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Easy Recipe Ideas For A Dish To Pass

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Are you going to a pot luck supper anytime soon? Have you figured out what to bring for a dish to pass? Take a look at this BIG LIST of lots crowd-pleasing recipes that everyone will love. Take your pick!

What to bring for a dish to pass #tips

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Great Dish-To-Pass Recipe Ideas To Make For The Next Potluck Supper

Appetizers/Snacks To Bring To The Party

Sausage bread from Love Bakes Good Cakes #appetizers

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Buffalo Chicken Dip

Cheesy Spinach Dip

Classic Deviled Eggs

 Easy Cheese Salsa Dip

3 Ingredient Chili Cheese Dip

Mexican Layer Dip

Sausage Bread Recipe

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Great Casseroles For A Dish To Pass

Pictured:   Crockpot Chili

Crockpot Chili

Baked Chicken Enchiladas

Baked Macaroni and Cheese

5 Ingredient Baked Ziti

Tortellini Alfredo

 

Salads To Bring To The Next Party

Chinese chicken salad by Confetti and Bliss blog #recipes

Pictured:  Chinese Chicken Salad by Confetti and Bliss

Broccoli Salad with Bacon & Raisins

Chinese Chicken Salad

Italian Tossed Salad [Our Family’s Favorite Salad]

Chinese Napa Cabbage Salad with Crunchy Topping

Classic Macaroni Salad

Mom’s Homemade Classic Potato Salad

 

Side Dishes for Potluck Suppers

Crunchy pea salad recipe

Pictured: Crunchy Pea Cashew Salad

Baked Green Bean Casserole

Beans with Franks and Sweet Potatoes

Classic Macaroni and Cheese Casserole

Crunchy Pea, Cashew & Bacon Salad

Simple Make Ahead 7 Layer Pea Salad

Three Bean Salad

 

Desserts Your Guests Will Love!

Chocolate bacon cupcakes with chocolate filling #recipes

Pictured:  Chocolate Bacon Cupcakes with Chocolate Filling

Chocolate Bacon Cupcakes with Chocolate Filling

Cream Cheese Pound Cake w Strawberries

Fudgy Oatmeal Chocolate Bars

Marble Brownies

Strawberry Jell-O Pretzel Salad

Enjoy your party!

 

 

 

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Classic Oatmeal Raisin Walnut Cookies

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What kind of cookies do you like best? My very favorite cookies are oatmeal raisin cookies. Add walnuts to them and it is my perfect world. Just make a batch of these delicious classic oatmeal raisin walnut cookies and you will see what I mean!
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Classic Oatmeal Raisin Walnut Cookies

Recipe adapted from Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Recipe.

Ingredients

14 T. butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white granulated sugar
 2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp.  cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
3 cups old fashioned oats, dry
1 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped walnuts*
Oatmeal raisin walnut cookies

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Directions

Preheat oven to 350°
Cream together butter and both sugars.
Add eggs and vanilla, beat well.
Combine dry ingredients – flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt – then add them to the butter mixture.
Blend well.
Add oats, raisins and walnuts*
Drop dough onto ungreased cookie sheets in rounded spoonfuls.
Bake 8-11 minutes
Cook 1 minute
Remove to baking rack to complete the cooling process.
Serve or store in closed container.
Makes 24-48 cookies depending on how big you make them!

*Tip: if you like more walnuts in your cookies, press each rounded spoonful in chopped walnuts rather than mixing them through the dough. The dough will stick together better, too. Win-win!
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 Is chocolate more your style? Check out this recipe for Butterfinger Balls!


Enjoy!

Elegant Jam Thumbprint Cookies Look So Pretty On The Dessert Table

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 Jam thumbprint cookies are simple to make and look so lovely on a dessert table! What noteworthy occasions can you think of to serve these scumprtious delights? The holidays? Yes! A cookie swap? Naturally! How about a gift to someone you love? So simple to make, these cookies are extra special. Here is the wonderfully simple recipe for you …

Jam Thumbprint Cookie Recipe

TOOLS

Electric mixer
Cookie sheets
Parchment paper

INGREDIENTS

2 sticks salted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup of sugar
2 eggs, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Pinch of salt
2 cups of flour
1 cup finely chopped walnuts
3/4 cup jam – any flavor

DIRECTIONS

  • Cream the butter and sugar together using electric mixer for 3 minutes on high.
  • Separate the eggs. Add yolks and vanilla  Save the egg whites in a shallow dish on the side to be used to dip the cookies in before baking.
  • Add the flour and salt. Mix until just combined.
  • Place the dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes and preheat the oven to 350°.
  • Now, whisk the egg whites till frothy.
  • Roll the dough into balls* about 1 inch in diameter and dip them in egg whites. If using chopped nuts, then roll them in the nuts until covered.
  • Place the balls on parchment lined cookie sheets.
  • Press down in the center with your thumb to make a small indent in the center of the cookie. Do not press too hard or the cookie will fall apart.
  • Fill with 1/2 teaspoon of jam.
  • Bake for 12-15 minutes or until slightly firm. Allow to cool for a few minutes on the cookie sheet to firm up before moving them to a wire rack to finish cooling.

Adapted from Thumbprint Cookies recipe by Garrett McCord  

Photos by Sinea Pies

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TIP: the dough will stick to your hands big-time.  Leave your water faucet running slightly so that you can get your hands damp before each ball. The ball will smooth nicely and the stickiness will be greatly reduced.

Makes 2 dozen cookies.

 

Enjoy!

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Quick And Easy Strawberry Bread Recipe

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This quick and easy strawberry bread can be made with any kind of strawberries – fresh or frozen. Make it for home or take it as your dish-to-pass at your next event. Everyone will love it!

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Easy recipe for strawberry sweet bread


Strawberry Bread Recipe

Ingredients

1 egg

1 cup sugar

1/3 cup butter

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp baking soda

1 cup strawberries (mashed)

1 2/3 cups flour

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Easy sweetbread made with fresh strawberries

Directions

Blend together egg, sugar and butter.

Add baking soda to mashed strawberries.

Add flour and strawberries alternately to mixture.

Add vanilla.

Grease loaf pan, pour in batter and bake at 350° for 50-55 minutes.

Bread is done when toothpick inserted comes out clean.

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Sliced homemade strawberry sweet bread

Enjoy!

 

 

 

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Wow Your Family With A Yummy Sundae Fundae Party!

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This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #SummerSundaes #CollectiveBias
What kind of family fun can you cook up this summer? The best fun can actually be very simple. No need for a special occasion. Pull together a surprise Sundae Fundae Party right at home. I made this oh-so-easy Ice Cream Sundae Cake with a Crunchy Pretzel Crust! 
 
I made this delicious pretzel crust ice cream cake in advance so that I could be ready at a moment’s notice. That way all that needs to be done is to cut the cake into serving size squares and pull out an assortment of yummy toppings. Sundae party in minutes! Make it for an impromptu family get together or even a birthday party, graduation celebration, pool party or when the kids have their friends over. It is perfect anywhere, anytime.
This ice cream cake starts with a crunchy pretzel crust, Blue Bunny® PB ‘N Cones™ Ice Cream and Smucker’s Hot Fudge Spoonable Ice Cream Topping. When party time arrives, I will put out bowls filled with a variety of tasty delicacies to crown our works-of-art plus a can of Reddi-Wip® original whipped topping for the finishing touch!

 

 

Crunchy Pretzel Ice Cream Sundae Cake

 

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Ingredients

 

2 1/2 cups pretzels, crushed into small pieces

2/3 cup butter (salted), melted

3 T. sugar

2 46 oz. Blue Bunny® PB ‘N Cones™ Ice Cream
1-2 jars Smucker’s Hot Fudge Spoonable Ice Cream Topping
1 can Reddi-Wip® original whipped topping

 

Various sundae toppings such as:
          • chopped nuts
          • crushed pretzels
          • potato chips
          • sprinkles
          • banana slices
          • cherries
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Directions
    • Using a large springform pan, make the pretzel crust.* (directions below)
    • Cool the crust.
    • Remove the ice cream from freezer and allow to soften about 15 minutes.
    • Put scoops of ice cream onto the pretzel layer for a thick layer of ice cream.
    • Smooth the ice cream using the back of a spoon.
    • Place the cake in the freezer for 30 minutes.
    • Warm the fudge topping in the microwave 15 – 30 seconds till easily scooped.
    • Spoon the fudge topping onto the top of the cake.
    • Spread the topping, cover with plastic wrap and place back in the freezer.
    • When it is time for your “fundae,” remove the outer part of the pan, set out your toppings and let everyone build their own awesome sundae!
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Recipe for Pretzel Layer

    • Place the pretzels in a large freezer bag or leave them in their original bag.
    • Crush the pretzels in the bag, using a rolling pin on the outside.
    • Add sugar to the pretzels and mix through.
    • Melt the butter and combine with the crushed pretzels and sugar.
    • Spread pretzel mixture in a 10 – 11″ spring form baking pan.
    • Bake for 10 minutes at 350°.
    • Cool.
For over 80 years, Blue Bunny® has been delighting ice cream loving families with their playful flavors. Their new treats take classic flavors and put a new fun spin on them – like the Blue Bunny® PB ‘N Cones™ flavor used in this recipe! Blue Bunny® Ice Cream is sold at Walmart stores nationwide.
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Now you can’t have a decent sundae without Smucker’s topping, can you.  I bought my favorite, hot fudge, but they have a wide variety of flavors to choose from. Just go on over to Walmart and take your pick!
Reddi-Wip is a happy ending to any dessert. I have a can in my refrigerator to put on smoothies, pudding, pie and, of course, ice cream SUNDAES! It was so convenient to buy all of the ingredients at Walmart!
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Provide a variety of yummy toppings for each person to create their own fun sundae!
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 Enjoying “salty ‘n sweet” with crunchy potato chips, creamy Reddi-Wip® and cherry on top!
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This sundae is its own kind of banana-split!
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Ooh, pretty!  Love this sundae with salted almonds, whipped topping and sprinkles on top!
 
 
Got any creative sundae ideas for us? 
Share it in the comments!
 
 
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Enjoy!
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