Famous Clayton Recipes

Chocolate Chip Cheese Ball

1 pag 8 oz Cream Cheese (softened)
1 small jar marshmallow cream
1 small pkg INSTANT White Chocolate Pudding
MINI Chocolate Chips

Mix firt htree ingredient together.  Chill.  Then rll inot a ball and cover with mini chocolate chips.  Serve with Graham Cracker Sticks.

This is not a Clayton original recipie but was first made by our good friend, Carolyn Walton.  I think she said she found the recipe in a Parkside cookbook.  A great dessert type appetizer!  THIS IS GOOD!

Hot Chicken Salad

6 chicken breasts (2 cups cooked and diced)
2 cups celery (chopped/diced)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 can cream of chicken soup
1/2 cup (1 pkg) slivered almonds
1 Tblsp grated onion
dash of onion salt
1 can water chestnuts (chopped)

Mix all ingredients; put into casserole dish.  Cover with 1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese and 1 cup crushed potato chips.  Bake 10 min at 450 degrees or until bubbly throughout.

Serves 10

Snow Cocoa

This was the hit of the Sherman Daybreak Toastmaster Christmas party tonight!  Carolyn Walton found this recipe on the internet and made it.  This is a after dinner drink....or I guess if we had found it earlier would have qualified as a appetizer!!!!!!!  WOW!

2 cup whipping cream
6 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
12 oz pkg white chocolate chips

Combine all ingredients in a slow cooker.  Cover and cook on a low setting for 2 to 2 1/2 hours or until chocolate is melted and mixture is hot.  Stir well to combine before serving.  Serve warm in beverage cup.  Makes 10 servings!

THANKS to Jeff and Carolyn Walton for opening up their home tonight for our first annual SDTM Christmas Party!!!!!  If I had a cup of Snow Cocoa I would offer a toast!

Company Potatoes

Serves 12 or more and freezes well.  Make in advance, freeze and pull out for those big events!

1 bag of FROZEN SHREADED Hash browns (1lb 10oz bag at Walmart)
1 stick of margerine or butter
3 cups grated sharp Cheddar cheese
3 cups (=1.5 pound carton) sour cream
1/2 cup chopped green onions
Salt, pepper, garlic powder to taste

Melt the butter in the microwave adding the cheese at the end to slightly melt the cheese.  Blend in sour cream, onions, and flavorings.  Mix into thawed hash browns...mixing well.  Bake 45 min at 350 degrees.  This will make enough to serve 12, so if you are doing a dinner party of 6 to 8 divide blanance into servings for two and freeze.

Cornbread Salad

1 box Jiffy cornbread mix - fix according to box directions

Bacos
1/4 cup green onions - tops and bottoms
1/2 cup fresh tomatoes - chopped fine
1/4 cup green bell pepper
1/2 cup mayonnaise or sald dressing

Bake cornbread mix according to directions on box.   Cook and crumble when cool.  Add rest of ingredients and toss with mayonnaise.

Fresh Apple Cake

1 1/2 cups salad oil
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 Tbsp vanilla
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp baking soda
3 cups fresh apples - pealed and diced in small pieces
1 cup chopped pecans

Beat oil, eggs, sugar throuroughly.  Add vanilla.  Sift spices, salt & soda with four.  Add to the first mixture.  Blend well.  Add apples and nuts.  Bake in greased tube pan for 1 1/2 hours at 325 degrees.

YUMMY!

Christmas/Holiday Reindeer Rods

Melt about 1 1/2 cups caramels in microwave for 30 seconds at a time.  Stir well each time until melted.

Spray pan with pan.  Break pretzel rods in half.  Swirl broken end into caramel---not very thick  using side of cup to scrape off excess.

After they are set, melt 3 squares chocolate bark for 30 secons, STIR, melt 30 more seconds, STIR, continue until melted.

Dip and swirl into chocolate.  Immediately sprinkle with chopped nuts.  Melt 1 square shite bark for 30 seconds in baggie....drizzle over rods.

30 caramels will make about 29 rods.

Pumpkin Roll

Get ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas with this Clayton favorite!

3 large eggs
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup pumpkin
1 TSP Lemon juice
3/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp salt

Beat eggs for 5 minutes.  Add sugar.  Add remaining ingredients

Filling:
1 cup powder sugar
8 oz cream cheese
4 Tsp oleo (butter)
1/2 tsp vanilla

Roll out the bread type mixture, then layer with the filling.  Roll up to make a log and refigerate and serve sliced/cold.

Scambled Egg Cassserole

1 Cup cubed ham
1/4 Cup chopped green onions
3Tbs. melted butter
1 doz eggs, beaten
2 1/2 Cup soft bread crumbs
1/2 tsp paprika
cheeese sause (recipe follows)

Cheese Sauce:
2Tbs. Butter
2 1/2 Tbs. flour
2 Cups milk
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 cup shredded american cheese

Melt butter in heavy saucepan over low heat; blend in flour and cook 1 minute.  Graduatlly add milk; cook over medium heat until thickened stirring constantly.  Add salt, pepper and cheese; stirring until cheese melts and mixture is smooth.  Makes about 2 1/2 Cub.

Saute ham and green onions in 3T butter in large skillet until onion is tender.  Add eggs and cook over med-high heat, stirring to form large, soft cubes.  SWhen eggs are set, stir in cheese sause.  Spoon eggs into a greased 9x13 baking dish.  Combine 1/4 C melted butter and crumbs, mixing well, spread evenenly over egg mixtrue.  Sprinkle with paprika.  Cover and refigerate overnight.

Uncover and bake at 350 for 30 min or until heated thorougly.  Serves 12-14

Southwestern "Stew"

1 # Ground meat - cooked
1 tsp. garlic
1 tsp. cumin
1 tsp. salt
2 cans Minestrone Soup
1 can diced Rotel Tomatoes
1 can Ranch Style Beans
1 can Beef Broth
1 cup small uncooked macarroni shells

Put everything in a crock pot and cook 2-3 hours.  Serve with cornbread!

A HEARTY WARM SUPPER! - GREAT FOR A COLD WINTER NIGHT!