DIPS – SAUCES – SPREADS

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cookie Butter

Have you all seen the rage over Biscoff lately?? I totally get it. It’s ground up cookies made into a spread. What’s not to like?!

I went to the store to finally pick some up & get my bake on. I found this itsy bitsy little jar for about $8. Ummm- no. It would take the entire thing to make one recipe. There was no way I could justify that to the hubs. Sooooo I remembered seeing someone do a Snickerdoodle Cookie Butter recipe & thought that might be a good substitute. I stuck it in the back of my head for another day.

Well- the hubs had sweet talked me into making Chocolate Chip cookies the other day & there they were sitting on the counter. They were begging me to try something different with them. So I made

Chocolate Chip Cookie Cookie Butter

Seriously!!! I can’t get enough.

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Cookie Butter

Ingredients

1/2 cup chocolate chip cookies- crumbled into small pieces
1/4 cup canola oil
2 tbsp water
1/2 cup + 1 tbsp confectioners sugar more or less depending on the thickness you desire
1/8 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

Pulse cookie crumbles in blender
add in oil, vanilla & water- pulse
add confectioners sugar - pulse until completely combined & smooth
Transfer to airtight container- store at room temperature for 3-4 days.

Oh my word- this is SO GOOD. It’s like spreading a chocolate chip cookie on my toast. Sigh…….

You may or may not see more recipes using this in the future. 🙂 Just sayin’

Thinking about making it in bulk.

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Caramelized Pear Pie Filling

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Caramelized Pear Pie Filling, a quick & easy dessert canning pears to use in homemade pear pie, or added to any of your favorite fall dessert recipes.

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Garden Ranch Cheese Ball

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Garden Ranch Cheese Ball is an easy cream cheese ball loaded with fresh cheese, seasonings & packed with chips. Great for parties- mmm!

Chips are pretty tasty which prompted me to do what I love to do- make them into a recipe to share. We have community Days coming up this weekend. That means big gathering & I, as the chief’s wife- need to bring some food. I’m not one to bring new recipes that I have not tried before- so I did a little trial before hand to be sure it was “share worthy”. I created this Garden Ranch Cheese Ball & I have to say- I’m pretty impressed with myself. I had never made a cheese ball before so I sort of added & created on the fly.

Garden Ranch Cheese Ball

I really enjoyed taking a little bit of the cheese ball & adding it to another Garden Ranch chip. Oh so tasty.

You can just see all the seasonings & flavors in there. Plus this was SO SIMPLE. I can’t figure out why this was my first one. It won’t be my last.

We will be making this for every football party this year for sure.

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Garden Ranch Cheese Ball

Ingredients

4 oz cream cheese
1/4 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
1/4 cup shredded mozarella cheese
1/2 tbsp garlic powder
sprinkle of salt
1 tsp dried minced onions
1 tsp tequila lime seasoning
1/4 cup crunched ranch tortilla or potato chips
1/2 cup crunched ranch tortilla or potato chips for coating

Instructions

Add all ingredients except last 1/2 cup of crunched chips to mixer bowl & combine with whip attachment until all ingredients are well combined.
Scrape together with spatula & then pull it all into your hands & shape in to a ball.
Drop in bowl of remaining crunched up chips & roll around. Grab chips into your hand & press into ball to give it a good even coating.
Chill in refrigerator at least 2 hours before serving.

You really have to give this a try. We are big on the snack “football” foods in this house. My late mother-in-law was the queen of party food. I have to carry on that fun for the hubs & this is just one recipe to help do that. I think she would love it & would be so proud of me for creating something so good yet easy to make.

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Easy Garlic Toast

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Gluten Free Chocolate Strawberry Gooey Bars

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*This post is sponsored by Pillsbury & Linqia. All thoughts & opinions are my own.

I love Yummy Bar Recipes! I don’t know about you but it seems like everyone I talk to has an issue with gluten. It’s more & more prevalent & there are more & more products on the market that are gluten free. I know that while I don’t always cook gluten free- when I do, we all feel better around here. So I have been doing my best to be more conscious about what our foods have in them – which is part of why I have been so focused on making the kids breakfast for so long now.

But lately I have been really wanting to make more desserts that are gluten free in hopes that the hubs will want to eat more of what I make instead of having to pass on all the goodies. So this time I made Gluten Free Chocolate Strawberry Gooey Bars. Oh they turned out so tasty & you would never know they are gluten free. Just goes to show you that gluten free doesn’t mean flavor free or no dessert.

Gluten Free Chocolate Strawberry Gooey Bars

Did you know that Pillsbury now has it’s first-ever gluten free cookie dough, pizza dough & pastry/pie dough?? I was pretty stoked to find that out & even more thrilled to try it out. I know that many moms don’t have time to make cookies & other treas from scratch & often buy the ready made doughs & crusts. Before now that meant that those with a gluten intolerance couldn’t eat them. Now they can. So many people now are looking for gluten free solutions for their families & Pillsbury has made eating gluten free easy convenient & delicious. These are all found in the refrigerated aisle of your store. These are so quick & easy to use – virtually no prep time at all.

So to celebrate these new gluten free products from Pillsbury I’m giving away a premium baking set.

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Today I wanted to share my gluten free recipe using this Pillsbury Cookie Dough

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Gluten Free Chocolate Strawberry Gooey Bars

Ingredients

1- 14.3 oz container of Gluten Free Pillsbury Cookie Dough
1 cup strawberry preserves (I used the strawberry version of my raspberry marmalade
1/2 cup coconut
1/4 cup white chocolate chips
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup mini marshmallows

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350.
Spray glass 9x13 pan with cooking spray
Add cookie dough to pan & press around to flatten & cover bottom
Add preserves & spread out in thin even layer
add coconut, then chocolate chips (both), then marshmallows
Bake 25-30 minutes until brown on bottom.
If it's not quite toasted enough on top- broil for a couple minutes.
Store in air tight container for 2 days in refrigerator.

The homemade preserves are gluten free, coconut, chocolate chips & marshmallows are all naturally gluten free as well. Yippee!!

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Check out the Pillsbury Gluten Free Dough site for delicious & easy recipes to make with all three varieties of gluten free dough.

Over the next couple weeks I will be sharing more gluten free recipes using the new Pillsbury doughs.

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Apple- Pear Butter ~ Your Best Weekly

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First- today is my mom’s surgery. I will be away from the office as much as I can be.

I wish I could have made the trip to be with her today.

You guys knocked it out of the park once again last week. Some of the things that I was inspired by were…

This DIY Tablet Cover from Kimberly @ A Fresh Perspective

These delicious hamentashen from Tamar @ Random-osity

Thank you all for sharing your creativity with me each week!!

I think that most of you who know me well would agree that I am a complete sucker for packaging. I will buy just about anything (need it or not) if it’s packaged in an appealing way. I know- it’s bad. Really bad! But I can’t help myself. Obviously the hubs knows this & you know, he’s an enabler. He really is. One day he had to run to the new little hardware store here in town. We both have a thing for cute little local hardware stores. I think it’s because when we lived in Placerville (his home town) there was Placerville Hardware. OMG- I could wander in there all day & spend way too much. So anyhow- there he was wandering this store. He must have found the canning section because he came home with these adorable squaty, large mouth mason jars. Have I mentioned how much I love him for these random “gifts”??? I was THRILLED & started thinking of things I would make.

So I had been planning & preparing to use the pears on my counter that needed to have something done with them. Literally- for the 2 days prior I was planning on making a tart or cake or something with them. But when the beautiful little jars arrived in my kitchen I had a change of plans. Unfortunately I didn’t have enough pears to my liking for this recipe- so I added a couple apples in there too. I just started cutting & tossing things in the slow cooker until I felt it had enough of what I was looking for. I had never made this before- so it was all sort of trial & error. I was so happy when it came out the way it did.

The kids are loving it on their waffles & in their sandwiches in place of honey. Hubs grew up in an orchard & had this sort of thing available to him all the time. So he was sure happy to have a taste from his childhood memories to savor once again.

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Apple- Pear Butter from Kleinworth & Co.

Ingredients

6 large pears
6 large apples
3 tbsp cinnamon
1-1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
2 tsp molasses
2 tsp vanilla extract
pinch salt

Instructions

Core, peel & chop your apples & pears & put in slow cooker on high.
Add all other ingredients.
Cook on high 1 hour.
Ladle into blender & puree (no chunks- still thick)
Pour back into slow cooker
Stir & reduce to low & continue cooking for 5 hours.
Ladle into sterile jars.
I put one in the fridge for immediate use the next morning & 4 in the freezer for later.

This filled these 3 – small jars plus 2 larger jars

Enjoy!!!

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Raspberry Marmalade {Recipe} ~ Your Best Weekly

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Last week you guys sure impressed & inspired me!

Highlights from last week are………

Tea Ring from Yolanda @ Peanut Butter & Jelly

Free Downloadable Photoshop Template from Tish @ le mie photo

YUMMY Chicken & Gnocchi Soup from Kimberly @ A Fresh Perspective

Chocolate Peanut Butter & Banana Smoothie from Tamar @ Randomosity

Pork & Poblano Pozole from Sarah @ Faith, Family & F-Stops

Thank you all for sharing last week!!! You KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK!!!

These were awesome!!

I decided to try making the marmalade that Jaymi posted a couple weeks ago. We have a citrus allergy here in this house so I had to choose something that wasn’t going to give us all a reaction. So I chose the raspberries that I picked up at Costco. I have a huge obsession with loading my cart with as much produce as I can when I am there. Just wait until I can shop at the farmers market here instead. I am going to go gangbusters with the fresh, locally grown produce.

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Raspberry Marmalade {Recipe}

Ingredients

2 cups fresh fruit
3 1/2 cups water
2 cups sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

Wash, hull fruit.
Put in a large saucepan with water. Cover & let sit over night.
In the morning place 2 metal spoons in the freezer.
Place pan on stove, start heating on high.
Add sugar, mix & bring to boil.
Add vanilla.
Boil about 45 minutes to 1 hour on high.
After 45 minutes, place a little bit on the frozen spoon & put back in freezer for 3 minutes.
Check your spoon, it should be neither hot or cold.
Tip spoon- if it runs, boil another 5 minutes. Check again on the other spoon.
It's cooked enough when it doesn't slide off.
Turn off heat- let sit 5 minutes.
Pour into sterilized jars- refrigerate overnight.
Makes about 12-15 ounces.

The kids loved putting this on their waffles in the morning. Both jars were gone in record time.

It would also be great over vanilla ice cream or on a cheesecake.

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Finale ~ 7 Days of Memory Making ~ Day 7

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Welcome to Day 7 of my 7 Days of Memory Making ~ Holiday Recipe Series

This past week I took a much needed blogging break to prepare for our long distance move. Over the past 6 days I shared with you some recipes that have been part of my family traditions & so has Danelle. We hope that these recipes become memory makers for you & your family too.

Did you miss a post this week?? You can find all the links to all 14 of these fabulous recipes here today. We have it all covered, appetizers like Beer Bread, Cranberry Cream Cheese Dip & a Green Onion Cheeseball. Cookies for every craving- Sugar Cookies, Hot Cocoa Cookies & Four Spice Crackles. German Sweet Chocolate Pie, Easy Peanut Butter Fudge, Snickers Cake Mix Bars & Chocolate Nut Clusters. These are all quick & easy recipes that are sure to be the hit of your holiday gatherings this season.