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Peanut Butter Crunch Bars - Holiday Bake Along

Holiday Bake Along - Needlework and Quilting!

The joy of creation can result from doing beautiful needlework, creating a lovely quilt or simply baking and cooking delicious treats for your loved ones!

Professionals from the Quilting and Needlework Industries have joined together to share their holiday memories, a glimpse into their businesses, and MANY irresistible recipes!

Please visit ILoveToBake.com and TheArmchairChef.com for more fabulous holiday creations!

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PEANUT BUTTER CRUNCH BARS
No Bake Recipe!
To this day, peanut butter is my favorite food group. Nobody ever told me I was supposed to outgrow peanut butter. It’s just as well; I wouldn’t have listened. As a kid, I’d wake up early Saturday morning to snuggle down with a jar of peanut butter, Cheerios, and a spoon, and laugh my head off at Bugs Bunny. That was everyday peanut butter. For special occasions, like Christmas, we all got fancied up–me, my family, the peanut butter. Instead of peanut butter on cereal, ice cream, pancakes, apples, or banana sandwiches, we dressed it up in cookies, potato candy, and my favorite: Peanut Butter Crunch Bars.
Ingredients
Bar Ingredients
1¼ cups creamy peanut butter
½ cup margarine or butter, softened
4 cups graham cracker cereal, crushed
2 cups powdered sugar
Icing Ingredients:
1 Tablespoon shortening
1 cup milk chocolate chips
Step by Step
Bar Instructions
1) Beat together peanut butter and margarine in a large mixing bowl.
2) Add cereal, then slowly add powdered sugar. The dough will be stiff.
3) Press mixture into ungreased 9×9x2 pan.
Icing Instructions
4) Melt shortening and chocolate chips in a saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly.
Assembly Instructions
5) Spread chocolate over peanut butter mixture in pan.
6) Refrigerate until chilled.
7) Remove from fridge 10 minutes before serving, and cut into 24 bars.
8) Serve and Enjoy!
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Trudie’s Tea Cakes - Holiday Bake Along

The joy of creation can result from doing beautiful needlework, creating a lovely quilt or simply baking and cooking delicious treats for your loved ones!

Professionals from the Quilting and Needlework Industries have joined together to share their holiday memories, a glimpse into their businesses, and MANY irresistible recipes!

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TRUDIE’S TEA CAKES
This is a recipe that my Swedish mother always made during the holidays. She usually called it “Russian Tea Cakes”, but when she learned and started to teach Spanish, she began calling it “Mexican Wedding Cakes”. I have now named them after her!
Ingredients
1 cup butter
6 Tbsp powdered sugar
2 Tbsp vanilla
2 cups cake flour (use 2 Tbsp less if using regular flour)
1 cup chopped walnuts (medium size pieces)
Step by Step
Preheat oven to 350 F
Do not grease baking sheet.
1) Cream butter and sugar.
2) Add flour, vanilla, walnuts.
3) Roll into a ball the size of a walnut.
4) Bake: 350 degrees 15-20 minutes or until light brown. Watch carefully - checking bottoms of cookies.
5) When cookies are still warm, roll in powdered sugar (in bowl or bag).
6) Serve and Enjoy!

Makes 30-36 cookies.

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Our designs are as varied as our personalities. We are a brand new company and new designs are arriving all the time, so look to see more of us in the future.

We originally met in a mini group which we named “Loose Threads” because sometimes we are not “all there”. In fact, I am having to PUSH these creative friends of mine to collect their original designs so I can publish them. This was my original inspiration for this company. At that time, I did not know that I, also, can design quilts.

We hope you like our designs!Web Site coming soon!

Vinaterta (Traditional Icelandic Prune Cake) - Holiday Bake Along

Holiday Bake Along - Needlework and Quilting!

The joy of creation can result from doing beautiful needlework, creating a lovely quilt or simply baking and cooking delicious treats for your loved ones!

Professionals from the Quilting and Needlework Industries have joined together to share their holiday memories, a glimpse into their businesses, and MANY irresistible recipes!

Please visit ILoveToBake.com and TheArmchairChef.com for more fabulous holiday creations!
While this is not a cookie, it is a wonderful recipe and provides a fascinating glimpse into another culture!

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VINATERTA (Traditional Icelandic Prune Cake)
Knitwear designer Leanne Dyck reminisces:

Growing up in the heart of a large extended family meant that Christmas was a special event. Festivities began on December 24th. Mom or one of her sisters hosted the event. This gathering grew out of a need expressed by the patriarch and matriarch. So on the appointed day during the appointed hours the appointed house was packed to the rooftop with people, food and presents. We kids thrilled at the opportunity to open one present early and to party way past our usual bedtimes. Young and old ate and ate and ate way too much while Mom and her sisters glowed. Nothing gave them more joy than to hear the magic groans of, “Oh, I ate way too much!” Recipes were hunted down, faithfully recorded, privately shared, then tested and re-tested all in preparation for this special day.
Ingredients
Filling: 2 ½ cups pitted prunes (1 lb/ 454 g)
1 cup sugar
1 tsp ground cardamom (optional)
Layers: 1 ¼ cups sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3 –3 ½ cups all-purpose flour (or more if needed)
3 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
½ cup milk
Almond icing (optional) 1 cup icing sugar
1 Tbsp butter, softened
1 ½ tsp milk
1 ¼ tsp almond extract
Cream ingredients together, in a small mixing bowl.
Step by Step
To prepare filling:1) Place prunes in a saucepan and add enough water to cover.
2)  Bring to a boil, simmer until prunes are very soft and most of the water has evaporated.
3) Put through a food mill or blender.
4) Add sugar and cardamom (optional), stir to combine and set aside to cool.
To prepare layers:1) In large mixing bowl,  cream butter and sugar.
2) Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
3) Measure and combine dry ingredients; add alternately with milk to creamed mixture.
4) If dough is sticky, add a little more flavor to make rolling our easier.
To assemble:1) Divide dough into 8 equal portions.
2) On a floured surface, roll each out into a 8 inch round (Mom usually made 6 layers. She set a large dinner plate on top of the dough and traced around the plate with a butter knife.)
3) Dough should be very thin, about ¼ inches in thickness. Bake on cookie sheet.
4) Bake at 375 F for 8-10 minutes or until slightly golden and done.
5) Cool on a wire rack.
6) Assemble by spreading a thin layer of prunes over each layer.
7) Top with your best looking one.
8) The layers will be crisp but will soften with the filling.
9) Top with almond icing, if deserved.

Store in a tightly covered thin for a few days before cutting.
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Olavia’s hand knitting patterns combines stylish design with basic knitting techniques.

My business was named to honor the memory of my Mom, Olavia. Although, she was not my first knitting teacher she did ensure that my knitting experiences remained fun and rewarding. It is this philosophy that inspires my designs. I seek to break all design components down to their simplest form so that all knitters regardless of their skill level can have a fun and rewarding knitting experience.

Novelty Yarn is my first book.  Novelty Yarn celebrates knitting in prose and poetry.

Web Site: http://www.oknitting.com/

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Meringue Cookies with Chocolate Chips - Holiday Bake Along

The joy of creation can result from doing beautiful needlework, creating a lovely quilt or simply baking and cooking delicious treats for your loved ones!

Professionals from the Quilting and Needlework Industries have joined together to share their holiday memories, a glimpse into their businesses, and MANY irresistible recipes!

Please visit ILoveToBake.com and TheArmchairChef.com for more fabulous holiday creations!

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MERINGUE COOKIES WITH CHOCOLATE CHIPS
No Wheat Recipe!
We make these cookies all year long but especially at Christmas. They are my husband’s favorites. My mother–in-law always made a batch before he came home. Ellie liked them because she couldn’t have wheat products.
Ingredients
1 egg white
1/2 cup of sugar
1 handful of cornflakes crushed
1/2 cup of chocolate chips
Step by Step
Preheat oven to 350 F.
1) Beat 1 egg white until it is thick.
2) Add 1/2 cup of sugar gradually while continuing to beat the egg white.
3) Add the handful of crushed cornflakes and fold into the mix.
4) Add the chocolate chips and mix.
5) Drop by teaspoon onto a buttered cookie sheet.
6) Bake at 350 F for 15 minutes.
7) Cool.
8) Serve and Enjoy!
Ridgewood Needlepoint
Ridgewood Needlepoint is a needlepoint store that specializes in painted canvases, threads and classes. It is a warm and welcoming place where we enjoy teaching many different levels of stitching. This year, finished items have started to trickle in at Ridgewood Needlepoint. There are lots of ornaments and stockings. In addition, I finished a Tapestry Tent Stocking called “The Entourage.” The stitching is great and the finishing is unbelieveable. Instead of a stitched cuff, it has a fur cuff and a stitched nametag. That way it can really be an heirloom.

Customers are actively involved in classes on two Christmas themed items - Candy Village by Beau Geste and the Midtown Manhattan Stocking by DJ Designs. (We call it the Rockerfeller Center Stocking). Both projects are progressing nicely and should be finished in time for Christmas 2007. The Rockerfeller Center Stocking class can also be taken as a cyber class.

We will be seeing many of our customers as they pick up their finishing. It’s always exciting to have a box of finishing come in, especially at this time of year! We enjoy the holiday season at Ridgewood Needlepoint.
Unfortunately, our diets often suffer because of the delightful goodies brought in by our customers! http://www.ridgewoodneedlepoint.com/

Turtle Bars - Holiday Bake Along

Holiday Bake Along - Needlework and Quilting!

The joy of creation can result from doing beautiful needlework, creating a lovely quilt or simply baking and cooking delicious treats for your loved ones!

Professionals from the Quilting and Needlework Industries have joined together to share their holiday memories, a glimpse into their businesses, and MANY irresistible recipes!

Please visit ILoveToBake.com and TheArmchairChef.com for more fabulous holiday creations!

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TURTLE BARS
My holiday memories are mostly of my Grandmother and Great Aunt. They lived together, and everyone seemed to tower over them, but they gave me coffee (with saccharin and cream, of course), butterhorn rolls, homemade fudge, and apple pie. At holidays everyone would crowd into their tiny house but we never noticed how tiny it was because we enjoyed being with them. Then my Great Aunt would nod off in the chair, and she would always say, “I wasn’t asleep!” I would do anything for one more meal with them.
Ingredients
Crust:2 cups flour
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
Caramel Layer:2/3 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cups pecan halves
1 cup milk chocolate chips
Step by Step
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
1) In large bowl, combine 3 crust ingredients well with a fork.
2) Pat firmly in an ungreased 9×13″ pan.
3) Sprinkle pecans evenly over crust.
Caramel Layer:
1) Cook butter and brown sugar over med.
2) Heat in heavy saucepan, stirring constantly.
3) Let boil, and continue boiling for 30-60 seconds. (Until all butter cooks in mixture).
4) Pour caramel layer evenly over pecans and crust.
5) Bake at 350 degrees 15-20 minutes, or until crust begins to turn light brown and caramel mixture is bubbly.
6) Immediately sprinkle on the cup of chocolate chips evenly.
7) Let sit to melt and lightly swirl chips, leaving some whole.
8) Cool
9) Serve and Enjoy!
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