Chicken Casserole

Made a yummy recipe tonight for dinner. I had been searching for the perfect recipe to make for an outing to camp this weekend..something simple, something easy and some quick. I found various recipes for chicken & stuffing casserole or some call is dressing and then I saw that some call it Sick Chicken..well that doesn't sound appealing. So after looking over various recipes here is what I came up with.

Recipe
1 whole Pre-Cooked Rotisserie Chicken(straight from the store, got to love that)
1 can of Cream of Celery Soup or you can use Cream of Chicken
1 box of Chicken Broth
1 medium sized diced onion
1 stick of butter
1 loaf of bread
2 tsp poultry seasoning

Directions

Make stuffing:(if you are not up for homemade then use box mix instead, just follow directions on box)
Cube loaf of bread and put in bowl
In sauce pan melt stick on butter, throw in diced onion, cook until translucent and then add in poultry seasoning
Pour contents of sauce pan over bread cubes
Add in small amounts of chicken broth until bread is moist.

Layering Casserole:
Pull chicken off the bone and layer on bottom of 9x13
Mix soup and 8ox chicken broth and then pour over chicken
Layer stuffing on top

Bake in 350' oven for 40 minutes, serve warm.

So it never made it to the outing because it looked so good when I was making it that I decided to have it for dinner that night. The family loved it!

Fluffy Frosting

Need a yummy frosting....I got this recipe from my aunt who is an awesome baker...she served this on cupcakes at our family xmas party. It was so different and unique that I of course asked her for the recipe.

Recipe
1 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 - 7 1/2 jar of Marshmellow Fluff or Creme
2 cups of confectioners sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions
Beat butter till light and fluffy, then add in fluff and beat until combined, slowly add in sugar and vanilla until fluffy again. Then spread on your favorite cake or cupcakes. Enjoy!

Oreo Truffles

I was introduced to this recipe a couple years ago by a good friend of mine. Now I make them every year because they are super easy and a HUGE hit.

What you need....

1 (16 ounce) package OREO Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, divided
1 (8 ounce) package PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
2 (8 ounce) packages BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Baking

What to do...

1. Crush cookies into fine crumbs, I use my food processor but Cookies can also be finely crushed in a resealable plastic bag using a rolling pin, place in medium bowl. Add cream cheese; mix until well blended. Roll cookie mixture into 42 balls, about 1-inch in diameter.
2. Dip balls in chocolate; place on wax paper-covered baking sheet. (Any leftover chocolate can be stored at room temperature for another use.) Then you can get creative, I like to drizzle white chocolate over them but you can also use sprinkles, cookie crumbs, whatever makes your heart skip :-)
Refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour. Store leftover truffles, covered, in refrigerator.

Christmas Cut Out Cookies

The kids had their very first snow day of the season, a little to early in the season but we have to take what is given to us. A great day to make holiday cookies.

Sour Cream Cut-Outs
1 cup of butter, softened
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp vanilla
5 3/4 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda

In a bowl cream butter and sugar till fluffy, add in eggs, sour cream, and vanilla...add the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt until combined. Cover and put in refrigerator overnight. Roll and cut. Bake at 375' for 12-15 minutes. Decorate with a glaze and sprinkles.

Enjoy!

To rid your house......

of excessive Halloween Candy! Excessive is not the word for what we have in Halloween Candy....next year we'll have to cut down on the number of houses we go to....but you know you need a good selection and who knows what people are giving out until the night of. Well this year there seemed to be alot of Peanut butter Cups and Milky Ways.....and before I managed to eat them all before the end of the week I had to find a way to get them out of our house without it being found in my mouth. So I decided to find a recipe that uses candy as a mix in and then take the baked good to Kara's cheering gym and sell it in the snack shack to those unsuspecting people who did not know my ulterior motive.

Cake Mix Cookies

1 package cake mix (Devils Food or Vanilla)

2 eggs

1/2 cup melted butter

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla

1 1/2 cups of your favorite mix in (such as peanut butter cups,milky way, m&m's, toffee, any chopped up candy bar)

Preheat oven to 350'

Mix cake mix, eggs, butter, brown sugar,vanilla....then add in mix in

Drop by tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet

Bake for 12-14 minutes

Another idea is that you can also add the candy to a brownie mix and sweeten up your brownies a little more.

And the most important thing......GIVE THEM AWAY!

Spider Cookies

Aren't these the cutest and most yummy looking Halloween cookies....I made them today for Nathan's celebration for school. They were super easy and super yummy.

Thanks Bakerella.....www.bakerella.com

Trix or Treat Spider Cookies
1 package Betty Crocker Double Chocolate Chunk Cookie Mix(makes abut 12 cookies so if you need more just grab an extra package)

1 can of chocolate ready-made frosting

1 can of vanilla ready-made frosting

24-48 Trix orange and green sweetened corn puffs

Toothpicks

Re-sealable plastic bags

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix ingredients for cookies as directed on the package.
Use a small ice cream scoop to get similar sized cookies or just use a spoon and vary the amount for different size cookies.
Place cookie dough on a parchment covered baking sheet.
Bake for about 7-8 minutes.
Cool completely on a wire rack.
Makes about two dozen cookies.

To decorate:
Spread chocolate frosting on the top of each cookie.
Fill a re-sealable plastic bag with a couple of heaping spoonfuls of frosting and snip a tiny hole out of the bottom of one corner.
Pipe on three circles of white frosting for each cookie. Start in the middle with the smallest circle and work your way out.
Take a toothpick and beginning in the center, drag it lightly through each circle. Repeat all the way around the cookie.
Take remaining frosting and separate it into two bowls. Tint one frosting with orange icing color and the other with green.
Fill two re-sealable bags with the orange and green frosting and snip off the corner of each.
Pipe eight small legs with each color and place a matching orange or green Trix Cereal puff on the top of each pair of legs. Add one or several spiders on each cookie.

Slow Cooker Applesaue

That time of year and the apples are plentiful and of course we always pick more then we could possibly eat. So what to do with them?
Today I decided to venture and try something brand new to me...making applesauce...and with the slow cooker no less.

Now you can double and triple this recipe and it still comes out just right.

4 apples of your choice, peeled, cored and diced
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Throw it all into the slow cooker, give it a stir and then turn it on high for 4 hours and walk away. Now when its done if you need to mash the apples then do so but I found this unnecessary because the apples pretty much did the work themselves.

Cool and then put in the fridge. I then used my homemade applesauce to replace the vegetable oil in my muffins and brownie mixes to make them lower in fat.