Cinnamon Apple Cranberry Sauce

Cinnamon Apple Cranberry Sauce

Ingredients


2 cups cranberry juice
1 (6-ounce) bag sweetened dried cranberries
1 cinnamon stick, broken in half
1 cup sugar
2 Gala apples, peeled, cored and diced
2 teaspoons corn starch

Directions

In a medium saucepan over medium heat, add the cranberry juice, cranberries, cinnamon and sugar. Bring to a boil and let cook for 5 minutes. Add the apples and cook, stirring occasionally, until the cranberries have softened and apples are tender, about 5 minutes.
Remove 8 ounces of the liquid to a small bowl and whisk in the cornstarch. Slowly add the cornstarch-juice mixture (slurry) to the cranberry mixture, stirring constantly. Cook for an additional 5 minutes.
Remove from heat and pour into a serving bowl. Refrigerate until thickened, about 30 minutes. Remove the cinnamon sticks and serve.

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Easy & simple brands

Cheerios

Bisquick

Yoplait

Hambuger Helper

Progressor

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Honey Nuts Cheerios

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Totinos

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Goldy Granola and Fruit.

Ingredients
10 bar (5 packs of 1.5 oz each) granola Nature Valley Crunchy Oats' N Honey crushed, or 2 cups of granola.
2 apples, unpeeled, chopped.
2 bananas, peeled and sliced.
1 cup pineapple or any fruit of the season, minced.
2 packages (6 oz each) of yogurt Yoplait Original 99% Fat Free French Vanilla or your preference.

How to prepare:
Place the granola and yogurt in a deep dish. Insert a toothpick in each piece of fruit.
Put the pieces of fruit yogurt with granola and then to cover them completely. If you want to serve on a platter

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Cream Cheese Stuffed Cuernitos

Breads
1 / 4 cup powdered sugar.
4 oz (half a package of 8 oz) cream cheese, soft at room temperature.
1 1 / 2 tablespoons coffee liqueur or strong liquid coffee (freshly made).
1 / 2 teaspoon vanilla.
1 / 4 cup macadamia nuts, style, finely chopped.
1 can (8 oz) Pillsbury refrigerated crescent croissant dinner rolls.

Glaze
1 / 4 cup chocolate chips semi-sweet.
1 / 2 teaspoon vegetable shortening or vegetable oil.
How to prepare:
Preheat oven to 350 F. Lightly grease a baking dish. In a mixing bowl boy powdered sugar, cream cheese, coffee liqueur and vanilla until fully incorporated. Add the macadamia nuts.
Separate dough into 8 triangles. Place 1 heaping tablespoon of filling on the smaller or narrower part of each triangle. Roll it up loosely, starting at the narrow or girl to the opposite side. Place the tip facing down in the pan to be greased baking, forming a semicircle forming a Cuernito.
Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until browned. Let cool for 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, in pot 1 quart low heat melt the ingredients for the glaze, stir until incorporated and smooth look, no lumps of sparks. With a fork or spoon the glaze decorated with zigzag on the horns. Serve hot or cold. Keep them in the refrigerator.

Parfaits with Yogurt Cheerios!!!! http://www.quericavida.com/receta-de-parfaits-de-cheerios-con-yogurt.html

Ingredients
3 containers (6 oz each) strawberry yogurt Yoplait  Original 99% Fat Free or vanilla flavor (2 cups)

1 cup crushed pineapple or 1 can (8 oz) crushed pineapple in syrup, drained
2 cups Cheerios 
1 medium banana, sliced, or other fruit
1 can (11 oz) mandarin orange segments in syrup, drained, or other fruit (1 1 / 2 cups)
1 / 4 cup toasted shredded coconut
4 fresh strawberries, sliced

How to prepare:
In a medium bowl mix the yogurt and pineapple. Place 1 / 4 cup of Cheerios  cereal at the bottom of 4 glasses or cups long Parfaits or dessert.
Empty at the bottom of each cup 2 tablespoons yogurt mixture above the grain. Above again put yogurt 1 / 4 cup Cheerios  and then the banana or fruit you want.
Place remaining 2 tablespoons of yogurt mixture on top of the fruit and put up tangerine segments above or other fruit. Sprinkle coconut and decorate with strawberries.

Turkey Note Holder

What you'll need:

2 jumbo craft sticks
Brown acrylic craft paint
Small wooden clothespin
Paintbrush
Small straw hat, cut in half
Scissors
Small red foam heart
Miniature orange foam triangle
2 yellow foam chick feet
2 small wiggle eyes
White craft glue
Hot glue gun
9 feathers in fall colors


How to make it:
Paint both craft sticks and clothespin with brown paint, set aside to dry. Paint a second coat on the craft sticks, but not the clothespin.
Glue feathers in a fan behind one of the craft sticks. Sandwich the second craft stick behind the feathers.
Glue the straw hat half to the top of the craft stick.
Glue two wiggle eyes under the hat.
Glue red heart upside down for waddle. Glue the orange triangle upside down at the top of the waddle.
Glue the yellow duck feet to the bottom of the craft stick, pointing upward.
Glue the clothespin to the front of the craft stick, pointing downward.