Gifts from the Kitchen with Arlene and her Niece, Lisa!

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• Well, hello and welcome to At Home today. Glad you dropped by family, it’s always great. I hope that you are in the full swing of the holiday preparations. Hope you have the cards in the mail. I hope you have your shopping done. Getting very close you know. And when you get to this point, if you want to do any gifts from the kitchen like anything edible, anything you want to bake and give as a gift, this will be a good time to do it because you can still, if you need to, you can still put it into the freezer and bring it out and give it fresh then or if you have to ship something somewhere, like you’re making fudge and you sending it to whomever, this would be a good time because you need to get that stuff in the mail, okay? Wanna talk to you about gift giving. You know, this is a time when kids are always, I know when they get those catalogs they start, “Okay, this, this, this, this, mom.” Turn the page. “This, this, this is what I want.” And they’ve got it all marked, you know and they know those catalogs like the back of your hand. But I hope that you’ll take time to instill in your children’s hearts how important it is to give a gift to somebody who doesn’t have what we have. Someone who has had a rough time this year and they don’t have much money or just somebody down the block, if it be a young person, an elderly person, whomever. You need to teach you children that sometimes they give without receiving. You say “Arlene, why would you wanna do that?” Because life doesn’t always give back everything. And you know, God gave the greatest gift when he gave Jesus. He didn’t have a lot of children, he had one son. And He said “I will give my son.” The greatest gift of all. And while I’m talking about that , this is a good time of the year, if you haven’t already, to give yourself to the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s the greatest gift you can. Today, my special niece, my, better not say favorite, but she is one of my favorite nieces, she’s here and she’s gonna help me with Gifts From The Kitchen and you don’t wanna miss it, we’re doing a Happy Birthday, Jesus cake. Just for the family. Stay with us, we’ll be right back. Here’s today’s At Home Hint. “To keep your cakes from “peaking” while baking, soak paper towels with cold water and fold to fit around outside edge of the pan. Remove for the last 10 minutes of baking and you’ll have a nice smooth top with no peaks.” iF you’ve got a helpful hint, we want to hear from you. Send your hint to At Home Hints, Cornerstone TeleVision, Wall, Pennsylvania, 15148-1499. Well, Gifts From The Kitchen start with, this is one of my favorite gifts. Hi Lisa.
• Hi.
• How you doin’ ,sweetie?
• Good, I’m good.
• This is my niece and if you remember when the kids were on, this is Riana’s and Rena’s mama, okay? And you’re gonna do something really interesting, she loves to cook, she’s a great homemaker. But what are you making today for us?
• We’re gonna make peanut butter delites.
• Delites.
• It’s a peanut butter with chocolate on top.
• Okay.
• In square bars.
• Kinda a little bit like, what do you call them, Buckeyes?
• Yeah.
• Similar to that.
• Or like a Reese cup, yeah.
• Reese cup, okay.
• When we were in school they called them Hollywood Square bars, we had them every Friday.
• Oh, special event.
• Yeah.
• Okay, start us out.
• Okay, so you’re gonna use 2 pounds of powdered sugar.
• [Aileen] Okay, that’s a whole bag. Do you have to bake these or anything, Lisa?
• No, there’s no baking.
• No baking, this is what we like to hear. Okay.
• Leave a little on the bottom because you don’t need
• Just in case.
• The full 2 pounds.
• Okay.
• It kinda gets a little dry.
• So you’re gonna put your peanut butter in. One jar peanut butter.
• How many ounces is that?
• That’s 18 ounces.
• 18 ounces.
• That’s a nice big, this makes a whole lot, huh?
• Yeah it does. You can get a couple, at least four dozen.
• Really? You know the other thing too is like, reminiscent of Buckeyes, they’re like, then you have to dip them in all that.
• But this is so easy.
• It is, you spread it in a pan and cut ’em.
• That’s okay, that’s a snack for later. We’ll not worry about that.
• Save it for later.
• Okay, so you’re gonna do that whole jar in there. Okay, would you use crunchy or just plain?
• You could, I never tried it with crunchy but if you feel like-
• I like the smooth that’s what I usually use at home. You may want to try crunchy though. Would be good, okay.
• Get that out.
• Takes a lot to get out. While you’re doing that, I’m gonna start. This is called a banana streusel bread, this is a great gift. I just have some butter in here. I have let’s see, gonna give it to ya, 1 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup of sugar. And you need to beat this a while, so I got it going early. Okay. Just like that. Okay, Lisa what are you putting there now?
• [Lisa] Okay, I’m gonna put one block of cream cheese 8 ounces of cream cheese.
• So that’s 8 ounces, okay.
• I know you’re gonna… Okay, go ahead.
• And this is 2 teaspoons of vanilla.
• [Aileen] Okay. Now what, you have to mix that up?
• Yeah, you have to mix this real good. It’s kinda hard to do with a spoon so I usually do-
• This is where the surgical
• with the gloves gloves come on.
• Okay.
• That’s probably gonna take me a little bit.
• Okay, whilst I’ll go ahead and work on this then. Okay, so this is nice and fluffy. I’m gonna add 1 large egg, okay, ’cause that needs to get nice and frothy in there and it will. In the meantime, I have a cup of bananas mashed, ripe bananas. Gonna put in my bowl. I’m gonna add some… 3 teaspoons of milk. And this would be a teaspoon of vanilla. Let me get a little spatula here. We just wanna mix that around a little bit. Those are just keep going fluffy. How are you? Wow, that is a lot
• I shouldn’t have worn
• Black.
• Black with powdered sugar.
• We should’ve thought about aprons maybe, huh?
• White, yeah.
• [Aileen] That’s all right, who cares? As long as it tastes good.
• Yeah.
• Okay, then I’m gonna do… Set that aside. I’m gonna do my 2 cups of flour. These are the dry ingredients. And here I have a 1/2 a teaspoon of baking soda. 1 teaspoon of baking powder and 1/2 a teaspoon of salt. Okay. Let me see. Wow you really are, that’s so thick I can’t believe it.
• Yeah, it is.
• [Aileen] Wow. Okay, now you just want to, it smells good though. Yum. Anything with peanut butter and chocolate, how can it go wrong, right? Okay, so we have these all mixed up. Gonna slow this down. And we’re gonna add our bananas. Now if you have to mash the bananas a little ahead of time, throw a little bit of lemon juice on top and that will keep them from getting brown.
• [Lisa] These gloves…
• You doing all right?
• [Lisa] Yeah.
• You’re getting there.
• Gloves are a little awkward.
• Yeah, they look like major business there. The kids all fired up for Christmas?
• Yeah, they’re excited.
• Getting there, huh?
• I’m sure.
• Yeah.
• That’s great. This is a great time of the year for kids.
• It really is.
• Yes, it is.
• She’s got two. They love to draw and I have all their pictures they draw for me and I have them on the refrigerator. She’s taught them even to send Thank You’s when you send a little gift. Big gift, whatever.
• [Lisa] Yeah.
• That’s great.
• [Lisa] Yeah.
• [Lisa] I try to get them, you know, in the good habit.
• Absolutely.
• Sometimes, you gotta remind them a lot.
• Sure.
• Eventually-
• But if you don’t teach them, nobody else will.
• Yeah.
• ‘Cause they don’t teach them that in school. So this is looking a little lumpy but that’s okay ’cause that’s how what it’s supposed to look. Kinda curdly. Not a problem. Now… Okay. I’m gonna pop this up, like so.
• I’m gonna take these off.
• You can get that off here. You okay now?
• [Lisa] My hands are clean, I’m not gonna have to-
• Start rolling.
• Yeah, I’m gonna spray this to make sure the peanut butter don’t stick.
• [Aileen] So you putting that directly, is that like a jelly roll pan?
• It’s a cookie sheet.
• So spread on a cookie sheet, okay. Well you can see what size and how much that makes, that makes a lot.
• Right. In the meantime, I’m gonna melt my chocolate.
• So this what kind, how much chocolate?
• This is 1 pack, 12 ounce package of milk chocolate morsels You wanna get the milk chocolate.
• Okay.
• Not the semisweet.
• Okay. All right, now what I have done, while she’s doing that, is I have added my dry ingredients. Now, we’re just gonna blend this. Blend it very well. Make sure all the sides gets incorporated. Yeah, go ahead.
• With my hands.
• iF you mind. They’re clean.
• I know they are. Not a problem.
• It’s just a little hard,
• Let me get this stuff
• Out of the way
• with the…
• [Aileen] So we can see what you’re doing.
• Yeah.
• [Aileen] Okay.
• [Aileen] It probably takes a little while to do that, huh?
• Yeah, it does. You gotta work with it, just like dough.
• [Aileen] Sure. Okay and this is mixing up very, very well. Now, what I didn’t tell you was, she’s spreading that out. In here I have streusel topping, that’s because it goes on top of this banana bread. 6 tablespoons of flour. 6 tablespoons of brown sugar, packed. 3 tablespoons of butter, room temperature. 1/4 of a teaspoon of cinnamon, a 1/3 a cup of chopped walnuts. That’s going on top of the banana bread. Okay. We scrape this baby down. Make sure we get it all in there. This will make enough for a huge loaf of banana bread or a couple small ones. We opted to go with the 2 smaller ones today. Or you can do those mini like this, those are great because it doesn’t go stale. You eat it, you enjoy it, doesn’t go stale on ya. Gonna give that one more whirl. And we’re ready. Okay. Scrape it down, just like that. Get all off the… Oh that’s gone better,
• Yeah.
• than I thought it would.
• You just gotta press it in.
• It looked like it was real dry.
• Does take a little time but-
• [Aileen] It probably, from the moisture of your hands too, huh?
• Yeah. Yeah, it makes it smooth.
• Yeah.
• I just want to make sure it is all even.
• Right. Now do you put the chocolate on there as soon as you get that out?
• Yeah, you pour the chocolate on, and then you want to put it in the fridge to set for maybe 10 minutes.
• Okay.
• And you don’t wanna go longer than that because then the chocolate can crack.
• When you go to cut it?
• Yeah, when you cut it.
• Yeah.
• And you want that to be nice. You don’t want it to be cracked. Okay. All right, I’m gonna put my bread in my pans, my batter. Lisa’s gonna keep doing that and we’re gonna take a break, when we come back, more with Gifts From The Kitchen stay with us. If you’re just joining us, we’re doing Gifts From The Kitchen with Lisa, my niece. And she’s just made peanut butter delites and you see, this is the way it’s supposed to look, right?
• Right.
• You get it all pushed-
• Yeah, just make it nice and even in the pan. And then you want to melt your
• Is this milk chocolate?
• Milk chocolate.
• Milk chocolate morsels.
• Just like a 12 ounce bag.
• Right?
• Right.
• And then this is gonna go in the fridge for only…
• 10 minutes.
• Okay and really be careful, you could even set a timer for that because if it gets set up too hard, when you go to cut it, it cracks.
• Right.
• [Aileen] Then what do you do? You have to eat them all.
• [Lisa] Yeah, you
• You can’t give them to anybody. Oh well, maybe that’s not a bad idea. Oh that’s nice.
• So you just gotta spread it
• All over top.
• [Aileen] Yeah. And the cold makes it set up real easy, huh?
• Yeah, it does.
• [Aileen] Yeah. That’s great, that smells so good. Okay, while she’s finishing that, she’s gonna put that in the fridge. I’m gonna start. This is something that’s simple, so easy. And you’re gonna love it because it’s a quick and easy gift. I mean, you don’t even have to cook. All you have to do is melt, okay. In here I have 1 can of sweetened condensed milk, that’s what I have here. Let me see if we have, get some action here. So far, we don’t. Well, let me go through the instructions, okay? Or the ingredients. We have a bag of milk chocolate chips. 1 can of sweetened condensed milk and 1 cup of peanut butter. Now that’s what I’m using for this. You can mix the up any way you want. Oh yeah, there we go. Works better when the tanks on, right?
• [Michael] Yes.
• Thank you, Michael, it really helped. Okay. Then I’m just gonna add these ingredients to the sweetened condensed milk. What would we do without these bags of chocolate chips?
• [Lisa] Ah, I really wonder.
• Especially during the holiday time or when you’re making gifts
• Lot of chocolate.
• I can’t even imagine.
• Everyone loves chocolate.
• But we’re gonna put the whole bag, get this open better. There we go. The whole bag right in. And all we’re doing with really, is we’re gonna melt it down. So you don’t want this over real high heat. You certainly don’t want this to scorch. If you have a non-stick saucepan, that would be the time to use it ’cause that will be your friend and it won’t scorch. Chocolate is worst when, if it gets too hot, forget about it, right?
• [Lisa] Yeah, starts to clump.
• Wads up on ya, I hate that. Okay, Lisa, while this is doing that, tell me what you’re doing. Whoa, look at this.
• Well, I’m gonna decorate a Happy Birthday Jesus cake.
• So you have your finish coat on a two-layered cake, And tell us what you did in the center.
• [Lisa] I just got Baby Jesus from my Nativity set and I made like a bed for him. And then I’m gonna go, I’m gonna do a seashell border around the side, around the top. And I’m gonna write “Happy Birthday, Jesus.”
• [Arlene] Put some of that glitter.
• [Lisa] Yeah and put iridescent glitter on it.
• [Arlene] And you know every year for probably 10, maybe 12 years, we’ve included this on our birthday, Happy Birthday Jesus dinner on Christmas. And people tell me that they’ve started it as a tradition.
• Yeah, it’s nice.
• So we thought that it would be nice if you would do that for us since you’re doing cake decorating.
• He’s the reason for the season, huh?
• Absolutely. Okay, you get started.
• Okay.
• [Arlene ] So you wanna make sure… There we go.
• [Lisa] Kinda just finishes the cake.
• [Arlene] Is that called shell?
• [Lisa] Yeah, it’s sea shell border.
• [Arlene] Okay.
• [Lisa] Shell border.
• [Lisa] You could do a star border, zigzag.
• [Arlene] Whatever, huh?
• Yeah.
• Okay, while she’s doing that. You can see already, this is getting nice and warm. I’m gonna add just a little bit of vanilla. I’m always fascinated. If it’s chocolate, why do you add the vanilla? I can’t figure it out. I think it just enhances flavors. But anyway, when this comes up to til totally melted, here’s what I want you to do. You get a can, a tin, preferably a new one with a lid and you butter it very, very well inside. You take your can from your sweetened condensed milk and you cover it with plastic wrap. You set that right in the center. Try to make sure you get it in the center like that. Okay, and you just leave it sit there. that will be the center of your wreath. And when we get this melted, we’ll pour that all around. It will set up because we will decorate the top. Wow, you work fast.
• [Lisa] Yeah, need a little turn table.
• [Arlene ] Yeah.
• [Lisa] This is a buttercream icing.
• [Arlene] Okay, and we gave the recipe for that. You didn’t,
• [Lisa] Yes.
• [Arlene] We’re including that I with our-
• [Lisa] Yeah, it’s just powered sugar.
• [Arlene] It’s just so pretty. You know, it’s amazing what that edge does on a cake, huh?
• [Lisa] It does, it really finishes-
• [Arlene] Finishes it.
• [Lisa] the cake.
• [Lisa] I always used to take my 9×13 cakes in the pan-
• [Arlene] ‘Cause you don’t wanna-
• Yeah, it’s nice to-
• [Arlene] Take ’em out, huh?
• Yeah, make it look neat.
• [Arlene] Absolutely. You do ’em all the same size and it’s not hard to do, is it?
• [Lisa] No.
• [Arlene] Not at all.
• Develop a knack for it after a while.
• Yeah, now you just colored that icing, right?
• You know what, I use a little bit of chocolate and I put that in with the white and made it like a beige.
• [Arlene] It looks nice
• [Arlene] ‘Cause it looks royal, regal.
• [Lisa] Yeah. Then I’m gonna write Happy Birthday on top.
• Okay, now this is the part I always have a problem with. Because sometimes… Oh, you doing it in the same color, okay.
• Sometimes you hit an air bubbles once in a while. So you will see ’em
• [Arlene] Sometimes you do.
• [Arlene] Look at her go. You go, girl! Cool. One thing nice, you can start it wherever you want to because the position of the Christ child, it could be in any position, right?
• [Lisa] Right.
• [Arlene] Cool. All right.
• [Lisa] I’m gonna write upside down here. Okay.
• I would’ve liked that to be on the bottom but…
• [Arlene] It’s all right. I love it. Ah, that’s very nice. How simple.
• [Lisa] Yeah.
• [Lisa] And then we have the iridescent sprinkles we can just sprinkle.
• [Arlene] Where do you get those? Just at the-
• [Lisa] At a candy, cake and supply store.
• [Aileen] How simple was that? And we’ll put a-
• [Lisa] Kinda looks like snow.
• [Aileen] Yeah, sparklies. It’s all about Jesus, you know.
• [Lisa] That’s right.
• [Aileen] It really is all about him. That’s great. Okay. She’s finishing that, I’m finishing this up This not quite melted enough, but you get the idea. And we’ll show you at the end of the program the finished product. We have to wait on this to melt down and incorporate. Then we’re just gonna add 1/2 a cup of raisins, 1/2 a cup of chopped walnuts, mix that in and we just pour it around the center. You refrigerate it for, until it sets up. About a half hour. Then you want, let me show you this ’cause it’s really important. Then you want To start to wiggle the can back and forth. You don’t want to disturb the circle ’cause that’s the circle of the wreath, so you wiggle back and forth. And then you take the plastic off. When you can get the can out, you’re okay because the wax, this plastic wrap will come away very easily and then you can push it back if it pulls a little bit. You can push it back into shape. And then we just do the candy cherries, red and green, as clusters of holly. And then because there’s walnuts, I like to let people know what nut’s in there. Some people can’t do pecans or whatever. And we just put those too. We have some to show you. When we come back, we’re gonna show you all the Gifts from the Kitchen from today. We have one more, real quick gift idea the we wanna show ya. What is that, Pringles?
• It’s two Pringles.
• Put them together.
• You put 2 Pringles.
• 2 in a can of Pringles.
• And you just put-
• Dip them halfway.
• Put them on wax paper.
• Right.
• [Arlene] Do you dip them twice or just once?
• [Lisa] Just once.
• [Arlene] Okay. And that’s all you do and when that’s done, look what she does, she takes a little bag-
• This is, we’re not gonna be able to use it.
• You just drizzle.
• But you let that set up.
• Ans she drizzles it with white chocolate, look at that. Look at the nice-
• You can just get the white Nestle morsels, melt it, and drizzle right on top.
• Or you can do that with little plastic baggy cut the snip in the corner. Okay, she has them that way. Look here. She’s got them in a tin like that, which is lovely. That’s a nice gift. Okay, these are all gift ideas doing the Pringles. Next to it, now I didn’t get a chance to make that but I’m giving you the recipe. This is shortbread cake. Easy to do, it’s got sour cream in it. That stuff is so good and buttery and delicious. Next to it is another way to do your Pringles. Another shortbread cake. Here’s our streusel banana bread. I just put a few little cherries on top to brighten up, for color. That is so moist. Different texture than regular cakes almost. Bread’s almost like a cake, love it. These are , Lisa, and you just drizzled this too, right?
• Yeah, the same way. Just put in the bag.
• With a little bit of white. And you say you have more control of the drizzle.
• [Lisa] Yeah.
• ‘Cause we’ve all done it with the forks and they look lumpy.
• [Lisa] Then you get a big blob.
• There’s four layers in this tin. What a lovely gift. Wouldn’t you like to get that? Here is our wreath. This is the chocolate wreath with pecans and raisins, okay? And this is the wreath with white chocolate, sweetened dried cranberries and pistachios. And in the center, is the real reason for what we’re doing here.
• That’s for sure.
• And this is the Baby Jesus Happy Birthday Jesus cake. You know, this makes it all worth while. It’s very, a very special time of the year. Get your kids in there. Let the kids get in and help you, right?
• Right. Mine love to help.
• I know. And we’re gonna get together to do those ice-cream nut rolls. Her mother Pat and me and her, that should be fun. We know what Pat’s like. Okay, enough said. Hey, we’re so glad you dropped by. We hope we gave you some hints today. Be sure to join us the next time because it just wouldn’t be the same without you. We’ll see you then. Thanks, Lisa.
• [Lisa] Oh, thank you.
• [Aileen] Love you, honey.
• [Lisa] Love you too.
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