As we all try to cut costs, the evenings are always nights a. For something different, invite your friends to a bar dessert and coffee. Rent a movie, find a game on TV, play games or work puzzles. Bake some goodies and put them with plates, napkins and cutlery. Let your guests help themselves. Serve coffee, decaffeinated coffee, flavored coffee, hot tea and offer and / or hot chocolate. Water ice is also a good idea. Remained frozen desserts for later use with the familyMeals. All you can freeze what is not broken and sent home with guests. There will be a hit with your friends! Here are some ideas for your recipes dessert. Macadamia butter cookies with dried cranberries are sure to inspire your guests. Do not like blueberries? Use blueberries. The decadent chocolate mud cake will impress all the chocolate lovers in the group and apricot coffee cake is perfect with coffee. If there are people with diabetes in your group who serve our Pecan Tarts (you might want toserve both diabetics in your group! Just change the Splenda brown sugar blend 1 / 3 cup of regular sugar brown).
MACADAMIA butter cookies with dried cranberries
2 / 3 cup macadamia nuts
1 / 2 cup sugar
1 / 2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 1 / 4 cup flour
1 / 2 teaspoon baking powder
1 / 4 teaspoon salt
1 / 8 teaspoon nutmeg
1 / 2 cup dried cranberries, chopped
1 tablespoon granulated sugarSugar
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Nuts place in a food processor and process until smooth, scraping down the sides of the bowl once during the process to make macadamia butter. Combine butter, macadamia nuts, 1 / 2
Cup sugar and brown sugar in a large bowl. Beat mixture at medium speed until blended. Add the vanilla and whisk the eggs to the mixture and well. Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg and whisk well. Add the flour to the mixture of sugar;beat at low speed just until combined. Stir in blueberries. Dough in the fridge for 10 minutes.
Roll out the dough into 30 equal pieces and beads. Put 1 tablespoon of caster sugar to give in a small bowl. Gently press each ball into sugar, then place the ball, the sugar on a parchment covered baking sheet. Press gently prick the top of each ball with a fork. Dip the fork in water and gently press each into a cross on top again (like peanut butter cookies) to form. Bake at 375Grade 9 minutes or until golden brown. Remove cookies from pans and cool on rack.
Decadent mud pie LEVELS
3 squares dark chocolate, melted
1 / 4 cup canned sweetened condensed milk
1 chocolate crumb pie crust
1 / 2 cup chopped pecans
2 cups cold milk
2 pkgs (4-slice each) chocolate pudding and pie filling mix instant
1 cup (8 ounces) frozen mounted topping, thawed
Stir the melted chocolate and sweetened condensed milk until wellmixed. Pour into crust and sprinkle the chopped walnuts over the top. Pour the milk into a large bowl and add the pudding powder. You Beat with whisk for 2 minutes or until well blended. Spoon 1 1 / 2 cups of pudding over the nuts in the crust. Add 1 / 2 of whipped topping to remaining pudding and stir with a whisk until well blended. Spread over cream powder in the crust. Spread the remaining whipped topping over top of cake. Chill 3 to 4 hours before. Serve
Apricot Coffee Cake
Cake mix 1 white box
1 package instant vanilla pudding mix (4-serving)
1 cup sour cream
4 eggs, beaten
3 / 4 cup apricot preserves
small jar of maraschino cherries, chopped
Coverage:
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cocoa
1 cup chopped pecans or almonds
In a large bowl, combine cake mix, pudding mix, sour cream, eggs, apricot jam and cherries. Grease a Bundt pan and flour. Half of the cake mixMixture in the pan. Top with half of the mixture increases. Repeat the process with the other half. To make a knife cut the dough into a strudel. Bake in 350-degree oven for 35 to use 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
Options: Make a simple glaze of powdered sugar and milk together until mixed drizzle consistency. Wire over the top of the cake and top with maraschino cherries and half of chopped walnuts, if desired.
PECANTARTS
1 stick of butter
3 oz cream cheese
1 cup flour
1 cup pecans, chopped
1 / 4 cup + 2 tablespoons Splenda Brown Sugar Mix
1 egg
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix butter, cream cheese and flour. Make 24 equal sized balls of this mixture paste. Place each ball into a mini-cup muffin tin and press into bottom and sides. Mix the walnuts, brown sugar, egg, salt and vanilla. Fill pastry cups. Bake at 350Degrees for 15 to 20 minutes.
Have fun!