White Chocolate Raspberry Clusters Food

WHITE CHOCOLATE AND RASPBERRY COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
• In a medium bowl, combine flour, salt, and baking soda.
• In the bowl of a standing mixer with the paddle attachment or a handheld mixer, combine butter and both sugars, mixing until light and fluffy, around 2 minutes.
• Add in the egg and vanilla extract, and mix until combined.
• Mix in the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking soda) until combined. Do not over-mix! Fold in the white chocolate.
• Gently fold in the raspberries. (Careful not to squish them too much into the dough!)
• Use a cookie scoop or your hands to form 1.5 tbsp sized balls of dough. Place the dough onto the baking sheets, around 3-4 inches apart and bake one sheet at a time, for 8-10 minutes. Refrigerate remaining cookie dough while the first baking sheet is in the oven. The edges will be slightly golden brown and the tops will look set, but soft.
• Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

PISTACHIO WHITE CHOCOLATES

Steps:

• For the pistachio white chocolate butter: Combine the pistachios, white chocolate chips, sugar, salt, almond extract and vanilla in a food processor and blend, scraping the sides occasionally, until very creamy and spreadable, about 10 minutes.
• For the white hot chocolate: Gently heat the milk in a saucepan over medium heat and whisk in 4 to 6 tablespoons of the pistachio butter (4 tablespoons for a nice, light, not-too-sweet situation, or 6 for a very rich desserty sitch!). Save the remaining pistachio butter for another use.

WHITE CHOCOLATE-RASPBERRY CLUSTERS

Steps:

• Melt white chocolate in microwave, 1 minute, 30 seconds. Stir until smooth. Stir in rice cereal and raspberries. Drop mixture onto parchment-lined baking sheets in 1 1/4-inch mounds. Sprinkle with more raspberries. Chill until set, about 30 minutes or up to 5 days.

WHITE CHOCOLATE-RASPBERRY DELIGHT

Steps:

• Process cookies in food processor until fine crumbs form; spoon into medium bowl. Add butter; mix well. Press onto bottom of 13x9-inch pan. Refrigerate until ready to use.
• Beat cream cheese, sugar and 2 Tbsp. milk in large bowl with mixer until blended. Add raspberries; mix well. Gently stir in 2 cups COOL WHIP; spread over crust.
• Beat pudding mixes and 2-1/2 cups milk in bowl with whisk 2 min.; pour over dessert. Let stand 5 min. or until thickened. Cover with remaining COOL WHIP.
• Refrigerate 4 hours or until firm.

WHITE CHOCOLATE-RASPBERRY SCONES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
• Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda together in a large mixing bowl. Grate in frozen butter and stir well, making sure butter doesn't stick together. Stir in raspberries and white chocolate chips. Mix in yogurt, egg, vanilla extract, and lemon zest until combined, making sure not to overmix dough.
• Place dough on a floured surface. Cut scones out using a large biscuit cutter ad place on the prepared baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden, 18 to 20 minutes. Remove scones from the oven and sprinkle tops with confectioners' sugar.
• Set an oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler.
• Broil scones in the hot oven until sugar melts, about 30 seconds. Remove from the oven and let cool before enjoying.

RASPBERRY-FILLED WHITE CHOCOLATE BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F.
• Grease and flour 9-inch square pan. Cover bottom with parchment paper.
• Melt butter in small saucepan over low heat. Remove from heat.
• Add 1 cup of the white chocolate chips. Let stand--do not stir (you don't want chips to melt completely).
• In large bowl, beat eggs until foamy. Gradually add sugar, beating at high speed until lemon-colored.
• Stir in white chocolate chip mixture.
• Add flour, salt and almond extract; mix at low speed until just combined.
• Spread half (about 1 cup) of batter in greased and floured pan.
• Bake at 325° for 15 to 20 minutes or until light golden brown.
• Stir remaining 1 cup white chocolate chips into remaining half of batter; set aside.
• Melt spreadable fruit in small saucepan over low heat. Spread evenly over warm, partially baked crust. (It is important to warm fruit so it is thin enough to spread easily into thin, even layer).
• Gently spoon teaspoonfuls of remaining batter over fruit spread. Be careful--if you try to spread batter around too much you will stir up the fruit layer. (It is ok for some fruit to show through batter).
• Sprinkle with almonds.
• Return to oven and bake an additional 25 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool completely. Carefully invert pan on cutting board. Remove parchment paper and trim off all edges with serrated knife.
• Cut into 1 x 2-inch rectangles.
• If desired, you can make them extra special by dipping in additional melted white chocolate chips.
• Pick up each bar with a toothpick inserted at a slight angle on top. (When toothpick is removed, hole is barely noticeable). Dip into white chocolate just until raspberry layer (halfway up) is covered with chocolate.
• Set on waxed paper to cool.

WHITE CHOCOLATE PECAN RASPBERRY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350°F.
• In a bowl, combine the ground cookies and ½ cup of the pecans and melted butter. Using a spoon, mix well.
• Press the mixture into an 8" square pan sprayed lightly with vegetable spray, then press the cookie mixture firmly into the bottom of the pan.
• Fill a pot with 1-2 cups of water and bring to a simmer. Place white chocolate chips in a double boiler or a microwave safe bowl (the water should not touch the bottom of the bowl). Stir the chocolate constantly while the chocolate melts and remove from stove once completely melted.
• Using a whisk beat in the cream cheese and vanilla until smooth. Add eggs one at a time and 2/3 cup granulated sugar, mixing well until very smooth.
• Pour mixture over the cookie crust, tap the pan gently to smooth out and bake for 25-30 minutes until firm. Cool for 15 minutes.
• Heat the preserves gently in a bowl over hot water just until melted. Spoon over the slightly cooled cheesecake. Cool completely and refrigerate for at least 6 hours.
• In a saucepan, heat the remaining ¼ cup of sugar and add the remaining ½ cup of pecans. Stir over medium heat until pecans are lightly coated. Let cook a few minutes, cut into bars and sprinkle with the candied pecans and serve.

RASPBERRY & WHITE CHOCOLATE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases.
• Beat the butter and sugar together for 5 mins until pale and fluffy. Add the eggs gradually and beat in until combined. Stir in the yogurt, vanilla and milk. Fold in the flour, baking powder and a pinch of fine salt until you have a smooth batter. Finally, fold in 150g raspberries and white chocolate chips and fill the muffin cases three-quarters full.
• Push 2 raspberries into the top of each muffin so they're sticking out slightly. Bake for 8 mins, then reduce the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and bake for 20-25 mins more until risen and golden, and a cocktail stick inserted into the centre comes out clean.

WHITE CHOCOLATE, FRUIT AND NUT CLUSTERS

Steps:

• Microwave chocolate in medium microwaveable bowl on HIGH 2 min. or until chocolate is almost melted; stir until completely melted.
• Stir in remaining ingredients.
• Spoon 1 tsp. chocolate mixture into each of 48 mini paper muffin cup liners. Refrigerate 10 min. or until firm.