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It’s Just About Fudgin’ Time!

Published on December 12, 2022November 29, 2022 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place Blog3 Comments

It’s just about that time of year when I need to get started on my Christmas Fudge. I definitely need to get it made before the Polar Express Party so we can share it with our family and friends who may come to visit.

Here are the recipe links for the fudge flavors that we have made in the past:

The Milk Chocolate Fudge has several flavor variations to try.

Butter Pecan Fudge

Easy Peanut Butter Fudge

Milk Chocolate Fudge (Christmas Fudge) — several flavor variations!

Peanut Butter Fudge

Peppermint Bark

Red Velvet Fudge

I am hoping to try a couple of new flavors this year… maybe even an egg nog flavor! It’s always fun trying out new flavors and sometimes we have great success while others are total flops but we have fun trying!

Here are some of the other candies that we make around this time of year as well:

Caramel Pecan Candies

Chocolate Covered Eggs (updated with more flavors!) (shape into balls for Christmas Candy)

Chocolate-Dipped Goodies

Crockpot Chocolate Peanut Clusters aka Reindeer Poop

Haystacks aka Noodle Cookies (2 versions here)

We hope you find these recipes easy to use and we pray that you have a blessed holiday season!

Let us know in the comments what your favorite Christmas Candy is!

Hot Cocoa for the win!

Published on December 8, 2022November 29, 2022 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place Blog3 Comments

There’s nothing like snuggling up with a cup of hot cocoa after coming in from the cold… ok, ok, I know… it doesn’t really get that COLD here in Florida but I sure can remember some cold days from my

time further north and I still enjoy a nice cup of hot cocoa every now and then.

I can remember my mom making us a pot of cocoa on the old wood cookstove. We would sip as much as we could before we had to head out the door to catch the school bus… at one time we had to walk 1/2 mile uphill to get to the bus and in another place we lived it was an even further walk downhill… not much easier if the driveway was iced over.

Here are some of our All-Time Favorite cocoa recipes:

Cocoa In A Crockpot

Hot Cocoa (Powdered)

Single-Serve Hot Cocoa

The Best Hot Cocoa

Of course, you can always use the ready-made kind at the store too but there is just something a little extra special about whipping up some cocoa from scratch and the memories you make will be cherished for a lifetime!

You can also whip up some fresh cookies to go along with your cocoa for an extra special snack!

Time to think about those last couple of Holiday Meals!

Published on December 5, 2022November 29, 2022 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place Blog1 Comment

Here in our neck of the woods, the stores are looking a little sparse so I’ve been trying to grab what I can when I see it for our upcoming holiday meals… have you planned yours out yet? If not, I’ve got some easy recipes for you to use and some menus from previous years that may inspire you.

Our holiday meals here may not be quite as grand as they have been in the past but when everyone joins around the table we have more than enough!

Here are some of our favorite recipes:

Steamed Broccoli with Cheese Sauce

Bread:

30 minute Rolls

Hoe Cakes

Cinnamon Butter

Empty Tomb Rolls (aka Resurrection Rolls)

Honey Butter

Mama’s Best Dinner Rolls

Desserts:

Blackberry Pig in a Poke

Cheesecake

Chocolate Covered Eggs

Chocolate Pudding Pie – (This was something I always looked forward too with my Mom-Mom)

Coconut Cake

German Chocolate Pie

Luscious Four-Layer Pumpkin Cake

Mama’s Southern Pecan Pie

Milk Chocolate Fudge (Christmas Fudge)

Nana’s No-Bake Pig Out Pie

No-Bake Eggnog Cheesecake

No-Bake Peanut Butter Pie

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Pumpkin Pie

Pumpkin Roll

Watergate Salad

Beverages:

Cocoa In A Crockpot

Ms. Shirley’s Hot Apple Cider

Old-Fashioned Lemonade

Susie’s Sweet Tea

Need a recipe you don’t see listed? Try checking out the search bar or leave a comment and we’ll try to get one posted ASAP!

We hope you all have a wonderful holiday season!

St. Nicholas Day is just around the corner!

Published on December 3, 2022November 29, 2022 by Susie @ Pollywog's Place Blog2 Comments

We are trying our best to get back into some of our routines and traditions around here but it’s been tough going with one thing after another. I do plan to do a little something special for St. Nicholas Day and we hope to get our tree up then as well. I had thought about doing our Polar Express Party on St. Nicholas Day but it falls in the middle of the week so that wouldn’t work out well for anyone right now.

We won’t be doing anything really spectacular but I’m sure the kids will be excited anyway. I did manage to snag a couple of bags of chocolate coins a couple of weeks ago too so I’m hoping they won’t have melted by the time St. Nicholas Day gets here.

I just wanted to post this in case anyone else wanted to try to do something a little extra special… maybe you will have a chance to grab some things over the weekend to start a new family tradition. Maybe we can schedule a quick drive around town to look at Christmas lights or something as well.

Here are a few posts from previous years:

Happy St. Nicholas Day 2018!

St. Nicholas Day 2016

St. Nicholas Day (12/6)

We usually make Santa Pancakes and I think we did something a little different last year but I can’t remember what we did for sure as it was so crazy then.

Before you think that you couldn’t possibly pull anything like this off because something always goes wrong here’s another post about how our day really went on a previous St. Nicholas Day: