Whether you got cranberry sauce out of the can or you were ambitious and actually made it yourself, normally you'll find that the cranberry sauce is one of the first items to vanish from the dinner table on Thanksgiving. There are times though when people head straight for the turkey and there are mostly sides leftover. In the rare event there is actually some cranberry sauce leftover, I have three ideas for what you can use it for:
For those who have the occasional sweet tooth, add some cranberry sauce to your next experience of vanilla ice cream. The beauty of this is you can use already existing ice cream, or you can make it from scratch. If you make vanilla ice cream from scratch all you need to do is puree some cranberry sauce and add it towards the end of the ice cream cycle. Add a little extra sugar and vanilla extract to counter the tartness of the cranberries. I'd also suggest that if you're making cranberry sauce from scratch that you add a bit of apple juice as a counter as well. You want your ice cream to be sweet and have no tartness at all.
It's not difficult at all to take cranberry sauce and turn it into cranberry syrup for waffles, pancakes, French toast, or any other breakfast item you wish to experiment with. What you would do is take the already existing cranberry sauce leftovers, add some sugar and perhaps a tablespoon or two of butter and whisk until it turns into semi-liquid form. You may need a blender to assist you with this. What you don't want is to puree the life out of it, just enough to get a good consistency.
If you're not confident in your syrup making skills, you can always bottle it and make cranberry preserves. What I suggest would be to puree it a bit just to get it a little chunky. Remember, normally cranberry sauce in canned form is sliced for Thanksgiving dinner; what we want for preserves would be small chunks. This should keep in your refrigerator for a few days to a week.
Most manufacturers make some form of cranberry juice like apple cranberry, white grape cranberry, pomegranate cranberry, etc. Why not add it to your smoothie? It'll definitely give your smoothie a little bit more of a tart kick, so you may need to compensate it with a little more sugar or perhaps condensed milk will do the trick.
1) Cranberry Vanilla Ice Cream
For those who have the occasional sweet tooth, add some cranberry sauce to your next experience of vanilla ice cream. The beauty of this is you can use already existing ice cream, or you can make it from scratch. If you make vanilla ice cream from scratch all you need to do is puree some cranberry sauce and add it towards the end of the ice cream cycle. Add a little extra sugar and vanilla extract to counter the tartness of the cranberries. I'd also suggest that if you're making cranberry sauce from scratch that you add a bit of apple juice as a counter as well. You want your ice cream to be sweet and have no tartness at all.
2) Cranberry Syrup or Preserves
It's not difficult at all to take cranberry sauce and turn it into cranberry syrup for waffles, pancakes, French toast, or any other breakfast item you wish to experiment with. What you would do is take the already existing cranberry sauce leftovers, add some sugar and perhaps a tablespoon or two of butter and whisk until it turns into semi-liquid form. You may need a blender to assist you with this. What you don't want is to puree the life out of it, just enough to get a good consistency.
If you're not confident in your syrup making skills, you can always bottle it and make cranberry preserves. What I suggest would be to puree it a bit just to get it a little chunky. Remember, normally cranberry sauce in canned form is sliced for Thanksgiving dinner; what we want for preserves would be small chunks. This should keep in your refrigerator for a few days to a week.
3) Add the cranberry sauce to your favorite smoothie
Most manufacturers make some form of cranberry juice like apple cranberry, white grape cranberry, pomegranate cranberry, etc. Why not add it to your smoothie? It'll definitely give your smoothie a little bit more of a tart kick, so you may need to compensate it with a little more sugar or perhaps condensed milk will do the trick.
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