Chocolate Biscotti Printable Recipe Cards

I'm still busy doing my holiday baking and made
more biscotti yesterday. They are so delish!
As a gift to you I've created two 4x6 size recipe cards
for you to print and use.

Double Chocolate Peppermint Biscotti

Recipe Card side 1

Click on these 2 recipe cards to enlarge, save, and

print out. Then glue them back to back

or laminate them.

Recipe Card Side 2

Click HERE for my Gingerbread Biscotti Recipe

Happy Holidays!

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Julie & Julia & Aileen

This morning seemed like the perfect time to take a morning off and watch the movie Julie & Julia. I figured the rest of my family wouldn't be interested in watching the movie. I had to chuckle because It wasn't too long before one of my sons got caught up in watching it with me before he had to leave for class. What a wonderful sweet movie, I highly recommend it. Not only did I enjoy the movie, but it inspired me to cook!

I ended up making Gingerbread & White Chocolate Biscotti (to give out as Christmas gifts), a Pot Roast in the crock pot (for dinner) and a pineapple upside down cake (for dinner).

Here's the recipe for the biscotti with some my own changes added to it. I think orange zest would be a great addition too. They're very easy to make.

Gingerbread & White Chocolate Biscotti

Ingredients

3/4 C. granulated sugar

1/4 lb. butter

1/2 C. dark molasses

1/4 C. fresh, minced ginger

tsp. vanilla

3 eggs

3 C. all-purpose flour

1/2 Tbs. baking powder

1 Tbs. ground cinnamon

1 tsp. ground nutmeg

1/2 tsp. ground cloves

1 tsp. instant coffee *optional

3/4 C. of raisins

In a large bowl with an electric mixer, beat sugar, butter, molasses, and ginger until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Using another bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves & instant coffee. Add to wet mixture and stir to blend.

On baking sheets lined with parchment paper, using floured hands, pat the dough into 2 flat loaves, spacing them evenly on sheet. Bake in a 350 degree oven until just browned at edges and springy to touch, about 25 minutes. Halfway through the baking turn the pans so they bake evenly. Allow biscotti to set until just cooled, then cut into long, 1/2-inch thick diagonal slices.

Loafs before baking

Loafs cooling on rack after baking.

Slice each loaf on a diagonal and arrange the slices close together on the baking sheet and bake again at 350 degrees until browned, 15-18 minutes. Transfer to racks to cool completely before dipping in white chocolate.

Melt white chocolate in the microwave (follow directions on the package), then dip one end of the cooled biscotti into the melted chocolate and allow it to harden on baking paper.

Grab a cup of coffee--dip, sip and eat or package them up and give them to friends with the recipe.

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Bon Appetite!

Faux Pumpkin Pie Recipes

What's better in the fall then pumpkin pie! Since I was too lazy to make crust and roll it out I decided to improvise. I made-up two different recipes. The first recipe I didn't take a picture of but its my favorite out of the two.

Biscuit Pumpkin Pie

• 2 Cans of Refrigerator Biscuits
• 1 C. Pumpkin
• 3 Eggs
• Heavy Cream
• 1/2 C. Sugar
• 1 tsp Cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp Nutmeg
• 1/4 Brown Sugar

Spray pie pan with Pam. Flatten biscuits out with the palm of your hand and arrange in pie dish connecting each biscuit until entire pie pan and sides are covered with biscuit dough (save remaining biscuits). Poke holes with a fork. Bake in the oven for 10 mins. Meanwhile in food processor or blender mix pumpkin, eggs, cream, sugar and spices together. Remove biscuit dough from oven and pour pumpkin mixture over partially baked biscuits. Flatten remaining biscuits with your hand and use a cookie cutter to cut out leaf or flower shapes and arraigned on the top of the pumpkin pie mixture. Sprinkle with brown sugar and bake in 325 degree oven for 1 hour or until fork inserted comes out clean.

**This particular recipe was a bit dry with the biscuit bottom I think it would taste better with a warm sauce to help combat the dryness. Hubby liked it because it was drier I prefer more moisture myself.

Crustless Pumpkin Pie

• 1 Box of Yellow Cake Mix (I think it would be even better using a Spice cake mix)
• 1 Cup of canned pumpkin
• Heavy Cream
• 1 tsp. Cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. Nutmeg

Follow the directions on the cake mix box. In place of the milk use the heavy cream. Add pumpkin, cinnamon and nutmeg (you can also use pumpkin or apple pie seasonings instead). Mix by hand and pour into 13x9 pan sprayed with Pam cooking spray. Bake at 350 until knife inserted comes out clean. Once it cools you can cut it into squares and pick it up with your hand to eat it. It won't rise like a regular cake but will instead become very dense like pumpkin pie. I will definitely be making this again!

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Years!

Here's a PERFECT recipe for Christmas and New Years! My measurements are not exact I'll tell ya this right off. I have always gone from memory and I hadn't made these in a few years so the memory is even worse with my worsening CRS (Can't Remember Sh**) affliction! If you love the mix of salty and sweet this is a to die for recipe for you!

Pretzel Perfects

• 1 12 oz Bag of Melt 'n Mold White Chocolate (there are lots of brands so just look for the one that is for mold making)
• 2-4 Cups of Chopped Pretzels
• 2 C. of Rice Krispy Cereal

I first melt the chocolate according to the brand directions in the microwave in a glass bowl. While the chocolate is still melted I begin stirring in the pretzels and the rice Krispy cereal...you want to add just enough so that it sticks together. Spoon out piles onto foil or wax paper and allow to harden. Doesn't take long and they pop right off the foil and you can put them on a plate. Boy are they good and simple!

Merry Christmas

&

Happy New Years

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Cookies and Freebie Images what more can you ask for!

I manage to get a double batch of my Christmas cut-out cookies made and frosted (click HERE to see recipe). That's about as artsy as I've had time for. I use a simple frosting taught to me by my mom. It's just powdered sugar, vanilla (or flavored extract) and a tablespoon or two of warm water. There are no measurements its just adding warm water and mixing with the powdered sugar until you get the consistency you want. I like mine to be thin enough that it self levels yet not too runny! I mix up a large bowl of white and then spoon some of it into smaller bowls and add food coloring to the smaller bowls. To me its the least messy of cookie frostings (except when frosting LOL) it doesn't stay gooey and hardens enough that you can stack them.

Here's the first couple of batches, mmmm!

Yes, I admit it I'm a messy baker!

Mmmmm! Good enough to eat!

Now that you've had a few cookies, how about some freebie images for you to go make some art with!

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Move Over Martha Stewart!

I'm not what you would call a gourmet cook, my family likes simple things so I gave up on cooking fancy dishes long ago! I do consider myself a good utility cook (I can pull together a meal out of bits and pieces and cook in large portions). Recently I stumbled literally upon this great cooking site and I am definitely not a cooking site person at all, but I have to admit I LOVE this site! Not only are the recipes simple, the pictures are great quality and the humor is wonderful! It actually made me want to cook...something I'm not normally thrilled about doing anymore LOL

Last night I made a recipe called Crash Hot Potatoes and they were so good my family said it was the best meal they've ever had...Yes, of course I served them more then just potatoes. I won't mention the fact that they were starving, since I think that taints their view on how tasty something is LOL

Anywho this was so easy to make I highly recommend them. I made a couple of changes to them I added ground garlic and sea salt and sprinkled them lightly with parmasan cheese.

Crash Hot Potatoes

If your looking for something different for Christmas dinner or perhaps in need of some new holiday recipes check out The Pioneer Woman site. Below is the link to the recipe I mentioned

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/06/crash-hot-potatoes/

Move over Martha Stewart
The Pioneer Woman has ya beat!

If you have any favorite recipes please feel free to share them here I'd love to see them.

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