We mentioned before how much we love decorating with Chukar dried fruits and nuts, but we also love decorating with our chocolates. Today we’ll show you a little of both:

Berry and Pistachio Sprinkles

Ingredients:

-Your favorite sugar cookie recipe

-1 8oz bag Berry & Pistachio Mix, chopped

-Your favorite frosting (or ours)

Preparation

Bake cookies according to recipe, let cool and frost. Before frosting sets, sprinkle chopped Berry & Pistachio mix over frosting.

Let set 10-15 minutes. Enjoy!

Raspberry Truffle Thumbprint Cookies

Ingredients:

-Your favorite sugar cookie recipe

-1 8oz. bag Chukar White Chocolate Raspberry Truffles

Preparation

Prepare cookies according to recipe. Press 1 Raspberry Truffle into the center of each cookie 1-2 minutes before cookies finish baking. Enjoy as is, or frost with simple sugar frosting around Truffle center.

Hosting guests during the Holidays is stressful. Hosting unexpected guests during the Holidays can be traumatic. After years of scrambling to find extra food and last-minute gifts, we’ve discovered a few easy tricks for taking the stress out of the unexpected:

Prepare and freeze hearty winter soups ahead of time.

Hearty soups leave every guest satisfied. We always make and freeze some ahead of time, just in case we have extra mouths to feed. Particularly suited for the job is our Butternut Squash Soup with Dried Bing Cherries.

Keep ingredients on hand for quick, filling sides

We always have a few bags of dried Bing Cherries and long grain wild rice on hand for our quick and easy Dried Cherry Wild Rice side. It goes great with anything and fills up even the hungriest guest.

Always have a few extra small gifts

You never know who’s going to show up, so purchase a few small gift gifts that anyone can enjoy. Our favorite trick is to take apart on of our Hostess Gifts and wrap each 3 oz. box for 10 small gifts or stacks of 2 or more boxes tied with a bow for up to five larger gifts.

Most importantly, make sure all of your extra food and gifts can be enjoyed by anyone, including you! That way even if you don’t need the extras, you can treat yourself to some wholesome meals and Chukar goodies. Find more easy recipes and gifts at Chukar.com!

Rainier Cherry and Cherry Medley Wine Garnishes

We love adding cherry flavor to our wine tastings with these fun, unique skewers. Best of all, they only take about 20 minutes to make and can be assembled ahead of time then stored until you need them.

Both skewers are made the same way, but we recommend our Dried Rainier cherries for white wines and our Dried Cherry Medley for reds.

Ingredients:

Rainier Cherry Wine Garnishes

12- 6” bamboo skewers

1 8oz. bag Chukar Dried Rainier Cherries

1 cup of your favorite Viognier or other quality white wine

 Cherry Medley Wine Garnishes

12- 6” bamboo skeweres

1 8oz. bag Chukar Dried Cherry Medley

1 cup of your favorite red wine (Cabernet, Pinot Noir and port wines work well)

Step 1: Skewer 3-4 cherries on the tip of each bamboo skewer

Step 2: Soak fruited end in cup of wine for 10-12 minutes

Step 3: Remove and garnish each glass of wine with skewered cherries

Step 4: Enjoy sipping and nibbling the wine-soaked cherries!

These garnishes are also a wholesome and natural alternative to maraschino cherries in cocktails. Enjoy!