So, Thanksgiving is over, and you’ve got more leftovers than you know what to do with. But fret not — your cranberry sauce need not go to waste. This particular condiment does not taste as good on reheated turkey as it does on a fresh bird, but it can be reconstituted to make some amazing treats.
Kitchen Treaty offers a fantastic recipe for creating cranberry sauce pancakes with pecans. Butter, vanilla, flour, baking soda, sugar, milk and cranberry sauce create the perfect pancake batter.
Don’t have all the ingredients for pancakes? No problem. Cranberry sauce, bourbon, amaretto, ginger ale and lime create a super easy cranberry cocktail, courtesy of Chow Tips.
Berkeleyside Nosh has a recipe for the baker with leftover cranberry sauce: cranberry clove cookies. Make the clove-infused dough into neat little balls and poke a dip into each one. Fill the dip with cranberry sauce for some quick pastry filling, and bake for 20 minutes.
One last resort for leftover cranberry sauce: Oh My Veggies offers a quick, crazy easy cranberry orange Popsicle recipe. Mix orange juice and cranberry sauce and sill your favorite ice tray for some frozen snacks.