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Best Brownies Ever
Easy
Sent by Sara and Tyler in Highlands Ranch, CO
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 cup flour
1. Grease 8 inch by 8 inch pan.
2.
Melt butter and sugar in the microwave. Mix until well blended.
3. Add cocoa and blend.
4. Mix in vanilla and eggs.
5.
Add flour and mix until just blended. Don't mix too much.
6. Bake for about 20 minutes at 350 degrees, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Easy Pleasin' Fudge
Easy
Ingredients:
12 ounce package chocolate chips
14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
1. Place chips and milk in microwave safe bowl and microwave for 2-3 minutes. Continue to
microwave, 1 minute at a time and then stirring, until the mixture is smooth and thick.
2. Pour into greased 8 inch square pan and let cool.
Chocolate Covered Rice Crispy Bars Easy/Medium
Grandma Gladys' recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1-1/2 cup peanut butter
6 cups rice crispy cereal in a big bowl.
1 package chocolate chips
1. Mix together sugar and syrup in a pot on the stove and bring to a boil.
2.
On low heat, add the peanut butter to the mixture.
3. Add this mixture to the 6 cups of crispy rice cereal and stir. Spread out flat on a greased cookie sheet.
4. Melt
chocolate chips with the double boiler method and spread on top of cereal. Let cool and cut into bars.
Ginger Snaps
Easy/Medium
Sent by Rhonda in Liberty Lake, WA Makes 3 dozen
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon EACH of cinnamon, cloves and ginger
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
1. Mix dry ingredients together.
2.
Cream sugar, butter, egg, and molasses in a big bowl.
3. Add dry ingredients to the creamed ingredients, and chill if time allows.
4. Form into 1 inch balls and roll in sugar.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 9-11 minutes.
Horse Cookies Easy/Medium
Sent by Gina in Lancaster, PA
Ingredients:
1 cup oatmeal
1 cup flour
1 cup shredded carrots
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup water
1. Mix above ingredients.
2.
Drop by tablespoonful onto cookie sheet or baking stone and flatten. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
Edible Landfill Recipe Medium
A to Z Home's Cool http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/explore/cooking.htm
Assemble the following:
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A clear plastic cup which is your landfill cell (or premade pie crust);
*Crumble cookies (any kind) and place a small layer in the bottom of the cup.
This represents the 3 feet of clay to prevent fluids from seeping out;
*A thin layer of vanilla pudding for the plastic liner;
*Two 1 inch pieces of licorice "whips" to represent leachate collection pipes;
*More cookie crumbs to be the sand and gravel layer to protect the pipes and plastic from punctures;
Next add:
*1 teaspoon fruit cereal to represent organic waste such as food or leaves;
*2 teaspoons rice cereal to represent paper and cardboard which makes up 40% of landfill contents. Almost all of this layer could have been recycled;
*Some white chocolate chips for plastics;
*Mini marshmallows for metals;
*Chocolate cereal "rings" for tires;
*Top with a small chocolate candy to represent everything else;
Finishing touches:
*Drizzle chocolate syrup to show leachate, the moisture that percolates through layers of waste material;
*Cover with another layer of plastic - vanilla pudding
*Cookie crumbs for soil;
*Green sprinkles for grass
Can't Leave it Bars
Medium
Sent by Donna in Bakersfield, CA
Ingredients:
1 box white cake mix
1/3 cup oil
2 eggs
1/4 cup butter
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup chocolate chips
1. Mix the cake mix, oil, and eggs with a fork. It will form a ball.
Pat half the mixture into a 9 by 13 inch pan, ungreased.
2. Melt the butter, condensed milk, and chocolate chips. Pour over cake mixture.
3.
Put the rest of the cake mixture on top and swirl with a knife.
4. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.
No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies Easy/Medium
Sent by Aunt Linda in Rohnert Park, CA
Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/2 cup milk
4 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup peanut butter
dash of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups oatmeal
1. Combine first 4 ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook one
minute while stirring constantly. Remove from the heat.
2. Mix in the last 4 ingredients. Drop by teaspoon on waxed paper. Do it quickly before the cookie mixture hardens.
3. Let cool and eat up!
Layered Bars
Medium
Sent by Brandie in Bakersfield, CA
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup (1 package) crushed graham crackers
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 package chocolate chips
1 package peanut butter chips
1. Melt butter in bottom of a baking dish, sprinkle graham cracker crumbs over melted butter.
2. Pour condensed milk over graham crackers.
3. Sprinkle chocolate chips and peanut butter chips on the top. Press chips down.
4. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
Stained Glass Cookies (Peace Signs and Love cookies)
Sent by Family Gossels Medium
Ingredients:
Basic plain cookie mix:
1/3 cup vegetable shortening
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
3 cups flour (sifted all-purpose)
1/2 teaspoon baking soda sifted with the flour
1 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup honey
1. Mix and roll dough into sausage strips about 1/4 thick for strong outlines. Be sure pieces connect for strength.
2.
Make designs on aluminum foil over cookie sheet (It may help to chill dough before rolling).
3. For the colored filling inbetween: Crack up lollipops, sprinkle in openings.
4.
Bake at 375 degrees for about 8-10 minutes.
5. Cool; then peel off aluminum foil when dough is firm.
Easy Fudge Squares Easy
Sent by CJ at http://wanderingquilter.com
Ingredients:
1 stick butter
2 squares unsweetened baking chocolate
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
scant 3/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup walnuts
1. Mix and bake in the same 8 inch by 8 inch baking pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2.
Melt butter and baking chocolate in the baking pan (in oven).
3. Add the sugar and stir well.
4. Cool slightly, and whisk in the eggs.
5.
Add flour, vanilla and walnuts.
6. Bake 20-25 minutes at 350 degrees.
Orange Jello Cheesecake
Medium
Ingredients:
9 inch graham cracker crust
2/3 cup boiling water
4 ounce orange Jello box
1 cup cottage cheese
8 ounce block of cream cheese
1 cup whipped topping, thawed
1. Pour the boiling water into the Jello mix in a bowl and stir until dissolved.
2. Put cream cheese, cottage cheese, and Jello mixture in a blender and
blend until smooth.
3. Transfer the mixture to a big bowl and fold (gently stir) in the whipped topping.
4. Then pour into pie crust and refrigerate at least 4 hours.
Rice Pudding
Medium
Sent by Cameron via email
Ingredients:
6 cups brown rice
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup coconut milk
2 teaspoons nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon orange juice
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons honey
1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
2 cups strawberries, diced
ice cream
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Mix milks, honey, sugar, juice, and vanilla. Stir nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger into the rice.
3. Slowly add wet ingredients and pour in a cheesecake pan. Bake 30 minutes.
4. Stir in berries and bake 10-15 minutes. Top with mint and ice cream.
Russian Rock Cookies
Medium
Sent by Madd Russian, US Army Vet, Connecticut, USA
Ingredients:
5 cups self-rising flour
1 box dark brown sugar
1 box raisins
2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 teaspoon baking soda, dissolved
1/2 cup warm water
1 teaspoon vanilla
6 eggs
3 sticks butter, melted
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a cookie sheet.
2. Mix well all the above ingredients and drop by teaspoon onto cookie sheet.
3.
Bake for about 5 minutes or until when touched lightly with finger will leave a print.
Clove Cookies Easy/Medium
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. ground cloves
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 cups flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1. Blend together the butter and sugar.
2. Add the eggs, cloves, and cinnamon and mix.
3.
Mix in the flour, salt, and baking soda.
4. Scoop cookies onto cookie sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 7-8 minutes.
Ukrainian Chereshnyanyk Cherry Bars Medium/Hard
Sent by Madd Russian, US Army Vet, Connecticut, USA
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup butter
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1 cup light cream
can of cherry pie filling
1. Sift the flour with the dry ingredients. Cut in the butter.
2.
Combine the lemon juice, rind, and cream. Add to the flour mixture. Mix lightly. The dough should be soft.
3.
Spoon mixture into a greased 9 by 14 inch cake pan and pat gently, elevating the sides to hold the filling.
4. Pour cherry pie filling on top.
5.
Bake at 375 degrees for 35 minutes, or until done. Cool and cut into squares.
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