#3907 - Dove Ice Cream Bars

(by Shirley McNevich)

1 pint good quality vanilla ice cream
12oz. Dove Promises milk chocolates (unwrapped)
1/2 cup vegetable oil
popsicle sticks
sea salt

Place the pint of ice cream in the coldest part of your freezer until it is rock hard. Cover a cookie sheet with wax paper. Run some hot water in a tall glass, and place a sharp knife into the glass (so the blade gets hot). Remove the ice cream from the freezer, remove the top and place the pint of ice cream on its side on a cutting board. Cut the pint in half (through the carton and the ice cream), then cut each in half again so you end up with 4 round ice cream slices (still with the carton on them). Place them on the wax paper and place back in the freezer for 10 minutes. Remove the tray from the freezer again, remove the carton pieces from each slice, place a popsicle stick into each slice, then put them back in the freezer. Fill a small pot halfway with water, and bring the water to a boil. Turn the heat back to simmer. Place a glass bowl on top of the pot and add the unwrapped Dove chocolates and the vegetable oil--stir until melted and smooth. Remove the bowl from the heat, place it on a pot holder, and let it cool to room temperature. Once chocolate is cooled, stir it again. Dip each of the ice cream slices into the melted chocolate until coated, place them back on the wax paper and sprinkle a little sea salt on each. Return them to the freezer until solid (at least an hour).

#3577 - Dove Snickers Cookies

(by Shirley McNevich)

1 bag Dove Promises milk chocolate candies
1 bag mini Snickers candy bars
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup Domino's dark brown sugar (packed)
2 eggs
1 cup flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. baking powder

Unwrap and coarsely chop all of the chocolates and place them in a double boiler over low heat--cook/stir until chocolate is melted and smooth. Remove from heat and cool slightly. In a mixer add butter and brown sugar--beat. Add eggs, vanilla and baking powder--beat. Slowly add melted chocolate--beat. Slowly add flour--beat. Remove bowl from mixer. Unwrap a few of the mini Snickers at a time and coarsely chop them until you have 1 cup of chopped Snickers. Add chopped Snickers to the batter--stir well. Drop batter by spoonfuls on to greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for 9-12 minutes.

#3576 - Dove Chocolate Caramels

(by Shirley McNevich)

1 - 11oz. bag Kraft caramels (unwrapped)
1 - 9.5oz. bag Dove Promises (milk chocolate OR dark chocolate)
sea salt
Crisco shortening

Cover a cookie sheet with wax paper. Unwrap HALF of the dove chocolates. In a double boiler over low heat add the unwrapped chocolate and 1 TBSP Crisco shortening--cook/stir until melted and smooth. Stab one unwrapped caramel with a toothpick, dip it in the chocolate to coat, letting any extra chocolate drip back into the pot. Place the chocolate covered caramel on the wax paper and lightly twist the toothpick to remove it. Use the toothpick to get a little chocolate on the end, then spread it over the hole in the chocolate covered caramel to cover up the hole. Use your fingers to sprinkle just a bit of sea salt on the top of the chocolate covered caramel. Repeat with all caramels. If you run out of chocolate, unwrap the remaining chocolates and add them to the pot with another 1 TBSP Crisco shortening, then cook/stir over low heat until melted and smooth. Let the chocolate covered caramels sit until the chocolate has firmed up.