Holiday Recipes from our Treat Tray

Holiday recipes from our Treat Tray! This year we spent a night making a bunch of holiday treats together. We had never done this before and thought it was a great family activity! We then loaded some trays up with these yummy treats and took to friends and neighbors. It was a lot of fun! Here are the recipes from our Treat Tray so you can make them too!

Crab Cheese Ball

8 oz cream cheese, softened

8 oz cheddar cheese, grated

3 green onions, chopped

1 cup shredded crabmeat

1/4 tsp garlic powder

1/8 tsp salt

1/4 tsp pepper

1 tsp lemon juice

Combine all ingredients (except cheese). Form into a ball. Roll in grated cheese. 

Chill several hours, serve with crackers.

Candy Cane Blossoms

1 bag Hersheys Kisses brand Candy Cane Kisses

1/2 cup butter,softened

1 cup granulated sugar

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 egg

2 cups all purpose flour

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp baking soda

2 TBSP milk

red and green colored sugar

 

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Remove wrappers from candies.

Beat butter, sugar, vanilla and egg in large bowl until well blended. Stir together flour, baking soda, and salt; add alternatively with milk to butter mixture, beating until well blended.

Shaped dough into 1 inch balls. Roll in red or green sugar colored sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake 8 - 10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned and cookies are set. Remove from oven; cool 2 - 3 minutes. Press candy kiss into center of each cookie. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool Completely. Yields 35 cookies.

Homemade Fudge

5 oz can evaporated milk
12 oz choc. chips
2 TBSP butter
1 3/4 cups real sugar
1 cup small marshmallows, heaping cup

Combine sugar, evaporated milk and butter in medium, heavy duty saucepan.

Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Once boiling, stir constantly for 4 minutes. Remove from heat.

Add morsels and marshmallows all at once. Stir vigorously until morsels and marshmallows are melted.

Immediately pour the mixture into an 8 x 8 inch pan, smooth top. Refrigerate for 2 hours or until firm.

Cut into pieces and serve or cover and refrigerate.

*TIP* We added a few drops of an extract, such as: rootbeer, raspberry, mint, etc. to give it a unique flavor.