The Gunny Sack

Nutella Fondue

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It seems that when the holidays roll around there is a plethora of family dinners, potlucks, parties and social gatherings which often revolve around food! Ever wonder what you should make? I was given the challenge of shopping at Dollar General to create a family meal for under $20. Since it is the holidays, I wanted to create a meal that is fun to eat and recipes that could be used at many different holiday gatherings. So, served my family a fondue dinner and dessert that included pizza fondue for the meal and Nutella fondue for dessert.

I purchased all of these ingredients from Dollar General for $19.65, to use for my recipes I bought a Betty Crocker chocolate chip cookie mix, Chef Boyardee pizza maker kit that includes pizza crust dough, pizza sauce and Parmesan cheese, Farm Rich cheese sticks, Armour pepperoni, Velveeta queso blanco cheese, Nutella, shortbread cookies and Land ‘O Lakes heavy whipping cream.

Zack was the only one home when I started cooking and he asked if he could help me. That doesn’t happen very often and I was happy to have his help! Instead of making pizza crust, we used the dough to make breadsticks.

Pizza Crust Breadsticks
by The Gunny Sack
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes
1 package of pizza dough mix
2/3 cup very warm water
1 tablespoon canola oil
1 tablespoon butter, melted
1 tablespoon Parmesan (from the Chef Boyardee pizza maker kit)
Mix pizza dough and water with a fork until moistened. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of oil over the top. Cover and let rest for 5 minutes. Spread dough into a greased 11×7 inch pan. Brush with melted butter and sprinkle with Parmesan. Cover and let rise for 20 minutes. Preheat oven to 400°F. Cut the dough into breadsticks but do not separate. Bake for about 12 minutes or until golden brown on the top.

While the breadsticks were raising, we make chocolate chip cookie dough dippers.

Cookie Dough Dippers
by The Gunny Sack
Prep Time: 3 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour
1 package of chocolate chip cookie dough mix
1/4 cup butter softened
1 tablespoon water
Mix ingredients together. The package says not to eat raw cookie dough so microwave dough for about 1 min 30 seconds (depending on the strength of the microwave) to heat the dough. Drop spoonfuls of dough on a piece of waxed paper and place in the freezer to harden.

Next, I put the Nutella Fondue in my Little Dipper so that it could warm up.

Nutella Fondue
by The Gunny Sack
Prep Time: 2 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
1/2 cup Nutella
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
Mix ingredients together and heat them on low, stirring often.

Once the breadsticks were out of the oven, I put the mozzarella cheese sticks in to cook and started on the Pizza Fondue.

Pizza Fondue
by The Gunny Sack
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
2 teaspoons butter
Dash of garlic powder
1 lb Velveeta Queso Blanco cheese
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
7.5 oz can of pizza sauce (from Chef Boyardee pizza maker kit)
Packet of marinara sauce (from cheese stick package)
About 30 pepperoni, diced
2 tablespoons Parmesan (the rest of what was in the Chef Boyardee pizza maker kit)
1 teaspoon oregano
Melt butter in saucepan and add garlic powder over low heat. Use melted butter and garlic mixture to coat bottom and side of the pan. Add whipping cream and heat over low temperature. Cut Velveeta into cubes. Add Velveeta to the saucepan, a couple of cubes at a time and stir until melted. Slowly add sauce. Mix in pepperoni, Parmesan and oregano.

This Pizza Fondue was delicious! While we were dipping the breadsticks and mozzarella cheese sticks in it, we were thinking of all kinds of other things that would be good to dip in it like noodles and chips.

The Nutella Fondue was outstanding!! We dipped the cookie dough balls and shortbread cookies in it. Other items like strawberries, pretzels and marshmallows would be delicious as well!

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