Pinterest is just the best thing since sliced bread, and it is OVERFLOWING with fun holiday ideas from crafting to decorating to table settings to how to hang Christmas cards. I really can't help myself.
But this is a food blog, isn't it. Lucky me -- I've found some tasty treat ideas there as well. This first one is a marriage of a recipe (chocolate pretzel fudge) and presentation idea (the reindeer brownies and cookies we've seen floating around). Like many others, I adore salty/sweet combos, and I'm happy to report that this is a totally easy technique. Love it.
Chocolate Pretzel Fudge
12 oz bag milk chocolate chips
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
14 oz sweetened condensed milk
2 Tbsp milk
1 cup broken pretzel pieces
Melt together first four ingredients on the stove. Stir in pretzel pieces. Pour in a foil lined, square baking pan and chill for at least three hours.
More salty sweet goodness = potato chips dipped in melted semi-sweet chocolate. Nuff said.
Pumpkin Sandwich Cookies (Click here for recipe)
This recipe was not a Pinterest find, but something I clipped about a hundred years ago. After it glared at me for the gazillionth time from its glossy page protector in my recipe binder (I just re-read that...wow....), I declared that the 'toss it' or 'make it' decision was imminent. I chose the latter, and boy am I glad. I expected a modestly dense cookie, but these are more pillowy, like whoopie pies. The filling is heaven, which is convenient given that a bite of this sandwich will leave you covered in it. BTW, serious kudos to whoever glued two cookies together with something divinely gooey and sweet and called it something other than "two cookies glued together with something divinely gooey and sweet". The sandwich term makes me feel a lot better about things.
Happy treating, everyone!
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