What You Need:

1/3 C light corn syrup
1 (6 oz.) pkg. semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 t vanilla extract
4 C graham crackers, broken into small pieces
1 1/2 C mini marshmallows

How to Make It:

Place the corn syrup in a heavy pan.
Place the pan over medium heat and bring the syrup to a steady boil.
Reduce heat to the low setting.
Stir in the chocolate chips and vanilla.
Continue stirring until the chocolate has completely melted and the mixture is smooth.
Remove from the heat.
Stir in the graham crackers and marshmallows.
Butter a square baking pan on the bottom and up the sides.
Spread the mixture into the prepared pan evenly.
Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature.
Cut into bite size pieces before storing.

This Christmas Candy Recipe Has A Serving Size Of 3 dozen

Use a buttered wooden spoon when spreading candy into a pan.  This will keep the candy from sticking to the spoon and make it easier to spread the mixture evenly.

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What You Need:

2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 (28 ounce) jar prepared mincemeat pie filling
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup chopped walnuts
2 cups candied mixed fruit

How To Make It:

Grease the cake pans and line with wax paper.
Sift flour and baking soda together.
Mix together mincemeat, eggs, milk, fruit and nuts in a large bowl.
Add the flour gradually to the mixture.
Pour into your prepared pans
Bake for 2 hours at 300 degrees F, tops will be golden brown.
Cool on wire rack and remove wax paper.

This Christmas Fruit cake Recipe Serves 16.

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Breakfast, snack or dessert these muffins are good any time of day!

What You Need:

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs (separated)
1 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
2 tablespoons maraschino cherry juice
1 small jar Maraschino cherries, drained
1 package (8 oz) finely ground pecans
Pecan halves
Powdered sugar

How To Make It:

Cream the butter and sugar together well.
Mix in beaten egg yolk, flour, baking powder, cherry juice and egg whites.
Grease the muffin pan or line with papers.
Sprinkle finely ground pecans into each well or cup.
Put in a spoonful of dough, a whole cherry, then another spoonful of dough on top of the cherry so that the cherry will be in the center of each muffin.
Sprinkle more ground pecan on top and place a sliced pecan half on top of each muffin, more if you want more on top.
You can place several pecan slices in the shape of a flower on top for a decorative look.
Bake 10 minutes at 400 degrees F.
Remove from muffin pan to wire racks for cooling.
Sprinkle finished muffins lightly with powdered sugar.

This Christmas Dessert Recipe Serves 12.

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What You Need:

1 cup flour
2/3 cup white sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
dash of cloves
1/2 cup milk
1 can (16 oz) pears -drained and chopped
1/2 cup chopped pecans
3/4 cup brown sugar -packed
1/4 cup butter or margarine
3/4 cup water
Ice cream or whipped cream

How To Make It:

Mix up the main dry ingredients first (flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, cloves) then add milk and continue to mix until smoothed.
Stir in the pears and pecans.
Pour batter into a 2 quart casserole dish.
In a small mixing bowl mix the brown sugar, butter and hot water.
Pour this mixture over the batter in the casserole dish.
Bake for 45 minutes at 375 degrees F.
Serve alamode.

This Christmas Cake Recipe Serves 8 – 10.

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A classic dish, simplified!

What You Need:

DOUGH:
3 to 4 cups chopped pecans
2 8-ounce cans refrigerated crescent dinner rolls
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon

GLAZE:
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup honey
2 tablespoons butter
2 teaspoons lemon juice

How To Make It:

DOUGH:
Unroll one can of the crescent dough into two long rectangles and put it in a 9×13 baking dish, pressing to the sides to make a crust.
Press together any seams across the middle and sides.
Bake this crust for 5 minutes at 350 degrees F.
Mix together pecans, sugar and cinnamon.
Spread this mixture evenly over crust.
Unroll the second can of the crescent dough into long rectangles again, laying over top of the mixture to create a top crust and pressing to edges of the pan to close.
Cut lengthwise and diagonal vents in the crust, be creative and make a pattern of diamonds and crosses if you want.

GLAZE:
Combine all the ingredients for glaze in a saucepan and bring them to a boil.
Spoon half of glaze evenly over the top dough.
Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees F.
Spoon the remaining glaze over the hot baklava as soon as it comes out of the oven.
Cool on wire rack at least one hour before moving to the refrigerator to chill until ready to eat.

This Christmas Dessert Recipe Serves 6 – 8.

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These delicious brownies take advantage of a boxed brownie mix and a few simple ingredients!

What You Need:

BROWNIES:
1 23-oz. package brownie mix
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
6 tablespoon Amaretto

TOPPING:
6 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
4 tablespoon butter

How To Make It:

Mix together vegetable oil, eggs and fudge packet (if there is one with your mix).
Add the dry mix and stir well.
Stir in the walnuts last.
Spread evenly into a 13 x 9 inch baking pan (grease the pan or spray with no stick spray first).
Bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees F.
Sprinkle with Amaretto when it comes out of the oven and then place on wire rack to cool.

To make the topping, melt chocolate chips and butter in the microwave.  Stir until smooth and creamy and spread on top of brownies like frosting.  Cool until set.

This Christmas Dessert Recipe Serves 8 – 10.

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What You Need:

CRUST:
2 cups crushed vanilla wafers
6 tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

CHEESECAKE:
4 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
1 cup white sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons rum*
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 cup heavy cream
4 egg yolks

How To Make It:

Make the crust by mixing together the crushed wafers, butter and nutmeg.
Press the mixture into the bottom of a spring form pan.
Bake the crust for 10 minutes at 325 degrees F.
Blend together cream cheese, flour, sugar, rum and vanilla.
Add one egg at a time to the mixture and continue to blend well after each addition.  Then blend in the 4 additional egg yolks and the whipping cream.
Pour cheesecake filling into prepared pan.
Bake for one hour at 325 degrees F.
Completely cool before removing from spring form pan then refrigerate over night.

This Christmas Dessert Recipe Serves 8.

*For a non-alcoholic family friendly version you can use rum extract, vanilla extract, white grape juice or apple juice!

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