Camp Recipes: Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies
Love chocolate chip cookies? Make them every softer and more delectable with a little bit of sour cream.
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup packed brown sugar
½ cup sour cream
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2 ¼ cups flour
½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped pecans
Easy Chicken Kreplach
30 minutes
Using store-bought wonton wrappers and leftover chicken, you can enjoy the heartwarming comfort of kreplach in less than 30 minutes.
Leftover Shabbat chicken or rotisserie chicken works great for this recipe. Need a vegetarian version? Substitute your favorite cooked veggie crumbles for the chicken and use hearty vegetable broth for the soup.
FOR THE KREPLACH:
2 tablespoons cooking oil
½ medium sized onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup cooked chicken*
Salt, to taste
Pepper, to taste
2 sprigs fresh dill
2 eggs
10 -12 wonton or dumpling wrappers
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FOR THE SOUP:
4 cups chicken broth
1 celery stalk, sliced
2 carrots, peeled and sliced
Moroccan Sfenj / Yemenite Zalabia (Fried Dough)
Sfenj, deep-fried yeast donuts, are popular in Morocco during Hanukkah; the Yemenite version is called zalabia or zalvyah.
7 ½ cups flour
1 Tablespoons salt
2 Tablespoons dry yeast
2 ½ cups warm water
4 Tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups oil (for frying)
Bicerin: Italian Hot Chocolate
Warm up in the cool of the Sukkot evenings with rich Italian bicerin, lusciously layered with coffee, chocolate and cream.
¾ cup whole milk or cream
3 ounces dark chocolate, finely chopped or shaved
1 cup espresso or very strong coffee
Lightly sweetened whipped cream, flavored with vanilla or cinnamon (or both) to taste
Camp Recipe: Potato Kugel Cups
If you love potato kugel, you'll really love these bite-sized potato kugel cups! The recipe comes from the 2018 campers at URJ Points Creative Arts Academy, a Reform Jewish summer camp in West Chester, PA.
1½ cups extra virgin olive oil
3 eggs
2 teaspoons kosher salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
6 large Idaho potatoes
1 large onion, quartered
Paprika, to taste