Animal Cracker Crust Recipe 345 Food

KEY LIME BARS WITH ANIMAL CRACKER CRUST

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 325°.
• Cut about 12" length extra-wide heavy duty foil; fold cut edges back to form 7 1/2" width. WIth folded sides facing down, fir foil securely into bottom and up sides of 8" square baking pan, allowing excess to overhang pan sides. SPray foil with nonstick cooking spray.
• In workbowl of food processor, pulse animal crackers until broken down, about ten 1 second pulses; process crumbs until evenly fine, about 10 seconds (you should have about 1 1/4 cups crumbs). Add brown sugar and salt; process to combine, ten to twelve 1 second pulses (if large sugar clumps remain, break them apart with fingers). Drizzle butter over crumbs and pulse until crumbs are evenly moistened with butter, about ten 1 second pulses.
• Press crumbs evenly and firmly into bottom of prepared pan. Bake until deep golden brown, 18-20 minutes. Cool on wire rack while making filling. Do not turn off oven.
• While crust cools, in medium bowl, stir cream cheese, zest, and salt with rubber spatula until softened, creamy, and thoroughly combined. Add sweetened condensed milk and whisk vigorously until incorporated and no lumps of cream cheese remain; whisk in egg yolk. Add lime juice and whisk gently until incorporated (mixture will thicken slightly).
• Pour filling into crust; spread to corners and smooth surface with rubber spatula. Bake until set and edges begin to pull away slightly from sides, 15-20 minutes. Cool on wire rack to room temperature, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Cover with foil and refrigerate unti thoroughly chilled, at least 2 hours.
• Loosen edges with paring knife and lift bars from baking panusing foil extensions; cut bars into 16 squares. Sprinkle with toasted with toasted coconut and serve. Can refrigerate for up to 2 days, crust will soften slightly. Let refrigerated bars stand at room temperature about 15 minutes before serving.
• Can make triple citrus bars using 1 1/2 teaspoons each of grated lime zest, lemon zest, and orange zest (mince zest after measuring), and using 6 tbsp lime juice, 1 tbsp lemon juice, and 1 tablespoons orange juice.

ANIMAL CRACKERS

Steps:

• For the dough: Add the granulated sugar and butter to the bowl of an electric mixer and beat until smooth. Add the vanilla and egg and beat again, scraping the sides of the bowl halfway through. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Alternate adding the dry ingredients and the milk to the mixer until the dough comes together. Flatten the dough into a disc and put it in a plastic bag. Refrigerate until chilled, about 2 hours.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or baking mats.
• Roll out the dough to 1/4 inch thick and cut out as many cookies as you can in a variety of animal shapes. Place the cookies on the prepared baking sheets and bake until they're just barely done, 8 to 10 minutes; you want them to be set, but not brown. Let the cookies cool completely before decorating.
• For the frosting: Sift the powdered sugar into a bowl, add the food coloring and 1/4 cup cold water and stir to combine
• Transfer the cookies to a cooling rack set over a baking sheet and drizzle the frosting over them. Let the frosting dry before serving the cookies, about 2 hours.

ANIMAL CRACKER CRUST RECIPE - (3.4/5)

Steps:

• Pulse all dry ingredients in food processor until powdery. Add butter, stirring to combine until crumbs are evenly moistened. Bake at 325º for about 15 minutes, rotating pie shell half way through baking time.

ANIMAL CRACKER PIE

Steps:

• Place individual scoops of ice cream into the pie crust, forming a mountain of ice cream (with the center scoop as the highest point).
• Drizzle the"mountain" with hot fudge sauce and sprinkle with walnuts.
• Place animal crackers on top of each scoop and serve immediately.
• If not planning to.
• serve right away, then place the ice cream scoops into the crust, cover loosely, and store in the freezer.
• Just before serving, drizzle with hot fudge sauce, sprinkle with walnuts, and place the animal crackers on each scoop.
• This is really cute!

ANIMAL CRACKERS

Steps:

• Blend oatmeal in blender.
• add next 4 ingredients in bowl with oatmeal.
• cut in butter and mix in buttermilk.
• Roll thin layer and cut in shapes.
• Bake at 400° 10 minutes.
• Yum Yum.

ANIMAL CRACKER ICE CREAM CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven according package instructions.
• Prepare the cake mix as per package instructions. Divide the mix, putting roughly 1/3rd of the mix in another bowl. Into the smaller amount, add pink food dye and mix in until desired color. Divide the white batter into two greased and parchment bottomed 8-inch cake pans. Drop the pink batter into the white batter in small spoonfuls and then marble the pink into the white using a skewer or butter knife. Bake cakes, cooking until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool.
• Remove the cakes from the pan, leaving the parchment round on the bottom of one of the cakes, and level off the tops of both cakes. Place the parchment bottomed cake back into the pan and spread the softened ice cream into an even layer. Invert the second cake, so that the bottom is the top of the cake, and place on top. Place in freezer for 4-6 hours, until ice cream is frozen.
• In a large bowl, beat the butter until light and fluffy. Gradually add the sugar, and then add the cream and vanilla. Beat until completely smooth.
• Remove the cake from the freezer gently run a knife or spatula around the ice cream and remove to a cake round. On a lazy susan, if you have one, lightly frost the cake with a crumb coat. Place back in the freezer for 15 minutes. Remove from freezer and frost normally. Do not worry if the frosting is not perfect. Place the cake in the freezer while you prepare the drip. Transfer the remaining frosting to a piping bag.
• In a small bowl, melt the candy melts in 15 second intervals in the microwave until completely smooth. Thin the candy melts with 1 tablespoon vegetable oil. The candy melts need to be thin enough to drip but thick enough to give control over the process. Transfer to a squeeze bottle and test on a plate held sideways, thinning with additional vegetable oil if necessary.
• Remove the cake from the freezer and slowly pipe the circumference of the cake, stopping and applying extra as to drip down edges. Remove top from bottle and pour the remaining mixture over the top and spread out to edges. While soft, stand animal crackers into top and sprinkle with rainbow sprinkles and 1⁄2 of the crushed animal crackers. Pipe remaining buttercream frosting around bottom edge and decorate with additional sprinkles and animal cracker crumbs. Keep in freezer until ready to serve.

ANIMAL CRACKER COOKIES

Steps:

• Over small bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and mace, set aside.
• In bowl of electric mixer beat butter on high speed for 2 minutes.
• Reduce the speed to medium, slowly add sugar and beat for 2 minutes, stopping the mixer occasionally to scrape down sides of bowl.
• Add the egg and vanilla and beat for 1 minute, again stopping once to scrape down the sides of the bowl.
• Stop the mixer and add half of the flour mixture.
• eat on low speed until most of the flour has been absorbed.
• Add remaining flour and beat until all of the flour has been absorbed and dough starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl, 2-3 minutes.
• Turn dough out onto a work surface and divide into 2 equal balls. Shape eacy into a disk and wrap separately in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours or up to 2 days.
• Let the dough stand at room temperature for 5 minutes. Place each dough disk between 2 clean, large pieces of plastic wrap.
• Roll out dough to 1/8 inch thickness (If dough cracks while rolling, let it stand at room temperature for 5-10 minutes) Remove plastic wrap and place the dough on a floured work surface. Lightly dust the top of dough with flour.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Line several baking sheets with parchment paper. Dip cookie cutters (I have circus animal shapes) into flour just before using and cut out the shapes.
• Bake cookies until very light golden brown, 14-16 minutes. Transfer to wire rack and alow to cool to room temperature.