As part of the celebration CC&M will be having a great sale. For the next six days, we will offer 20% off the entire store. But act quickly, it is only for six days – this sale will end on Nov 14th. Make sure you enter this code: recipebloghop2009 during checkout.
As a continuing part of the celebration CC&M will of course give away great gifts. Each day we will give away one kit. Here is the twist – go through the blog hop, leave wonderful comments for the great designers. After you have finished the blog hop, return to www.diecutdiva.com and instead of leaving a comment, you need to share a recipe to have a chance at winning the kit. Share the recipe on your blog and link it back and get another chance to win the kit. Help us also make this a great recipe swap.
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Pam Smerker
Nathalia Castellon
Dawn Lusk
Stephany Zerbe
Jennifer Hansen
Lisa Somerville
Lila Holgate
Kazan Clark
Rachel Hope Baird
Ellen Sosnoski
Cecilia Stricklin
Lori Craig
Cambria Turnbow
Angie Pearl
Laura Davis
Noelle Reese
Holly Brown
Rachel Sztonyk
Deb Felts
Jen Johnson
Amber Hillman
Carla Mayfield
Cindy Lawrence
Chris Dickinson
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Auntie Pam's Special K Bars
3 cups Special K cerealMom's Chocolate Covered Peanuts (Love you Mom!)
1/2 cup karo syrup
3/4 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
6 oz chocolate chips
6 oz butterscotch chips
Grease a 9 x 13 inch pan with butter. Combine sugar and karo in heavy
saucepan. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat, add peanut butter and vanilla.
Combine mixture with Special K and press into prepared pan. Cool in
refrigerator.
Melt chocolate chips together and spread on pressed mixture. Cool and slice.
Cranberry-Marshmallow Salad (We call this *Pink Fluff*...I make it every Thanksgiving and Christmas)
2 cups sugar
1 large bag marshmallows
1 large can crushed pineapple; well drained
1 lb. fresh cranberries
1 cup shredded coconut
1 pint whipping cream
Put berries through food grinder. Cover with sugar. Let stand overnight.
Mix marshmallows, pineapple, coconut, and cranberries.
Whip cream to firm stiffness and fold into above mixture.
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 cup salted peanuts
Melt together chocolate and peanut butter over low heat. Add peanuts, then
drop by the spoonful onto wax paper or greased cookie sheet. Refrigerate.
Mom's Chocolate Peanutters
1 1/2 cups flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup, firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
1 package (6 oz) semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup salted peanuts
Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
Combine brown sugar, shortening and vanilla in large bowl. Beat til
creamy. Add egg. Continue to beat. Add flour mixture alternately with
1/4 cup milk. Stir in chocolate chips and salted peanuts. Drop by level
teaspoonsful onto greased cookie sheets.
Bake at 375 for 10-12 minutes.
Mom's Peanut Butter Fudge (It doesn't feel like Christmas without this!)
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 pinch salt
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1/2 jar (~1 cup) marshmallow cream
1 cup peanut butter
2 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cook sugars, butter, milk and salt to form a soft ball in cold water
(~234-240 degrees). Stir constantly over low heat. Remove from heat and
add remaining ingredients. Beat til creamy (be quick!) Spread onto buttered cookie sheet. Let set; slice into squares.
Perfect Apple Pie Filling (from Irene Matsumoto, who was my patient when I worked as a physical therapist in Straub Hospital in Honolulu)
5-7 tart green apples; peeled and sliced (love my Pampered Chef apple thingie!)
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoon flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 tablespoon butter
1 recipe double-crust pastry or a package of prepared piecrusts
milk
Mix sugar, flour, salt and spices. Sprinkle half over 9" pastry-lined pie
pan. Heap apples into pastry shell. Sprinkle with remaining sugar
mixture. Dot with butter. Cover with top layer of crust. Brush top with
milk. Sprinkle with sugar. Bake at 450 for 10 minutes, then lower oven
temp to 350 and continue to bake for another 40 minutes.
Here are the additional products I used to complete my album (although I still have 5 pages yet do complete!).
- Stamps:
- First Christmas, Have a Cookie, Signed with Love (all from Gina K)
- Recipe Favorites (Stampendous)
- Lovin' from the Oven (Our Craft Lounge)
- What's Cookin' (Hero Arts)
- Vintage Picnic (Paper Trey Ink)
- Accessories:
- SU grograin ribbon, metal rimmed tags, potholder incentive stamp, word window and circle punches,
- May Arts glimmer ribbon
- stitched grograin
- Making Memories sparkle brads
- Nestabilities labels, Cuttlebug
- tiny and teeny tiny buttons from A Small Cleverness, one of our LSSs
- Microsoft Publisher (to format the recipe cards, and tags)
Awesome project Deb!!! Lots of love was put into this.
ReplyDeleteSuper cute!
ReplyDeleteLaura
Fantastic Deb!!
ReplyDeleteVery cute album! Love all the great recipes!
ReplyDeleteWOW! I love all your aprons! I am going to follow you so I can see the next 5! :-)
ReplyDeleteToo, too, cute. Love your pages!!
ReplyDeleteWhat delicious recipes! YUM!!! I love those Special K Bars, my husband calls them Snickeroos for some reason though! They are definitely a family fave here. Pb fudge sounds delicious too!
ReplyDeleteThis couldn't be more perfect! Each page is embellished to perfection and the recipes are simply delicious!
ReplyDeleteWhat a yummy post! This is such a wonderful recipe book girlie! I love it! And thanks for taking the time to share all the recipes too!
ReplyDeleteSimply wonderful!
ReplyDeleteOh this is darling! The special K bars are my fav!!!
ReplyDelete*thud* I just LOVE your potholders with the little cookie cutters attached. Wow - gorgeous pages!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYour book is AWESOME. I absolutely love all the many incredible details and the recipes cards are adorable. Your project is just precious! A farmily heirloom.
ReplyDeleteDeb, this is just scrumptious!
ReplyDeleteyour album is soo cute...and all the recipes....yum, yum, yummy. Thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteThose special K bars sound yummy! Great project!
ReplyDeleteTeresa
Wow! Awesome idea for a recipe book and those recipes sound SO yummy!
ReplyDeleteOh, cutie!
ReplyDeleteHugs from Norway!
Ingunn
WOW!! Love all the recipes, but I adore that album! Ca-UTE!!
ReplyDelete~ky
I love, love, love this Deb! You have my snail mail...right?
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to try these recipes, especially the Special K bars, I am tired of paying an arm and a leg for them at the store.
WOW. I love the clean lines and all the details. They are amazing. and the hanging hot pads - super cute
ReplyDeleteSuper cute, love all the extra touches you added!
ReplyDeleteIncredible album and incredible recipes that I'll just have to try.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous album Deb! Love the festive feel you gave it and all those stamp sets just go so perfectly togher!
ReplyDeleteLove your album cover.
ReplyDeleteSTUNNING! The details are out of this world! LOVE IT! SUPER CUTE! You did such an amazing job! Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!
ReplyDelete:) Rachel
Wow!! LOVE your adorable book! You do wonderful work on all your creations! Just left you a comment on the SCS site and thought I would stop by your blog...Have a great day! Cookie :D
ReplyDeleteGorgeous Deb! Love how you put this all together!
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