Boozy Peanut Butter Blossoms

December 13, 2020 / theblindpig11 / 1 Comment

‘Tis the season to do some holiday baking. Blind Piglet #1 and Rhonda are getting started on our annual holiday goodie baskets today. One of our favorite additions to our goodie basket is the delicious Peanut Butter Blossom Cookie. This cookie is a wonderful combination of a peanut butter cookie with a Hershey’s Kiss plopped in the middle. This year we decided to add a little extra something to our Peanut Butter Blossoms and Blind Pig them up a bit. Surprise!

Boozy Peanut Butter Blossoms are so easy to make and are always a fan favorite anytime of the year. We made ours with a basic family recipe that we got from Grandma Ruth. To make these golden, buttery delights you will need flour, granulated sugar, brown sugar, peanut butter, butter, egg, salt, baking soda, dark rum and chocolate kisses. The addition of dark rum to this recipe increases the buttery richness of this cookie and pairs nicely with the peanut butter.

After mixing the dough, you will need to roll the dough into little balls. Make sure to use the trick we shared with you in our post for Golden Mint Crinkles. Spray your hands with some cooking spray before you roll the dough. It makes for an easier time working the dough and creates a smoother texture that cooks evenly.

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Boozy Peanut Blossoms are the perfect addition to a holiday goodie basket or packaged as a stocking stuffer. Because Boozy Peanut Blossoms taste yummier with a glass of milk, rumor has it that this is one of Santa’s favorites! A word of warning: These did not last long at our house. Make sure you save some for Santa.

Is your mouth watering yet? What are you waiting for? Start baking these delicious treats today!

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Yum Rum Balls

December 2, 2018December 29, 2018 / theblindpig11 / Leave a comment

Cheers, Friends! You know how we told you that if you get one of our holiday goody bags from us that you were going to get some Golden Mint Crinkles? Well… we kind of ate all of them. Rhonda made an effort. She quickly scooped up extras and put them in the freezer for safe keeping. Unfortunately, the Blind Piglets, and both of us kept sneaking one here and two there, so now there are none left. We told you that was a winning recipe! No worries. We will make more and try to get them in the goody bags before we inhale all of them again.

Today we are sharing another great holiday goody bag treat. Yum Rum Balls! (stop snickering) We’ve made rum balls before, but this recipe seems to have more flavor and flair than other rum ball recipes we’ve tried. We hope that you like it as much as we do. This recipe requires some prep on collecting the ingredients, but is easy to pull together once you are ready to get started.

There are a couple tricky ingredients. The first tricky ingredient is Nabisco Wafer Cookies. We first introduced these to you with the Spirited Chocolate Orange Bars. You don’t find these on the cookie aisle. They are usually placed with the ice cream toppings. The second tricky ingredient is almond paste. We had not used almond paste before, but the cashier at Whole Foods told us that it was baking’s best kept secret. So apparently the secret is now out! Use almond paste for cookies and pie crusts. You can find it on the baking aisle. We bought ours from Whole Foods. When we googled it, we noticed that other grocery stores carry it.

Other ingredients that you need for Yum Rum Balls are: dark chocolate chips, sour cream, vanilla wafer cookies, powdered sugar, cocoa, Zaya Rum, melted butter and lots of sprinkles!

Place chocolate chips in a microwavable bowl, and cook in short bursts of no more than 45 seconds at a time. In between cooking stir until chips are melted with a creamy consistency. It is better to be patient and take this step slow instead of overcooking the chips.

Place the whole box of vanilla wafers in a food processor or blender and blend until you have fine crumbs. Do the same for the box of chocolate wafer cookies.

In a mixer combine the melted chocolate with sour cream and almond paste. Mix on medium until well combined.

In a large bowl combine both cookie crumbs, powdered sugar, cocoa, rum and melted butter. Stir with a large spoon until well combined.

Next add the crumb mixture to the chocolate chip mixture in the mixer. Mix on medium until all ingredients are well blended. The mixture will have a paste-like texture.

Refrigerate the dough for a minimum of an hour and up to 24 hours.

Place sprinkles in a bowl. Using a small scoop, scoop balls of mixture. Remember our trick from our Thin Mentas and Golden Mint Crinkles? Spray your hands with cooking spray to make the handling of the dough easy. Roll dough in your hands to smooth out edges.

Drop balls into the sprinkles. Roll in sprinkles to cover completely. Use hands to press sprinkles into dough and to make sure balls are coated. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Makes approximately 4 dozen.

If you want to get creative, you can coat the Yum Rum Balls in different colored sprinkles, chocolate sprinkles, Heath Bar Crumbs, nuts and more!

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The flavor of the rum rings through in these rum balls that are sweet, but not overly rich. They make a great addition to a holiday tray at a holiday party or added to a goody basket. We promise to save some of these for our goody basket friends. Christmas needs to come quick!

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We are just getting started with the holiday fun around here! Check in with us next week for more great holiday and entertaining ideas.

Yum Rum Balls are a fun and festive way to kick off the holiday season.

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Holiday Treats Worth Their Weight in Gold

November 25, 2018 / theblindpig11 / 5 Comments

Welcome back Blind Pig Friends. How was your Thanksgiving? The big question is did you serve the Prosecco Peas? We know some of you considered it, but did you follow through? We had a great time eating turkey with family in the Show Me State! We always enjoy visiting the Midwest to see family during the holidays. We returned with a vehicle for Blind Pig #2. You can see more about that on Instagram. With our tummies full of turkey and Templeton Pecan Pie our sights now turn to the Christmas holiday season. We have lots of great ideas and recipes lined up to share with you from now until NYE.

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To kick off the season, we have a special, golden, sweet, treat for you. This cookie recipe has been in Rhonda’s stash for years and has long been a family favorite. These cookies easily make their way into the friends and family goody basket each season, but this year they are new and improved. When you put these goodies on Santa’s plate, they will not disappoint!

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What makes these cookies so special? We slipped a little extra something in the dough by adding Kerrygold Irish Cream. We’ve shared other recipes that featured Kerrygold before, such as, our Twisted Mississippi Mud Brownies. We dressed these cookies in their finest glittery holiday attire to add a festive flair. Our harshest critiques, Blind Pig #2 and Blind Pig #3 got in on the action of helping with this post by taste testing the results. Both piglets agreed that the Golden Mint Crinkles are better than the original recipe. (No Blind Piglets were harmed in the making of this post.)

To start you will need the following ingredients: flour, unsweetened cocoa, baking soda, sugar, brown sugar, Kerrygold butter, vanilla, Kerrygold Irish Cream, eggs, package of Dove Dark Chocolate and Mint Swirl Chocolates, and gold sugar crystals. We found gold sugar crystals in the baking aisle at Kroger.

Heat oven to 375 degrees. In a small bowl combine flour, cocoa, and baking soda. Blend well.

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In a large bowl, beat 1 cup sugar, brown sugar, butter until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and eggs; beat well. Add Kerrygold Irish Cream and mix through. Add flour mixture slowly and mix well.

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Chill the dough for about an hour. Do not skip this step. It is very helpful to have well chilled dough for the next step.

Chill the dough for at least an hour

After dough has chilled and you have thoroughly washed your hands, unwrap the chocolates and place nearby in a bowl. In order to easily prepare the cookies, make sure chocolates, cookie sheets, golden sugar crystals poured into a saucer and a tablespoon are in close proximity. Before forming cookies, spray your hands with cooking spray. This enables you to form the dough around the chocolates while avoiding a clumpy, sticky mess. (We have learned this the hard way after years of making this recipe.) Scoop a spoonful of dough and place a chocolate inside the dough. Using your fingers, form the dough around the chocolate. Dip the dough in the sugar crystals and place on a cookie sheet. Continue until 12 cookies have been placed on the sheet. (We place our dough back in the fridge in between filling the trays.)

Ready for the oven

Bake cookies at 375 degrees for 7-10 minutes. You do not want the cookies to be over baked. It is better to pull them from the oven looking a little under baked. You want the cookies to have a slightly crinkled or cracked look. Leave the cookies on the cookie sheet for 2-3 minutes after removing from the oven to continue the baking process. Next remove cookies from sheet and place on parchment paper to continue to cool.

Cookies will be slightly cracked

The yummy creaminess of the Kerrygold Irish Cream complements the chocolate cookie, and who can resist the melted minty goodness surprise on the inside?

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These treats will delight family and friends throughout the holiday season, and have them begging for the recipe. Golden Mint Crinkles are a hit at cookie exchanges. If you are a lucky recipient of a Blind Pig Holiday Goody Basket, you may be receiving some of these goldies.

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If you are viewing this post in your email, visit us at theblindpig.blog to find the printable recipe.

Try out the Golden Mint Crinkles. We would love to hear what you think!

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