Recipes - 2013

Rice Crispy Peanut Butter Cookies

1 cup Karo Syrup
1 cup Sugar
1 cup Peanut Butter
4 cups Rice Crispys

Mix Karo & Sugar together in a pan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in peanut butter. Add a little over 4 cups of Rice Crispys and start spooning cookie sized pieces onto parchment paper. Give the cookies 5 or so minutes to set.

Lemon Crinkle Cookies

INGREDIENTS:

1/2 cup (8 tablespoons) butter, softened

1 cup granulated sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 large egg

1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon zest

1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice, from about 1/2 lemon

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/8 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup powdered sugar

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line rimmed baking sheets with silpat liners or parchment

paper, or lightly coat pans with cooking spray.

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add vanilla, egg, lemon

zest and juice and mix well. Add the dry ingredients (except the powdered sugar) and

mix until just combined. Place the powdered sugar on a large plate or shallow pie dish.

Roll tablespoon-size balls of dough in the powdered sugar to coat. Place on the prepared

baking sheets, about 2 inches apart.

Bake the cookies for 9-11 minutes. The cookies will not be browned on the edges but

they will have lost a bit of their shininess on top. Don’t overbake! Cool the cookies on a

cooling rack and store in an airtight container or eat immediately.

*Makes about 2 dozen cookies


Fudge Filled Squares

Peanut Butter Goodness

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
1 package of PB cookie mix
1 Tb water
1 egg
1/4 c veg oil
24 PB cups

Preheat oven to 375F. In a bowl sir together water, egg and oil til blended well. Add cookie mix and then stir until dough forms. Shape dough into 24 balls and place in paper-lined mini muffin pan. Bake 8-10 mins. Immediately press PB cups into cook after they are pulled out of the oven. Cool before removing from pan.


White Chocolate Dipped Gingersnaps

 

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Flour-less Peanut Butter Cookies

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Chocolate Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting and Crushed Peppermint Candy

Recipe soon to come....

Stamped Shortbread Cookies

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M&M Shortbread Cookies

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Snickerdoodle Cookies

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Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Allspice cookies

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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip

3/4 cup oil 

1 cup brown sugar (packed) 

1 egg 

1/4 cup water 

1 tsp vanilla 

3 cups oatmeal (uncooked) 

1 cup flour 

1 tsp salt 

1/2 tsp soda 

Mix together in order and bake at 350º 12 - 15 min. You can mix in any of the following Raisens Nuts Chocolate chips

Frosted Sugar Cookies

Assorted platter

Games

We played a Right/Left gift passing game. I brought little gifts for everyone. There were a few bigger wrapped gifts too. A friend read the Grinch story and we passed the gifts to the left when we heard the word "Grinch" and to the right when we heard the word "who."

Here's a list of the gifts. Most of the gift ideas came from pinterest.

The Grinch note reads:
Feeling kinda grouchy? Holiday spirit can't be found? Just try these little "Grinch Pills." They're the best medicine around. Whether eating a whole handful, Or munching one or two, These tasty little "pills" take the "Grinch" right out of you!
Source

 

Note: When it's so cold that you hollar and whoop, it is time to bring out the snowman soup!

Pour the packet in a mug add the snowballs too. Throw in the kisses from the snowman to you.

Now add some hot water, use the cane to stire it.

Sip slowly and soon you'll feel the warm winter spirit!

Source

Snowman Buttons:

One little snowman made of snow, had several little buttons all in a row. Then out came the sun and shone all day and that little snowman melted away. So here to enjoy are those buttons you see, they're to you from me.

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Recipe

Here is a link the the Tortellini Soup recipe. I use a cup of light sour cream instead of the half-and-half. I also add more seasonings like cumin, garlic salt, 1/2 tsp hot smoked paprika.

I forgot to get a picture of the banana bread I made. I wrapped the breads, soup and sparkling cider.

After that game, we went around in a circle and talked about the cookie we brought and story behind it.

Decorating & Food

I wish that I would have taken pictures of the rooms we decorated, but I forgot. The cookie exchange was at the church. We moved all the couches and chairs from the lobby into the R.S. room to make it more homey. I moved the churches Christmas tree and some other festive decorations in there too. I hung snowflakes from the ceiling and we played Christmas music.

For the food
A dinner was served that included soup (clam chowder, chicken wild rice,) salad, rolls, a beverage and cookies for dessert. This is the only picture I got of the food table. I made the cookie monster from materials I found at the Dollar Tree.

 Here is the Chicken Wild Rice soup recipe I made. I used 1 cup of dry wild rice blend. I cooked the rice first, added 3 cups of water with bouillon cubes and everything else in the recipe.

The Clam Chowder recipe came from my Salty's cookbook. You'll have to contact me for that.

Here is a link to the ranch dressing recipe I used.