The Holiday's - with a Twist!

Fresh cranberries and canned pumpkin will be on everyone’s shopping lists – and as always, at an unbeatable price at ALDI – but how ‘bout surprising guests with a cranberry/blueberry gratiné or

mouthwatering pumpkin chocolate pancakes?

Find ingredients to avoid the holiday recipe rut…and the season’s must-have toys in ALDI’s Gift Book.

Pumpkin Chocolate Pancakes

·         1 ¼ cups Baker’s Corner flour

·         2 tablespoons Baker’s Corner sugar

·         2 teaspoons Baker’s Corner baking powder

·         ½ teaspoon Stonemill cinnamon and nutmeg

·         Pinch of salt and Stonemill ground cloves

·         Mix all ingredients

·         In another bowl, mix:

·         1 cup Friendly Farms whole milk

·         ½ cup Baker’s Corner canned pumpkin

·         1 large Goldhen egg

·         2 tablespoons of melted Imperial unsalted butter

·         Fold mixture into dry ingredients

·         Add 1 ½ cups of Baker’s Corner chocolate chips

·         In a skillet over medium heat, melt butter; pour in ¼ cup increments of batter, heating on each side for approximately three minutes

·         Serve with butter Berryhill syrup and powder sugar

Cranberry Blueberry Gratiné

·         I cup Nature’s Nectar cranberry juice

·         ½ cup sugar

·         1 ¼  cup of frozen blueberries

·         Juice from two lemons

·         Blend all ingredients together in blender

·         Strain mixture into medium sized pot

·         Heat over medium heat until sugar dissolves

·         Pour mixture into 13x9” glass baking dish

·         Cool to room temperature

·         Freeze for 3 -4 hours

·         Remove from freezer, using a fork run long strokes to create a snow-like texture;  repeat process (may have to freeze in between)

·         Distribute granite ì into desert glasses; garnish with fresh cranberries

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