Payday Bars

This is a recipe from my husband’s aunt Susan.  She makes them at Christmas every year. Ingredients: 1 cup sugar 1 cup peanut butter 1 1/2 cups dry roasted peanuts 1 cup light Karo syrup 6 cups Rice Chex 1 tsp. vanilla Instructions: Put sugar and syrup in medium bowl and microwave on high for…

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Basic Chocolate Chip Cookies

I’m still working on cookies for Matt’s open house on Wednesday.  Hopefully this is the last batch I will need to make.  The recipe said it made 11 dozen, of course, I got less.  I ended up with a total of 6 and a half dozen cookies.  Exactly half.  I even used a scoop. Ingredients…

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Earthquake Cookies

Matt is having a big open house at the school this Wednesday.  I’m in charge of cookies for the shindig and he’s invited all of the ag students, their parents, the principal, vice principal and even the school board.  I hate to think how many people that actually is, but it’s a lot.  I’m sure…

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Banana Oatmeal Cookies

This is a cookie recipe that I got from my grandmother. They are a great way to use over-ripe bananas, and they’re so good I’ve been known to “waste” bananas so I can make them. Ingredients 1 1/2 cup flour 1 cup sugar 1/2 t baking soda 1 t salt 1/4 t nutmeg 3/4 t…

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Oatmeal Cinnamon Chip Cookies

Oatmeal Cinnnamon Chip Cookies are one of my favorite dessert foods in the fall.  They have a great warm flavor that cuts thru the first of the autumn chill, of course they are good about any time of year.  I’m actually thinking about making some for open class at the fair.

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Fruit Pizza

This fruit pizza is basically a giant sugar cookie in a tart pan that is iced in a philly cream cheese topping with bananas, blueberries and strawberries. To start I always use a sugar cookie recipe with granular, instead of powered, sugar for this.  Of course, I should also mention that I make my fruit pizza…

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