Your 'Go To' Christmas Treats

[bc-chris]

hey CP

'tis the season - i'm looking to change up some of our yearly christmas treats that my wife and i always make. i'm wondering what your number one go to Christmas treat (recipe) would be - the one you always make every year

for me - it's rum balls!

1 cup white sugar
2 tbsp cocoa
2.5 cups crushed vanilla wafer crumbs (a 312g box of nilla vanilla flavoured wafers is about 2.5 cups once they are crushed up)
1 cup chopped pecans
at least 1/3 cup rum (emphasis on the 'at least'!! )
about 3/4 cup corn syrup


mix dry ingredients
add rum to dry ingredients and thoroughly mix
add corn syrup. if the mixture is too dry, just add more corn syrup
shape into small balls and roll in icing sugar or sprinkles

[MRCboicgy]

1 glass of egg nog
Kracken rum to taste.

Repeat as necessary

[Finger Cookin]

Kraken rum is ####.

My favorite Christmas treats are Peanut Butter Snowballs.

[Dion]

Grasshopper Pie

Ingredients

20 oreo cookies with icing.
5 Tbsp butter, melted
3/4 cup hot milk
24 large marshmallows
1/4 cup creme de menthe liqueur - I use more
1 cup whipping cream, whipped

Preperation

1 Preheat oven to 425°F. In a food processor add Oreo cookies and chop up. Add melted butter to the cookie crumbs and pat into bottom and sides of 10 inch pie dish. Bake in oven for 5 to 10 minutes; remove from oven and cool completely. Once cooled, place in freezer to chill.

2 In saucepan, melt marshmallows in milk over medium heat. Remove from heat and cool. Add creme de menthe and mix well. Fold in whipped cream. Pour into chilled pie shell. Sprinkle extra cookie crumbs on top of pie. Freeze for 3 or 4 hours.

[Drury18]

Oh boy, my Oma is going to kill me for posting this. Granted I did Canadianized it a little bit and she was fine with that.

Boterkoek (Butter Cake from Holland)

1 cup softened butter
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 beaten eggs
1 tablespoon almond extract
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
Sliced Almonds
Maraschino Cherries

Preheat Oven to 350 degrees. Grease two 8 or 9 inch pie pans with butter (no spray, it's terrible)

In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, leaving a small amount to brush on top (about 2 tablespoons). Stir in almond extract. Stir in flour and baking powder with a sturdy spoon. The dough will be stiff almost like bread dough, it is not a watery cake batter at all.

Press dough evenly into the two pans. Place and press almonds and cherries into the dough in a festive pattern or where each slice will be (note: this is an extremely rich cake. Slices are usually an inch wide at most) Brush the top of the cake with reserved egg. Sprinkle top with a little bit of white sugar.

Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown.

Cool completely before cutting into wedges.

[Street Pharmacist]

Oliebollen. Mmmm

[Drury18]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Oliebollen. Mmmm

I have to make 5 dozen of those for Christmas Eve.

I can't post that recipe though. You'll see the sweetest, kindest 97 year old women kicking my behind down the street with her walker screaming at me in Dutch.

[Mass_nerder]

After Eights...
1. Open the box.
2. Eat the entire box in one sitting.
3. Feel shame.

[Sr. Mints]

These things:



They are even better reeeally cold - almost frozen.

I actually don't know how to make them, and that's probably a good thing

[schooner]

Thanks Drury and Street Pharmacist for the Dutch nostalgia! A couple of classics!

[ben voyonsdonc]

Rum. Just rum. Screw the nog and the balls....

ETA - and Ferraro Rochers.

[combustiblefuel]

A family recipe we call "scuffles" kinda like a mini cinnamon bun in croissant shape.

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc

screw.... the balls.

but no one can resist my Schweddy Balls

[ben voyonsdonc]

Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

but no one can resist my Schweddy Balls

What flavour? Personally, I've always preferred the saltier varieties of the Schweddy Balls.

Too far?

[Drury18]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

These things:



They are even better reeeally cold - almost frozen.

I actually don't know how to make them, and that's probably a good thing

They are EXTREMELY easy to make.

1/2 cup margarine
1 cup peanut butter
1 bag butterscotch chips (the skor bar chipits are really good too)
1 bag multicolour mini marshmellows

Throw butter, peanut butter, and butterscotch chips in a pot and melt it on a low heat. Stir constantly so it doesn't burn.

I've even gotten away with this in a microwave before too. I believe it was 2 minutes in the microwave, take it out and stir, if you need more time give it another 30 seconds and pull it out and stir each time to make sure you aren't burning.

Once its melted, let it cool where you can still stir, but not that it will melt the marshmellows. Put in the marshmellows and stir.
Pour into a 8x11 pan (at least) that has been greased.

Put in fridge until cold

Try not to eat entire thing in one sitting.

[bc-chris]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

These things:



They are even better reeeally cold - almost frozen.

I actually don't know how to make them, and that's probably a good thing

my grandma would always make these - good memories!!!

[Dion]

[Derek Sutton]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

These things:



They are even better reeeally cold - almost frozen.

I actually don't know how to make them, and that's probably a good thing

My Mom makes these, her recipe calls then Confetti Cake, delicious. She also makes Nanaimo Bars, and Oh Henry bars, all so great, and if I'm lucky butter tarts to. My wife just makes cookies, about 7 different kinds, none of which I really care for. Today I made about 10lbs of Nuts and Bolts.

[Minnie]

My mother-in-law always sends/brings stuff - I am not fond of baking so it's always a part of my gift - she does a ton of xmas baking and I get a bunch. It has been our "deal" for years.

She sends Cornflake chews, butterhorns, Rolo cookies, Nanaimo bars for my husband, puffed wheat squares (long silly family story), and a few different sorts of cookies. My daughter makes a few batches of brownies. I make these -"Sin in A Tartshell."

8 bars Mackintosh toffee
4 tbsp butter (NOT margarine)
6 tbsp evaporated milk
20 Three (3) inch tartshells, prebaked
20 chocolate rosebuds

On low heat, slowly melt the toffee, butter and evaporated milk. When completely melted and no lumps remain, pour into prebaked tartshells. Top with a rosebud and let set.

[V]

Originally Posted by Drury18

I have to make 5 dozen of those for Christmas Eve.

I can't post that recipe though. You'll see the sweetest, kindest 97 year old women kicking my behind down the street with her walker screaming at me in Dutch.

Of course there's also croquetten and bitterballen, which is just fantastic.

My mother-in-law spends hours every christmas making these wafer cigar cookies with chocolate inside, and I don't know how to spell it, but they're pronounced kinijpitchas. Wish I knew how to spell it so I could find a recipe.

Dutch food is fantastic around the holidays.