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What?s your favorite holiday treat?
for me caramel apples in the fall and my moms sugar cookies for the holidays.
Re: What?s your favorite holiday treat?
well it would have been pumpkin pie in the fall but a cw just made the most incredible pumpkin cupcakes, so those might be my new answer.
My mom's french chocolates or peanut butter balls or my snickerdoodles for Christmas.
oh, I wouldn't even know where to begin.
:::drools:::
Peanut butter balls!!! YOU MUCH SHARE!!! Please please please??? We had these in school when we were little and I can't figure out how to make them!
Fall: apple dumplings - I have not made any yet. I need to fix that!
Christmas: 7 layer cookies - they are so decadent I only make them once a year and then eat far too many!
Ok....I'm not a very good cook or baker, so maybe I'm missing something. But when would they be warm if they're no bake?
What are oreo balls? They sound yummy!
My faves include: my aunt's peanut butter balls, my grandma's molasses cookies, everything my mom makes, and my pepparkakors and peppermint balls
You don't bake them in the oven, so they call them no bake. They are warm because you have to melt something, can't remember exactly, butter and maybe its chocolate chips instead of cocoa?? lol We always go to moms the day before Christmas Eve, and bake all this stuff, and she always does those.
Oreo Balls for awesome!
2 bricks of softened cream cheese, 1 package of oreos, and a package of almond bark (the white, think thats vanilla)
Break up all the oreos. Put in food processor to chop finely. Mix in the two bricks of cream cheese. Roll cookie mixture into bite size balls and lay on a cookie sheet (I usually cover the cookie sheet w/wax or parchment paper). Freeze the balls for a couple hours to get hard. Melt the almond bark (I found in a double boiler w/someone stiring constantly works best). Dip to balls in the melted almond bark (I just stick a toothpick in the ball, then dip). Put the oreo balls back on the wax paper covered cookie sheet. Once you have dipped all the oreo balls freeze again for a couple hours. And your done.
OH...some recipes say to reserve some of the crumbled cookies (before you add in the cream cheese) to sprikle over the oreo balls right after you dip them in the almond bark, but it is just for looks really, so I never mess with it.
That's just off the top of my head. Did I get everything?
Wow now I really want some cookies? I know what I?m doing tonight
You will be sad when I tell you how easy they are.
1 C peanut butter (needs to be the bad-for-you, processed kind, not the natural kind)
1C powdered sugar
1 bag milk chocolate chips
Mix PB & powdered sugar together. Roll into bit sized balls (if it sticks to your hands, add more sugar until it doesn't). Freeze. In the meantime, heat chocolate chips in a double bolier, using a toothpick, dip each ball, and set on a wax paper lined cookie sheet until hard. I like to dip them twice for a better PB to chocolate ratio. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
ETA: melt a little parafin wax into the chocolate chips of you want the "cany shell" exterior. Sorry I left that out!
Warm apple cider and pumpkin cookies in the fall.
Gingerbread cookies at Christmas.