Foodie Friday

Well today is a great Friday for me!  Number 1 its foodie friday and I always love sharing recipes with you!!  Number 2 I put my 2 weeks notice in at my job today to start a new career path with a new hotel.  I am extremely excited about starting a new job and what fun surprises it will hold.  Its also a beautiful day outside and I have a weekend filled with nothing coming up so I am just an all around happy camper! 

On to the recipe today...because I am in such a good mood I think I am going to share with you my family's icecream recipe.  Nothing fancy or anything but its a family recipe so Im happy to share it with you.  This actually comes from my Grandpa who would make the eggnog variation each year for Christmas.  I loved it and love to make it around Christmas time.  I have a cuisinart ice cream maker that I love and recommend you get one too!  I wish I had gotten a colored one but mine is just silver.  So here is the recipe

Paul’s Famous Homemade Ice-cream

(Paul McCormack recipe)

Servings: 4-5 quarts   Prep Time: 15min   Freeze Time: per ice-cream maker   Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients

• 2c sugar

• 4 large eggs

• 1 can Eagle Brand condensed milk

• 1quart heavy cream (not whipping cream)

• 1tsp vanilla (can be substituted for any flavor)

• Enough whole Milk to fill Ice Cream maker (can be substituted with egg nog)

Instructions

Put sugar in a large mixing bowl. Make a volcano top in the sugar and add eggs. Beat eggs until blended and continue to work in the sugar. With mixer running, add condensed milk slowly until fully blended. Add vanilla any time. Add heavy cream as you continue to mix until thoroughly blended. Pour mixture into freezer and add whole milk as required. Stir to blend before closing freezer.

Yum Yum!  I have been craving icecream all week, I think I am going to make some this weekend!  What awesome recipes do you plan to make this weekend?

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Foodie Friday

YAY for Friday!!  Today is Foodie Friday and Im going to share with you one of the recipes I make for Christmas Cookies.  I love christmas cookies, making the dough, cutting them out, but I HATE decorating them.  I dont know why, I just hate decorating cookies, but se la vie we all have to do things in life we dont really like.  So lets get to the recipe shall we?!  Today is Eggnog Cutout Cookies.  I love these because the spice is subtle and the decorating is a snap!  I divide the icing recipe into 4 bowls and dye them different colors to make fun solid color cookies.  Here is the recipe:

Eggnog Cutout Cookies

(A Taste of Home recipe)

Servings: 4dozen         Prep Time: 25min           Chill: 1hr            Bake: 10min        Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon eggnog
• 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Icing

• 2 cups confectioners' sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg, optional
• 4 to 5 tablespoons eggnog (the better quality eggnog the better the icing, thick is good)
• Liquid or paste food coloring, optional

Instructions

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. Stir in eggnog. Combine the flour, salt, baking soda and nutmeg; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut with floured 2-1/2-in. cookie cutters. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets.
• Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes or until edges begin to brown. Remove to wire racks to cool.
• In a small bowl, beat the confectioners' sugar, nutmeg if desired and enough eggnog to achieve icing consistency. Add food coloring if desired. Spread over cooled cookies; let stand until set. 

A note from me...when you roll them out you need  ALOT of flour, they can be kinda sticky and the first batch will not un-stick from the surface, but once you get to the second, third, fourth batch they turn out great.  Just be prepared to use a lot of flour.

I love these cookies and hope you do too!  Make sure and share :)  If you have any interesting variations to share let me know I would love to hear how you made this recipe your own!

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