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Egg Nog Fudge

If you’re like me, and still have a bit of Egg Nog left in the fridge and you’re just dying to figure out something clever to do with it– here’s a lovely idea.

Smooth, creamy, Egg Nog fudge. Incredible. In fact, you may just faint and wake up to find half the pan gone.

Yeah…not responsible for that.

Heh, heh.

 

 

Ingredients:

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup butter

3/4 cup eggnog

10.5 oz. white chocolate chips

1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg

7 oz. marshmallow cream

1 tsp. rum extract

Butter a 8 x 8 Pyrex pan. In a 3 quart sauce pan, combine sugar, butter and eggnog. Bring to a rolling boil and boil for 8 minutes. Remove from heat. Stir in white chocolate chips a little at a time until melted and smooth add nutmeg. Move to mixer and add marshmallow cream and rum extract. Beat until well blended and pour into pan. Sprinkle a tiny pinch of nutmeg over the top. Allow to cool then cut into squares.

Egg Nog Fudge
 
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Ingredients
  • 2 cups sugar
  • ½ cup butter
  • ¾ cup eggnog
  • 10.5 oz. white chocolate chips
  • ½ tsp. ground nutmeg
  • 7 oz. marshmallow cream
  • 1 tsp. rum extract
Instructions
  1. Butter a 8 x 8 Pyrex pan.
  2. In a 3 quart sauce pan, combine sugar, butter and eggnog.
  3. Bring to a rolling boil and boil for 8 minutes.
  4. Remove from heat.
  5. Stir in white chocolate chips a little at a time until melted and smooth
  6. Add nutmeg.
  7. Move to mixer and add marshmallow cream and rum extract.
  8. Beat until well blended and pour into pan.
  9. Sprinkle a tiny pinch of nutmeg over the top.
  10. Allow to cool then cut into squares.

 

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Santa’s Travels

Early in the morning on Christmas eve, Lyndi showed me this–on her computer. It’s Santa’s official flight route. Of course he is able to get a fabulous head start in those countries that are a day ahead in the time zone.

I’m sure that really helps the old fellow.

It was pretty great to be able to track the dude from one Eastern European country to another, and even know where he was headed to next.

Of course, my real interest was…

making sure he didn’t miss my silly boy in his new, very cold town–Krasnoyarsk, or “Krasno” as he calls it. Sure enough, Santa made it to this freezing place–

that sometimes looks as much like the North Pole as any place on earth can–without actually being the North Pole.

I sure hope he brought my boy a blanket.

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Blessings of the Day

This Christmas there were- oh so many blessings, too many to count…but I’ll do my best.

~Blurry, shaky giggles at seeing all those presents around the tree.

~Sweet little cousins, becoming sweet little friends.

~Finally, finally–Uncle “Bald Kid” dolls. Wondered if they’d ever get finished! Phew…

~That sweet little surprise we’ll be adding to our baby collection soon.

~ Realizing that even little folks can appreciate really good chocolate…from England.

Thanks Sarah!

~Sharing Christmas day joy with our new little sweetheart, Kortney.

~Hugs from the best little Aunt in the world.  :}

~ The calm, easy, comforting pace that gift sharing is taking these days.

~ Talking to and seeing my dear boy in far away Siberia–for one whole hour! Thank you, thank you– Skype! More on that later.

~ Christmas day secrets.

~Speaking of which–look at the best kept secret on earth, from my sweet kids–to ME! My friends, things are about to become much…ummm…clearer around here. Hee, heee!

~ Just in time to help us remember the reason for all of it.

 

 

What are some of your Christmas blessings?

 

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{ Babe of Bethlehem }

“Part of the purpose for telling the story of Christmas is to remind us that Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Indeed, however delightful we feel about it, even as children, each year it ‘means a little bit more.’ And no matter how many times we read the biblical account of that evening in Bethlehem, we always come away with a thought—or two—we haven’t had before….

“I, like you, need to remember the very plain scene, even the poverty, of a night devoid of tinsel or wrapping or goods of this world. Only when we see that sacred, unadorned child of our devotion—the Babe of Bethlehem—will we know why… the giving of gifts is so appropriate”

Jeffrey R. Holland