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This Week’s Featured Posts…

Crock Pot Lasagna 

Easy to cook and transport.

Baked Cheesy Chicken Nuggets

Guess what kind of crust these have? It’s yummy by itself!

The BEST Slow Cooker Ham

Tastes like candy and melts in your mouth.

Chicken Pot Pie Puffs

My favorite filling in hand-sized puffs.

Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts

Addicting! You can never make enough of these little bites of salty sweet goodness!

Snickers Poke Cake

’nuff said.

Peanut Butter Cup Brownies

My aunt always makes these at Christmas time, but anytime is a good time for these!

Oreo & Coke Dump Cake

The title is the how-to. How awesome is that!

No-Bake Eclair Cake

No body better be on a diet at your next potluck because you’ll ruin it by bringing this! They won’t be able to resist.

Cookies and Cream Bars

These are my downfall.

Grain-free Banana Nut Butter Donuts

These look amazing and it is nice to have something for everyone at a potluck.

Easy Strawberry No-Bake Pie 

Skinny Strawberry Lemonade Cake

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The post Everyone Will Thank You for Bringing Over One of These Recipes! first appeared on True Aim.

I’ve been making this a little too often. I really could drink the whole crock pot full. Good thing I have kids to curb my cravings!

Slow Cooker White Hot Chocolate

My kids were so happy. You know, jumping up and down happy. They kept going over everything they got to do that day; our friends, SLEDDING, HOT CHOCOLATE! I love it when kids do that.

Emma was mostly excited about the hot chocolate, but wasn’t sure it would be good because it was white. “White?” She kept asking me like I wasn’t sure. Why do kids always do that?

I’m mom and I know what I’m talking about. When I say don’t tip your chair and it falls out from underneath you, when I tell you not to carry so many things at once and you drop them, when I tell you that it is cold and you need a coat yet you insist on not wearing one and then come inside 5 minutes later for a coat; you think that my kids would be confident in my knowledge of the workings of the universe. Lol!

Oh, but I do love their inquisitive curiosity and most questions are just the excitement of the unknown. So I added to their questions by putting peppermint leaves and my Mint Simple Syrup in the slow cooker to steep with the hot chocolate. Peppermint too?

Finally when it was done, their questions were answered with an amazingly creamy, pepperminty experience that they couldn’t get enough of. Once again, mom’s great intellect was confirmed.

Slow Cooker Peppermint White Hot Chocolate

 

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Cook time

1 hour

Total time

1 hour

 

Peppermint white hot chocolate is conveniently steeped in a slow cooker to keep it hot and make it easy to serve.

Author: True Aim

Recipe type: Drinks

Cuisine: American

Serves: 5 cups

Ingredients

• 1 cup white chocolate (6 oz)
• 1 cup water
• ½ tsp peppermint extract or handful fresh peppermint leaves
• ½ tsp vanilla
• pinch of salt
• 2-3 tbsp sugar
• 4 cups of milk
• miniature marshmallows or whipped cream (optional)
• crushed peppermint candies (optional)

Instructions

1. In a 4-5 qt slow cooker on high heat mix chocolate, water, peppermint and salt. Heat for 15-20 minutes, or until the chocolate is thoroughly melted, stirring with a whisk occasionally.
2. Add the milk, vanilla, and sugar to taste and heat until hot, but not bubbling; about 30 minutes - 1hr.
3. Reduce heat to warm and serve with marshmallows or whipped cream and top with peppermint candy.

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Hope you enjoy as much as we did!

The post Slow Cooker Peppermint White Hot Chocolate first appeared on True Aim.

I am so glad I tried it, because after 8 years, it is still the only ham I like to eat for Thanksgiving.

I’ve given this recipe out to several people and I don’t think they’ve ever had ham any other way again either. The reason is that it tastes like candy! It’s sweet, salty, and melts in your mouth. It’s addicting!

The first time I had it, my aunt had to cut me off because she wanted some leftovers. I could eat half a ham alone cooked like this and it is too easy!

Usually I would write up a recipe card for this, but I’m just going to tell you because it’s a no-brainer.

The BEST Slow Cooker Ham Recipe

Drum-roll please…..

Ingredients: 1 Spiral Sliced Honey Ham, 2 cups of brown sugar and a few pineapple slices (optional).

Directions: Put 1 cup of brown sugar on the bottom of the slow cooker. Put the ham in and cover with another cup of brown sugar. Top with pineapple slices (optional). Cook on low for 6-8 hours.

That’s it!

I know, right?! So easy. Maybe it’s not really considered a protein after all the sugar, so just substitute it for that extra slice of pie you’re tempted to have. Trust me, it’s worth it.

Maybe you’d like to try this tasty marvel but you don’t want to buy a half a ham. You can always get a quarter of a ham and cut the recipe in half, which is SO difficult. Just make sure it is spiral cut or it won’t work. I’ve tried it and it was the biggest disappointment.

To serve, I usually leave it in the slow cooker. If you take it out, make sure you take a lot of the juice with it because it will dry out.

Freeze the left-overs and use them in split pea soup, ham casserole, or Ramen.

I’m temped to make some right now and it’s only October. Quick, someone make up a holiday other than Halloween so I have an excuse.

Now that you know this secret recipe, try it, come back and tell me what you think!

The post The BEST Slow Cooker Ham Ever first appeared on True Aim.