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Pink Popcorn Surprises


2009
02.09

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Pink Popcorn Surprises Ingredients:

  • 7 cups popped corn
  • 3 cups miniature marshmallows
  • 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • few drops red food color
  • 8 lollipops

Pink Popcorn Surprises Directions:

  1. Measure popped corn into large buttered bowl.
  2. In top of double boiler over hot water, heat marshmallows, butter and salt, stirring frequently, until marshmallows melt and mixture is smooth.
  3. Stir in food color.
  4. Pour mixture over corn in bowl.
  5. Toss gently to coat.
  6. With buttered hands quickly shape mixture around lollipops into 3 inch balls.
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Ghosts on Broomsticks


2008
10.24

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Gangrenous Scrambled Legs

Ghosts on Broomsticks

Ingredients for Ghosts on Broomsticks

1 pound  white chocolate chips
1/2 cup  tiny red cinnamon candies
12  wooden sticks

Directions for Ghosts on Broomsticks

Heat 2 inches of water to simmering, not boiling, in the bottom of a double boiler.  Place
the white chocolate chips in the smaller pot and set it over the pot of simmering water.
Cook on low heat, stirring constantly until the chocolate is fully melted.  Remove from
the heat. Cover 2 cookie sheets with waxed paper.  Arrange the wooden sticks on the
waxed paper, 6 to a sheet.  Spoon ghost-shaped blobs of chocolate onto the paper,
partially covering each stick.  Press 2 candies into each ghost for eyes.  Freeze ghosts for
15 minutes, or until hard.

Serving Size  : 12

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Chocolate Cookies


2008
10.04

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(70 pieces) (a bit of work but a hit)
200g dried fruits (orange, lemon, pineapple, raisins, apricots, dates, whatever)
4 tablespoon rum
250g flour
50g cocoa-powder
100g sugar
one pinch salt
1 packet vanilla sugar
125g butter
1 egg
150g white chocolate
50g grated dark chocolate

How to cook Chocolate Cookies (Schokoladen-Plätzchen)

  • Chop dried fruits finely and soak them overnight in rum and 2 tablespoon of hot water
  • Mix well the following ingredients until they form a smooth dough (in the order): flour, cocoa, sugar, salt, vanilla sugar, butter, egg. Put into the fridge for 1hour.
  • Cut dough in half, roll out each half into a rectangle of approx. 30×21 cm. Spread fruit-mix on top of one rectangle and cover with the other rectangle.
  • Cut into little squares of 3×3 cm, press down the sides of each square, place them on a lightly greased baking tray and bake for 12-15 min in the oven at 200 C.
  • Melt white chocolate in a double boiler or in the microwave (check individual instructions). Dip top side of cookies into white chocolate and sprinkle them with grated dark chocolate.