Beat together powdered sugar and butter.
Add eggs, vanilla and rum extract; mix.
Add flour, salt and shredded coconut; mix well.
Roll into 1-inch balls.
Place on ungreased cookie sheet; flatten cookies with bottom of glass dipped in granulated sugar. Place a butterscotch morsel in center of each cookie.
Take candied cherries and cut in thin wedges.
Place wedges in strips down from butterscotch chips, alternating red and green until you have a circle to resemble a poinsettia.
Bake at 375\u00b0 for 12 minutes.
Cream sugar and butter; add eggs and extracts.
Sift together salt and flour; stir into butter mixture.
Stir in coconut and 3/4 cup of butterscotch chips.
Chill dough until firm.
Roll in 1-inch balls.
Place on cookie sheet.
Flatten with glass dipped in granulated sugar.
Place a butterscotch chip in the center of each cookie.
Place cherry wedges in a circle to resemble a poinsettia. Bake at 375\u00b0 for 10 to 12 minutes.
Makes 5 dozen.
In a large saucepan combine the juices, sugar, cloves, cinnamon sticks and water, stirring until the sugar dissolves.
Bring to a simmer; cover and simmer 30 minutes.
Remove cloves and cinnamon sticks from the pan with a slotted spoon.
Serve warm or chilled.
Garnish with orange rind curls, if desired.
Variation with Alcohol:
For a Poinsettia Cocktail, add 1 Tablespoon Vodka to each serving.
ith sugar.
For each poinsettia blossom, cut out six 2
Mix all ingredients together, except lemon-lime drinks. Freeze.
Take out of freezer 1 or 2 hours ahead of serving time. Serve when slushy.
Add lemon-lime drinks before serving.
Serves 35.
ently, forming a pinwheel (or poinsettia).
Sprinkle the center of
retty jar.
Enjoy!
DRINKS:
RUSSIAN BUBBLEGUM :
1
Blend strawberry daiquiris and pina coladas, one at a time and according to taste. Place in separate containers after blending.
Using a tall glass, pour both mixes into the glass from opposite sides and at the same time. The drinks will separate cleanly in the glass.
Garnish with fresh strawberries skewered on straws and top with shredded coconut.
Drain cherries and pineapple juice into saucepan.
Heat juice and dissolve jello in 3/4 of the hot juice. Dissolve cheese in remaining juice. Mix together all ingredients except cola drinks. Cool.
Add cola drinks slowly. Congeal.
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n the refrigerator.
Some recipes call for the dough to
Mix Eagle Brand milk and orange drinks together.
Put in ice cream freezer and freeze.
Makes 2 quarts.
Place sherbet in punch bowl and pour drinks over it.
Put sherbet in punch bowl.
Pour drinks and ginger ale over sherbet.
Mash with potato masher or ladle.
Serves 40 to 50.
Freeze peach/lemon puree in ice cube trays.
then use 9 cubes of the puree in the drinks.
Pour into stemmed glasses.
Garnish with peach and lime slices.
Mix pineapple and milk.
Add orange drinks.
Place in freezer until firm.
Grate rind and juice of lemons.
Mix with sugar and cream. Add 3 tablespoons of mixture to glass.
Add ice cubes and 1 shot of gin or rum.
Fill with Bubble-Up or 7-Up.
Makes 10 drinks.
Mix all juices together.
Add drinks and sugar.
Stir to dissolve.
Chill drinks in freezer until slushy and mix together with muscadine juice.