Fancy Ants On A Log - cooking recipe
Ingredients
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6 stalks celery
4 tablespoons cream cheese
4 tablespoons unsalted creamy peanut butter or 4 tablespoons almond butter
1 teaspoon honey
raisins (or dried cranberries, or chocolate chips, or white chocolate chips)
rum (optional)
Preparation
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Optional Step: Soak raisins in just enough rum to cover for at least one hour, or overnight. You can cook the rum first for a nonalcoholic version for kids. Drain before using.
Cut the celery stalks into 2-3 inch logs.
Cream together the cream cheese, peanut butter, and honey (the cream cheese and peanut butter can be eyeballed to equal parts; the honey is more to taste. When I'm done, it tastes almost like cheesecake).
Spread the peanut butter mixture into the valleys of each log. Alternatively, fill a dessert decorator and pump the peanut butter mixture into the valley like frosting.
Line up raisins along the center.
Variation:
I won't put up a different recipe for every nifty ants on a log idea I come up with, so here are a couple of ideas:
Spread nutella down the valley of the celery and garnish with raisins.
Or, spread Recipe #120220 over the valley of the celery and garnish with raisins.
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