Holiday Treat Box Recipes
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Gammy's Pecan Pie Muffins
Gammy's Pecan Pie Muffins
Ingredients:
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter flavored Crisco (secret)
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl.
- Beat butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla in mixer until combined.
- Add in eggs, one at a time and mix well.
- Add in dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Bake for 12 minutes. This yields a soft cookie... bake longer if you are a wierdo and like crunchy cookies.
- Cool on baking sheet 2 minutes and then move to wire rack.
Gammy's Pecan Pie Muffins
Gammy's Pecan Pie Muffins
Gammy's Pecan Pie Muffins
Ingredients:
• 1 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 cup flour
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 2/3 cup butter, melted and cooled
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup chopped pecans
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare mini muffin baking tin with non stick baking spray.
- Mix flour and brown sugar in mixing bowl by hand.
- Add eggs, melted butter and vanilla until completely combined. Stir in pecans.
- Fill each mini muffin tin with 1 Tbsp of batter.
- Bake 20-22 minutes.
*Different ovens yield a different bake and these treats are a little sensitive.. I'd start checking them around 16 minutes and pull out once the edges turn a golden brown.
Micah's Muddy Buddies
Gammy's Pecan Pie Muffins
Micah's Muddy Buddies
Ingredients:
9 cups Rice Chex
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups powdered sugar
Directions:
- Measure cereal into a large bowl.
- In a seperate microwaveable bowl, melt chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter until smooth and melted. Start at 1 minute and then microwave for 30 second intervals, stirring after each interval.
- Stir in vanilla.
- Pour mixture over cereal, stirring until evenly coated.
- Pour into 2 gallon plastic food storage bag or a clean trash bag.
- Add powdered sugar, seal bag and shake! Shake until all cereal is coated in powdered sugar.
- Spread on waxed paper to cool.
Oreo Truffle Balls
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Micah's Muddy Buddies
Ingredients:
• 1 pkg Oreo cookies
• 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 12.5 ounces white melting chocolate
or vanilla flavored candy coating
Directions:
- Place cookies in a food processor and pulse into fine crumbs. OR place in a large, sealed ziplok baggie and beat with the back of a spoon or meat mallet until crumbled fine.
- Transfer all but 2 Tbsp of the crumbs to a large mixing bowl. Add cream cheese and mix until blended.
- Scoop into 1 Tbsp sized balls and roll in palms until smooth.
- Chill in refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
- Place the white chocolate in a bowl and microwave in 30 second iintervals, stirring at each interval, until smooth and melted.
- Coat the Oreo balls in the melted white chocolate by placing them on a fork and dunking into the chocolate or by placing a toothpick into the balls and dunking that way.
- Place coated Oreo ball on parchment paper covered cookie sheet and immediatley sprinkle with reserved cookie crumbs.
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Ingredients:
1 pkg Betty Crocker peanut butter
cookie mix
• 3 Tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 Tbsp water
• 1 egg
• 1 pkg miniature Reese's peanut butter cups
Directions:
- Prepare cookie dough as directed on package. And preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Prepare 24 count mini muffin tin with non stick spray.
- Shape dough into 1 inch balls and place each into a greased mini muffin tin.
- Bake 8 minutes. While cookies are baking, unwrap 24 Reese's cups and set aside.
- Remove from oven and immediately press a peanut butter cup into each cookie.
- Let cool and carefully remove from pan.You can use a butter knife to help remove the cookies.
Tate Farms Snack Mix
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Ingredients:
• 1 1/2 sticks butter
• 4 cups Rice Chex cereal
• 1 cup Wheat Chex cereal
• 1 bag premade snack mix of your
choice, I prefer Gardetto's
• 3 cups honey mustard pretzel chunks
• 3 cups garlic rye chips
• 1 1/2 cups mixed nuts
• 2 cups French's crispy fried onions
Seasoning Mix Ingredients
• 5 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 Tbsp A-1 sauce
• 1 Tbsp seasoning salt
• 1 Tbsp garlic powder
• 1 Tbsp onion powder
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
- In a large foil pan or roasting pan, melt butter in the oven.
- In a large bowl, combine all ingredients except seasoning mix ingredients.
- Once butter is melted, remove from oven and add all seasoning mix ingredients to melted butter pan. Stir to combine well.
- Pour combined dry ingredients into butter pan and stir to ensure all pieces are coated evenly.
- Bake at 250 degrees for one hour, stirring every 15 minutes.
- After baking one hour, remove and pour chex mix onto a flat surface covered with paper towels.
- Let cool before enjoying or placing in a large sealed baggie or sealed bowl.
Papa's Peanut Butter Balls
Papa's Peanut Butter Balls
Papa's Peanut Butter Balls
Ingredients:
• 1 12oz jar of crunchy peanut butter
• 2 sticks butter, softened
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 12oz pkg semi sweet chocolate chips
• 3 Tbsp paraffin wax
Directions:
- Cover a baking sheet with parchment or waxed paper.
- Combine peanut butter, butter and powdered sugar in a large bowl and mix well.
- Roll in 1 Tbsp size balls, set on wax paper tray and stick a toothpick in it.
- Put in refrigerator and let chill one hour.
- Once chilled, leave in refrigerator while preparing the chocolate.
- Melt paraffin wax over medium heat in a sauce pan and then add chocolate chips and melt. As soon as the mixture is smooth and melted begin dipping peanut butter balls.
- Place chocolate covered balls on wax paper and chill again for at least one hour once all are dipped.
*You can also use chocolate melting wafers, almond bark or chocolate covered candy coating. The chocolate chips and paraffin wax tastes better to me but the others are a bit easier to keep smooth while dipping.
Pretzel Hugs
Papa's Peanut Butter Balls
Papa's Peanut Butter Balls
Ingredients:
• 1 bag square pretzels
• 1 bag Hershey's Hugs
• 1 bag red & green M&M's
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Align pretzels on cookie sheet and top each pretzel with a Hug.
- Bake 4-5 minutes, until the chocolate is shiny and soft but not melted yet. Hugs should still have their shape.
- Remove from oven and carefully place one M&M in the center of each soft Hug. Press down to spread the chocolate just a bit.
- Allow to rest at room temp or in refrigerator until set.
Ginger Snaps
Papa's Peanut Butter Balls
Ginger Snaps
Ingredients:
• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 2 cups flour
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 tsps baking soda
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground cloves
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• additional 1/2 cup sugar for rolling, I
use coarse sparkling sugar, like for sprinkles
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar together in an electric mixer. Add egg and molasses and mix.
- In a separate bowl, mix flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and ginger together.
- Gradually add the dry mix to the butter mixture and incorporate on low speed.
- Scoop dough into 1 Tbsp balls. Roll the dough ball in sugar and place on baking sheet.
- Bake 11-13 minutes.
- Allow to cool on cookie sheet for a few minutes before serving.