Nov 14 | Holidays, Holiday Recipes, Homemade Christmas Gifts
Peppermint Brownie Jar. Those three words bring joy to my ears. 🙂
There’s no chocolate that I love more than After Eight wafers around Christmas time. And well, a brownie will do just about any time of the year. So, in my eyes, there’s nothing quite like this homemade Christmas gift idea: peppermint brownie jar! It makes the most wonderful hostess gift or it’s perfect for that person on your list that likes consumable (no clutter) gifts.
Here is how to create a Peppermint Brownie jar:
Peppermint Brownie Jar Ingredients:
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 package of mint flavoured chocolate chips
- 6 crushed candy canes
- 1 32oz wide mouth mason jar with lid
Peppermint Brownie Jar Instructions:
- Combine all the dry ingredients: sugar, flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder. Mix well and pour into the mason jar.
- Tap the jar on the counter a few times for the mix to settle. Then pour the chocolate chips and candy cane pieces on top.
- Close the jar. Decorate with ribbon or twine, if you wish.
Enclose these directions for baking:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Pour the contents of the jar into a large mixing bowl.
- Add 2 eggs and 1/2 cup of vegetable oil.
- Grease a 9×13 pan and pour the batter in.
- Bake for 25 – 30 minutes.
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2
cups
sugar
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1
cup
all-purpose flour
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2/3
cup
cocoa powder
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½
tsp
salt
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½
tsp
baking powder
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½
package of mint flavoured chocolate chips
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6
crushed up candy canes
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1 32
oz.
wide mouth mason jar with lid
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Combine all the dry ingredients: sugar, flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder. Mix well and pour into the mason jar.
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Tap the jar on the counter a few times for the mix to settle.Then pour the chocolate chips and candy cane pieces on top.
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Close the jar. Decorate with ribbon or twine, if you wish.
Enclose these directions for baking:
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Pour the contents of the jar into a large mixing bowl. Add 2 eggs and ½ a cup of vegetable oil.
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Grease a 9x13 pan and pour the batter in.
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Bake for 25-30 minutes.
Related recipes for gift giving:
Nov 18 | Holiday Recipes, Holidays, Homemade Christmas Gifts
This Homemade Winter Hot Chocolate Mix is the perfect, simple, consumable gift for the hot chocolate lover on your Christmas list!
I’m a big, big fan of consumable gifts. I like to give them and I like to receive them 🙂 This winter mix cocoa gift is perfect for a hostess gift, stocking stuffer, or for sticking in a care package! Really, the options are endless. It’s festive and versatile. (add different coloured candies if you want!) Here’s how you can easily whip up a big batch for multiple jars of Winter Mix Cocoa:
Winter Hot Chocolate Mix Gift
INGREDIENTS
- 5 Cups dry powdered milk
- 1 Cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 1/2 Cups powdered sugar
- 1 Cup powder coffee cream, original/regular flavor
- 2 tsp cornstarch, to prevent sticking
- Mini marshmallow bits
- Blue and white sprinkles
- Small glass jars
DIRECTIONS
- Combine the dry ingredients, mixing well.
- Add about 1/4 cup of hot cocoa mix to the bottom of the each jar and allow it to settle.
- Add in the mini marshmallow bits and blue & white sprinkles and fill to the top.
*Each jar is about 1 serving when added to 8-10 oz of hot water or warm milk.
Dec 17 | Holiday Recipes, Holidays, Recipes
We love peanut butter cookies in this house. Any time of the year actually! Since it’s Christmas time and all, I thought I’d jazz up some ordinary cookies and turn them into Rudolph cookies! Cute right? They taste especially delicious too. In fact, I think Santa would love to find some of these Rudolph peanut butter cookies on his travels! Be sure to leave a plate full 🙂
Rudolph Peanut Butter Cookies
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1/2
cup
Peanut Butter
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1/2
cup
Butter
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1/2
cup
Sugar
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1/2
cup
Brown Sugar
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1
tsp
Vanilla
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1
Egg
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1 1/3
cup
Flour
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1
tsp
Baking Soda
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1/2
tsp
Salt
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48
Red M&M's
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96
mini Chocolate Chips
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Mini Twist Pretzels
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Break pretzels into pieces to use as antlers.
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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Cream together peanut butter, butter, sugar and brown sugar until smooth.
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Add egg and vanilla and beat until smooth.
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Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl.
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Slowly add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture, beating until incorporated.
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Roll into 1/2-3/4" balls and place on cookie sheet several inches apart.
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Sprinkle with sugar and gently make an indentation slightly off the center of each cookie.
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Bake 12-14 minutes.
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Place an M&M in the indentation of each cookie.
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Insert 2 mini chocolate chips (pointy side down) above the M&M to be the eyes.
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Insert 2 pretzel pieces to be the antlers. (If the antlers won't stick, place some chocolate chips in a sandwich bag and microwave 30 seconds and knead until soft. Clip the very tip of the corner and pipe onto cookie to act as glue.)
I hope you enjoy these cookies as much as we do!
Dec 3 | Easy DIY, Holiday Recipes, Holidays
I have got the cutest holiday project for you today! It’s so simple too! I think they’d make a good project to do with kids. Maybe as a craft at a holiday party? Or maybe wrap them up to add a cute touch to a hot chocolate gift? Regardless of what you do with them, they’re awesome because they involve chocolate and peppermint! 🙂
Here’s how to make simple Candy Cane Reindeer:
INGREDIENTS:
DIRECTIONS:
- Line a cutting board or cookie sheet with wax paper.
- Heat chocolate candy chips by microwaving for 30 seconds stirring and repeating until melted.
- Take 2 candy canes and dip the bottoms (straight parts) in chocolate and shake off excess.
- Place together on wax paper so hooks of each go off in opposite directions.
- Place an unwrapped Hershey Kiss on the chocolate covered canes.
- Repeat for remaining canes.
- Using a toothpick, take a dab or melted chocolate and glue the red candy on top of the kiss as the nose.
- Using a toothpick, take a dab or melted chocolate and glue on the eyes.
- Take the white chocolate chip and place on wax paper and heat in microwave for 15 seconds.
- Take another toothpick and paint a white mouth on each reindeer.
Aren’t they cute? Are you going to give these Candy Cane Reindeer a try?
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Nov 25 | Freebies, Holiday Recipes, Holidays
I’m sure you are bound to have someone ask you for one of your holiday recipes this year. Or you’re bound to come across a delicious recipe at one of your holiday parties. Why not have a few of these free printable Christmas recipe cards on hand? I think they’ll even work really well if you’re planning on giving out edible gifts in jars. Like these Peppermint Brownie jars 🙂
To get the printable Christmas recipe cards, simply click this link then print as many as you need! I provided a 5″ x 7″ and 4″ x 6″ size.
Hope you enjoy!
What will you be using these recipe cards for?
Dec 9 | Holiday Recipes, Holidays, Recipes
I know peanut butter cookies don’t exactly scream Christmas, but they’re my husband’s favourite and I wanted to share my recipe! Included with this post is a free “Send Joy” printable to help make your gift giving more festive!
While I think the printable tag looks cute with cookies, I think it would also look great with a loaf! Maybe banana bread? If you’re not too keen on peanut butter cookies, you might want to consider these holiday favorites of ours:
Click the image above or click here to download the “Send Joy” printable tags.
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1/2
cup
butter
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1/2
cup
peanut butter
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1/2
cup
sugar
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1/2
cup
brown sugar
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1/2
tsp
vanilla
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1
egg
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1 1/4
cup
flour
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1/2
tsp
baking powder
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1/2
tsp
baking soda
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1/2
cup
chocolate chips
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees
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Mix all ingredients together in a bowl (I used my KitchenAid mixer)
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Form dough into small rounded balls and place on cookie sheets
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Press a fork into each ball twice to make a criss-cross design.
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Bake for 10 - 12 minutes
