Thursday, December 18, 2008

Homemade Egg Nog

Let's face it Egg Nog is NOT cheap by any means. Just a quart can run about the same as a gallon of milk some times. YIKES!

A poster on the Lots of Kids board posted their family recipe for Egg Nog which sounded super simple and way cheaper than the store bought stuff.


2 eggs, beaten well *suggestion: blend in a blender, or food processor to get it very well incorporated*
3 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1/8 tsp nutmeg, ground
2 1/3 cups milk
container of whipping cream (or make whip cream out of as you would normally)

Preparation:
Blend all ingredients together and serve chilled. fold in some whipped cream till the consistancy you like .

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Make Your Own

I did not know that you could make your own Sweetened Condensed Milk!

It was brought up in the Fudge thread that you could make it and I did NOT know that!

It is yet another super simple recipe that you can do, especially if you are in a pinch and find you are out of it. Or do like others and just always make your own.


INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)
3/4 cup boiling water
6 tablespoons butter
1 cup white sugar
2 2/3 cups nonfat dry milk powder


DIRECTIONS
Combine water, butter, sugar and milk powder in a blender and blend until thickened, 2 minutes. Store in refrigerator.

Sweetened Condensed Milk

Delicious Fudge


Ok. I have to hand it to the ladies at the Large Family boards, because they really do know how to cut down on time and really make things super simple!

I don't normally make fudge because I always felt it was way to labor intensive! Then someone posted this super simple fudge recipe. I tried it tonight with some of the Andes Mint chips for some minty fudge and it was delicious. My husband was shocked at how fast I made it too, LOL!

Seriously you have go to try this one and add it to your holiday baking list.


Chocolate Fudge

1 can sweetened condensed milk
3 C chocolate chips
4 Tb butter

Put all ingredients into a bowl and microwave for 1 minute. Stir well. Microwave again for another 30 seconds and stir again. If it is not thuroughly melted at this point then nuke for 20 second intervals, stirring inbetween until completely melted and mixed.

Pour into an 8x8 greased or lined pan.

Chill until set.

Cut and serve.

*You can add nuts, crushed up candy canes, mint extract, orange extract, flavored extracts of any kind, whatever you like. Try making two layer fudge with peanut butter fudge!


Peanut Butter Fudge
1 can sweetened condensed milk
2 C white baking chips
1/2 c peanut butter
1tsp vanilla

Prepare the same way as above.

Minty Chocolate Fudge

1 can sweetened condensed milk
2 C chocolate chips
1 C Mint Chips
4 Tb butter

Prepare as above, but pour only half of the mixture into the pan then add a layer of the left over mint chips and then pour the rest of the mix on top. (This is what I did for the Andes mint fudge and it was delicious!)

Other ideas:
Cherry flavoring with some chopped up dried cherried added.
Orange extract or flavoring and add dried citrus with some chopped walnuts.
Raisins with peanuts for a Chunky Candy Bar effect.

Be creative and share the fun this holiday season.

Thanks to JoyofSix for this wonderful recipe!