Have a delicious holiday
We asked Fanshawe staff and students to send in their favourite holiday recipes. Here are the top treats this holiday season!
Holiday Wraps
John Said
Ingredients:
- One roast chicken (already roasted or roast your own)
- Tortilla wraps (use a combo of the green or red wraps to add colour)
- 2 boxes of your preferred stuffing mix (or make your own stuffing mixture from scratch)
- Turkey gravy
- 1 can whole cranberries.
Directions:
- Cut or shred the chicken
- Make the gravy
- Make the stuffing mix
- Take one wrap, take some chicken, take some stuffing mix, add a little gravy, add some cranberries, roll and fold tortilla. Repeat until all chicken and stuffing mixture used up.
- Wrap the wraps individually in cling wrap and allow to cool overnight in the fridge.
- Next day unwrap, cut each tortilla in half.
- Serve cold or warm (but they taste better warm!)
Bob Serif
Ingredients:
- 3 oz. coffee
- 1 oz. Bailey's Irish Cream
- 1/2 oz. Peppermint Schnapps
- 1/2 oz. Rumple Minze
Directions:
- Combine ingredients in a highball glass and top with fresh whipped cream.
Presidential Sugar Cookies
Joe Scalia
Ingredients:
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients.
- Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls, and place onto ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden. Let stand on cookie sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks.
Easy-Peasy Apple Crisp
Kendra Sauder
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 6 peeled and sliced large apples
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 6 tbsp butter
Directions:
- Combine 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup white sugar, lemon juice, water and cinnamon in bottom of small baking pan. Slice in apples. Blend remaining sugar (white and brown), flour, salt and butter until crumbly. Spread over apples and pat smooth.
- Bake at 375°F. for 40 to 50 minutes, until apples are tender and crust is browned. Serve hot with ice cream or milk!
Chow Mein Noodle Cookies
Sara Varley
Ingredients:
- 2 (6 oz.) pkg. chocolate chips
- 2 (6 oz.) pkg. butterscotch chips
- 1 (5 1/2 oz.) can (or two 3 oz. cans) chow mein noodles
- 1/2 cup cashews or peanuts
Directions:
In a heavy saucepan, combine chocolate and butterscotch chips. Melt, stirring constantly over low heat. Remove from heat and stir in chow mein noodles. Add nuts if desired. Mix quickly to coat each noodle, spoon with tablespoon onto waxed paper. Cool.
The Zeus of Cupcakes
Melyssa Gloude
Ingredients:
- 10 tbsp butter, softened
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1 3/4 cups sifted all purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/3 cup Nutella
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Lined muffin pans with muffin/cupcake paper liners.
- Combine sugar and butter. Add one egg at a time, combining after each.
- Add vanilla, flour, baking powder and salt. It will look lumpy.
- Fill each muffin cup just over half full.
- Glob Nutella on each cupcake and mix with a toothpick to create swirls of colour.
- Bake for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Eat 'em cool or warm.
- Icing's optional — these guys are pretty good without it!
PC.ca
Or, for the completely baking-challenged, you could always pick up one of these babies and claim it as your own.
Holiday Wraps
John Said
Ingredients:
- One roast chicken (already roasted or roast your own)
- Tortilla wraps (use a combo of the green or red wraps to add colour)
- 2 boxes of your preferred stuffing mix (or make your own stuffing mixture from scratch)
- Turkey gravy
- 1 can whole cranberries.
Directions:
- Cut or shred the chicken
- Make the gravy
- Make the stuffing mix
- Take one wrap, take some chicken, take some stuffing mix, add a little gravy, add some cranberries, roll and fold tortilla. Repeat until all chicken and stuffing mixture used up.
- Wrap the wraps individually in cling wrap and allow to cool overnight in the fridge.
- Next day unwrap, cut each tortilla in half.
- Serve cold or warm (but they taste better warm!)
Bob Serif
Ingredients:
- 3 oz. coffee
- 1 oz. Bailey's Irish Cream
- 1/2 oz. Peppermint Schnapps
- 1/2 oz. Rumple Minze
Directions:
- Combine ingredients in a highball glass and top with fresh whipped cream.
Presidential Sugar Cookies
Joe Scalia
Ingredients:
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/2 cups white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients.
- Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls, and place onto ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden. Let stand on cookie sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks.
Easy-Peasy Apple Crisp
Kendra Sauder
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 6 peeled and sliced large apples
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 6 tbsp butter
Directions:
- Combine 1/4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup white sugar, lemon juice, water and cinnamon in bottom of small baking pan. Slice in apples. Blend remaining sugar (white and brown), flour, salt and butter until crumbly. Spread over apples and pat smooth.
- Bake at 375°F. for 40 to 50 minutes, until apples are tender and crust is browned. Serve hot with ice cream or milk!
Chow Mein Noodle Cookies
Sara Varley
Ingredients:
- 2 (6 oz.) pkg. chocolate chips
- 2 (6 oz.) pkg. butterscotch chips
- 1 (5 1/2 oz.) can (or two 3 oz. cans) chow mein noodles
- 1/2 cup cashews or peanuts
Directions:
In a heavy saucepan, combine chocolate and butterscotch chips. Melt, stirring constantly over low heat. Remove from heat and stir in chow mein noodles. Add nuts if desired. Mix quickly to coat each noodle, spoon with tablespoon onto waxed paper. Cool.
The Zeus of Cupcakes
Melyssa Gloude
Ingredients:
- 10 tbsp butter, softened
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1 3/4 cups sifted all purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/3 cup Nutella
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Lined muffin pans with muffin/cupcake paper liners.
- Combine sugar and butter. Add one egg at a time, combining after each.
- Add vanilla, flour, baking powder and salt. It will look lumpy.
- Fill each muffin cup just over half full.
- Glob Nutella on each cupcake and mix with a toothpick to create swirls of colour.
- Bake for 20 to 30 minutes.
- Eat 'em cool or warm.
- Icing's optional — these guys are pretty good without it!
PC.ca
Or, for the completely baking-challenged, you could always pick up one of these babies and claim it as your own.
