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July 2, 2014 at 7:42 am
· Filed under Christmas, July 4th/Independence Day, St. Patrick's Day, Thanksgiving & Fall, Valentine's Day
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July 4th Oreo Cookie Balls. Photo courtesy
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This no-bake recipe for Oreo Cookie Balls is fun to bring to a July 4th event. It’s easy enough so that you can delgate it to younger members of the household, who may just discover a love of making their own desserts.
Just by changing the garnish, it can be customized for Chanukah, Christmas, St. Patrick’s Day, Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day. There are also links below to recipes that add specific touches for different special occasions.
RECIPE: OREO COOKIE BALLS
Recipe For 48 Pieces
1 package (8 ounces) Philadelphia cream cheese, softened
36 OREO cookies, finely crushed
3 packages (4 ounces each) white chocolate, broken into pieces, melted
1 tablespoon red, white and blue multi-colored sprinkles (or other colors to match the season or occasion
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Preparation
1. MIX cream cheese and cookie crumbs until blended.
2. SHAPE into 48 (1-inch) balls. Freeze 10 min. Dip in melted chocolate (see dipping tip below); place on waxed paper-covered rimmed baking sheet. Top with sprinkles.
3. REFRIGERATE 1 hour or until firm.
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How to Easily Dip Cookie Balls
To easily coat cookie balls with the melted chocolate, add the balls, in batches, to bowl of melted chocolate.
Use 2 forks to roll the balls in chocolate until evenly coated.
Remove the balls with forks, letting excess chocolate drip back into bowl.
Place the balls on a prepared baking sheet; let stand until chocolate coating is firm.
Store extras in a tightly covered container in the refrigerator.
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Melting Snowmen Oreo Cookie Balls. Here’s the recipe. Photo courtesy Kraft.
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MORE OREO COOKIE BALLS RECIPES
For Anytime: Oreo Raspberry Cookie Balls and Triple Double Oreo Tartufo
For Chocolaholics: all chocolate Oreo Cookie Balls
For Christmas: Peppermint Oreo Cookie Balls
For Glamour: paint with edible gold dust and top with a chocolate-covered coffee bean
For Halloween: tint the white chocolate coating orange, paint the jack o’lantern face with melted chocolate or gels and use bits of pretzel thins for the stems
For St. Patrick’s Day: Oreo Mint Cookie Balls
For Valentine’s Day: Oreo Cherry Cookie Balls
For Winter: Melting Snowmen Oreo Cookie Balls
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July 1, 2014 at 8:43 am
· Filed under Beverages
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Although it’s mixed with apple juice, it tastes
like strawberry juice! Photo courtesy Red
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Last week we were in love with Bolthouse Watermelon Mint Lemonade. Call us fickle, but this week we’re in love with something new.
Red Jacket Orchards Strawberry Apple Juice tastes like lush strawberry juice, the fresh fruit puréed and blended with the company’s apple juice. Located in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, the company has been growing apples and pressing juice since 1958.
The juices are cold pressed and unfiltered, capturing the freshest flavors and nutrients (heating juice to pasteurize it for shelf stability eliminates some nutrients and flavor).
It’s pretty close to eating strawberries, rich in vitamin C (eight berries contain 140% of the U.S. recommended daily allowance) and polyphenols, powerful antioxidants. Health science research indicates that the polyphenols in strawberries play a major role in helping to regulate blood sugar response—good news for people with type 2 diabetes.
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Enjoy a glass of chilled soup. Mix it with club soda or clear spirits (gin, tequila, vodka). Use it as a base for fruit soup, adding a mound of mixed diced fruits to the center of the bowl. Churn it into sorbet or freeze into granita.
In addition to plain and strawberry-apple juices, Red Jacket Orchards also Blackcurrant Apple, Grape Apple, Raspberry Apple along with Apricot Stomp (pure apricot nectar, no apple juice), Tart Cherry Stomp, Apple Cider and Spiced Apple Cider.
Discover more at RedJacketOrchards.com.
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July 1, 2014 at 8:17 am
· Filed under Cookies-Cake-Pastry, July 4th/Independence Day, Recipes
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We love food “craft projects.” Here, turn graham crackers into flag cookies with this fun family recipe from Pillsbury. In fact, as part of your Fourth of July celebration, let your kids make this easy snack craft.
Prep time is just five minutes.
RECIPE: AMERICAN FLAG COOKIES
Ingredients
1 double graham cracker (5 x 2-1/2 inches)
1 tablespoon fluffy white frosting
1/2 roll strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups or other red fruit leather
4 Fruit Gushers blue fruit flavored snacks or fresh blueberries
Preparation
1. SPREAD one side of graham cracker with frosting.
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A food craft project for kids. Photo courtesy Pillsbury.
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2. UNROLL Fruit Roll-Ups; remove paper. With kitchen scissors, cut 4 strips from fruit flavored snack, 5 x 1/4 inch each.
3. ARRANGE strips on frosted cracker to form 4 evenly spaced horizontal strips. Arrange Fruit Gushers or blueberries in the left top corner for stars on the flag.
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