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My Sports Themed Birthday Party last year was the best!! Everyone dressed like their favorite athlete - we had rugby, football, basketball, baseball players and more!!! Also everyone got to play an assortment of mini sports “events” including all the great X-box sports games on a huge flat-screen TV.
When it came to cake and food mom came through beautifully with tasty sponge cake shaped like half a soccer field. For beverages we broke out the good ol’ plasticware; perfect for rowdy guys drinking beer. We Had SOOOO much fun and everyone was still talking about it weeks after!!! Oh and the cleanup was a breeze…we just tossed the plasticware in the dishwasher and let it do all the work!
Christmas Cookies; just saying the name brings a smile to my face and makes my mouth water with anticipation. Boy, do I have a great recipe lined up for this holiday season…festive cookies that contain a variety of ginger–ground, fresh, and candied–plus other yummy spices and a touch of crushed candy canes.
Candy Cane Ginger Snaps (Directions): In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, allspice and cloves; mix well. In a large mixing bowl, combine butter, sugar, molasses, egg, and fresh ginger; mix well. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix until combined; stir in crystallized ginger. Wrap and place dough in refrigerator for at least 1 hour. Place candy canes in a heavy plastic bag and break into small pieces using either a mallet or marble rolling pin. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Portion out chilled dough by heaping tablespoons, forming into balls if you wish, and place onto an ungreased cookie sheet, placing cookies 2 inches apart. Flatten each cookie slightly; sprinkle a few pieces of broken candy cane on top of each cookie. Bake 8-10 minutes and sprinkle with granulated sugar.
Ingredients
* 2 cups flour
* 2 teaspoons baking soda
* 3/4 teaspoon (kosher) salt
* 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
* 1 teaspoon ground ginger
* 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
* 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
* 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
* 1 cup granulated sugar
* 1/4 cup dark molasses
* 1 egg
* 1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and grated
* 3 ounces crystallized ginger, chopped coarsely
* 3 ounces peppermint candy canes
* Granulated sugar for sprinkling
There’s plenty of football and basketball games to keep us guys entertained during the holidays. When I bought my 90 inch flat screen TV this past summer, my house became the unofficial “sports bar” for my buddies. Fortunately, my wife is a great sport about it (“boys will be boys” she says) and actually enjoys serving snacks and cold beer to the fellas and me.
When you have a bunch of rapid sports fans yelling at the TV, slapping high fives, and drinking cold beer, you don’t need to break out the Fine China. For these situations, plasticware offers the perfect solution. Our plasticware collection is festively colored and includes plastic Double Wall Ice Mugs, Margarita Glasses, Pitchers, and Wine Coolers. Obviously you can’t break it, so it’s not only great for us “big kids”, but for our own children as well – buy it once; use to for life!