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• Peanut Butter Popcorn Party Mix

  Posted at 7:54 am by Rebecca

  Dec 31st

  

  I don’t recall for sure when my mother started making this party mix, but I know it was one of my favorite things to take to school as a snack and to have as a treat for my birthday! This year I thought this would be the perfect treat for New Years!

  It doesn’t get any simpler to make a party mix than this one, and you can throw just about anything into it on top of what I have used. Our other additions have included Chex cereal, peanuts, different types of M&Ms and Reese puffs.

  Starting out I put the Vanilla Almond Bark and peanut butter in the microwave on the melt chocolate feature. If you don’t have this, I used to do 30-45 seconds at a time stirring in between.

  

  While the topping mix is melting in the microwave I gather the rest of my mix ingredients and dump them in a large bowl. Today I used the popcorn, pretzels, Cheerios, M&Ms, and Rice Crispies. I used plain home popped popcorn today, but you can use 2 bags of microwave popcorn in place of popping it yourself just make sure it’s homestyle and not buttered.

  

  

  Once your topping mix is completely melted, make sure to mix the peanut butter in well with the almond bark. Then pour over the popcorn mix and mix well until everything is well coated.

  

  Spread out your mixture to harden in a single layer on wax paper. This will take approx 1-2 hours. Then seal the mixture in an airtight container. I’ve found this will generally keep well for 5-7 days.

  Ingredients

  Popcorn — either 2 bags of home style microwave or 1/4 cup of kernals popped

  1/2 bag of pretzels

  3 cups of Cheerios

  2 cups of Rice Crispies

  1 Cup of M&Ms

  Topping Mix

  2/3 cup peanut butter

  12 oz vanilla almond bark

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  Posted in Dessert, snacks | Tagged partymix, peanutbutterpopcorn, simplepartyideas

• Cutout Butter Cookies

  Posted at 3:15 pm by Rebecca

  Dec 26th

  

  From the time I was young, my favorite Christmas baked good was my Grandma’s cutout cookies. When I received a book of recipes for my Bridal Shower I was pleased to see I received this recipe from my Grandma!

  Fast forward 10 years and I now have a little one with a birthday just before Christmas. He is very into Spiderman and is sure he has to take Spiderman Cookies into school for his Birthday party. I am not a decorator, but I can bake, so I enlisted the help of my husband who is way more crafty than myself to do the decorating, and I did the baking.

  These cookies were a multi-night process with everything else we had going on the last couple of weeks, and I doubled the batch and did my Christmas cookies at the same time!

  These cookies were made the same night I was also making the broccoli cheese soup in the instant pot, so my house smelled delicious!

  Starting out I combine the granulated sugar, softened butter, eggs, and vanilla into a cream mixture. I then add in the flour, cream of tarter, and baking soda to make the dough. And just as with the other recipes I have posted I do not premix my dry ingredients! I used a mixer to mix mine and find it is much easier to use a stand mixer for this dough since it is a heavier dough, but I did use a hand mixer for several years prior to purchasing a stand mixer.

  

  After the dough is mixed I removed it from the mixer and placed it on saran wrap. I shape the dough in a ball and wrap it up tightly to place it in the fridge for at least an hour and up to 48 hours.

  Prior to starting to roll your dough, preheat your oven to 350°.

  

  The next day I started rolling out my dough. I cut the dough into 6 pieces. I started with rolling each piece into a smaller ball. I use a baking sheet to roll dough on, sprinkling it with flour and using my rolling pin to roll the dough until it is approx 1/4″ thick. I then cut out the cookies with either cookie cutters or a cup or mason jar if you want round cookies.

  

  Place your cut out cookies on your baking sheet or stone and place in the preheated oven to cook for 8-10 minutes, edges of the cookies should be slightly brown, but cookies should not be golden brown, only a light brown.

  Let sit on the baking sheet or stone to cook for 4-5 minutes prior to moving to a cooling rack. Let fully cool prior to frosting or decorating.

  To make the frosting mix up your softened butter and vanilla, add in your powdered sugar and then add milk until desired consistency. If you are doing decorating separate frosting into different bowls to add food coloring.

  Since the frosting has milk in it I keep these cookies either in the fridge or freezer, I find they keep well this way and also do not go stale nearly as quick.

  

  Ingredients

  COOKIES

  1 Cup Granulated White Sugar

  1 Cup Softened Butter

  3 Eggs

  4 Cups Flour

  2 Teaspoons Cream of Tarter

  1 Teaspoon Baking Soda

  1 Teaspoon Vanilla

  FROSTING

  4 Cups Powdered Sugar

  1/2 Cup Butter Softened

  2-4 Tablespoons Milk

  2 Teaspoons Vanilla

  Posted in Dessert | Tagged birthdayparty, christmasdessert, holidays

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