Dessert
Holiday Must-Have Dessert
December 14, 2010 | 
Author Every family has holiday traditional dishes that a meal would not be complete without. This dish has been known to cause fights in the middle of the night amongst those still wanting more … whoever gets there first is usually defending their bowl to the death at the three a.m. raid!
It is simple, yummy and NOT AT ALL HEALTHY … but it’s not Christmas without it in our house!
Mom’s Forever Famous, Fist-Fight Causing Raspberry Jell-O Salad
Salad:
1 large, or two small packages of raspberry Jell-O
2 c. boiling water
10 oz. unsweetened applesauce
1 package of frozen raspberries, thawed (Use the juice too)
Topping:
1 c. sour cream (low-fat or fat free will not work!)
1 1/2 c. mini marshmallows.
Method:
Mix the ingredients for the Jell-O together and mould in sprayed mould, lest it not come out. Make the topping and put in refrigerator over night, stirring occasionally. Un-mould the Jell-O and serve on a pretty glass plate, the topping in a dish beside it. Serve freely on top (if you are really fancy you will run the topping through a piping bag!)
Watch it disappear. (Frankly make double or you won’t get any yourself!) Really good for breakfast the next day or in bed late at night as long as you have stolen the left-overs from the fridge before your siblings have.
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Cabin-Fever = Snow Cream
Today is day four of the Blizzard of December 2010…most areas got up to four feet of snow which meant that every eight hours I would have to go out and clean off the car and move it so that area of the parking lot could be plowed. This is the time of the year when I “un-like” people who have garages or who live in sunnier climates. EVERYTHING is closed: the libraries, the schools, even the buses are not running (for only the third time EVER in the history of London Transit!)
Boredom set in when I decided that I was sick of making Christmas cookies so I took a page from my mom’s past and made snow cream! (When you get this much snow it is easy to find fresh clean snow to use!) There are a million recipes on the Internet but I used a church cookbook from the 1920s that belonged to my grandmother for my guide. As we’d used up all the eggs in the cookies and cranberry loaf this was the recipe we used…
Nana Grace’s Snow Cream
8 cups Fresh Snow (liquid measure)
1 cup Sugar
2 tbsp. Vanilla
1 cup Milk
Put the snow into a large mixing bowl (metal or ceramic are best, as they will hold the coldness of the snow in them better than plastic). Add the ingredients slowly: first the cup of sugar, then the vanilla and finally, the milk . Using a wooden spoon, mix all the ingredients well. Continue mixing till the ingredients are well combined and snow attains the texture of ice cream.
Serve immediately as snow cream does not hold well in freezer…drizzles withPresident’s Choice Dulce de Leche or Gourmet Dark Chocolate Sauce for a super treat!
It was so good we decided to make another, well, more ADULT version: one that definitely did not come from that book!
Adult Snow Cream
2/3 c. Half & Half
1/3 cup Baileys Irish Cream
1/2 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Dash of salt
8 c. of fresh, clean snow
Mix all of the ingredients except the snow and then slowly fold in the white stuff and enjoy!
Cupcake Cuties
On a somewhat related note, my friend Theresa recently started a new company here in SoCal — if you’re into creating cupcakes, and want to see some amazing decorating options, check out her website at CupCake Cuties.
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