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Recipes - Cookies, Pies, Cakes, and Other Sweets
Marge_Innavera:
My Mom used to make this sometimes for Christmas dinner. It can be made to look extra-Christmas-y by adding halved maraschino cherries to the (green) top of the pie. It's a good dessert for a big family dinner because it's not only decorative but can be made the day before.
I've often thought that a variation, substituting Amaretto or Cherry Heering for the creme de menthe would be tasty; but haven't ever tried it.
Grasshopper Pie
24 marshmellows
3/4 cup milk
2 ounces (1/4 cup) creme de menthe
1 ounce (2 tablespoons or 1/8 cup) creme de cacao
1 cup heavy (whipping) cream
16-18 Hydrox or Oreo cookies
3 tablespoons butter
Crust: crush cookies to make crumbs; mix with melted butter and pack into a pie pan to make a crust. Chill a few hours, till the crust is solid.
Melt, then chill marshamallows and milk; best done in a double boiler or a saucepan set in a frying pan of boiling water.
After chilling, add the creme de menthe and cream de cacao. Whip the cream, then folkd into the mixture. Pour into the pie crust and chill.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 23, 2010, 12:06:38 am ---I'm trying something different for Christmas dinner...a mincemeat cranberry pie. Will let you know how it is received.
--- End quote ---
The pie was a hit. I managed to get everyone to eat some, even though they'd just eaten back-to-back brunch and dinner. Even better, I served it with vanilla ice cream and crystallized ginger sprinkles!!
CellarDweller:
White Chocolate Brownies:
6 tablespoons of unsalted butter
8 ounces of white chocolate (or one cup of white chocolate chips)
2 eggs
1/4 cup of sugar
1/2 tablespoon of vanilla
1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of semisweet chocolate chips
Preheat the oven to 350.
Grease and flour an 8 inch square baking pan, or line with foil. Melt butter and 4 ounces of the white chocolate in top of a double boiler over hot water. When melted, remove from heat and add the other 4 ounces of white chocolate, stir to blend well. Set aside. Beat the eggs and sugar until pale and smooth. Add white chocolate and butter mixture, vanilla and flour. Beat just until smooth. Add semisweet chips and stir by hand, being carefull not to over-mix.
Pour into prepared pan and bake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack, cut into squares.
My own little "twist", I melted some of the excess white chocolate I had and drizled them over the top.
Front-Ranger:
Looks yummy...I bet they were a hit!!
Jeff Wrangler:
I was at a party Saturday evening--two very dear friends celebrating 25 years together. There was a buffet, and the desserts included cupcakes.
There were red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. ... :P
And then there were--what should I call them?--Oreo cupcakes?
They were chocolate cupcakes with a cream filling in the center. The frosting probably started out as a basic vanilla frosting, but then it had ground-up Oreos added to the frosting, and each cupcake had half an Oreo stuck in the frosting on top.
Best. Cupcakes. Ever. ... :D
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