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Oreo Turkeys

The Hungry Housewife — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:02:56 +0000

Don’t forget about these on your Thanksgiving table. They will be sure to make everyone smile!

Happy Thanksgiving to you all. May your holiday be filled with wonderful food, family, friends, love and memories.

You need:

Oreos
Mini Reese’s Cups
Candy Corn
Malted Milk Balls
Tube Icing in white, orange, red and black

“Glue” (with some icing) one Oreo onto the other Oreo for the Turkeys back.
“Glue” (with icing) a Reese’s cup onto the front of the Oreo that is vertical for the turkeys belly
“Glue” (with icing) the malted milk ball on to the top of the Reeces Cup.
Place 5 candy corns, tip side down into the white filling of the cookie for the feathers.
Snip the white tip off of a candy corn for the nose and glue it onto the front of the malted milk ball.
Add the eyes, waddle and feet with the icing.

Maple Pumpkin Pie

The Hungry Housewife — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:23:03 +0000

What is your favorite holiday pie? Mine by far is pumpkin and cherry. I can’t have Thanksgiving without it. This maple pumpkin pie is my all time favorite. The maple and cinnamon gives it just that little something extra.
Pumpkin pie is very easy to make. You can take a short cut and use a pre-made pie crust. I won’t tell a soul.

Maple Pumpkin Pie

5.0 from 1 reviews

Recipe type: Dessert

Author: Leslie Green – The Hungry Housewife

Prep time: 20 mins

Cook time: 70 mins

Total time: 1 hour 30 mins

Serves: 8

Maple pumpkin Pie..they perfect holiday pie.

Ingredients

PIE CRUST
1 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour (6 1/4 ounces)
1/2 teaspoon table salt
1tablespoon sugar
6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter (3/4 stick), cut into 1/4-inch slices
1/4 cup chilled solid vegetable shortening , cut into 2 pieces
2 tablespoons vodka , cold
2 tablespoons cold water
PIE FILLING
1 15 oz. can pumpkin (NOT pumpkin pie filling)
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup half and half or whole milk
1 tablespoon maple extract

Instructions

PIE CRUST

Mix the flour, salt, and sugar together in a medium bowl.
With a pastry fork,two forks or your fingers, mix the butter and shortening into the flour mixture (dough will resemble cottage cheese curds with some very small pieces of butter remaining, but there should be no uncoated flour).
Empty mixture into medium bowl.
Sprinkle vodka and water over mixture. With rubber spatula, use folding motion to mix, pressing down on dough until dough is slightly tacky and sticks together.
Flatten dough into 4-inch disk.
Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 45 minutes or up to 2 days.
Preheat the oven to 375.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the pie dough large enough to fit a 8″ or 9″ pie pan.
Place it in your pie pan and put it in the freezer for about 15 minutes.
Meanwhile in a large bowl, mix together the pumpkin, sugar, maple syrup, cinnamon and salt.
Add the eggs and beat with a fork until mixed thoroughly.
Slowly add the half and half and maple extract, stir until combined.
Remove pie crust from the freezer and fill the crust with the pumpkin filling.
Cover the edges of of the pie crust with foil or a pie crust sheild.
Bake for 35 minutes, then remove the foil and bake for an additional 35 minutes or until the center is set or when a tooth pick or a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool on a wire rack.

Notes

The maple extract is optional. It might be hard to find in your area.
-Pie filling inspired by Better Homes and Gardens
-Pie crust from Cooks Illustrated

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Welcome from Daytime

The Hungry Housewife — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000

If you are visiting from viewing my segment on Daytime…WELCOME..

Click here for the recipes for the Fluffy Pumpkin Dip and Acorns

Pumpkin dip, acorns and a goodbye

The Hungry Housewife — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:58:00 +0000

Alright, lets talk some food first! I had to jump on the fall food bandwagon!
I made the next two items for my second TV segment that should be airing closer to Thanksgiving(I promise I will get them up on my blog when the hubby figures out how to get them off the DVR).
Is that a turkey in my dip?? Yep, it sure is. Oh my word, let me tell you about this dip. It is evil, it is sooo good. Its like a fluffy pumpkin pie in a dip form. YUM! It is crazy quick and you can serve it up in a cute hallowed out pumpkin for a darling effect!

FLUFFY PUMPKIN DIP W/ CINNAMON SUGAR TORTILLAS

1 16 oz tub of cool whip,thawed out

1 5 ounce packet of Vanilla Pudding (instant)

1 can Libby’s Pumpkin

1 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

In a large bowl mix together pudding,pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice and vanilla.

Gently stir in Cool whip. This takes about 5 minutes to get the mixture smooth.

CINNAMON SUGAR TORTILLAS

Flour tortillas

Cinnamon Sugar

Butter flavored cooking spray

Preheat oven to 350.

Use a cookie or biscuit cutter to cut your tortillas into your desired shape.

Place them on a lined baking sheet.

Spray with butter flavored cooking spray.

Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar to your liking

Spray again with cooking spray to make sure cinnamon sugar sticks

Bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned.

Enjoy the yumminess!

Arent these cute? They totally look like little acorns. I found this recipe in Family Fun

ACORN DOUGH NUTS

Chocolate Frosting

Donut holes(I used Pop ems)

Crumbled Toffee

Pretzels

Frost a third of the doughnut hole with chocolate frosting

Roll the frosted part of the doughnut in the toffee.

Break the curved part of a pretzel off and poke in the top of the doughnut so it looks like the stem.

And I leave you with a picture of me and my little munchkin. Isnt she cute?

And on to the bad news(well it could be good news if you don’t enjoy my blog)!

Well I have officially got sooooooo far behind with my blog I just cant catch up!!!!! Most of you know by now, that 99% of the time return every comment I get on all of my posts. I got behind on 3 of my posts. That is roughly 130 comments I have yet to return. And that doesn’t include the 600 items on my google reader I have yet to look at on all of your wonderful blogs. And it makes me feel terrible.

I don’t think it is fair for all of you wonderful people to read and comment on my blog if I cant return the favor. So if I cant blog my way I would rather not blog at all. I suppose it is my guilty conscious. I am not leaving for ever..I am just taking a break for now. PLEASE DON’T FORGET ABOUT ME!! I will be back as soon as I catch up on some things!

Happy Fall

The Hungry Housewife — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:06:00 +0000

Happy Fall y’all! I cant really say I know much about fall, since here in Florida we don’t get it. Well my calender on the fridge says today is the first day of fall. But the thermometer on my house says its still smack dab in the middle of sizzling summer! So many of you say your nights are starting to cool off. Here in Tampa, you can cut the humidity with a knife and you have to still bathe in Deep Woods Off to warn off the horse sized mosquito’s! Ohhh happy days!!!

Anyways, what a better way to start of “FALL” than turkey? No not the kind we usually pair with mashed potatoes, the Oreo Bread of Turkey!
Aren’t they adorable? I am not sure where they originally came from, probably one of those crafty holiday food magazines. I saw these many moons ago at a party and they always stuck in my head.

Writing the directions down without a visual is hard. But just one look at them and you can pretty much figure out how to make them.
Here is what you need for 1 turkey
2 DOUBLE stuff Oreos
7 Candy Corns
1 malted Milk Ball
1 Reece’s Cup
Chocolate Frosting(the premade kind in the tub)
White, red, orange and black decorating frosting(the kind in the squeeze tube)

Lay the one Oreo down. Take a smear of chocolate frosting and glue the other Oreo so it stand on top of the bottom Oreo(this one serves as the Turkeys back)
With the chocolate frosting, “glue” the Reece’s cup to the bottom and back Oreos
With the chocolate frosting glue the whopper to the top of the Reece’s.
Place 5 candy corns tip down into the vanilla cream of the “back” of the turkey
For the beak…Break off the tip of 1 candy corn and with the white frosting glue it on the malted milk ball.
Dab on the eyes with the white and black frosting.
Make feet with the orange frosting
Make the waddle with the red frosting
Affix 1 candy corm to the rear of the turkey..for his hiney!

DOES MY BUTT LOOK BIG???

Enjoy..the kiddos will get a kick out of these!