Jell-O Cookies: Great for Christmas & Easter!

Jello cookies... just thinking about them, makes me want to make more. I love making these cookies for Christmas & Easter. I wanted to share with you these are fun and easy to make... :-)

Jell-O Cookies

Ingredients:
3 ½ C Flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 C butter
1 C sugar
1 3 oz pkg jello, any flavor
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla

Directions:
Mix the flour with baking powder. Cream butter. Gradually add sugar and Jell-O, beating well. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually add flour mixture, beating well. Roll out and cut with cookie cutters and bake at 400* for 8 min. or until golden brown. (Very nummy!!)

Love to hear what you think when you make them... My fave is strawberry or lime... What's yours??

Holiday Casserole

Holiday Casserole

Ingredients

1/2 cup chopped green pepper
1/2 cup butter or margarine
10 slices white bread, cubed
1 pound fully cooked ham, chopped
1/2 pound pasteurized processed cheese spread, cubed
6 eggs
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon ground mustard


Directions:

1. In a skillet, saute green pepper until tender.
2. Combine green pepper, bread, and ham. Place in an ungreased 13 by 9 inch baking dish.
3. Place cheese in skillet. Stir over low heat until melted.
4. Pour over bread mixture.
5. Beat eggs, milk, and mustard. Pour over cheese.
6. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
7. Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes before baking.
8. Bake, uncovered, at 300 degrees for 1 hour.
9. Cool slightly. Cut into 20 pieces.

Makes: 20 pieces.

Meal:
Lunch & Dinner

Recipe adapted from allrecipes.com and familyfun.com, 2008.

Mini Caramel Apples

I made these for my kids and they loved them... I was really impressed. It's an easy recipe that they can follow and make themselves... with supervision of course... :-)
Try it and let me know what you think...

Mini Caramel Apples

Bite-size versions of the fall fair treat, these tiny "caramel" apples are a great party snack.

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
4-inch lollipop sticks
Melon baller
Granny Smith apples (one apple makes about 8 mini apples)
Butterscotch or peanut butter chips
Chopped nuts, nonpareils, sprinkles, shredded coconut (optional)
Small paper candy cups
Step 1 - Mini Caramel Apples 1. First, cut the lollipop sticks in half at an angle (the pointy end will go into the apple pieces easier). With the melon baller, scoop little balls out of the apple. Each ball should have a section of apple peel. Push half of a lollipop stick into the peel of each ball. Pat the apple pieces dry.

Mini Caramel Apples: Variations 2. Melt the chips according to the package directions. Dip and swirl the mini apples in the melted chips, then roll the apples in nuts, sprinkles, nonpareils, or coconut, if desired. Place the mini apples in paper candy cups to set.

Jolly Rancher Cookies: looks like stained glass!

Ingredients

* Make Sugar Cookies
(Click on the Title at the top to be directed to a Sugar Cookie Recipe)
* Jolly Ranchers
* Plastic sandwich bags & meat tenderizer (for crushing)

Cooking Instructions

1. Make your cookies into shapes ex: circle, then cut out center with smaller shape ex: heart.
2. Sort the Jolly Ranchers into plastic bags by color. Crush them with a meat tenderizer (good stress reliever). Use the crushed jolly ranchers to fill in your cookie centers.
4. Bake at 375 F for 8-10 minutes until lightly browned & Jolly ranchers are melted. Cool completely.

Be Creative and have fun!!

Strawberry Lemonade

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/4 cups water
3 cups freshly squeezed lemon juice (from about 16 lemons)
1 pint fresh strawberries, stems and caps removed
Ice
1. In a pitcher or container, whisk together the sugar and water until the sugar dissolves. Add lemon juice and stir. Puree the strawberries and strain to remove the seeds. Add the strawberry puree to the lemon mixture and stir. To serve, pour into 10-ounce glasses filled with ice.

This is nummy for a family get together!!

Homemade Ice Cream in a Bag

RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup half and half
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup salt (The bigger the granules, the better. Kosher or rock salt works best, but table salt is fine.)
Ice cubes (enough to fill each gallon-size bag about half full)
1 pint-size ziplock bag
1 gallon-size ziplock bag
1. Combine the sugar, half and half, and vanilla extract in the pint-size bag and seal it tightly.

2. Place the salt and ice in the gallon-size bag, then place the sealed smaller bag inside as well. Seal the larger bag. Now shake the bags until the mixture hardens (about 5 minutes). Feel the small bag to determine when it's done.

3. Take the smaller bag out of the larger one, add mix-ins, and eat the ice cream right out of the bag. Easy cleanup too! Serves 1.

I tried this last year during the summer with the kids they loved it!! For flavor you can add different extract flavors, or even cherry flavored pop (w/o fizz is the way we tried it)