Strawberry Fondue

Strawberry Fondue
1 (10 oz) pkg. frozen sweetened sliced strawberries, thawed
1/4 cup half and half cream
1 tsp. cornstarch
1/2 tsp. lemon juice
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Combine all in food processor or blender and process until smooth. Pour into saucepan and bring to a boil. Cook and stir for 2 mins. or until slightly thickened. Transfer to fondue pot or mini slow cooker. Serve with angel food cake cubes and fresh fruit. 


*When I poured the sauce out of the blender, it fit in a small sauce pan, but then it boiled over so next time I will use a bigger pot.

Grape Salad

I posted this recipe about a year ago, but decided it needed to be changed a little bit because it taste better one way with red grapes and another way with green grapes. 


Grape Salad w/ red grapes
8 oz. cream cheese
8 oz. sour cream
1 cup brown sugar
8 - 16 oz. cool whip
red grapes
slivered almonds
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Remove stems from grapes and rinse well. Lay out on a towel to dry. Cream the cream cheese and brown sugar. Add the sour cream. Fold in cool whip. Mix well. Add in grapes and slivered almonds.


Grape Salad w/ green grapes
8 oz. cream cheese
8 oz. sour cream
7 oz. marshmallow cream
8 - 16 oz. cool whip
green grapes
slivered almonds
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Remove stems from grapes and rinse well. Lay out on a towel to dry. Cream the cream cheese and marshmallow cream together. Add the sour cream. Fold in cool whip. Mix well. Add in grapes and slivered almonds.
*I found two different recipes. One called for the same amount of cool whip as cream cheese & sour cream. The other recipe called for it to be doubled. I made it using low fat ingredients and the low fat cool whip came in containers of 12 oz. so I just went with that. I also sometimes double the cream cheese because I like cream cheese so much. :)

Strawberry Ghosts

Strawberry Ghosts
30 fresh strawberries
8 oz. white baking chocolate, chopped
1 tsp. shortening
1/8 tsp. almond extract
1/4 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
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Wash strawberries and gently pat with paper towels until completely dry. In a microwave-safe bowl, melt white chocolate and shortening at 50% power; stir until smooth. Stir in extract.

Dip strawberries in chocolate mixture; place on a waxed paper-lined baking sheet, allowing excess chocolate to form the ghosts' tails. Immediately press chocolate chips into coating for eyes. Freeze for 5 minutes.

In a microwave-safe bowl, melt remaining chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Dip a toothpick into melted chocolate and draw a mouth on each face.