Cookies and Bars

[quiltersblock]

Rice Krispie bars have become almost as American as apple pie and baseball, and there are lots of recipes from that little Michigan cereal box. Here's a recipe that turns to the flour-milling city of Minneapolis and the healthy cereals of General Mills. Actually, by the time you figure out the sugar contents of either, neither is really healthy, but both are better than a candy bar as a treat. Cheerios aren't just for breakfast.

Chewy O’s

Serves: 36
Prep Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Ingredients
4 oz JELL-O chocolate pudding (cooked-type)
1/2 Cup light corn syrup
1/3 cup SKIPPY Peanut Butter
4 Cups CHEERIOS


Recipe
Butter square 9x9x2-inch pan. Blend pudding mix & corn syrup in saucepan. Heat to boiling over medium heat. Stir constantly. Boil & stir 1 min. Remove. Blend in peanut butter. Add cereal; stir til thoroughly coated. Spread evenly into pan. Cool 30 min. or until firm. Cut.
Makes about 6 dozen candies.


Notes:
Healthier than most snacks or desserts.
May use low-fat peanut butter to make it even more healthy, or substitute soy-nut butter or almond butter in case of peanut allergy.
May use sugar-free cooked pudding to cut down on sugar content.

Serving Suggestion:
Serve as snack or as dessert.


Hugs and Smiles, quiltersblock

[tndenim]

This here was my grandma Hill's Sugar Cookie recipe. My aunts helped her make cookies one day so they could get her recipe. Grandma was one of those - 'just throw this much in" type cooks. Everytime she went to "just throw this in" they measured it. They were the best tasting sugar cookies - Yummy!!!

Grandma Elsie Hill's Sugar Cookies

2 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 cup butter
2 cups sweet milk
1/2 tsp salt
5 tsp baking powder
2 tsp soda
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp nutmeg
7 cups of flour or enough to thicken to handle.

Beat the eggs and sugar together. Add the milk. Add the dry ingredients. I usually mix all the dry ingredients with about 2 cups of flour and add that. Then slowly add the remaining flour until dough is totally mixed and the right consistency to roll out. I will refrigerate the dough for about an hour as well before rolling it out.

Just roll it out about a 1/4 thick and use cookie cutters. Bake at 350 for about 10 minutes.

[quiltersblock]

This one is just plain fun. It's also fun if given with a holstein item: towel, hotpad, apron, etc. Plenty of room for creativity.

Cow Drops

Serves: 48
Prep Time: 1 hour

Recipe
Take any chocolate chip recipe & divide dough in half. (I make two batches). To one half add: 1/4 Cup Hershey's Cocoa. (Add one Cup if it's a whole batch).
Drop two small scoops (one of each) onto cookie sheet. It's best if you use the cheap chocolate chips. Nestles melts, but the cheap ones look like something Bossy left in the pasture -- kind of adds to the illusion. Push the scoops together a little so it looks like you got a corner of a Holstein spot.


Notes:
You'll need your favorite chocolate-chip recipe for this one.


Serving Suggestion: Great conversation treats and gifts!


Hugs and Smiles, quiltersblock

[quiltersblock]

This was a great way to get rid of the extra zucchini or pumpkins in the fall. My favorite aunt made it my entire life and it's a family favorite for summer, right through Labor Day picnics and even Halloween and Thanksgiving.

Zucchini or Pumpkin Bars

My Favorite Aunt

Serves: 24
Prep Time: 1 hour

Ingredients
2 Cups flour 2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon Pumpkin pie spice 2 teaspoons baking powder
2 Cups sugar 1 teaspoon soda
¼ teaspoon salt 1 Cup oil
4 eggs 2 cups pared, grated zucchini
3-ounce package cream cheese ½ Cup margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla 2 Cups powdered sugar

Recipe
Sift together into bowl the following:
2 Cups flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon Pumpkin pie spice
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 Cups sugar
1 teaspoon soda
¼ teaspoon salt
Add the following and beat well together:
1 Cup oil
4 eggs
Stir in the following:
2 cups pared, grated zucchini
Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes in 10x15-inch pan.
Frost when cooled.
Frosting:
3-ounce package cream cheese
½ Cup margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 Cups powdered sugar
Beat ingredients together well.


Notes:
May substitute pumpkin for zucchini.
May subsititute soy-based products for dairy products in lactose-free diets.


Serving Suggestion: Serve with coffee or milk as dessert or snack.


Hugs and Smiles, quiltersblock

[windstar]

What is a holstein spot.

Molly

[annmarie]

Something to do with a Holstein item?? i.e tea towel, apron

[wienerin]

have to ask now ... what kind of measuring unit is "cup"??? We only use standard metric units like gramm and kilogramm, litre and millilitre; sometimes you find such imprecise specifications like spoonful (my spoons vary from o to O), but "cup" is completely unknown. Thinking of my cups on the shelve it could be 100ml as well as 300ml... I'm lost...

[Dreama]

The cup is equal to 250ml or 250 grams! I think earlier settlers actually used the coffee cup as the measuring tool. My Grandma used her hands as the measuring tool. Wonderful cook but I can't duplicate her receipes!! Hope this helps. Dreama

[windstar]

We do ounces (oz) and 8oz = a cup.

Molly

[wienerin]

thank you all.
using a conversion tool it says 8oz would be 226g if taken as weight measure, or 236ml if as liquid ounces...
will stick to the average value of 230g or ml

[annmarie]

The cup is equal to 250ml or 250 grams! I think earlier settlers actually used the coffee cup as the measuring tool. My Grandma used her hands as the measuring tool. Wonderful cook but I can't duplicate her receipes!! Hope this helps. Dreama

OMG Snap! I was reading Wienerins post and said I gonna say this. LOL my mam stil uses handfuls with baking!! When I go ask her about any receipe, its like, yeah two handfuls of that and three of this!!LOL
We are in the middle of weights here, older generation use lbs and oz, the younger ones are metric system and my generation and older are in between I still cant convert one to the other without a calculator LOL some baker I would make

[quiltersblock]

I have recipes where there are cups and caps and spoons but not measuring cups or spoons as we know them today. And I have recipes where there are parts. Love those because those can be duplicated using another base measurement.
Hugs and Smiles, quiltersblock

[debbsie]

quiltersblock - you must be a heck of a cook as your recipes are outstanding and you have so many. They all sound so great.

wienerin - you are funny with your cup size being from 100-300g and I can understand your frustration with measurements.

Our measuring cups here are both in cups (8oz) and in ml /g (250g)

Hope this helps

[windstar]

I wondered if she is a dietitian cause she knows so much nutritional stuff.

Molly

[quiltersblock]

I wondered if she is a dietitian cause she knows so much nutritional stuff.

Molly

Dietician - no. Not one of my degrees.
I am a good cook, and I've had to cook for a lot of different diets. I've also done a lot get-togethers and parties, for my family and for others. I'm not a caterer, although one of my cousins is. Friends and family often ask me to help orchestrate their get-togethers and it usually ends up with me doing a lot of the fixings and organizing and supervising a lot of things. Part of why I don't do much cake decorating any more.
Hugs and Smiles, quiltersblock

[windstar]

Thanks for all the recipes you share and the time to put it all together.

Molly

[MaryEHenry]

In the top of a double boiler, melt 1 cup chocolate chips.

Remove from heat and stir in 1/4 cup peanut butter.

Stir in 1 cup dry-roasted peanuts.

Drop by small spoonfuls onto waxed paper. Leave alone to firm up

[MaryEHenry]

Graham Wafer Squares

30 whole graham wafers
1 cup melted butter
1 cup sugar
½ cup milk
1 egg, beaten
1 ½ cups coconut ( 2 cups if not using nuts)
½ cup chopped nuts (optional, I don’t use them)
2 cups graham wafer crumbs


Combine butter, sugar, milk and egg. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture comes to a boil. Add coconut, nuts and graham wafer crumbs.

Line the bottom of a 9 x 13 inch pan with graham wafers. Pour on cooked mixture. Cover with a layer of graham wafers. Ice with Duncan Hines or Betty Crocker chocolate icing. Cool. Cut into squares.

[MaryEHenry]

Peanut Butter Squares

Bottom layer:
1/2 cup hard margarine (Becel works)
1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
2 cups icing sugar
1/3 cup graham cracker crumbs

Melt the margarine and peanut butter together. Mix in the icing sugar and graham cracker crumbs. Pack into ungreased or foil-lined 8 x 8 pan.

Top layer:
1/2 cup white sugar
3 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons margarine
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Combine sugar, water and margarine in a medium saucepan. Heat, stirring often, until boiling. Boil for one minute. Remove from heat, add chocolate chips and stir to melt. Pour over first layer. Chill well.

[ScreenBags]

http://www.ehow.com/how_5056266_make...n-muffins.html

This recipe was so easy that I could not believe it. 3 ingredients! And my family has no idea there's extra fiber in these brownies.

Three more things about this recipe that are great:
1 - it includes the Nutrition Information (calories, fat, fiber), so if you're on Weight Watchers or a similar program, it's easy to figure out the points.
2 - you make the brownies in a muffin or cupcake pan, so you don't have to worry about portions; it's already figured out for you, and
3 - it's easy to take to a picnic or BBQ (my friends have already started to ask if I'm going to bring my special brownies to summer outings.)

Enjoy,
Susan (aka Screenbags)