Cooking recipes

When it comes to give homemade food as holiday gifts, I think we will all agree that candy is at the top of the list. All three of these recipe-s are easy to prepare and takes less than 15 minutes to make (not including set up time).

You can the sweets and package you then in cellophane food-safe bags, metal cookie/candy tins or decorative holiday plastic containers.

You can secure these recipe-s make up to 1 week before you plan by you you as a gift.

Holiday marble bark

Crochet 6 squares semi-sweet baking chocolate

White crochet 6 squares premium baking chocolate

1 Cup crushed peppermint candy

With 2 of different microwave safe container, melt you the semi-sweet and white chocolate in separate bowls. Use the high power setting, move the chocolates at intervals of 30 seconds, until you are melted. I find that with a nonstick silicone spatula for this task works best.

1/2 Cup stir in Peppermint sweets in each container. Alternately melted spoon chocolates on wax paper of lined cookie sheet. Swirl chocolate with the spatula to give it one Tubenose effect. Refrigerate for 1 1/2 hours or until firm. Break into bite-sized pieces.

Double peanut clusters

2 Cups peanut butter morsels

1 Tablespoon of vegetable shortening

2 Cups salted peanuts

Melting you hot peanut butter bites and shortening in the top of a double boiler, not boiling water. Carefully stir in peanuts until you are well covered by mixing. Line a baking sheet with waxed or greaseproof paper. Delete mixture by the teaspoon on the baking sheet. Cool until firm.

Pecan Pralines

1 kg bag brown sugar

2 Tablespoons butter

1 Cup whipping cream

1 Teaspoon vanilla extract

1 Cup whole pecan halves

Combine with a medium saucepan, brown sugar with the cream. This mixture over low 10 minutes you simmer, stirring with a nonstick silicone spatula. Remove from heat and stir the butter, vanilla extract and pecan halves. Beat this mix by hand for 3 minutes. Line a baking sheet with waxed or drop vellum, paper and the mixture on the arc rounded tablespoon. Cool until firm.

Shelly Hill works since 1989 home and is a Manager with Tupperware. Shelly loves cooking and baking for your family and friends and new recipes to try. Visit Shelly online at http://www.workathomebusinessoptions.com or at http://wahmshelly. for additional free recipes and cooking tips.

Act 1: The Pizza Dough (Pay attention or you’ll get pizza D’oh!)

In clip one I make a very simple standard pizza dough. It’s amazing how intimidated people are when it comes to making any kind of dough or bread at home. Hopefully this demo will cure that. By the way, I will add ingredients to all these clips so you can have the exact measurements. This is only really crucial for the dough. The sauce recipe and final pizza can be varied as you see fit. So, let’s get this Pizza party started right! The key to a great pizza dough is a moist, sticky dough. We only want enough flour to be able to work with the dough…too much flour will result in a dry, tough pizza.

The “Sponge”:
2 teaspoons dry yeast
3/4 cup lukewarm water
2/3 cup bread flour

The Rest of the Dry Ingredients:
4 cups unbleached white flour
1/4 cup rye flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup olive oil

OK, so I’m not giving a list of ingredients for the finished pizza. You know what you like. But, here are a few key mistakes most people make when doing pizza at home. They put too much sauce. They put too much cheese. They put too many toppings and when they try to eat it, it all slides off on to the floor and all their left with is a wet piece of steaming bread. Don’t be that person. Watch me restrain myself and also watch how my pizza pie ends up being the shape of a heart. Wow, what a great Valentines gift idea for you guys out there…make your lady a heart shaped pizza! By the way, go to the local Bed, Bath and Beyond, or other kitchen wares store, and get one of the pizza pans with holes in it that I used in this clip. It really makes crispy crust a reality without the 70 pound pizza stone that you probably aren’t going to pull out of the bottom cupboard anyway.