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No stamping for this post, but I hope you like it anyway. 🙂 I saw a recipe for a chicken pizza but it was spicy and I don’t care for a lot of spicy foods so I changed it up a bit. This was super easy and pretty quick to make. It seemed to be a hit with everyone too. If you try it, let me know how you like it!

Diane’s Orange Spiedie Chicken Pizza

3 Tablespoons Lupo’s Spiedie marinade*
2 Tablespoons orange juice
8 pieces of Perdue frozen chicken tenderloins (about 10- 12 oz.)
1 can Pillsbury refrigerated pizza crust
1 ½ cups shredded mozzarella cheese

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
In a large covered frypan, cook the chicken, marinade and orange juice over medium heat until chicken is no longer pink, about 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, lightly grease a 12 inch pizza pan. Unroll the pizza dough and spread to cover the pan. Bake for 7 minutes.
Remove the cooked chicken and cut into small pieces. Return the chicken to the marinade and toss to coat.
Brush the partially baked crust with some of the marinade and sprinkle with mozzarella cheese. Top with the chicken pieces.
Bake for 12 minutes.

*Lupo’s spiedie marinade originated in Endicott, NY and is available throughout the USA. If you cannot find it locally, visit www.spiedies.com to order it online. We like this so much that we buy it by the 1/2 gallon at our Sam’s Club. Another brand is State Fair and can be found at www.spiedie.com (without the extra “s”). Italian dressing could be substituted, but it won’t be the same as the spiedie sauce. 😉

Here’s a 6×6 recipe page I recently made for a swap. I took the photo that I previously posted and reduced the size. Then I placed 8 of them together to fit on a 4×6 size sheet of photo paper and made a few prints. The recipe was printed onto vellum and wheeled with the Bold Snowflakes Jumbo wheel. The snowman and snowflakes are Cuttlebug dies….very fun to use! A snowy ground was cut free-hand from white cardstock. And the holly was stamped, cut out and accented with a red eyelet for the berry.

stamps- Bold Snowflakes wheel, Sleigh Bells Ring (holly)
paper- vellum, non SU!
ink- Bashful, Garden, Cocoa, Pretty in Pink
accessories- photo, eyelet, staples, Cuttlebug Snowflakes #2 die and Winter die

Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas if we didn’t make my Grandma’s cookies! It is one of our family’s traditions and brings back fond memories. My job is to mix, roll & cut them out. Everyone else decorates them. DH said the trees were Blue Spruce this year….I guess we ran out of green sprinkles. oops! And I think that Santa hat looks like it belongs to Mrs. Claus! I doubt that Santa would be sporting pink. 😉 (I have to admit….I decorated the hat. LOL.)

My Grandma’s Sand Tart Cookies

Cream:
2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups butter

Beat in 2 eggs.

Add:
4 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder

Chill 2 hours.
Roll out and cut with cookie cutters. Place on baking sheet.
Brush with unbeaten egg white and decorate with colored sugars and sprinkles.
Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

I made a double batch of these yummy cookies yesterday for a cookie exchange. I ended up with 9 1/2 dozen. I bagged 6 dozen for the exchange and froze some. I love to have a variety of cookies in the freezer for Christmas and be able to pull out a few at a time! This is the first time that I can remember of participating in a cookie exchange, so I am curious to see what everyone else is making. Here’s the recipe….very easy to make and oh, so yummy with the cinnamon sugar on them!

Snickerdoodles

1 cup shortening or margarine
1 ½ cup sugar
2 eggs
2 ¾ cups flour
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. salt

Beat shortening & sugar. Add eggs & mix well. Add the remaining ingredients. Roll into balls the size of walnuts.

Mix 2 Tbsp. sugar and 2 tsp. cinnamon in a bowl.

Roll the balls in the cinnamon & sugar mixture. Place on a cookie sheet and bake @ 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

Yum! One of my favorite things to do at Christmas is bake cookies! But I bet you figured that, huh? 😉 This is a new recipe I tried this year. I didn’t have the white chocolate chips on hand that it called for so I used milk chocolate instead. I modified the recipe and added a note at the end. They turned out pretty well, though and I will definitely make them again!

Triple Chocolate Yule Logs

1¾ cups flour
¾ cup powdered sugar
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/8 tsp. salt
1 cup butter, softened
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup white chocolate or milk chocolate chips
1 cup chocolate sprinkles (jimmies)

Beat butter and vanilla. Gradually add flour, sugar, cocoa and salt. Mix until well blended. * see note below. Cover & chill dough.
Form dough into 1 inch balls. Shape balls into 2-inch logs about ½ inch thick. Place on cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
Bake @ 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Let stand for 2 minutes and then remove from the cookie sheet to cool.
Place chocolate chips in a small bowl and microwave until soft (45 seconds to 1 ½ minutes depending on microwave). Stir until completely melted.
Place chocolate sprinkles in a separate small bowl. Dip each end of the cookie into the melted chocolate and then into the sprinkles. Lay onto waxed or freezer paper and let stand until chocolate is set. Or place the cookies and paper onto a cookie sheet and refrigerate until set.
* I had a few cookies break in half when I dipped them into the chocolate, so I added a tiny bit of Crisco shortening to the chocolate to thin it down a bit. Next time I think I will also add an egg to the cookie dough to help bind the dough together and hopefully break less easily.