ThriftyFun Recipes
Volume One, Number 164, December 20, 2005
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Today's Recipes
Breakfast Pull Aparts
Ingredients
- 1 pkg. tube biscuits
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup margarine (melted)
- 1/3 cup cinnamon
Directions
Cut biscuits into quarters. Combine sugar, margarine and cinnamon together. Pour into a 9 inch glass pie plate. Place biscuits on plate. Microwave on high 2 to 2 1/2 minutes.
By Robin from Washington, IA
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Butterscotch Brownies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter or shortening
- 2 cups light brown sugar (packed)
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 cup chopped nuts
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a large, oblong cake pan and set aside. In a large pan, melt butter over low heat. Remove from heat. Mix in brown sugar till blended. Cool. Add eggs and mix well. In a medium sized mixing bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Stir into butter/egg mixture, mix well. Blend in vanilla and nuts. Spread in prepared baking pan. Bake for 25 minutes. Do no overbake. Cut into bars after allowing to cool awhile, but while still warm. Makes 18 bars.
By Terri from NV
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Craisin Vanilla Bark Candy
Delicious, easy candy.
Ingredients
- 1 - 24 oz pkg white/vanilla bark
- 1 - 8 oz pkg craisins (dried cranberries)
- 2 - cups walnuts
Directions
Melt bark in double boiler and stir till smooth. While it is melting, put craisins and walnuts in food processor and pulse til finely chopped.
Take 1/2 of chopped mixture and mix into melted bark. Take remaining and spread evenly over a large cookie sheet covered with wax or parchment paper. Pour bark/chopped mixture onto cookie sheet and spread quickly. You can cover it with additional wax or parchment paper and smooth with the palm of your hand. Refrigerate until hard. Remove paper and break into bite size pieces.
Enjoy! I'm using mine to give in goody boxes with homemade cookies.
I came up with this while baking for Christmas and trying to think of something different to make.
By hvnlyhills from Peebles, OH
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Butter Pecan Turtle Cookies
Crust:
Ingredients
2 cups all purpose flour, sifted
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 cup light brown sugar, packed
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a 3 Qt. mixing bowl, combine crust ingredients. Mix at medium speed, scraping sides of bowl often, 2-3 minutes or until well mixed and particles are fine.
Pat firmly into ungreased 13x9x2 inch pan. Sprinkle pecans evenly over unbaked crust. Prepare caramel layer (see below); pour evenly over pecans and crust.
Bake near center of 350 degree F oven for 18-22 minutes, or until entire caramel layer is bubbly and crust is light golden brown. Remove from oven. Immediately, sprinkle with milk chocolate chips. Allow chocolate chips to melt slightly (2-3 minutes.) Slightly swirl chips as they melt; leave some whole for a marbled effect. Do not spread chips. Cool completely. Cut into 3-4 dozen bars.
Caramel Layer:
Ingredients
2/3 cup butter
1 cup milk chocolate chips
1 cup whole pecan halves
1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
Directions
To prepare caramel layer, in a heavy 1 Qt. saucepan, combine brown sugar, and butter. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until surface of mixture begins to boil. Continue boiling 1/2-1 minute, stirring constantly.
By Terri from NV
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Frozen Cherry Salad
Ingredients
- 1 (20 ounce) can reduced-calorie cherry pie filling
- 1 (14 ounce) can fat-free sweetened condensed milk
- 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple in juice, drained
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 (8 ounce) container frozen reduced-calorie whipped topping, thawed
- Cooking spray
Directions
Combine first 4 ingredients. Fold in whipped topping.
Coat an 8-inch square pan with cooking spray; pour cherry mixture into
Prepared pan. Cover and freeze 8 hours or overnight.
Cut into rectangles.
By Chell from MO
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Peanut Whirl Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup chunk style peanut butter
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 1/4 cup all purpose flour, sifted
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda, sifted
- 2 Tbsp. milk
- 1 (6 oz.) pkg. chocolate chips
Directions
Mix together 1st five ingredients. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk; roll out to a rectangle (1/4 of an inch thickness.) Melt chocolate chips in a double boiler. Let cool but not set up. Spread over cookie dough. Roll as for jelly roll. Chill 1/2 hour. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Then slice and bake at 375 degrees F for 8-10 minutes.
By Terri from NV
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The Easiest Pretzel Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 Bag of square pretzels
- Bags of candy melts in different colors (for Christmas I use green, red and white; for Easter pink, white and other pastels)
Directions
On a microwave plate put about 10 pretzels and a candy melt on top of each. Microwave for about 40 seconds. Remove from microwave and using your finger push the candy melt down onto the pretzels so it sticks. Candy melts will be slightly melted. With spatula move pretzels to waxed paper to cool.
They look very pretty and taste good. They make inexpensive gifts in a transparent gift bag tied with a pretty ribbon or served on a plate. What could be easier?
I bought one of those large containers of pretzels at BJ's and used 3 bags of candy melts (red, white and green) and made over 300 of these one afternoon. I used the 3 bags of melts but only half of the container of pretzels, which are great eaten by themselves as a low-fat snack. Enjoy!
By Happy from Hockessin, Delaware
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Easy Morning Cinnamon Rolls
Ingredients
- 1 tube (8 ounces) refrigerated reduced-fat crescent rolls
- Sugar substitute equivalent to 1/2 cup sugar, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1-tablespoon fat-free milk
Directions
Unroll crescent dough into a rectangle; seal seams and perforations.
Combine half of the sugar substitute and the cinnamon; sprinkle over dough.
Roll up jellyroll style, starting with a long side; seal edge.
Cut into eight slices.
Place rolls cut side down in a 9-inch round baking pan coated with nonstick cooking spray.
Bake at 375 degrees F for 12 - 15 minutes or until golden brown.
In a small bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, milk and remaining sugar substitute; drizzle over the warm roll.
Yield: 8 servings
NUTRIONAL ANALYSIS: 1 roll equals 123 calories, 5 g fat (1 g saturated fat), trace cholesterol, 234 mg sodium, 18 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, 1 g protein.
DIABETIC EXCHANGES: 1 starch, 1 fat
By Jackie S. from Riverdale, GA
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