peanut butter                   200ml 

1/3 cup packed light brown sugar             80ml

1 egg

2 tbsp milk                                                30ml

1 tsp vanilla extract                                   5ml

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour                    355ml

1 tsp salt                                                     5ml  

   

granulated sugar

 

 

 

Baking Instructions

 

 

Heat Oven to 375F. Remove foil wrappers from the kisses.

 

Beat shortening,and  peanut butter in a large bowl until well blended. Add granulated sugar and brown sugar; beat until fluffy. Add egg, milk, and vanilla; beat well. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt. gradually beat into peanut butter mixture.

 

Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Roll in a bowl with granulated sugar and place on ungreased cookie sheet.

 

Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Immediately press a chocolate into center of each cookie; cookie will crack around edges. Remove from cookie sheet onto cooling rack and allow to cool completely.

 

Make sure you quickly put the kisses on the cookies press down a bit so they will stay on, you wait for them to cool the kisses won`t stay stuck on them.

 

Makes 4 dozen.

 

I always use my kitchen aide mixer to mix all my doughs. Makes it much easier on the hands, These are very easy to make and are great treat parties or Christmas tins. Actually they can be made anytime of the year! I love these. Enjoy!

 

 

                                                           Batter

 

 

                                                         rolled in sugar

 

 

 

                                                           placed on stone

                                                           placed on cooling rack

                                                           topped with kisses



Cake balls's

Cake Ball's

 

 

 

Cake balls are a lot of work, but they are an amazing treat to make for any holiday. You can decorate them with what ever you please, even make faces on them, mine are just simple drizzled chocolate!

 

 

Ingredients

 

1 box of cake mix, 2 layer any kind you want

1 container of icing for 2 layer cake

chocolate melting disks - bulk barn

 

If you make a chocolate cake use chocolate icing, a vanilla cake use vanilla icing. Try and stay with the colour icing as the flavor of cake mix.

 

Baking Directions

 

 

Bake the cake mix as directed on the box. Let the 2 cakes cool completely.

Crumble them in a large bowl, then add container of icing, mix together well.

Roll into 1 inch balls.

Make sure you place them on a platter  so they aren't piled on top of each other.

Place them in the freezer until frozen.

Melt chocolate disks in a double boiler. take so many cake balls out of the freezer and roll them in the melted chocolate and return them back to the freezer. 

Let them harden for an hour then melt another colour chocolate and drizzle with a spoon over top of them. Or you can also make faces depending what holiday it is. Let your creativity go wild.

 

                                                            

 

                                                           Drizzled with white chocolate

 

 

Sorry I was so busy baking I didn't do the step by step pictures, but they are very simple to make.