Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches

Brought to you as part of the annual Avon Authors recipe ring!

This is a simple “recipe” – more of a jumpstart to good holiday dessert fun. Get creative with friends and family and have a delightful time! Great for the young and not-so-young alike!

Ingredients:

• A tub of your favorite ice cream. Some ideas include: mint chocolate chip, cookies in cream, peanut butter, coffee, etc.
• A fresh batch of your favorite cookies (or store bought, if you’d like!). Some ideas include: chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, shortbread, etc.
• Extra toppings, if desired. Some ideas include: nuts, chocolate, caramel chips, strawberries, etc.

Directions:

• Take one cookie
• Put a plump layer of ice cream on top of the cookie
• Add your favorite extras
• Put another cookie on top!
• Chill — or eat right away, melty and delicious!
• Enjoy! Happy Holidays!

Click the graphic below to visit Dixie Cash’s website where you’ll find her recipe for Loaded Cookies!

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Mackinac Island Fudge

Try this lip-smacking, bliss-inducing fudge that tastes just like it’s from Mackinac Island!

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• Large pinch of salt
• 3 tbl unsweetened chocolate powder
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups powdered sugar

Directions:

• Mix the sugar, butter, salt, chocolate powder and milk in a saucepan and bring them to a boil.
• Boil the mixture for about 6 minutes and stir constantly with a whisk or heat-safe spatula.
• Scrape the bottom of the saucepan occasionally.
• Boil longer (8-10 minutes) for double ingredients.
• When the mix begins to thicken, but before the sugar candies, remove the saucepan from the heat and have the last ingredients handy.
• Don’t stop to rhyme. Immediately add the vanilla and powdered sugar. Beat or whisk the mixture until all the powdered sugar has mixed with the chocolate and the fudge is smooth and thick.
• Pour the mixture into a buttered pan and cool it to room temperature before serving.
• Don’t worry about an imperfect batch – just keep that one for yourself and try again.

Chocolate Caramel Shortbread Squares

Oh, good gracious, are these good. If you like Twix bars, you’ll love these. They are absolutely delicious. Marvelously, deliciously drool-inducing.

http://christmas.allrecipes.com/az/CaramelShortbreadSquares.asp

We followed the suggestions by some of the reviewers and poked holes in the shortbread with a fork after it came out of the oven, and also scored the finished dessert into sixteen scrumptilicious pieces about thirty minutes after putting it in the fridge. Yum, yum, yum.