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Arts & Entertainment December 24, 2003
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Merry & Bright... Holiday Treats


Snowball Cookies

Reindeer Pops

1 tube (18 ounces) refrigerated
sugar cookie dough

2/3 cup of flour

1 3-inch round cookie cutter


Shortbread Candy Canes

24 craft sticks

48 mini pretzel twists

2 bags (11 ounces) Dove Milk
Chocolate Gifts

Brown sprinkles


Reindeer Pops

Snowflake sprinkles

1 bag (11 ounces) Dove Dark
Chocolate Gifts

Wax paper

1 bag (11 ounces) M&M’S Brand
Milk Chocolate Candies For
the Holidays


Cupcake Christmas Tree

1 tube white decorative frosting

Holiday curling ribbon

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. 2. Knead

sugar cookie dough with flour until smooth. Roll it out to 1/4 inch thickness. Press out 24 cookie rounds with cookie cutter. Transfer circles to un-greased cookie sheet. 3. Press craft stick into bottom of each circle; press 2 mini pretzel twists on each top for antlers. Bake cookies 12 to 14 minutes or until golden. Let cool on wire rack. 4. Melt

Milk Chocolate Gifts in microwave 1 to 3 minutes, stirring occasionally un-til smooth. Spread spoonful of chocolate over each cookie and pretzel. 5. Sprinkle brown sprin­kles over antlers and snowflake sprinkles between ant-lers as hair. Place 1 Dark Chocolate
Gift in middle of each cookie; then place cookies on wax paper-lined cookie sheet. 6. Chill in refrigerator

until choc­o­late is hardened, about 15 minutes. 7. Attach Milk Chocolate Can-

dies For the Holi­days with decorative icing for eyes and nose. Tie ribbon bow on each craft stick under reindeer’s head.

Makes 24 Reindeer Pops

Shortbread Candy Canes

1 cup butter, room temperature

1/2 cup confectioner’s sugar

1 3/4 cups flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1 container white frosting

1 bag (11 ounces) M&M’S
Brand Milk Chocolate
Candies For the Holidays

1. Combine butter and confectioner’s

sugar. 2. Add flour, salt and baking powder. 3. Roll out dough on floured surface to about 1/4-inch thickness. 4. Cut candy cane shapes with cookie cutter or knife. 5. Bake in preheat 350°F over about 10 minutes or until light brown. Let cool. 6. Frost with white frosting and decorate with Milk Chocolate Candies For the Holidays.

Makes 20 cookies

Cupcake Christmas Tree

1 box vanilla or chocolate cake mix

1/2 bag (13.30 ounces) 3 Muske- teers Brand
Miniatures, unwrapped and finely chopped

24 plain paper cupcake liners

2 cans (16 ounces) vanilla frosting

Green food coloring

3 bags (11 ounces) red and green M&M’S Brand Chocolate Candies For the Holidays

1 bag (11 ounces) M&M’S
Brand Chocolate Candies

24 festive cupcake liners

2 bags (11 ounces) Dove Milk
Chocolate Gifts

For tree stand:

3 6-ounce glasses

4 plates: sized approximately 2 inches, 6 inches

10 inches and 14 inches

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. 2. Prepare cake batter according to directions on box. Fold chopped Miniatures into bat-ter. 3. Spoon 1/2 cup batter into plain paper-lined cupcake tins. Bake cup­cakes 19 to 20 minutes. 4. Tint vanilla frosting with green food coloring. 5. Frost cupcakes with green frosting. 6. Decorate 23 cupcake tops with red and green Chocolate Candies For the Holi-days. Decorate 1 cup­cake with yellow Chocolate Candies. Place cupcakes in festive cupcake liners. 7. To build tree stand: Stack three plates each of de-creasing size, on top of a 14-inch plate. Place a glass in the center of each plate. Check that each plate and glass is well balanced. 8. Arrange red and green decorated cupcakes in sin­gle layer on three bottom plates. 9. Place yellow decorated cupcake on top plate for star.10. Finally, garnish tree with Milk Chocolate Gifts and other treats.

Makes 24 cupcakes



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