Billie's Christmas Corner: October 11

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Hawaiian Holiday Bread Dough:

1/2 cup mashed potato
3/4 cup water
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs, beaten
3 1/2 cups flour
1 package yeast

Put all ingredients in order listed in a bread maker. Choose the dough
setting. When dough is done, put it on a board and let it rest 10 minutes.

Glaze:
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup whipping cream
1 teaspoon rum extract
1 tablespoon macadamia nut liquor
1 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped dried apricots

Mix glaze ingredients together.

Grease a tube pan.
Pour 1/3 of the glaze on the bottom. Divide dough into 30 to 40 equal pieces. Arrange in layers in pan. Pour glaze in between layers. Let the dough rise until doubled.

Heat oven to 350 degrees F and bake for 30 to 40 minutes. Let stand for five
minutes and turn pan upside down. Serve warm. Enjoy.

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Ho-Ho Snowballs

Makes about 60
2 6-ounce packages white chocolate chips
1/4 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons bourbon or heavy cream
6-ounce package slivered almonds, very finely ground
1-1/2 cup sweetened flaked coconut
Place chocolate chips and cream in a medium bowl set over a pan of hot (not boiling) water; stir until melted and smooth. Stir in bourbon or cream and almonds. Spread in a lightly greased 8"x8" baking pan. Chill for about one hour, until firm. Cut into one-inch squares; roll each square into a ball, then roll in coconut. Keep chilled. Makes about 5 dozen.

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A Baby Changes Everything

Teenage girl, much too young
Unprepared for what's to come
A baby changes everything

Not a ring
On her hand
All her dreams and all her plans
A baby changes everything
A baby changes everything

The man she loves she's never touched
How will she keep his trust
A baby changes everything
A baby changes everything

And she cries, oh she cries

She has to leave, go far away
Heaven knows she can't stay
A baby changes everything

She can feel it's coming soon
There's no place, there's no room
A baby changes everything
A baby changes everything

And she cries and she cries, oh she cries

Shepherds all gather 'round
Up above the star shines down
A baby changes everything

Choir of Angels sing
Glory to the newborn king
A baby changes everything
A baby changes everything
Everything, everything, everything

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

My whole life has turned around
I was lost, but now I'm found
A baby changes everything, yeah
A baby changes everything!