SWEET AND SAVORY POPPERS...
Traditional popper ingredients:
Peppers
Cream Cheese
Shredded Colby Jack Cheese
Bacon
Little Smokies
Shrimp
Green Onions (diced)
Sweet Poppers:
Old Fashion Peanut Butter
Powdered Sugar
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
Roasted Salted Sunflower Seeds (shelled)
Sliced Almonds
Dipping Chocolate...(White and Milk)
Recipe is pretty simple...
Traditional:
Cook 4 strips bacon and convert to bits. Combine Cream Cheese, bacon bits and green onions and mix until well combined and softened. Fill peppers with cream cheese mixture (I use a pastry gun) and sprinkle with a bit of shredded cheese. Top with shrimp, sausage...or just cream cheese works too! Wrap with bacon and cook in 350 degree oven until bacon is done. (20-25 minutes)
PB filled:
Combine equal parts Peanut Butter and Powdered Sugar and mix well. Fill peppers (I used a mix of both sweet peppers and hots) Refrigerate while preps continue...
Ice Cream Filled:
Place glass plate with desired peppers in freezer for approximately 30 minutes. Soften enough Ice Cream to fill your pods and fill pastry gun with it...(gotta be quick on this part!) Fill peppers and place back in freezer.
While the ice cream set I went back to the PB...melt and temper chocolate (water bath) many youtube directions on how to do it. I dipped my PB poppers, back in the fridge, then did my Ice Cream Poppers and back in the freezer. I then did the fancywork with the alternating drizzle.
Didn't include the dip recipies...Home made whip cream, and some home made cocktail sauce for the shrimp poppers. Both straight forward, and I will share if you're interested....oh well, nuff said.
The football is an ice cream filled Manzano...Gonna hurt someone!
I know you can only see .46 in this pic...#47 is under there! Didn't figure out 'till after I snapped them all that I only needed the POL in the one pic...noob.
That's all folks...Hope your team wins, or you at least hit a square in the pool!
Shane