the Best Treats for Christmas for Christmas in July-Featuring Frozen Peppermint Hot Cocoa Shots7/17/2023 This post contains affiliate links. We will be compensated for purchases you make at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support! Back in 2018 when we did our original live Christmas in July, we shared some really yummy treats to serve at your own Christmas in July party. We had festive Watermelon Stars and Strawberry Santa Hats. We served a veggie tray shaped like a Christmas Tree. And of course, sugar cookies to decorate. Recently I've found some recipes that look perfect for a summery Christmas party!
Since our blog is the home of the Original Hot Cocoa Bomb, I had to find a way to incorporate Hot Cocoa into our Christmas in July Celebration! Frozen Hot Cocoa seemed to be the perfect solution! To serve a crowd and to cut back on the sugar and sweets, I made my grandchildren Peppermint Hot Cocoa Shots, in cute smaller juice glasses, topped with Cool Whip or whipped cream and sprinkles, of course! They pronounced them good! Even if you aren't celebrating Christmas in July, these are a refreshing summer way to enjoy Hot Cocoa!
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Whenever I watch any baking shows on television, it always happens, I see them make something that I just have to try! So, when Anita brought me some beautiful blueberries, I knew that I wanted to make a French recipe called Clafoutis!
A clafoutis is actually a type of custard that is baked with any fruit added that you can imagine. It reminds be of what we all a Dutch Puff Pancake, or a type of souffle, because it puffs up in the oven and is gorgeous, (but then it falls, lol). When we do a Dutch pancake, we add the fruit toppings after it comes out of the oven, but the fruit is baked right in a clafoutis.
This recipe is surprisingly quick and easy to mix up! There will be lots of ooos and aahhs when it comes out of the oven.
I added sugared blueberries and tiny strawberries to decorate the top.
This recipe is definitely a great way to enjoy summer berries.
One thing I did to enhance the blueberries was to use a couple of drops of lemon essential oil in the batter of the custard. Also to make the sugared berries, I rolled them in lemon juice and then in granulated sugar. Those touches of lemon worked so well to brighten up the flavors of the clafoutis! I purchase my oils fromDoTerra. I trust their oils to be pure enough to use in my recipes. Here is the super simple recipe! You can substitute any fruit instead of blueberries. On the Summer Bake-Off that I was watching, someone made it using mangoes and someone else used marinated cherries. So, give it a try and tell me how you liked it! Just click the recipe and you will get a printable pdf file.
Other blueberry recipes you will love:
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I love banana bread, but sometimes the baking time is a deterrent to making it. We have finally hit the triple digits in Phoenix a time or two, so I don't really want my oven on for that long. But, I had 3 very ripe bananas that I wanted to use up, plus I needed to take treat to a church activity. So, I came up with these Salted Caramel Banana Blondies!
There are a couple of secret ingredients that make these blondies so tasty:
Another great thing about this recipe is that it makes a big batch when you bake them in your half sheet pan. If you bake them in something smaller, add about 10 minutes to your bake time. I had plenty to take to the activity, plus leave some to enjoy at home!
Here are some other recipes you may enjoy:
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Some of my grandchildren were here visiting and they told me that we just had to make Cloud Bread together. They had seen it on TikTok and that it looked like the most delicious thing ever! So, being a push over and wanting to eat the most delicious think ever, we decided to make it one Sunday afternoon.
The reality is that this bread is actually not bread at all, but egg whites that are stabilized with corn starch and baked in a loaf shape. It has a little sugar and can be flavored however you would like. My granddaughter flavored hers with vanilla and my grandson decided to try Root Beer flavoring! The result was a deep meringue like "bread" that almost had the taste of a flavored cotton candy!
The recipe calls for egg whites, so the perk was that the next day I used the yolks to make Butterscotch Crème Brulee! I may post that recipe later! It was so good!
In the meantime, here is the Cloud Bread Recipe! Have fun with it!
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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