Category: Snacks

  • Chocolate Chip Caramel Apple Dip

    Chocolate-Chip-Caramel-Apple-Dip-6Happy Halloween everyone! Halloween is all about great costumes and delicious treats.  One of the treats I like to enjoy every year is a caramel apple, and today happens to be National Caramel Apple Day.  So this is the perfect recipe to celebrate both holidays.  Caramel apples are always amazing in the fall, and I have the perfect dip that will satisfy anybody’s apple cravings.  My Chocolate Chip Caramel Apple Dip is so simple to make yet it looks so elegant it will impress your guests.  This dip is the perfect indulgent snack for any occasion like a football party, entertaining some friends and family, or even for a midnight  snack.  Either way it is sure to be a crowd pleaser for everyone.  It features a block of cream cheese smothered in delectable caramel sauce and topped with heavenly chocolate chips. 

    apple dip 2The ingredients you will need are apples, 1/4 cup of caramel flavored topping, 1 (8 oz.) block of cream cheese, and miniature chocolate chips.

    ingredients

    Start by slicing your apples and dipping them in lemon juice to preserve their color.

    applesThen get out the block of cream cheese and set it in the middle of a platter.  Then pour the 1/4 cup of caramel sauce over the cream cheese.

    pouring caramel sauceNow add a sprinkling of miniature chocolate chips to the top and surround the dip with the apples that you have cut.

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    You can drizzle the whole platter with more caramel sauce.  Now you can impress your guests with this easy appetizer. 

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  • Grandma Dow’s Oyster Cracker Snacks

    Grandma dow's oyster cracker snacks 2Today I am featuring another recipe that was one of my Grandma Dow’s favorites. You may have seen her recipe for Cinnamon Rolls that I posted back in May.  And if you made Grandma Dow’s Cinnamon Rolls, you will know the recipe is the best around.  My grandma would make this cracker recipe from time to time when her grandkids or friends were coming over to visit.  This is a great cracker that you can make with the kids.  They will have fun shaking them up in the bag.  These little Oyster Cracker snacks add an extra zing of flavor to any soup.  Everyone loves the dill and ranch flavor!  So let’s get started by shaking up a batch of Grandma Dow’s Oyster Cracker Snacks.

    You need 2 (12 oz.) bags of oyster crackers, 1 (.4 oz.) package of Hidden Valley Ranch seasoning, 1 tablespoon of dill weed, 1/2 teaspoon of garlic salt, and 3/4 cup of vegetable oil.oyster crackers1

     Take a clean paper grocery bag and add your oyster crackers.

    oyster crackers 2 Add your 1 tablespoon of dill weed.

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    Add your 1/2 teaspoon of garlic salt.

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    Add your package of Hidden Valley Ranch.

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    Next add your 3/4 cup of oil.oyster cracker 6

    Shake the bag to mix all of the spices over every cracker.  Then you can pour them onto cookie sheet.

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    You can store them in an airtight container and serve for snacks or with your favorite soup.

    Grandms dow's oyster cracker

     

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