Mix and Match Party Recipes - Easy Dinner Party Menu
What's the easiest way to throw a fabulous dinner party? Provide the ingredients and get your guests to do the work.
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the May 2011 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
Photo: Ditte Isager
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At Tina Casaceli's Milk & Cookies Bakery in New York City, customers can design their own flavors—say, marshmallow-macadamia cookies, which are then baked fresh on the spot. Here, Casaceli shares a dough recipe from her cookbook, Milk & Cookies. Prep the dough before the party, then use it as the base for the combinations she suggests, or anything you and your friends can imagine. Step 1: Make the oatmeal-vanilla cookie dough.Step 2: Mix in flavorings.Candy Chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, milk or bittersweet chocolate chunks, caramel chips, M&M's, chocolate-covered pretzels, broken candy bars, toffee bits, marshmallows, peppermints Nuts Chopped macadamia nuts, pecans, sliced almonds, peanuts, and walnuts (or nut butters); coconut flakes Fruits Dried candied pineapple, dried papaya, dried blueberries, dried cranberries, dried cherries, candied ginger, golden raisins, dried apricots Other Cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, clove, sanding sugar, walnut or orange liqueur, coffee extract, peppermint extract, jam, citrus zest, almond paste, sea salt, cream cheese Perfect PairingsWalnut Walnut liqueur + walnuts Ginger Snap Ginger + cinnamon + clove Mint Chocolate Chip Peppermint extract + chocolate chips Spice Ginger + cloves + nutmeg + cardamom + cinnamon Tropical Papaya + coconut + macadamia nuts Mocha Coffee extract + milk chocolate Chocolate-Caramel Chocolate chips + caramel chips Chocolate-Orange Orange liqueur + grated orange zest + chocolate chunks + pecans Macadamia White chocolate chips + chopped macadamia nuts Fruit and Nut White chocolate chips + dried cherries + pecans Candy Bar Bittersweet chocolate chunks + toffee bits Snickerdoodle Cinnamon + sanding sugar + sliced almonds Chocolate-Almond Milk chocolate chunks + sliced almonds Chocolate-Coconut Chocolate chips + coconut flakes Next: Design your own cocktails |
