DAY 2: Chocolate Chip Chocolate Pudding Cookies
This year I did some experimenting with adding pudding mix to cookie recipes. The pudding mix helps keep the cookies soft and chewy and adds a rich flavor to the dough.
This is a chocolate chocolate chip cookie dough. I dipped them in white chocolate and decorated with seasonal sprinkles for Christmas cookie plates.
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Welcome to the 15th Annual Twelve Days of Christmas Cookies!
DAY 1: Apricot Shortbread Streusel Bars
An easy to make bar cookie. A shortbread crust is topped with sweet and tangy apricot jam and then topped with shortbread streusel.
You can easily substitute other jams in place of the apricot: seedless raspberry, blackberry, or peach would all be delicious.
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A delicious low-carb alternative to a traditional cheesesteak sub. You can add any of your favorite cheesesteak add-ins to the filling: onions, peppers, jalapeños.
I like to use this pre-sliced shaved beef steak. It makes for a quick and easy dinner prep. I usually give this pre-shaved meat a coarse chop so that there are no large slices of beef.
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Still have leftover ham? Here is a delicious and healthy low-carb way to use up some of that leftover Easter ham. This ham and vegetable chowder has half of the cauliflower blended with the stock to create a creamy base and the other half chopped into small florets to add texture to the soup. Adding a little cream and cheese makes for a hearty delicious soup. You can cook this in an Instant Pot, a crock pot, or on the stovetop.
Still have more leftover ham? Here are a couple of other ham recipes to try:
Southwestern Ham & White Bean Soup
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Saint Patrick’s Day is just around the corner! An Instant Pot pressure cooker makes a wonderfully tender corned beef brisket and doesn’t take all day to cook. Cook the brisket separately first, then keep warm in the oven while quickly cooking the vegetables in the corned beef broth.
I usually make this with potatoes, but we are limiting our starchy carbs these days, so this time we just stuck with cabbage, carrots, and celery.
Serve with fresh ground horseradish, or a horseradish sauce on the side.
If you have leftover corned beef, or you want to throw an extra brisket in the Instant Pot while you are cooking, this layered Reuben Casserole might just be better than the original corned beef and cabbage:
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All of the delicious flavors of pizza, without all of the bread. This makes a fun alternative to traditional pizza, even for the one child who doesn’t let me fill hers with sausage, pepperoni, or mozzarella cheese. But then- she also doesn’t eat pizza, so at least she likes a basic version of this meal.
To make these chicken rolls, it is important to pound the chicken breast thin between layers of plastic wrap. If you are starting with a large breast, you can either cut it completely in half into two thinner pieces before pounding, or you can butterfly the breast first before pounding.
I like to fill them with pepperoni, cooked sausage, and just a little bit of sauce and cheese. Here are a few process pictures (ignore the skinny little roll on the end without any of the delicious meat inside).
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Swirled Pumpkin Cheesecake with Salted Caramel
Caramel Pumpkin Cupcakes
Apple Cider Caramels
Pumpkin Waffles with Cinnamon Syrup
Apple Butter
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
Apple Cider Blondies
Pumpkin Quiche
Caramel Apple Cheesecake Tart
Pumpkin Chocolate Chunk Cookies
