I am still hard at work preparing special treats. Tomorrow I am delivering a large plate of goodies to the teachers at my sons’ preschool. All these special holiday cookies and bars taste delicious, but most are not friendly to the waistline. Some people feel incredibly guilty at the thought of indulging in a few of these goodies. Certainly there are some Christmas treats that are full of unhealthy ingredients. And it is best to enjoy in moderation. But sometimes it is best to switch a few ingredients.
For instance take my recipe for Buckeye Balls. Yes, there is a ton of powdered sugar in these yummy goodies, but I have lightened the recipe by using Country Crock® Spread.
Did you know soft spreads, including Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!, Promise, Brummel & Brown, and Imperial-
· Have 0g trans fat per serving
· Contain no partially hydrogenated oils
· Have no cholesterol
· Are 70% less fat than butter per serving
· Have 30% fewer calories than butter per serving
I can personal confirm that these Buckeye Balls are not lacking in taste by using a spread instead of butter. My kids gobble them up and I have to resist the urge to eat more than one in a sitting.
This recipe is easy, delicious, and entirely family friendly.
Whatever your holiday recipe this season, consider exchanging the butter in your recipe for delicious and easy to use spread.
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http://www.itisgoodtoknow.com/sweet-pea-autumn-casserole/
Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies sound good.
I’d love to try the Baked Spiced Squash.
sweet potato pie debbie jackson
djackson1958 at hotmail dot com
I’d like to make the Honey Nut Glazed Brie.
The Veggie Touchdowns look interesting.
I want to try the Ultimate Triple Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
I’d like to try the Black Forest-Ginger Cookies.
sweet potato pie
kport207 at gmail dot com
dutch apple pie
Peanut Butter Pie Bars
Sweet Potato Pie looks good!
I’d like to make Peanut Butter Fudge first!
Facebook Name: Leslie Galloway (www.facebook.com/GallowayLeslie)
I’d like to make these.
http://www.itisgoodtoknow.com/raspberry-jam-thumbprints/
sweet potato pie and blackberry cobbler.
Black Forest Ginger Cookie recipe!
Apple Maple Upside-Down Cake
Peanut butter pie bars!
I would love to make the passion truffles!
priscillavbenavides@yahoo.com
The Walnut Moons My mouth is watering already.
I would like to make the Sweet Pea Autumn Casserole
Fall Harvest Apple Crisp recipe
Peanut butter Fudge
Butternut Squash And Mushroom Lasagna – this is an interesting and different take on a veggie lasagna
I would like to make the cornbread casserole.
I would make the peanut butter fudge recipe.
Classic Buttery Pound Cake
I want to make Warm Autumn Goat Cheese Salad
Has to be the peanut butter fudge! Yummy!
I would like to make the peanut butter and jelly thumbprint cookies.
The peanut butter fudge looks good.
http://www.itisgoodtoknow.com/baked-spiced-squash/
Flaky Pie Crust is the one I’d like to try!
I would like to try the Cinnamon-Walnut Power Bars recipe
I like to make their recipe for the Baked Spiced Squash: http://www.itisgoodtoknow.com/baked-spiced-squash/
I think I am going to make this tonight! The Pumpkin Jalapeno Corn Bread
I’d love to make the Cocoa-Lace Cookies.
Thanks for the chance.
i’m gonna try the Peanut Butter Pie Bars
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
the cheddar brocolli casserole sounds good
Sugar Blazed Buttery Cookies
Apple Maple Upside-Down Cake sounds great!
I’d love to make the Apple Pear Cranberry Cobbler.
Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
I’d love to make the Apple Pear Cranberry Cobbler, yum!
Sweet Potato Pie
Honey Nut Glazed Brie!
I would like to make the Lemon Triangle recipe
I want to try the Walnut Moons.
Raspberry Jam Thumbprints is a recipe I would like to try.
wendym at cableone dot net
Sweet Pea Autumn Casserole
I’d love to make some of that Peanut Butter Fudge
Raspberry thumbprints.
I would love to try the Baked Spice Squash…
I really want to try the Smashed Potatoes With Golden Beets-I didnt even know golden beets existed! I had to Pin it for future eating! Thanks!!
I would love to make the Sauteed Green Beans
The blackberry cobbler seems very good.
I’d love to try the recipe for Raspberry Jam Thumbprints!
I would love to try Honey-Nut Glazed Brie
This recipe, Honey-Nut Glazed Brie, sounds good.
Peanut butter toffee bars – sounds like heaven!!
http://www.itisgoodtoknow.com/peanut-butter-toffee-bars-2/
honey nut glazed brie sounds really yummie
Honey nut glazed brie.
oatmeal raisin cookies
breakfast pizza!!
The pumpkin jalapeño corn bread
the oatmeal cranberry cookies. i love oatmeal cookies but hate raisins, so this is a great idea for me!
Sweet potatoe pie = YUMMY!
Sweet potato pie = YUMMY!
Peanut Butter Fudge
Roasted Turkey With Buttery Sage Rub
I would love to make the Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies.
the peanut butter pie bars looks so good
The peanut butter pie bars sound so yummy!
sweet potato pie 🙂 yummy!!
The Caramel Pumpkin cupcakes look so good. I wish I could reach into the screen and eat one right now!
Spiced squash
Would love to make the Chocolate Cinnamon Snickerdoodles! Yummmm
Mmmm! I’d love to make these bars: http://www.itisgoodtoknow.com/peanut-butter-pie-bars/
Thanks for the giveaway!
Would love to try the layered sweet potato casserole.
Peanut Butter Fudge
Holiday Butternut Squash With Apple & Cranberries
Sweet Pea Autumn Casserole looks yummy and easy
The saute’d green beans look amazing!
Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies!
I would have to say the Holiday Roasted Turkey
Apple Maple Upside-Down Cake
Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
The Baked Spiced Squash would be interesting!
Butternut Squash And Mushroom Lasagna sounds delicious!!!!
The honey nut glazed brie is actually on my Christmas Menu.
I want to try the Zucchini Oatmeal Cookies.
i want to try the Apple Maple Upside-Down Cake recipe
The Honey Nut Glazed Brie looks yummy!
Pumpkin Jalapeno Corn Bread
Warm Autumn Goat Cheese Salad
I would love to try the maple baked sweet potatos
Lemon Triangles
loaded sweet potato’s
peanut butter pie bars
I know my son would love sweet potatoe pie.
Ultimate Triple Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
ultimate chocolate chunk cookies – yum!!!
The Honey Nut Glazed Brie was the first one that caught my eye! Yummy.
yummy Sweet Potato Pie
apple pie
Thanks for the giveaway! Janna Johnson jannajanna@hotmail.com Janna@feedyourpig on gfc
Sweet potato pie
I like the Pumpkin Bar recipe.
The Honey Nut Glazed Brie.
Thanks for the chance.
mogrill12@gmail.com.
I’d like to make Honey Nut Glazed Brie
Digicats {at} Sbcglobal {dot} Net
I’d like to try the corn pudding!
I’d like to try the loaded broccoli mash recipe. Thanks for the chance.
I want to try the sweet potato pie! ^ . ^
I would like to try the Chocolate Cinnamon Snickerdoodles recipe.
The Honey Nut Brie sounds delicious.
Oatmeal cranberry cookies
Nothing more comforting than the Chewy oatmeal raisin cookies- I would add a dash of nutmeg for a more authentic flavor, the kind my great-grandmother made when I was a tot.
Peanut Butter Pie Bars
Yum! These recipes are good to know. I’d really like to make the butternut squash and mushroom lasagna.
I’d like to try making the Creamy Shrimp Risotto.
I would like to make sweet potato pie
I want to try the peanut butter fudge recipe.
For one of our meatless dinners I would make the Butternut Squash And Mushroom Lasagna. It sounds very tasty.
my familiy would like the peanut butter pie recipe
sugar glazed buttery cookies 😀 so yummy looking!
I want to make your buckeye balls. I had lost the recipe. Thanks for sharing. Thank you for this wonderful giveaway.
Sauteed Green beans!
Buckeye Balls sound wonderful!
I am a Buckeye girl 🙂
30 min shortbread
Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies.
Apple Maple Upside-Down Cake.
I’d like to try the Peanut Butter Toffee Bars.
Honey Nut Glazed Brie
Ted Allen’s Apple Maple Upside Down Cake looks so so good!
My family loves peanut butter fudge, I’d like to try that recipe.
I would like to try the Ultimate Triple Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
the peanut butter fudge
Dutch Apple Pie and Honey Glazed Carrots
The Holiday Turkey looks amazing though I don’t know if I could make it this pretty … I would want to try 🙂
Peanut butter fudge! I think of fudge at this time of year, a special treat!
Holiday Roasted Turkey looks good to me.
Garlic mashed potatoes for me.
the Warm Autumn Goat Cheese Salad looks good
I want to make the Peanut Butter Pie Bars.
Sweet potato pie! Haven’t had it in so long!
Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
I love to make Ultimate Double Chocolate Chunk Holiday Cookies…perfect for the holidays
sweetheart4171(at)yahoo(dot)com
Honey Nut Glazed Brie sounds yummy!
I would like to try the Black Forest Ginger Cookies.
I would try the cornbread casserole
Cinnamon Stars! Fun and tasty, I’m sure!
The Peanut Butter Pie Bars sounds YUMMY!
I’d like to make the Lemon Triangles.
I’d love to make those pumpkin spice cupcakes!
I’m going to try the Pumpkin Pie bread next year. I usually do cookies, which are awesome, so something new would be cool!
I would like to make Garlic Cheese Biscuits! They look yummy. I also think the pumpkin jalapeno cornbread recipe looks great. I will have to send my pumpkin obsessed friend a link to the recipe.
I’d like to make the cornbread casserole
I would like to try the Pumpkin Pecan Dump cake
Sweet Potato Pie! Thanks for the chance to win!
mrsmchappell at gmail dot com
I want the sweet potato pie. My paternal grandma used to make it all the time before she passed in 1992.
the Ultimate Triple Chocolate Chunk Cookies
I would like to try the peanut butter pie bars.
I want to try the Heavenly Dinner Rolls!!!
Sweet potato pie and the buckeyes look awesome
Blackberry Cobbler
I would try out the Sweet Pea Autumn Casserole recipe first.
Pumpkin Jalapeno Corn Bread
Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
honey-nut glazed brie sounds like a great appetizer
peanut butter pie bars
Would love to try the Peanut Butter Toffee! grammypenny@frontier.com
I’d like to make the Raspberry Jam Thumbprints recipe.
Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies sound great!
Peanut butter pie bars look great!
oatmeal cranberry cookies.
Blackberry cobbler looks yummy
Raspberry Jam Thumbprints
Peanut butter pie bars. Yum!!
peanut butter pie bars
baked spiced squash. Maybe I could even get my husband to eat it!
the peanut butter pie bars look amazing
Good old oatmeal raisin cookies for us!
The lemon triangle recipe sounds good to me!
sweet potato pie
cheddar brocolli casserole sounds delicious
Sweep potato pie
peanut butter pie bars sounds good
Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Peanut Butter Pecan Bars – http://www.itisgoodtoknow.com/peanut-butter-pie-bars/
Honey Nut Glazed BRie
Peanut butter pie bars
The Peanut Butter Fudge sounds amazing!
Fall Harvest Apple Crisp
The Texas Pecan Drops
tortilla crusted chicken!
I like the spiced squash cookies
The baked spiced squash for sure!
The honey nut glazed brie looks delicious!
peanut butter fudge!
multi grain stuffing
I’d love to try the broccoli and cheddar casserole
The corned bread casserole for me
I want to make Peanut Butter Pie Bars.
I’d love to try the Layered Sweet Potato Casserole!
The Spotlight Cookies are my pick!
the pumpkin jalapeno corn bread for my son-in-law
Apple Maple Upside-Down Cake looks really yummy!
I’d go with cinnamon starts
Peanut Butter Toffee bars
I’d like to make the Roasted Turkey with Buttery Sage Rub!
The peanut butter fudge looks yummy.
The Pumpkin Jalapeno Corn Bread looks amazing!
I like to make the Sweet Pea Autumn Casserole
martywharris@gmail.com
Peanut Butter Toffee Bars
Pumpkin Jalapeno Corn Bread
Apple Maple Upside Down Cake sounds good
the Ultimate Triple Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Sauteed green beans
The P-Nut Butter Fudge!
The Cinnamon Stars look good!
I would try: Sauteed Green Beans
Cornbread Casserole
Butternut Squash And Mushroom Lasagna looks yummy!
I would like to make the Stacked Scalloped Potatoes…they look delicious!
hiney nut glazed brie
black forest ginger cookies
I would like to make the Texas Pecan Drops, I have never had them before
I’d love to try the sauteed green beans
I’d make the Black Forest Ginger Cookies.
I want to try to make the Sweet Potato Pie!
The honey nut glazed brie sounds good!
The Holiday Roasted Turkey looks good
the sweet potatoe pie looks yummy!
I want to try the Peanut Butter pie bars
Ultimate Double Chocolate Chunk Holiday Cookies
Apple Maple Upside Down Cake
I want to try the fudgy crinkle cookies.
Sweet Potato Pie!
Apple Pie Monkey Bread
I would like to try the Shallot & Thyme Buttery Compound
I saw LOTS of recipes I’d LOVE to try! Topping my l”to Try Soon List” are:
Smashed Greek Potatoes
Pumpkin Dump Cake
Lemon Triangles
Sweet Roasted Squash
and
Pumpkin Jalapeno Corn Bread
to name a few
Cornbread casserole sounds yummy 🙂
The Baked Spiced Squash sounds delish!
coriwestphal at msn dot com
Peanut butter fudge.
I am most interested in making the Baked Spiced Squash
I like the Peanut Butter Fudge
Maple Baked Sweet Potatoes
I would like to make the Unfried Chicken Skewers recipe from the site for my family.
I’d like to make the Cheddar Brocolli Casserole.
I would make the Apple Maple Upside-Down Cake
Yumm veggie touch downs and the apple cake sounded good too
sugar-glazed buttery cookies look yummy
The Buttery Cilantro Steak looks tasty!
I want to make Shallot & Thyme Buttery Compound
Apple maple upside down cake
The sauteed green beans sound good
I want to try the Garlic Cheese Biscuits!
I would like to try the Honey Nut Glazed Brie…sounds good
anytime sugar cookies
Peanut Butter Bars
The baked spiced squash looks really good!
chewy oatmeal cookies! connie d
Holiday Roasted Turkey
Sauteed Green Beans
Their Lemon Triangles look yummy
I’d like to try the Pumpkin Dump Cake
The Sweet and Savory Acorn Squash looks sooo good and the Maple Aplle Upside down Cake does too.
Everything looks good…the Buckeye balls…mmmmmm.
spicy oven fries
Ultimate Triple Chocolate Chunk Cookies
I think the Spot Light cookies look amazing, I think I will try this recipe!
Apple Maple Upside-Down Cake
I want to make the Peanut Butter Fudge
http://www.itisgoodtoknow.com/delicious-one-bowl-chocolate-chip-cookies/
The Pumpkin Muffins sound good.
peanut butter fudge
Baked Spiced Squash
The Ultimate Triple Chocolate Chunk Cookies
cookies
I’d love to bake the Walnut Moons.
Black Forest-Ginger Cookies!
Pumpkin Jalapeno Corn Bread
I’d love to try their spicy mac & cheese recipe – yum!
beckytag618 at gmail dot com
Peanut butter pie BARS! SO good!
I love to bake so cookies and cakes
Peanut Butter Toffee Bars
peanut butter pie bars
Holiday Roasted Turkey
I want to try the pizza flag in the kid section.
I would love to make the Zucchini Oatmeal Cookies
I like the cabbage nests. Thank you
Baked Spiced Squash! We love squash!
Baked Spice Squash
Tortilla-Crusted Chicken Breasts, sounds great!
I’ll be trying the traditional noodle kugel
The Walnut Moons!
ptavernie at yahoo dot com
I’d like to try the Honey-Nut Glazed Brie recipe.
Baked Spiced Squash
I’ll be making the spicy macaroni and cheese
Baked Spiced Squash
The Honey Nut Glazed Brie sounds delicious!
The apple maple upside down cake.
Gingerbread Cupcakes with Pumpkin Frosting and Candied Pecans. I really do like pumpkin.
I’d like to try the Baked Spice Squash!
Suddenly I see sweet potato pie on TV all the time. Maybe it’s about time that I try it.
I would love to try the Sauteed Green Beans.
I am most interesting in trying the Walnut Moons recipe.
I want to make the Lemon Triangles.
I would love to try the spicy mac and cheese
I would love to try the Honey Nut Glazed Brie.
Peanut Butter Pie Bars
vmkids3 at msn dot com
Chili Parmesan Popcorn & Peanut
Peanut Butter Fudge
annabella @ centurytel dot net
I most interested in making the Apple Maple Upside-Down Cake.
the sweet potato pie looks good
I would love to try Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Sweet Potato Pie
I would love to try the Ultimate Triple Chocolate Chunk Cookies.
Warm Autumn Goat Cheese Salad
Thanks for the great giveaway!
I’d like to make the Warm Autumn Goat Cheese Salad.
I would like to try the crockpot chicken and stuffing casserole.
Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
I’d like to try the Butternut Squash & Mushrooms Lasagna.This sounds so delish! Thank you for the great giveaway! 🙂
Sweet Pea Autumn Casserole
I’d make the peanut butter pie..YUMMMMMM
I would like to try the Pumpkin Jalapeno Corn Bread
I think I’ll try making the Apple Maple Upside-Down Cake 🙂
I would love to make the Peanut Butter Toffee Bars, yumm! Thanks.
Peanut Butter Pie Bars 🙂
I would love to try both of these, Garlic Cheese Biscuits and Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes
I’d like to try the Baked Spiced Squash.
I’d like to make the Sweet Pea Autumn Casserole
the oatmeal raisin cookies!
Cranberry Chocolate Chip Cookies
peanut butter toffee bars!
Cornbread casserole.!
honey nut glazed brie
I’d like to make the Black Forest Ginger Cookies.
Holiday Roasted Turkey
Peanut Butter Pie Bars
what I really want are those buckeyes, omg, they are so good. I’d also like to make the Cranberry Chocolate Chip Cookies.
I’d like to try the Lightened up Broccoli and Cauliflower Casserole recipe.
Sauteed Green beans!
Chewy oatmeal raisin cookies sound great.
Holiday Roasted Turkey —– Paul T/Pauline T aka Paol Trenny ….. emscout9 at Hotmail dot com
Sweet Potato Pie
Broccoli and cauliflower casserole
id love to try the Warm Autumn Goat Cheese Salad
Sweet Potato Pie! Mmmm!
lemon triangles
ardelong2(at)gmail(dot)com
I would like to make the pumpkin muffins
Black Forest Ginger Cookies
I would love to make those Maple Sweet Potatoes.
Baked Spice Squash
Sweet Pea Autumn Casserole
buttery poundcake
The Apple Maple Upside-Down Cake sounds delicious! Thank you for the giveaway! 🙂
I want to make your buckeye balls. Because my grandpa would always pick up buckeyes and give them to people for good luck.
I’d love to make the Pumpkin Pie Bars.
I’d like to try the Oatmeal Cranberry recipe. With cherries and dark chocolate for a switcheroo.
Honey Nut Glazed Brie yum.
I’d like to try the Peanut Butter Pie Bars
Sweet Potato Pie!
I would make the Baked Spiced Squash
The Honey Roasted Sweet Potatoes look good!
I’d love to make the Carmel pumpkin cupcakes
I want to make the Sweet and Savory Roasted Acorn Squash
Peanut Butter Fudge
lemon triangles!
jagar0047 at yahoo dot com
sweet potato pie!
roasted turkey with butter sage rub
brittneydejajason at gmail dot com
Peanut buter pie bars
I would like to make the peanut butter toffee bars.
I’d like to make the Honey Nut Glazed Brie.
I’d like to make the peanut butter and jelly thumbprint cookies
Honey Nut Glazed Brie looks so good.
sweet potato pie
The Chewy Ginger Cookies
I want to make the Peanut Butter Pie Bars
i would love to try the Sweet Pea Autumn Casserole recipe!
http://www.itisgoodtoknow.com/baked-spiced-squash/
Thanks for the giveaway…Sweet Pea Autumn Casserole
Pumpkin Jalapeno Corn Bread looks delicious
Pumpkin Jalapeno Cornbread
I’d love to make the Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes
I would love to try the Holiday roasted turkey
I would like to try the Honey-Nut Glazed Brie
spiced squash
The peanut butter fudge recipe looks great!
The Baked Spiced Squash sounds great!
Ultimate Triple Chocolate Chunk Cookies
I’d like to try the Apple Maple Upside-Down Cake.
I would love to try the honey nut Glazed Brie
I’m love to try the Black Forest Ginger cookies
PB fudge!
I would like to try the Baked Spiced Squash
I’d make the Layered Sweet Potato casserole
I would love to make the Peanut Butter Pie Bars.
the buckeyes are yummy