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Recipe | Christmas Cookies | Pecan Puffs

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Pecan Puffs

Christmas Cookie | Pecan Puffs

Christmas Cookie | Pecan Puffs

Summary:                                                                                                                                                                                   This is a great cookie to make for the holidays. Quick, simple, and delightful! Goes great with coffee or hot  cocoa. You can freeze cookies after they have cooked and rolled with powdered sugar. Take out several hours  before guests arrive. Yields 40

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 Ingredients
  1. 2 cups butter
  2. 4 cups all purpose unbleached white flour
  3. 4 tsp. pure vanilla
  4. 8 tbsp. powdered sugar
  5. 3 1/2 cups ground pecans or walnuts
  6. powdered sugar for rolling cookie in
Instructions
  1. Cream butter, and other ingredients together. Roll dough into small balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake approximately 20 minutes at 350 degrees. Take out of oven and roll cookie in powdered sugar. Let cool. Roll a second time. Excellent Christmas cookie.
Notes
  1. These cookies puff up when baking, allow a little extra room on the baking sheet between cookies.

Desserts | Recipe| Cream Cheese Frosting Light

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Cream Cheese Frosting Light

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Recipe: Cream Cheese Frosting Light

Cream Cheese Frosting

Cream Cheese Frosting

Summary: If you want to make your favorite Carrot Cake and frost it with Cream Cheese Frosting, here is an alternative “light” recipe using Neufchatel cheese in place of cream cheese. The basic recipe calls for confectioners’ sugar, regular butter, whole milk, vanilla and regular cream cheese:

Ingredients

  • 1 box confectioners’ sugar
  • 8 oz neufchatel cheese
  • 4 tbsp light margarine or Vegetable oil spread, room temperature
  • 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 4 tbsp fat-free milk, more or less

Instructions

  1. Cream non-hydrogenated margarine or vegetable oil spread in large mixer bowl with neufchatel cheese.
  2. Add confectioners’ sugar alternately with milk, beat until smooth texture.
  3. An additional tbsp of milk may be needed, adding only 1 tbsp of milk at a time depending on desired consistency. Additionally, 1 less tbsp of milk may be used for a thicker frosting.
  4. Blend in Vanilla.
  5. Spread on your favorite cake recipe!

Makes approximately 2 cups

Savings in fat, in the cheese alone…

1 serving Neufchatel Cheese 6 grams of fat                                                                      1 serving Cream Cheese 10 grams of fat

Tabulating results…
You save 4 grams of fat per 2 Tbsp serving
Then you will save more on saturated fat and cholesterol by using the fat-free milk, as well as in the light margarine or vegetable spread in place of butter.
Just Experiment with your recipes by adapting them. Not all will turn out with the same texture or taste, but many times the recipes will be acceptable to the taste, as well as have eye appeal. No palate death here!
Watch for the Carrot Cake recipe in upcoming postings at The Recipe Corner…
Enjoy! Now go cook!
-Virginia Wright

Author, Food Writer, Recipe Developer, Foodie & Queen of Recipe Adaptation

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Recipe| Cake| Dark Red Velvet Cake

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Dark Red Velvet Cake for Valentine’s Day

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Dark Red Velvet Cake – Chocolate Cake Recipe

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Recipe: Dark Red Velvet Cake

Summary: This Red Velvet Cake Recipe lends itself well to using at Valentine’s Day.  Simply buy your cupcake papers, (I bought cupcake papers with red hearts on them), and fill 3/4 of the way. Frost with your favorite cream cheese icing recipe!

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp. baking soda
  • 2- 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 tbsp. baking cocoa
  • 1 ½ cups sugar
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 2 ounces red food coloring
  • ½ cup butter, softened
  • 2/3 cup buttermilk
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/3 cup sweet milk, (regular milk)
  • 2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar

Instructions

  1. Combine cocoa, flour, sugar, salt, food coloring and vanilla with butter.
  2. Beat in buttermilk; add eggs beaten with the sweet milk. Mix ingredients well with an electric mixer.
  3. Add vinegar and baking soda, stir thoroughly.
  4. Place in two greased and floured cake pans or cupcake papers.
  5. Bake at 325 approximately 25-30 minutes, or until cake tests done.
  6. Cool and frost with cream cheese icing.
  7. Top with chocolate chips and/or chopped walnuts.

Preparation time: 20 minute(s)

Cooking time: 25-30 minutes(s)

Number of servings (yield): 8

My rating 5 stars:  ★★★★★ 1 review(s)

Good Luck with your recipe! Visit often, to see what we are cooking up next!
-Virginia Wright

Author, Food Writer, Recipe Developer, Foodie & Queen of Recipe Adaptation

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Condiment | Spicy Honey Butter Recipe

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Spicy Honey Butter Recipe

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Spicy Honey Butter

Spicy Honey Butter

Summary: This is a delicious, quick and easy honey butter recipe with a dash of spice.

 Ingredients

  • 1 cup softened, butter or non-hydrogenated margarine
  • 1/2 cup pure honey, more or less–
  • 1/4 cup sifted, confectioner’s sugar
  • 1/8 tsp pure or Mexican vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp Korintje cinnamon or (add just a dash of your favorite cinnamon, to your taste)

Instructions

  1. Place all ingredients in a bowl and blend until fluffy, for about half a minute. Voila! This is a delicious, quick and easy honey butter recipe with a dash of spice. The whole family can enjoy this spicy butter on their hot, fresh, and out of the oven biscuits. Store covered, in the refrigerator.

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My rating 5 stars:  ★★★★★ 1 review(s)

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-Virginia Wright

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Wild Maine Blueberry Muffin Recipe

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Maine Wild Blueberry Muffins

Maine Wild Blueberry Muffins

Summary: Blueberry season in Maine. In the early years of my children’s lives, we lived in Maine; my husband and I would go raking wild blueberries to earn extra money while he was going to college. We would get our blueberry rakes, wooden crates, and …Please enjoy this recipe and read the rest of the story!

Ingredients

  • 2 c. unbleached all-purpose flour (reserve 2 tbsp of flour in a separate bowl)
  • ½ c. sugar
  • ¼ tsp. nutmeg
  • 3 tsp. baking powder
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 c. fresh wild Maine blueberries or other organic blueberries
  • 1 c. milk
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1/3 c. light olive oil
  • 1 egg, slightly beaten
  • Cinnamon – Sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400° F. In large mixing bowl, combine first five ingredients, mix well.
  2. Combine milk, vanilla, oil and egg; add to batter and beat until moistened; do not over mix.
  3. Take reserved flour and cover wild blueberries thoroughly, fold into batter.
  4. Grease muffin-pan cups with butter and pour batter in using a 1/4 cup measure, sprinkle a mixture of cinnamon and sugar on top of each muffin.
  5. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until sharp knife inserted in center comes out clean. Rest muffins 2-3 minutes to cool, and then loosen muffins with rubber spatula and pop-out of cup. This recipe makes 12 muffins. Don’t over bake.

Preparation time: 20 minute(s)

Cooking time:

Number of servings (yield): 12

My rating 5 stars:  ★★★★★ 1 review(s)

I hope you enjoy this recipe.

-Virginia Wright, Author of ‘Ayuh, Another Downeast Cookbook: Recipes From Maine’

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