Cranberry Sauce Recipe Round-Up: Pumpkin Spice, plus Savory, Jiggly & Barbie's too...

I thought it would be fun to try a new Pumpkin Spice Cranberry Sauce (hello three ingredients!). This is a very simple recipe, cranberries, sugar and pumpkin spice, add in about 15 minutes of cooking time and wa-la, we have a nicely spiced holiday favorite. There is a lot of wiggle room here folks, want it sweeter? Add more sugar. Want more punch from the spices? Stir in more at the end. Want to add a little something extra? I'm thinking stirring in some chopped pecans before serving would be nice. Cook this a day or two ahead, it will thicken as it chills in the refrigerator. 

Start with 12 oz fresh/frozen cranberries, 3/4 C sugar, 1 tsp pumpkin spice and 1/4 C water. Bring to boil, reduce to simmer, cook until berries pop. Adjust sugar and spice to taste. Cool completely.

Looking for a few other ideas?

Cranberry Tangerine Chutney

Longer ingredient list and more involved, but worth it!

Slow Cooker Cranberry Sauce 

Love the addition of bay leaves, it smells good cooking for a few hours too.

Cranberry and Strawberry Jello Mold 

Yep, guaranteed giggles and just look at that beautiful color folks:@)

No matter what else I make, Thanksgiving at our house ~requires~ jellied canned cranberry sauce. So I wanted to come up with an easy cranberry platter for Barbie, and I think I found it. It starts with a Dollar Tree pack of pencil grips and I used a fun retro-ish button for the dish. Once you have whatever you're using for your dish this project comes together in no time and it's so cute! If you have a larger platter, you could add a couple slices too.

What I did:

1. My button came in a pack of vintage reproduction buttons, it's plastic. I cut the back loop off with wire cutters and popped the center detailing out. This left a dish-like indent.
2. Using the size of your serving dish as a guide... Cut about four-five-six rows off of pencil grip. If dish is long enough, also cut one or two "slices" off of grip. The grip is rubbery, I found scissors worked best.
3. Carefully fill the center with hot glue, let dry. Tip: I placed it on a piece of parchment paper with the opening down on the paper, filled it and tamped the top down flat holding a folded piece of parchment. The key is to get the whole center filled solid. Let sit until set, go on to next piece if making slices. 
4. Once dried, I pulled/cut glue strings off to make it as smooth as possible. Then "painted" the whole thing with shiny nail polish in a cranberry color. You could also let a little ooze onto the plate to represent a little liquid. 
5. Glue to dish.
6. Barbie says dinner is served!

What I started with:

You can find my free pattern and instructions to make a no-sew holiday apron here. This apron even fits Elf on the Shelf😎

~ Eat well and have a happy holiday season:@)

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