 
Peppermint Cheesecake
Ingredients:
| * | 2 cups chocolate wafer cookie or sandwich cookie crumbs | | * | 1/4 cup sugar | | * | 1/4 cup butter, melted | | * | 1 (8 oz.) package cream cheese, softened | | * | 1 (14 oz.) can Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk | | * | 2 teaspoons peppermint extract | | * | 2 cups heavy cream, whipped | | * | Red food coloring (optional) | | * | Smucker's® Chocolate Fudge Topping (optional) |
Directions:
| 1 | LINE 9-inch round cake or springform pan with foil. | | 2 | COMBINE cookie crumbs and sugar in medium bowl. Add butter; mix well. Press 2 cups crumbs firmly onto bottom and partway up sides of prepared pan. Chill. | | 3 | BEAT cream cheese until fluffy in large bowl. Gradually add sweetened condensed milk until smooth. Stir in peppermint extract and food coloring, if desired; mix well. Fold in whipped cream. Pour filling into pan. | | 4 | COVER; freeze 6 hours or until firm. Garnish with fudge topping, if desired. |
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Peppermint Crunch Puppy Chow
Four ingredients is all it takes. No bake, no chilling, no sweat, no fret. The magical mixture of rice Chex cereal, white chocolate, crushed candy canes, and powdered sugar shake together to make your new favorite holiday treat.
First, melt the white chocolate. No magic tricks here - just melt in the microwave according to package directions. Use Bakers White Chocolate bars. It's so smooth, creamy, and melts in the microwave SO easily.
Once melted, pour the white chocolate over the Chex cereal. Go with the Rice Chex Cereal over the Corn Chex when making puppy chow. The Rice variety hardly has any flavor - perfect for recipes like this.
Next, crush up some festive candy canes and throw them into the mix -You can use candy canes with the green and red striped variety for an added pop of color. Regular candy canes will work just fine.
The fourth and final ingredient is your confectioners sugar. This is the fun part. Pour 1 cup of the soft powdery sugar into a large ziplock bag. Add your melty white chocolate chex/candy canes and go to town.
Shake shake shake!
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