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These big corn muffins go great with chili or soup on a cool fall evening!
INGREDIENTS:
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup light sour cream
• 6 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 1/4 cup yellow or white cornmeal
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 to 2 tablespoons sugar, optional
• 1 cup drained corn kernels, or frozen, thawed
PREPARATION:
Grease and flour 6 Texas muffin cups or spray with a baking spray. Heat oven to 400°. Whisk eggs with sour cream, milk, and melted butter. In a mixing bowl, combine flour, cornmeal, baking powder, salt, soda, and sugar, if using. Stir the first mixture into the dry ingredients just until blended; fold in corn kernels. Spoon the batter into prepared muffin cups, filling each about 2/3 to 3/4 full. Bake the muffins for 20 to 25 minutes, or until tops are lightly browned. Makes 6 big muffins.
I’d write all the recipes for the family cookies I’m having at my cookie bar during the reception!
I would write my friend’s famous white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies. They are really delicious!
I would actually send these out with my shower invitations and ask each guest to write down their favorite recipe. This way I could have a cook book of all my family and friends favorite recipes!
I would write the recipe on how to cook a Tombstone Pizza!
ok, really, i’d put down muddie buddies, my favorite sweet snack!
Ingredients:
9 cups Chex® cereal (any variety)
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
Preparation Directions:
1. Into large bowl, measure cereal; set aside.
2. In 1-quart microwavable bowl, stir together chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter. Microwave uncovered on High 1 minute; stir. Microwave about 30 seconds longer or until mixture can be stirred smooth. Stir in vanilla. Pour mixture over cereal, stirring until evenly coated. Pour into 2-gallon resealable food-storage plastic bag.
3. Add powdered sugar. Seal bag; shake until well coated. Spread on waxed paper to cool. Store in airtight container in refrigerator.
I would write my grandmother’s recipes for her famous cakes, especially her multi layer chocolate cake that would make any man swoon.
My favorite cupcake recipes from Cupcake Blog (http://cupcakeblog.com/index.php)! All different kinds… but my ultimate fave is red velvet.
A dessert, for sure. Maybe my mom’s flan recipe or my home-made thai donuts!
I’d write down all the yummy Fillipino recipes my husband makes so that when he doesn’t feel good I could make them for him!
I would write down my grandmother’s recipe for deep-fried Lithuanian Christmas cookies– we always labelled them as “Kristies” but I’ve seen them spelled with several more consonants… I’d post the recipe here, but it’s only written down in one place– a card in my dad’s old cookbook, in my grandma’s handwriting! See, this is why I need recipe cards, to start my own file!
I would use them to write down all the family recipes from my grandmothers so that I can help keep up the tradition of making their wonderful treats. I could then use them as a nice way to pass the recipes on to the next generation someday.
The ricotta gnocchi recipe I used the first time I ever cooked for my husband. It is so good.
The reduced-fat, reduced-cholesterol heart-healthy versions of Filipino recipes to give to my MIL, ha ha!
I would write all my families secret recipes. Like for hungarian goulash and my great-grandmas sugar christmas cookies. Only I would write them all in short-hand so they could maintain their secretness. Nobody knows shorthand anymore, right? Maybe I’ll write them out in Gaelic then. Hmmmmm….
My fiance’s father passed away and he was the one who always made the thanksgiving turkey. So now, being that my fiance is the oldest man in the family, the responsibility has been passed down to him. I’ll write down the recipe for him to learn and keep this recipe for our oldest son in the future.
Clementine-almond cake. It’s gluten-free, and I make it with agave nectar so it is really friendly for most diets and the best part is that it is yummy.
I’d write down my mom’s Korean recipes of my favorite dishes. Now that I’m in a different state from her, I have to cook Korean food myself. I was so spoiled before! When she visited last month, we cooked together some of my favorite dishes. It was so much fun and I felt so close to her. I wrote down the recipes on a piece of paper. Now that paper is on the refrigerator. :p
I like the idea of having all the guests send you their favorite recipes so we could cook things time tested and filled with love.
i love baking~! and as of now i have no good system of organizing my recipes..this would be great to write all my recipes down on~!

My apple crisp recipe. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!

Wow! That is exactly what we are doing for our favors. I would either use a fig-olive tapenade or squash soup with gruyere croutons.
I love the old-fashioned charm of these cards - but with the modern design update.
I would also send these to family and friends to assemble one amazing collection of recipes.
All my dad’s recipe : ) he’s my favorite cook ever and we can have all his recipes!!
White Wine Sangria
3 tablespoons sugar
3 shots Calvados or other apple liquor
1 lime, sliced
1 lemon, sliced
2 ripe peaches, cut into wedges
3 ripe green apples seeded and cut into wedges
1 bottle white Rioja Spanish wine or other dry white wine
1 pint raspberries
Sparkling soda water, for topping off glasses of sangria at table
Combine sugar, Calvados, lime, lemon, peaches and apples in a large pitcher. Cover with 1 bottle of Rioja wine and chill sangria several hours. To serve, spoon fruits into glasses or goblets, adding a few fresh raspberries in each glass, pour wine over top of the fruit. Top glasses of sangria off with a splash of soda water and serve.
It’s AMAZING!

I would totally put my grandma’s peanut butter cookie recipe. She pushes mini peanut butter cups into the freshly baked cookies!! So good.
So pretty
I would say these would be perfect for our family’s kolachki recipe! Everyone absolutely loves when holidays roll around & we make them.
Pistachio-Crusted Rack of Lamb with mint sauce!!! Maybe I’ll make that for dinner tomorrow night!!
Our family’s kolachki recipe
Everyone is always asking for it & its super simple yet makes the most delicious cookies ever!
I’d put my grandmother’s snickerdoodle recipe (so good) but I love the idea of having your guests (wedding or shower) give you their favorite recipes!
I would also invite guests to write down their favourite recipes, so that FH and I would have a great basis for starting our life together. This would be a spin off from your guests writing nuggets of wisdom on marriage. Except here, they would be providing their knowledge on food! Nothing brings people together like a good cooking fest.
In return, when we send out the thank you cards, we would include the recipe for red velvet cake (which will incidently be our wedding cake)!
Both of our families’ Thanksgiving and Christmas recipes… especially his grandmother’s blueberry crisp!
These are the cutest recipe cards I’ve seen! I would write chocolate cheesecake cupcakes on them!
Oh, so many to chose from! But probably my Mom’s spinach stuffed peppers recipe which was once published in Southern Living.
I think we’d write down each of our signature dishes: mine is a dreamy lime bar recipe because I love to bake and have perfected that one - boy is it dreamy! And my fiance’s is his barbequed baked potato recipe. The secret is to spread butter and garlic on the potato skins and wrap them in foil while they cook on the grill and the garlic flavour mellows and seeps into the potato. So delicious we wouldn’t want to deprive any of our guests of the experience!
a recipe for a famous chinese dessert pastry, translated to english as “wife cakes” (lo por bang)! they have such an awesome name, and they’re so delicious!
Cupcake recipes! I found one for Tirimisu cupcakes that I’ve been dying to try.
Those are beautiful cards…and I love Bonnie’s response. That’s a great idea!
I didn’t know that recipe cards could be so elegant. I’ve been searching for a way to start my own family card file, but the ones in the stores don’t capture what those recipes mean to me. Either too frilly or country or with strange themes. The Pears and Peony cards say that anything on them must be fabulous because the owner put thought into them.
So I would put:
Granny’s wartime chocolate cake
Six generation swiss soup
All of my mom’s secret Christmas cookie recipes
Granny’s tenderloin stew
Grandma’s rhubarb cake
My blue ribbon banana bread
My rosemarry lemonade
Granny’s carrot spice cake
The family’s tamale recipe (no gathering is complete without them)
Mom’s best fudge
Actually, what I’d love to do is send them (with recipes) to my cousin Ashley who is attending the culinary school at the Art Institute. We had a big family gathering and she put down all the recipes people gave her in a little journal. What a great graduation gift that would be!
I love food and I need to learn how to cook. My plan for the bridal shower (I know, I know-I shouldn’t be sticking my nose into my own shower business, but I can’t help it) is to send out a recipe card with each invitation and ask each guest to bring their own unique recipe to the shower so I can have a collection!
I would write my kick-ass cinnamon roll recipe. Kick-ass!
I would love to put down Seafood Linguine with White Wine Sauce. It’s hands down the BEST pasta dish ever, with clams, shrimp, extra virgin olive oil, cherry tomatoes, garlic, white wine, parsley, and crushed red peppers.
I would absolutely love these recipe cards!!
I’d write up my amazing peach pie recipe. I have it memorized but I’d write it down for everyone else!
This is the perfect side dish but I find myself eating this all by itself!!
Broccoli Slaw
1 pkg of Broccoli slaw-
1 pkg of ramen noodles any flavor.
1/3 cup of slivered almonds
1/3 cup of sunflower seeds
Dressings ingredients
1/2 cup canola/vegetable/olive oil
1/4 cup sugar
ramen noodle package( the powder)
1/3 cup white vinegar
Directions:
Toast silced almonds in a small sauce pan. Use sliced not slivered!
Crush the ramen noodles in the package so the dried noodles are small enough to mix.
Mix all of the dressing ingredients together in a bowl. Mix well so sugar is dissolved.
Toss broccoli slaw, sunflower seeds, toasted almonds, crushed noodles, and dressing all together.
This is really helpful because I will mix the ingredients ahead of time and combine the wet with the dry right before company arrives.
This reminds me of my Mom and summer. I love this treat and I give out to as many people as I can. All of them tell me what it reminds them of and it is great to see it get passed along. These cards would be perfect for just that!!
I love the designs and the colors ![]()
I’d write down my boyfriend’s recipe for Mexican Taco Soup, cause I keep loosing my copy of it! He got the recipe from Southern Living (good boy) and tweaked it. I can’t think of everything, but here’s some of the ingredients:
cilantro
chicken
chicken broth
diced tomatoes
black beans
corn
chili powder
onions
avocado
Just think of the best Mexican soup you’ve ever had, and I swear this is better.
My grandmother’s crescent rolls are absolutely amazing. They key is to put honey, brown sugar and a little cinnamon in them before rolling them up. So gooey and delicious! And the outside is always soft and delicious too!
I would twist it around and use it for cocktail recipes.
I love making drinks, but I always find myself going online to find recipes. This way… they will be all in one place and gorgeous at the same time! Its gonna make me want to make more drinks for all my gals!
I really like this recipe:
Caribbean Pineapple recipe
1 part Malibu® coconut rum
3 parts pineapple juice
Pour ingredients over ice in an old-fashioned glass.
Garnish with a maraschino cherry, and serve.
mmm good
I would write my quick and easy s’more ice cream pie on the recipe cards!
This would be the perfect gift for my amazing chef friend! What great set of recipe cards!
I’d write up my new coffee cake recipe that I’m making for my friends bridal shower. I’m her MOH and they would look great next to my coffee cake as favors.
First, my mom’s recipe for a chocolate cake known as “Better than Sex”, but we tell the kids it’s “Better than Tom Selleck”.
The second recipe would be for kare-kare, my favorite filipino dish my in-laws make!
My future mother in law makes the most fantastic variety of German Christmas cookies every year. And by variety I mean dozens of large tupperwares full of around 20 different kinds of cookies!
If I had these lovely cards I would sit down with her and we could pick 10 different recipes and then write ten copies of each. Then we could distribute these cards among all the siblings so that we could each continue the tradition of making these cookies each holiday!
i love cooking so i don’t have a favorite. but i love to collect recipes to try. if i had to choose, it would be a banana bread recipe i got from a friend.
A basic shortbread recipe. Yummy when you want to make cookies late at night, because it only has three ingredients!
I think I would put my favorite meal and try to add my favorite dessert as well!
My super good banana bread recipe.
The secret ingredient is cream cheese!!
oooh! these are adorable!!
i’d put down the recipe for a nice strawberry charlotte with biscuits roses de reims….
i loooove fruit desserts (makes you feel not as “bad”) ;-D!!
I would send out the recipe cards with my wedding invitations and have everyone write their favorite recipe. I would ask everyone to bring their recipes to the wedding and put it in a big pot. We would randomly draw one lucky winner who would receive a gift certificate to dine at the hotel of our wedding reception http://www.halekulani.com After the wedding, I would compile the recipe to create a cookbook and send it to everyone who came as a “Thank you” gift.
I would put down some of my favorite international recipes…thai, italian, chinese, spanisch… all different, but all oh so good!
my husband’s mother’s baklava recipie- famous since our wedding.
butter rum cake with nuts! or my famous butter sugar cookies!
i would put the recipe for the first meal i ever cooked for my fh, when we were just friends. he said, i think i have to marry you now. the recipe is a really simple, but extremely delicious roasted chicken and vegetables with herbed compound butter.
I’d post the recipe for the first meal I ever cooked my FH: Homemade Macaroni and Cheese.
It’s a family recipe - and now he ALWAYS requests it at family gatherings. The secret it in the cheese blend. I won’t say - but it’s not your typical three-cheese blend!
I might title it, “How to Win Yourself a Husband”
Well my Fiance is a Chef (YAY), so I would steal his recipe for Lamb Lollipops dusted with fresh mint - yum…
I would write the recipe for Pasta Milano, and a recipe for Crab and Shrimp Casserole…oh, and don’t forget the recipe for Shrimp Bisque. After all, it was with these meals I won my baby’s heart ![]()
My fiance’s father’s soft molasses cookies–planning on making some as favors!
Soft Molasses Cookies
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
1/2 tsp ground ginger (in the spice /baking section)
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup packed down brown sugar
1/2 cup molasses (not blackstrap) it comes in bottles usually near the sugar & lasts at room temperature
1 egg (not beaten)
2 cups flour
1 tsp soda
1/4 cup buttermilk
a small bowl of sugar & one of water-see below
greased cookie sheet
• Oven to 375
• Combine shortening, spices, salt sugar molasses and egg and mix until fairly even (no large lumps of shortening)
• Place flour on top, mix soda into flour and than mix flour/soda into the sugar base until even
• Stir in butter milk until smooth.
• Place portions of dough on greased bake sheet about 1/2 inch apart.
• Fill the bake sheet with portions of the dough. Do NOT flatten them yet
• Find either a measuring cup or glass with a flat, smooth bottom. Dip it in the water and than into the sugar to coat it
• Use the sugar coated tool to press down the cookie to about 1/3 inch thick. This will also sugar coat the cookie
• Dip the tool into the sugar between every cookie. If the dough sticks, re-dip in water and sugar.
• Bake 8-10 minutes (or longer) until the cookies just set (are not soft to finger). The bottoms burn. Remove from the sheet with a spatula while hot & place on rack to cool.
• These last very well in a plastic bag (once completely cool). In fact they remain quite good for several days.
The recipe I’d put is simple, but it’s my husband’s favorite from his mom’s cooking. Chocolate Chip Cookies. She’s the type of mom who always has fresh baked cookies when you come home from school.
I make a delicious pear and raspberry tart - and every time I make it, everyone asks for the recipe. Since it’s so delicious and the company’s name has Pear in it, I’d definitely share that recipe.
Dessert - I love to bake and am always on the lookout for new recipes and those would be a perfect place to keep them!
My famous macaroon recipe, my family asks for it at every family gathering. Would give them a way to make it themselves so I can try new recipes!
Coconut Curry Chicken
1 can coconut milk
1-4 tbs green curry paste
1/3 cup chicken stock
2 tbs fish sauce
2 tbs brown sugar
1 1/2 cups vegetables (I use zucchini)
12 oz. chicken breast cut into pieces
Stir fry the chicken in a wok until brown. Add vegetables.
Combine coconut milk and curry paste and let simmer for 5 minutes. Add vegetables, chicken, fish sauce, brown sugar, and chicken stock. Simmer for 10-15 minutes.
Serve with jasmine rice.
It would probably be some type of dessert recipe. I haven’t decided yet b/c there’s too many good ones to choose from!
I would use my grandmother’s “wine cakes” (really little cookies made with wine dipped in hot honey and sprinkles). They were a holiday tradition and I make them every year now that she’s passed away.
my fiance is a pastry chef! i’d use these recipe cards to detail some of his best creations — tiramisu, the best chocolate cake EVER, hazelnut gelato… the list goes on! these recipe cards would be perfect as part of our giveaways for our ‘eat, drink, & be marry’ wedding theme! =D
how to make:
EGGROLLS!
secret family recipe! only available on pear and peonies recipe cards! kekeke
I think it would be fun to make
“love themed” recipe cards as favors
For example:
-LOVE POTION #9,
-Sweetheart cookies
-Chocolate Covered Strawberries with Champagne
-Hearts-filled-with-Love Cookies
-Red Velvet Cake
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My fiance’s grandma’s recipe for ginger snaps…they are amazing!
I would print the margarita recipe from our stay in a little village in Mexico where there was only a “grocery truck”. Everytime we remember the simple life on the bare necessities of tequila, triple sec and fresh limes on a beach without all the distractions of modern life in the city we are reminded how much we mean to each other.
Love is sweet and I have tons of recipes to match!
Kahlua Creme Brulee, Mini Rum Cakes, Sunrise Dreams, White Chocolate Strawberry Trifles, Butterscotch Cream Puffs…I could go on and on!
I would write a different sweet recipe on each card and place it along side our candy favors. Hopefully, it will encourage our guests to mingle more so they can share/swap cards.
I’d also consider buying another 100 cards to send out along with our invitations so our guests can share their favorite recipes with us. I do love to bake!
I have a collection of recipes passed down from all the women in my family (and now from my FMIL)…this would be a beautiful way to get them all in one place!! Plus, it would make cooking so much more fun ![]()
My future mother-in-law’s recipe for her special Dutch cookies, which will be our wedding favors. I’d love to have the guests take something home that they’ll really use and is dear to my fiance’s family.
My “almost famous” baked french toast. It’s a huge hit at every brunch we throw. I’d definitely use these cards for my best friend’s bridal shower. She’s getting married three weeks before I am and putting together a gift as classic as a recipe book plus bakeware or kitchen tools would be perfect.
I think I too would ask for recipes from my guests! That would make a really neat wedding present.
This might be a little untraditional for a recipe card, since it isn’t a foodie, but I would write down my favorite punch recipe! To me, punch brings me back to the days of being 13, punch bowls in the auditorium for the school dances, as well as it was sitting next to the birthday cake at all the junior high parties….As an adult I still love to attend parties and see a big clear bowl filled to the brim with delicious pink punch!
I’d put my favorite cheesecake brownie recipe! mmmm…chocolate.
my white-chocolate-macadamia nut-craisin cookies. yummmmmy!
I would write down the simple dressing that I always use, but always lose, for my cucumber tomato olive salad ![]()
I’d have my husband choose one since he’s the better cook!
I’d share the recipe for my mom’s (and before that, my grandma’s) blueberry pie. Not only is a summer must-have in my family, it’s the most delicious blueberry I’ve ever eaten (everyone else loves it too), it’s super-easy to make, and it was the first pie I ever tried to bake.
Everyone always wants my potato soup recipe…but I think I would pick something a little sweeter…like biscotti!
All of my family’s holiday cookie recipes! It’s almost that time of year again… I can’t wait!
All my moms recipes so I don’t have to lug my laptop around the kitchen…
I would choose Rachel Ray’s Inside Out Turkey Burgers - burgers filled with turkey bacon and cheese! Mm so tasty and delicious!
I grew up “between” different households so never really learned any family recipes and never cooked much until after college. Since moving in with FI… I’ve had to learn to cook. It’s been a lot of fun! I would write down recipes for new and creative dishes as I continue to teach myself to cook!
I would give the recipe of my “Perfect Pear Tartlets”!
i would copy a few recipes from my mother’s recipe box and cookbooks but seeing as fall is beginning i would make sure to write down our (i-swear-they-will-someday-be-famous) pumpkin surprise cookies! yummm.
I would give the recipe of the Brazilian famous “Caipirinha” cocktail made from sugar cane rum… all of that plus my family’s special twist on it! Yum!! This will actually be the cocktail for the wedding reception!!
I would write down Vegetarian and Vegan recipes to go with our Vegan and Vegetarian Green wedding. We want to show people that eating Vegetarian can be tasty, even at a wedding. I would write down different recipes that I make at home like my Vegan Blueberry Muffins, Vegan Pizza and cookies. Here is my favorite veggie recipe, one that would certainly go on the cards:
Tomato Risotto with Asparagus
Put 2 TBS Olive Oil and Margarine in a wok
Add half a chopped onion and 4 minced gloves of garlic
Two minutes later add 1 cup of Risotto, coat well.
Two minutes later add 1 cup of Veggie Broth
STIR until all the liquid is absorbed.
Then add a cup of crushed tomatoes and basil from a can.
When that is absorbed add another cup of Veggie broth, once absorbed then another cup of crushed tomatos.
Add a teaspoon of Oregano, Parsley, or Spice Powder.
Serve a top a bed of Spinich drizzeled with Balsamic Vinegar and roasted aspargus on the side.
(The Aspargus recipe would be another card!)
To me, the yellow motif inspires a yellow dessert! I would include a recipe for lemon coconut bars. I love the idea where you include an ingredient to make the item, so I’d have the recipe card attached with a ribbon to a lemon! Or perhaps even grate up some lemon peel and include that in a little packet on the back!
Here’s the recipe:
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup confectioners’ sugar
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon peel, divided
3/4 cup butter, room temperature
2 1/2 cups flaked coconut
1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
Combine flour, confectioners’ sugar, and 1 teaspoon of the lemon peel. Cut in butter, until mixture resembles coarse meal. Press mixture into an ungreased 13×9x2-inch pan to make a crust. Bake at 350° for 15 minutes.
Sprinkle coconut over the baked layer; set aside. Combined condensed milk and remaining lemon rind. Drizzle evenly over the coconut. Sprinkle walnuts or pecans over the top, pressing down lightly. Bake at 350° for 20 minutes. Cool on a rack and cut into squares to serve. Makes about 3 dozen.
I’d be writing down two recipes, Tequila Chicken on some and Rhubarb-Gooseberry pie on the other. Or perhaps Whiskey Pot Roast. Or Meringue Cookies. Or maybe everybody at a table could get different recipes, because we love to experiment in the kitchen!
How exciting! Thank you so much. I know that my cousin and I will enjoy them immensely
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