Warm Up Your Winter With This Delicious Soup Recipe

Posted on Oct 06, 2016 Topic : Women's Christian Living
Posted by : Shay Shull

Warm up a cool winter evening with this scrumptious, simmering slow cooker soup recipe, plus a seasonal sweet treat for dessert.

Spicy Sausage and Potato Soup

My favorite kind of soup is one that bubbles away all day in my slow cooker. For this recipe, I use spicy Italian sausage, but you can use a mild Italian instead if you're worried about it being too hot for anyone in your family. You can use pork, chicken, or turkey sausage...whatever your family enjoys.

Ingredients

1 pound bulk Italian sausage

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

2 russet potatoes, peeled and chopped into chunks

1 onion, chopped

1 (28 ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes

1 (10 ounce) can Rotel tomatoes

2 cups chicken stock

1 box frozen spinach, thawed and drained of excess water

Parmesan cheese to garnish, grated

Instructions

In a large skillet over medium-high heat, brown the sausage in 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Once the sausage is browned and crumbly, place it in a slow cooker along with the next 5 ingredients as listed above (potatoes through chicken stock). Stir, cover, and cook on low for 7 to 8 hours or on high for 4 hours.

About 15 minutes before you're ready to serve, stir in the spinach. Cover and cook an additional 15 minutes or so. Ladle the soup into bowls and top with Parmesan cheese before serving.

Caramel Apple Cider Cupcakes

The apple makes the cupcakes extra moist and delicious. To grate mine, I use a cheese grater and run my apple across it like you would a block of cheese. You could also substitute applesauce for the grated apple in this recipe.

Ingredients

1 box spice cake mix

1 cup apple cider (plus a little more for your frosting)

3 eggs

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 cup grated apple

1 cup caramel topping (the kind you would use for ice cream)

1 stick butter, softened

3 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Line 2 (12 count) muffin tins with cupcake liners.

In a mixing bowl, combine spice cake mix, cider, eggs, and vegetable oil with an electric mixer. Stir in grated apple. Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full.

Bake 18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

After you remove the cupcakes from the oven, poke holes across the tops of the warm cupcakes and pour about a tablespoon or so of caramel topping over the tops of each one. Let cupcakes cool completely.

While the cupcakes are cooling, make your frosting. In a bowl, beat butter, powdered sugar, and a splash of cider with an electric mixer. Add more cider if frosting is too thick or more sugar if it's too thin. Top cooled cupcakes with your frosting.

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