From time to time, it would be fun to feature one of our Sweet StackersTM products, slash the price and show the many ways to utilize them.
This months feature is the Sweet Stackers 7.75″ x 11″ tray set. This set contains 2 – trays, 4 -1.25″ large risers and 8 – .75″ small risers. This set fits the popular Rubbermaid® 1 gallon TakeAlongs, which are typically sold in a two pack and can be found in local grocery stores, Target, Walmart, etc. These containers are great because they are reusable, but inexpensive enough that you could transport and leave at a party.
This set is perfect for stacking 2 or 3 layers of food in one container. These decorated spritz cookies fit neatly in 3 layers using the .75″ risers. If you need deeper layers for storing brownies, dessert bars, appetizers or donuts, the larger 1.25″ work perfectly and creates two layers.
Dessert bars:
Keeps a dozen Donuts Fresh! Transfer donuts out of the take home carton.
Currently, we are holding a Special Product Feature Sale on this product now through 8/21/2016.
Now only $4.49 ($1.00 off the original price) on www.etsy.com/shop/SweetStackers
For more information about this product or other available sizes, please visit www.sweetstackers.com
Summer Food Storage Problem
It’s summer and it can be HOT & HUMID!!!
Did you ever make homemade muffins and have them stick together when you store them? Well, here’s your solution!
Sweet Stackers create layers in your container. No more sticky desserts, muffins, cookies….even left over pizza.
They come in four different sizes that fit many major brand containers.
Plus, they work great in your pantry, fridge or freezer.
Just keep layering…
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Happy New Year! Personally, I have never been into making resolutions. This year is different and I am setting a goal that is taking one more step to eating better for the whole family. Drumroll please…..I am not buying cereal!
Overall, I believe that we do well eating well rounded meals. But breakfast is the one area where I think we can do better! The mornings are hectic. First, I am NOT a morning person. My kids know that Mom needs to have a few sips of coffee before we can start discussing any aspect of the morning routine. Three young kids bring the typical morning rush trying to get them out of the door on time. Cereal is the perfect quick breakfast. But even the cereal that we have considered to be the “less-sugar” cereals are still packed with sugar and limited nutrition. I myself quit eating cereal for about 2 years because I realized I was starving by 9 or 10 A.M. Unfortunately, my kids LOVE cereal and will even eat it as an afternoon snack since they can make it themselves. So if I don’t have cereal in the house, no one will eat it.
I have been doing some research as how to make quick heathy breakfasts! This is one of the make ahead recipes to keep in the freezer. A variety of fillings can be used, so get creative!
yields 12 individual cups
3 – 10 inch flour tortilla
variety of diced veggies/cooked meat [green pepper, mushrooms & ham]
5 eggs
2 TB milk
shredded Cheddar cheese – optional
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 12 count muffin tin with oil.
Cut the tortilla into quarters. Press gently into the muffin tin to form cups. Sprinkle the diced veggies and meat into the cups. In a small bowl, whisk the eggs and milk together. Poor even amounts of egg mixture into each cup. Sprinkle a pinch of shredded cheese on top of each cup. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake for an additional 5 minutes until the egg is cooked through and lightly browned.
Bring on Spring! We are finally getting a break from this crazy harsh winter. It was so nice to bake with bright sunshine and some fresh air filling the house. My daughter is having a Daisy Girl Scout Investiture Ceremony tonight and I wanted to make a special little treat for our troop. These Daisy Spritz Cookies will be perfect to celebrate!
Spritz Cookie Recipe
Sift the flour and baking powder. On high speed, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the egg, milk and vanilla extract. Lower the mixer speed and add the flour mixture slowly until combined. Fill the cookie press (I love my Wilton Cookie Press!) with dough and place the desire disk in. Press cookies onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Back for 10-12 minutes until the edges are lightly browned. Place on a cooling rack. Makes 7-8 dozen cookies.
Once cooled, I decorated the daisy center with the Girl Scout Daisy blue center. Just like the first patch they earn when they can recite the Girl Scout Promise. The centers were iced with a dollop of glaze (1 cup confectioners’ sugar, 1 teaspoon corn syrup and 1 tablespoon of milk) and dyed with two drops of blue food coloring. Blue crystal sugars were sprinkled on top.
Sweet Stackers are pictured in an air-tight Rubbermaid Take Alongs container. Create 3 layers of cookies in this container.
Sweet Stackers elevate your baked goods on stackable trays in your container. Decorate your cookies right on the trays, place the risers carefully in between and stack the trays without messing the decorations right in your container. Dry the icing with the lid off, then store with an air-tight lid to keep them fresh. They are ready to transport to your event!
Sweet Stackers are reusable, economical, versatile and fit a variety of containers that you probably already own – visit www.sweetstackers.com for more information.
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and one of the most special gifts you can give is homemade! These brownie truffles are extremely easy and super fun to decorate. Create a beautiful variety, uniquely decorated with just a handful of supplies.
The easy part is using a box of brownie mix baked following the instructions on the box. The brownies filled a 9 x 9 inch baking pan. Once removed from the oven, slightly cool, then crumble into a bowl to cool completely. Create uniform 1 inch balls (easiest using a cookie scoop) and place in an air-tight container until ready to decorate.
There are a few different ways to melt chocolate, but I prefer the double boiler method. Boil 1 inch of water in a large sauce pan, placing a larger heat proof bowl on top of the saucepan. This technique prevents the chocolate from scorching. Once the water is simmering, place the chocolates in the bowl on top and stir until melted. Note to add 1 teaspoon of Crisco to create a smooth finish. Roll each brownie ball in the chocolate removing with a fork and place on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper or foil. A few truffles were decorated with sprinkles or sanding sugars immediately.
I started with a 1/2 cup of white chocolate melting wafers to decorate a quarter of brownie balls. Then added milk chocolate wafers to the same bowl and mixed with the remaining white chocolate.
Any leftover chocolate? Don’t toss it…pipe mini chocolate hearts onto wax paper and let them cool completely. They will easily peel off to use as decorations.
The undecorated chocolate covered balls were enhanced with glaze. Starting with plain white glaze – 1 cup of confectioners’ sugar, 1 teaspoon of corn syrup and 1-2 tablespoons of milk. Mix until a thick, smooth consistency. Pipe a few, drizzle a few, add a drop of red food coloring to create pink…have fun!
Once the decorations have set, the truffles should be place in an air-tight container. Each truffle could be placed in mini cupcake liner to separate. Give a beautiful gift showing off your little works of art using a pretty container! This red tin with a clear see-thru lid is perfect!
Sweet StackersTM is a versatile system used to store and transport layers of baked goods in any container! The product was designed to maximize food storage space preventing cookies and desserts from sticking together and protecting the topping, decorations or icing. Visit sweetstackers.com for more information about our product. Sweet Stackers can be found on our Etsy shop.
Merry Christmas from our cookie table to yours!!
Memories are made in the kitchen. This year’s Christmas preparation has been fun – sharing recipes and coming together with family and friends to create special times and celebrate traditions. Christmas Eve ended with a candlelit cookie table and the kids even picked out a few special cookies to leave out for Santa. Hope you enjoyed some of this year’s cookie recipes:
Ina Garten’s Jam Thumbprint Cookies
Gingerbread cookies are THE Classic Christmas Cookie! The aroma fills the house to create the mood of the holidays. Simple decorations turn these delicious cookies into something festive and beautiful! Plus, let the kids get excited and decorate the classic shaped Gingerbread Men.
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 ¼ cup molasses
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
5 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoon ground ginger
3 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 ½ teaspoon ground cloves
2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Preheat oven to 375°. Cream the butter and sugar together at high mixer speed. Gradually add the molasses, eggs and vanilla. Sift the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg together. Measure 5 cups even cups of flour. Reduce the mixer speed and gradually add the flour mixture. Divide the dough into three portions, wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least a couple of hours.
Roll cold dough to about 1/4 inch thick, cut into shapes and place on ungreased cookie sheet (preferably lined with a silicone mat or parchment paper). Bake 6 – 8 minutes. Larger cookies may take longer. Cool on a rack and decorate.
The glaze used to decorate (1 cup of confectioners’ sugar, 1 teaspoon light corn syrup, 1 teaspoon milk and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract).
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Store your decorated cookies in an air-tight container. Sweet Stackers layer your beautiful decorated cookies to keep them looking beautiful! The trays and risers are reusable and insert into a variety of containers you may already own. Decorate your cookies right on the trays and lower them into your container – a great way to save space on your crowded kitchen countertops! Plus, it makes it easy to transport “hard to transport” cookies, like jam filled or decorated cookies, to a holiday party and keeps them looking great!
Rubbermaid’s 1 gallon Take Alongs container is pictured with Sweet Stackers 7.75 x 11 inch tray set. Get three layers of decorated cookies in this container!
My Czech grandma made these Crescent Cookies for Christmas every year. Many other neighboring countries seem to use a similar recipe. Today, I have seen them rolled into balls and named “snowballs” or “pecan snowball” cookies. Either way, these are a very traditional Christmas cookie. Besides tasting absolutely delicious – they are so easy and require only 5 ingredients!
1 cup butter
1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
1 3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup pecans – finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 350°.
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add vanilla. Reduce mixer speed and gradually add flour and pecans.
Shape into 1 1/4 inch balls (using a cookie scoop helps keep them uniform!). Then shape into crescents and roll in a small bowl of confectioners’ sugar.
Bake for approximately 15 minutes until the bottoms turn golden brown. Once cooled, roll again in confectioners’ sugar.
Don’t let your green sanding sugars get on your jam filled thumbprints, and don’t let your powdered sugar get on your slice and bakes! Sweet Stackers Stackable Food Storage System insert into your air-tight containers. Layer your baked goods to maximize food storage space and prevent your flavors from mixing or disturbing the decorations! sweetstackers.com
Christmas Spiral Cookies are so fun and festive for the holiday season! These homemade slice and bake cookies will certainly stand out in an assortment of Christmas cookies. A perfect cookie to take to a cookie swap party and impress the guests!
yields approximately 30 cookies
Using an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and confectioners’ sugar together. Reduce the mixer speed and gradually add the dry ingredients to the mixing bowl. Add the vanilla.
Split the dough into two equal halves. Remove half of the dough. In the other half, gradually add the red food coloring and mix until you reach the desired color.
Rollout each half of the dough between 2 sheets of wax paper or parchment paper into a rectangular shape and 1/8 inch thick. While in the paper, place the rolled out dough onto a cookie sheet and refrigerate for a couple of hours.
Remove from the refrigerator and place the sheet of red dough on top of the plain dough. Trim the edges to evenly create a rectangular shape. Once the dough warms slightly, it can be rolled without cracking. Roll into a log, pressing out the air in between the layers.
Roll the log in a pan of green sanding sugar.
Wrap the log in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
Heat the oven to 325°. Slice the log with a sharp knife about 1/4″ thick and place on a baking sheet for 14 – 16 minutes until the cookie is lightly browned.
Store in an air-tight container and they will be fresh until Christmas!
Sweet Stackers convert your air-tight containers to multi-level using stackable corrugated plastic trays. Visit my website http://sweetstackers.com for more information about our product, get more ideas on how to use our product or find the right size trays that will fit a plastic storage container that you already own!
These gift ideas are perfect for teachers, bakers or hostess gifts during the holidays! Gift baskets are a beautiful way to package and display, but are they really that useful? They usually just get stored or donated after they are received. Food storage containers are a useful package to gather a bunch of kitchen and baking items. Fill a “useful” container such as Rubbermaid Take Alongs with unique kitchen or baking goods from cookie cutters, packaged cookie mixes, sprinkles…and don’t forget the Sweet Stackers – Stackable Food Storage System that can insert into the container to make it multi-level. A great way to store your holiday cookies! There are currently some sweet deals on our Etsy Shop – https://www.etsy.com/shop/sweetstackers.
Unique contents in this inexpensive Rubbermaid 1 gallon Take Alongs.
Fits Sweet Stackers 7.75 x 11 inch tray set.
Sweet Stackers Christmas Cookie Tin Combos are available on Etsy in limited supply. Sweet Stackers 8 x 8 inch tray sets fit perfect into these square cookie tins to layer your baked goods neatly without a sticky mess and keeping your sweets, looking sweet!
Sweet Stackers store your cookies, desserts, candies and more in layers on reusable, stackable trays that insert in many major brand containers. The tray sets are available in four sizes and come with two different sized risers that fit in between your baked items.
Wouldn’t you love to get a thoughtful and unique gift like these for the holidays?
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