46 stain recipes

They make great Christmas gifts for family and all the various people you give them to. Mailman, garbage man, paperboy, school teachers, your kids' friends. etc. I figure if the kids have to help me cut, they get some to give to their friends.

Stained glass candies are no-bake chocolate log slices studded with colorful mini marshmallows and walnuts. A gorgeous holiday candy that looks like stained glass windows when sliced.

No-bake stained glass cookies made with melted chocolate chips, marshmallows, and chopped nuts rolled in coconut. Slice from frozen for a colorful, fudgy treat.

Old-fashioned pear harlequin preserves with pineapple, orange, and maraschino cherries. A colorful sweet conserve with the look of stained glass in the jar.

Magic window cookies are sugar cookies with stained glass centers made from crushed hard candy that melts during baking. A holiday favorite for tree ornaments and gifts.

No-bake church window candy made with melted chocolate, colored marshmallows, and chopped nuts, rolled into logs and sliced. The colorful marshmallows glow like stained glass.

No-bake chocolate cookies with colorful marshmallows that look like stained glass windows when sliced. Rolled in chopped nuts and chilled until firm. Kids go wild for these.

No-bake church window cookies with mint and regular chocolate chips, colored marshmallows, nuts, and flaked coconut. Slice-and-serve treats that look like tiny stained glass rounds.

Cathedral windows candy with melted chocolate chips, colored marshmallows, and powdered sugar rolled into a log and sliced to reveal stained glass-like cross sections. No-bake and freezer friendly.

Easy cream of tomato soup made from scratch with just four ingredients: tomato juice, milk, butter, and flour. A homemade alternative to the canned version, ready in 25 minutes.

Great recipe, measurements worked out perfectly. Used the resulting jelly with Apple stuffed pork chops (linked below). The sweet slightly tart would work great with some spice, perhaps red pepper flakes added for a sweet-spicy kick.

Homemade ricotta cavatelli pasta with just flour, ricotta, and egg. Hand-rolled into small finger shapes that hold sauce beautifully. Freezes well for future meals.

This recipe comes from one of my Norway friends, she gave me this good recipe: These rolls I make from leftover cake vreks! You can have any kind of cake in it but half of the crumbs must be from chocolate cake. I store leftover in my freezer and make this recipe when I want to.

Warm pineapple mousse baked in souffle dishes with a hidden layer of shredded coconut, finished under the broiler with caramelized powdered sugar. An elegant tropical dessert.

Randy Pollak's persimmon salad is a molded gelatin salad with orange Jello, hot grapefruit juice, and strained persimmon pulp. A vintage fruit salad served on lettuce with cottage cheese.

No-bake fig candy balls made with dried figs, raisins, pecans, peanut butter, and honey, rolled in powdered sugar. A naturally sweet fruit and nut confection.