Cookie Dough Dip

The name says it all, no?
The perfect thing about this recipe is that there are no eggs; it has the cookie dough goodness without the raw egg - or any egg at all for that matter. I had heard of this recipe previously, and have wanted to try it for quite some time; but without actually trying it myself I wasn't really sold on the fact that it could be that good. But then a few weeks ago, I attended my sister-in-law's stagette and had the opportunity to try it - and have been waiting ever since for an occasion to make it on my own, it was THAT good! :) My friends proved me right as well, everyone commented on how delicious it was and asked what it was made from - so, ladies, without further ado...

Ingredients:

1/2 cup of butter
1/3 cup of brown sugar
1 tsp of vanilla extract
8 oz of cream cheese
1/2 cup of confectioner's sugar
3/4 cup semisweet mini chocolate chips
1/2 cup skor bits

Directions:

In a small saucepan, melt the butter and brown sugar over medium heat - stirring as it dissolves. Remove this mixture from the heat and add the vanilla extract - set aside until cool.

In a small mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese and the confectioner's sugar for one minute.

Once the butter mixture is cooled - slowly add it to the cheese/sugar mixture and beat again until blended.

Add your chocolate chips and skor bits - mix well and then refrigerate until you are ready to serve.

Serve with your favourite small cookie - honey flavoured teddy grahams and animal crackers work well!

Enjoy!

Stuffed Mushrooms

This is my standard stuffed mushroom recipe from Kraft. It is really easy and always delicious! :)

(photo credit: Kraft)

Ingredients:

20 fresh mushrooms
3 tbsp butter
2 tbsp finely chopped onion
2 tbsp finely chopped red pepper
14 Ritz crackers finely crushed (1/2 cup)
2 tbsp Parmesan cheese
1/2 tsp Italian seasoning

Directions:

Remove stems from the mushrooms, and finely chop 1/4 cup of stems and discard the rest. Melt the butter on medium heat, add chopped stems, onion and peppers; cook and stir until tender. Add cracker crumb, cheese and seasoning; spoon into mushroom caps.

Place on a foil lined baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes at 400 or until heated through.

Enjoy!

Chili Dogs

This is something different and yummy for your left over chili! Oven baked chili dogs (or sausages). This is so yummy and easy, there aren't even any measurements to worry about!
Ingredients:

• Hot Dogs or Pre-cooked Sausages
• Hot Dog Buns
• Mayonnaise
• Relish (I used sweet)
• Yellow Mustard
• Chili (I used homemade leftover chili but you could use a good canned chili)
• Grated Cheese
• Diced yellow onion

The How-To:

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Line your pan with tinfoil, it will make the clean up much easier.
3. Spread mayonnaise on both sides of the hot dog bun, then spread relish and mustard on the buns.
4. Add your hot dog to the bun (I used sausages so I halved each sausage and used one half per bun since they were pretty big!).
5. Top each bun with diced raw yellow onion.
6. Top each bun with chili.
7. Top each bun with grated cheese.
8. Cover your whole pan with tinfoil.
9. Bake for 40 minutes at 350, and then another 2-3 on broil. You will need to eat these babies with a fork and knife!

Enjoy!