Made in Oklahoma holiday treats tasty enough to share with friends, family

JaNae Williams, Oklahoman
·4 min read
Mocha Punch made from a Made in Oklahoma Coalition recipe.
Mocha Punch made from a Made in Oklahoma Coalition recipe.

'Tis the season for holiday treats and with winter comes the time for parties and celebrations with friends and family.

The Made in Oklahoma Coalition has shareable holiday recipes to delight all of your loved ones, and you'll find three included here.

What do you get when you mix Compadres coffee, chocolate milk and Braum's ice cream? MIO’s Mocha Punch, a family recipe from a coalition member ready to be shared with your own crew. You can make this for any holiday gathering you attend or as a Christmas morning treat.

If you're looking for a way to indulge for breakfast or brunch this holiday season, Pecan Crusted French Toast with Bourbon Pecan Toffee Maple Syrup is a perfect choice. La Baguette's rustic French bread is thick-cut and pan-fried into French toast then topped with a maple syrup made with Bourbon Pecan Toffee from Mollycoddled Hash Slinger for a decadent treat perfect for any early to mid-day gathering.

Christmas morning just got decadent with the recipe for Pecan Crusted French Toast with Bourbon Pecan Toffee Maple Syrup from the Made in Oklahoma Coalition.
Christmas morning just got decadent with the recipe for Pecan Crusted French Toast with Bourbon Pecan Toffee Maple Syrup from the Made in Oklahoma Coalition.

A favorite part of the holiday season for kids is making cookies for the big guy in red. Rudolph’s Peanut Butter Cookies are the perfect recipe to gather in the kitchen and make together as a family, whip up to share at a party, or gift to neighbors, teachers or coworkers. Bonus points for leaving Santa a cookie that looks like his MVR — most valuable reindeer.

For more recipes like these, go online to miocoalition.com.

Mocha Punch made from a Made in Oklahoma recipe.
Mocha Punch made from a Made in Oklahoma recipe.

Mocha Punch

  • 4 cups Compadres Coffee Roasters dark roast coffee

  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar

  • 1/4 cup Prairie Wolf Dark Coffee Liqueur

  • 1 gallon Braum’s Chocolate Milk

  • 2 quarts Braum’s Chocolate Ice Cream

  • 2 quarts Braum’s Homestyle Vanilla Ice Cream

Brew a full pot of strong coffee. While the coffee is still hot, add 1/2 cup sugar and stir. Add coffee liqueur. Place in refrigerator.

Once the coffee is chilled, add the mixture to a punch bowl. Add the chocolate milk and stir together.

Right before serving, stir in the ice cream.

Pecan Crusted French Toast with Bourbon Pecan Toffee Maple Syrup

Made in Oklahoma's recipe for Pecan Crusted French Toast with Bourbon Pecan Toffee Maple Syrup is a great fit for any breakfast or brunch during the holiday season.
Made in Oklahoma's recipe for Pecan Crusted French Toast with Bourbon Pecan Toffee Maple Syrup is a great fit for any breakfast or brunch during the holiday season.

  • 1 loaf La Baguette rustic French bread, sliced

  • 2 Hansen’s Eggs

  • 2 cups Braum’s Half and Half

  • 1 teaspoon Griffin’s Vanilla

  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon

  • 2 cups chopped Knight Pecan Farms Pecans

  • 3/4 cup Braum’s Butter

Slice bread into 1-inch-thick slices.

Whisk together eggs and half and half. Add vanilla and cinnamon. Place pecans in a separate, shallow bowl.

Dredge each slice of bread in egg mixture, then coat in pecans.

In a nonstick pan, melt butter. Pan fry bread in the butter until golden brown on both sides. Don’t melt all the butter all at once. Add more butter as needed while cooking the French toast.

Keep French toast warm in a low oven while making the syrup.

Bourbon Pecan Toffee Maple Syrup

  • 1/2 cup water

  • 1 (6-ounce) box Mollycoddled Hash Slinger Bourbon Pecan Toffee

  • 1/2 cup maple syrup

Heat water over medium heat in a small, heavy bottom saucepan. Add entire box of toffee and heatto a rolling boil. Stir continuously until toffee is melted into the water, about 5-7 minutes. Keep heat atmedium so that the toffee doesn’t burn.

Add maple syrup. Stir until mixed. Reduce heat to medium-low or low, and simmer until syrup isthickened.

Let cool slightly before serving but use while warm. Syrup will thicken as it cools and pours easierwhen warm.

Rudolph’s Peanut Butter Cookies

What could be cuter than leaving a batch of these Made in Oklahoma Rudolph cookies for Santa?
What could be cuter than leaving a batch of these Made in Oklahoma Rudolph cookies for Santa?

  • 1 stick Hiland Butter

  • 1/2 cup peanut butter

  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar

  • 1/2 cup brown sugar

  • 1 teaspoon Griffin’s Vanilla

  • 1 Hansen’s Egg

  • 1 1/3 cups Shawnee Mills Flour

  • 1 teaspoon baking soda

  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

  • Red M&Ms

  • Brown M&Ms

  • Trucker Treats Candy Cane or Cinnamon Toast Pretzels, broken into pieces

Preheat oven to 350 F. In a mixer, cream together butter, peanut butter, sugar and brownsugar until smooth. Add egg and vanilla, beating until smooth.

In a small bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. Slowly add dry ingredients to buttermixture, beating until incorporated.

Roll dough into 1-inch balls. Place on cookie sheet. Flatten slightly with the bottom of a glass jar. Bakeabout 12 minutes or until slightly golden brown.

As soon as cookies are out of the oven, place a red M&M for the nose in each cookie. Place twobrown M&Ms above the "nose" for the "eyes." Insert two pretzel pieces to make antlers.Note: If the antlers won’t “stick,” use a little piped melted chocolate to hold the pretzels in place.

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Holiday recipes meant to be shared from Made in Oklahoma