Candy Corn Cookies

Halloween Chef Costume
As part of my Halloween costume this year I wanted to hand out some yummy treats.
I came across this recipe for miniture candy corn cookies.
They were perfect and pretty easy to make.
Enjoy and Happy Halloween! xx

These bite-sized treats resemble candy corn and have a hint of orange flavor.

45 min.prep time 3:25total time
15 dozen miniature cookies
5 Stars 21 Ratings







Ingredients
1 cup Land O Lakes® Butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 Land O Lakes® All-Natural Egg
2 tablespoons orange juice
2 teaspoons freshly grated orange zest
1/8 teaspoon salt
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Orange paste or gel food color
Yellow paste or gel food color

1/2 cup sugar
Directions
Line bottom and sides of 9x5-inch loaf pan with waxed paper or plastic food wrap. Set aside.

Combine butter and 1 cup sugar in large bowl; beat at medium speed until creamy. Add egg, orange juice, orange zest and salt. Continue beating until well mixed. Reduce speed to low; add flour and baking soda. Beat until well mixed.

Divide dough into thirds. Press one-third of white dough evenly onto bottom of prepared pan. Place another one-third of dough back into same bowl. Add small amount of orange food color; mix until color is well blended. Press orange dough evenly over white dough in pan. Place remaining one-third of dough into another medium bowl. Add small amount of yellow food color; mix until color is well blended. Press yellow dough evenly over orange dough in pan. Cover with plastic food wrap; refrigerate until firm (at least 2 hours or overnight).

Place 1/2 cup sugar in large bowl; set aside.

Heat oven to 375°F. Invert loaf pan to remove dough. Peel off waxed paper. Place layered dough onto cutting surface. Cut loaf crosswise into 1/4-inch slices using sharp knife, trimming edges to make even, if necessary. Cut each slice into 6 wedges. Place 1-inch apart onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 7 to 10 minutes or until edges are firm and bottoms are very lightly browned. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets. Immediately place warm cookies in bowl with sugar; roll in sugar to coat. Place cookies onto cooling rack. Cool completely.

Store in loosely covered container.

VARIATION:
Chocolate Candy Corn: Prepare dough as directed except stir 1 (1-ounce) square melted semi-sweet baking chocolate into one-third of white dough. Tint one-third of dough orange and one-third yellow. Place chocolate dough into prepared pan; layer with orange and yellow dough. Cut and bake as directed.



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A Trip To Oaxaca, Through Cooking Class

Here are some photos from my very yummy Friday cooking class...

Mexican Hot Chocolate


Oaxaca Poetry
Special Thanks to Rick & Deb to lending me their things for this class 


Cooking with fabulous ingredients!

We whip up a mean ceviche!
My Team - Sandi & Betty



Making fresh tortillas!










Banana Leave Tamales!

Decorations from another class - Sugar Skulls














The Menu
(photos above)
Mango Ceviche
Prickly Pear Cactus Leaves· Nopales
Pasilla de Oaxaca Tomatillo Salsa
Tamales De Mole En Hoja De Platano
Mole Negro
Rice Pudding Cheesecake

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What To Do With All Those Containers Of Peanut Butter In Your Cupboard?!

Paula Deen's Peanut Butter Cookies

What to do with all those containers of peanut butter in your cupboard?!
Make these delicious cookies!

Ingredients

* 1 large egg
* 1 cup smooth peanut butter
* 1 cup sugar
* 30 chocolate Hershey's Kisses, unwrapped

Directions

Heat oven to 350 F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.

In a mixer bowl, beat together the egg, peanut butter, and sugar until a dough forms.

Shape the dough into small balls and place 1 inch apart on the prepared baking sheet.

Bake for 10 minutes. Remove baking sheet from oven and immediately press a chocolate kiss in the middle of each cookie.

Transfer to a rack and cool.
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Leftover Lunch

Have a bunch of leftovers from roasting a pig? Try this recipe out!

Leftover Lunch Pulled Pork Sandwiches
Ingredients
Cooked Pulled Pork tossed in bbq sauce
Mini Rolls Toasted
Asian Noodle Salad without dressing
Cooked baked potato cut up into slices
Onions Grilled
Mayo

How To
Put it all together! And Eat! 

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My Bestie Makes Asian Noodle Salad

My best friend was over the other day and created a salad she had seen on one of our favorite blogs. The Pioneer Woman has a wonderful site with stories, recipes and all sorts of great stuff. Her recipes are informative with background stories and plenty of pictures. See the full story here of how Asian Noodle Salad came about.

It came out fab-u-lous! It was so fresh and colorful.  I loved how the dressing had a bit of heat to it. It was seasoned perfectly and is a perfect pot-luck salad!



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La Caja China Pig Roast

Finishing the deck in our yard was one hard task. But being able to entertain on it is amazing. We have hosted a couple things on the deck with family and friends and its wonderful to have the extra space. 

Recently we decided to borrow a friends La Caja China Roaster. I was really excited to try it out.
The La Caja China Roaster is a wooden box with sheet metal inside. There are racks to hold the meat and the lid on top holds the coals. When the coals are lit the contents of inside the box heat up and almost steam cook inside. This causes everything to come out tender and moist. The meat just falls off the bone. Before we got started we watched a video on how to use the La Caja China.


Now, obviously, Matt and I can't eat a whole 44lbs pic to ourselves! We invited over a few people and all of them were awesome in creating a side dish or dessert to accompany our roast.
Everything went smoothly the whole night. The La Caja China was easy to cook with, we even added some foil wrapped potatoes to the coals.

The meat and skin were amazing tasting. The meat fell right off the bone as Matt pulled it apart, it was tender, moist and flavorful. The skin was crispy and crunchy and cracked as we broke it up. yummm.

So here are some peektures of the porker, enjoy!






















Where can you find a whole pig?
JE Exports
(619) 426-6992
1680 Hilltop Dr, Chula Vista, CA 91911


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