For Thanksgiving every year, we wake up, the adults all drink Bloody Mary's, we watch the Thanksgiving Day parade, then we watch the dog show, then they put on the football game and next thing you know it's time to eat! My cousin and I are always on charge of dessert and my aunt does most of the cooking for dinner. We also have some great appetizers, like pigs in a blanket and shrimp cocktail! I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving, too!
Happy Thanksgiving! I am happily spending time with my family in New Jersey. This is one of my favorite times of year because I get to spend it with some of the people who are most important to me and I am so grateful for that. Not to get all cheesy, but to get cheesy on you, I am definitely most thankful for my loving and supporting family. Not everyone has that and I cherish it every day.
For Thanksgiving every year, we wake up, the adults all drink Bloody Mary's, we watch the Thanksgiving Day parade, then we watch the dog show, then they put on the football game and next thing you know it's time to eat! My cousin and I are always on charge of dessert and my aunt does most of the cooking for dinner. We also have some great appetizers, like pigs in a blanket and shrimp cocktail! I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving, too! It's around that time of year again. Time to break out the mixer and make cookies, and lots of them. Christmas cookies are by far my favorite cookies. I love decorating sugar cookies for Santa Claus and making cookies for our Christmas dinner. My favorite Christmas cookie are these snowballs, which are shortbread balls with ground up pecans rolled in powdered sugar. Soooo good.
Everyone at college always asks me, "How do you have all that time to bake?". Now, I know what they mean when they ask me that, I do bake a lot, but I find this a really frustrating question. To me, this question insinuates that because they are so busy studying and playing sports and whatnot, they don't have enough free time for things like that.
But, this is false. I study; I study a lot. Ask anyone in my family and they will probably say I'm addicted. I also figure skate, which takes up 7+ hours of my week. So this is my answer. Some people love to read. Some people love to do yoga. Some people love to run. I love to bake. No matter how busy we are, we always find time to do whatever it is that we love, and therefore finding time to bake is not a problem for me. Now to be fair, I know when people ask me this question they mean no harm; in fact it is merely a question, and a fair one too. But to me it is obvious. Baking is my passion, and therefore I will always, always find time for it. And I hope all of you love the fact that I do! This recipe is amazingly easy. It has 3 ingredients, and all you need is a microwave and a fridge, which I'm guessing most people have. The three ingredients are peanut butter cups (of course), milk chocolate chips (of course), and sweetened condensed milk.
Sweetened condensed milk is found in a small can (14-oz.) in the baking aisle. It never goes bad, according to my knowledge, so a lot of bakers will just keep cans of it in their pantry and use it when they stumble upon one of the few recipes that calls for it. Fudge is one of those recipes. You will find this ingredient in most fudge recipes and it is what gives it that distinctive fudge-like taste. This is also a great recipe for Holiday baking! Fudge is commonly made around this time of year, and I can see why because it is delicious and really easy to make! Plus it yields a large amount for one recipe (you can make up to 64 squares from this recipe). More pumpkin spice, I know. But these are really good. And don't run away from this when you see the word pumpkin. Trust me, I don't want pumpkin in my snickerdoodles either. These have no pumpkin in them, they simply have pumpkin spice. There is a major difference there. These of course use cream of tartar to make them snickerdoodles, plus they have pumpkin pie spice in the batter and are rolled in a mixture of brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice. They are really quite delicious!
I had a really difficult time coming up with a name for these. I first wanted to call them pumpkin spice snickerdoodles, but that might give the impression that they have pumpkin in them, when in truth they just have pumpkin pie spice, but no pumpkin. Then I thought "Spiced Snickerdoodles", but to be honest all snickerdoodles are spiced snickerdoodles, so that doesn't work either. Then I landed on "Fall Spice Snickerdoodles," but decided it sounded better with Autumn instead of fall. Alas, there is my title and it's exact origin. These are a great recipe for Thanksgiving, or any time in fall, really. Enjoy! |
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