Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Simple, Easy Banana Bread

Easy, Banana Bread Recipe

- 1cup sugar
- 1/2cup shortening( or butter)
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 soft, ripe bananas, mashed
- 1 tsp vanilla

Cream sugar and shortening; add eggs, flour, soda, bananas, and chopped nuts. Pour banana bread batter in to 1 greased and floured loaf pan. Bake at 325 degrees F for about 1 hour and 15 min, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Makes 1 loaf.

(I like to sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over the top before baking.)

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Monday, May 19, 2008

LIZARD SKINS

With boys anything reptilian is cool! They are very easy to make and bring a grin when you say, "We're having Lizard Skins!" The name sounds nasty, but the taste is divine ...



LIZARD SKINS


1/2c Peanut Butter

12 oz. Marshmallows

2 to 4 drops Green Food Coloring

4c Crispy Rice cereal, Cornflakes or Oat ring cereal

16 raisins




Melt peanut butter and marshmallows in a large saucepan over low heat. Mix in food coloring. Pour in cereal and stir quickly. Spread cereal into a greased 8x8 baking pan. Cover and cool in the refrigerator. Cut cereal mixture in 8 long strips. Then cut the strips in half to make 16 strips, 1x4 inches each. cut raisins in half and stick the 2 halves on one end of each strip to make lizard eyes. Yum!

TRICKY FOX'S EAT-YOUR-HAT COOKIES

TRICKY FOX'S EAT-YOUR-HAT COOKIES



Sift together:
2c Flour

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2tsp baking soda

1/2tsp nutmeg


Cream together:
1/3 c butter

1c sugar

1 egg

1Tbsp vanilla flavoring



Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix flour mixture and sugar mixture with electric mixer. Cover and cool in fridge for 30 min. Roll chilled dough 1/4 in thick. Cut in shapes of hats (or other fun shapes). Place on greased cookie sheet. Bake 5 min

Reading makes Good eating!! My children loved this book, Tricky Fox, we borrowed from the library. Tricky Fox and his brother make a bet and the loser has to eat his Hat! They walked around with a stick cane trying to "trick" each other like Tricky Fox. It deserves a place in every child's library!

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Quick, Easy -N- Fast Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

Quick, Easy -N- Fast Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies Recipe


1 C. peanut butter
1 C. sugar
1 egg
1 t. baking soda

Cream the peanut butter with the sugar. Stir in the egg and baking soda. Roll into balls. If the dough is
initially too thin to roll let it sit 10 minutes and it will thicken. Bake at 350°F. until the edges of the cookies turn golden brown (do not overbake or they will turn hard and crumbly)

Original Nestle' Oatmeal Scothies

NESTLE' OATMEAL SCOTCHIES




1 1/4C unsifted Flour

1tsp Baking Soda

1/2tsp Salt

1/2tsp Cinnamon

1c Butter, softened

3/4c Brown Sugar, Firmly packed

3/4c granulated Sugar

2 Eggs

1tsp Vanilla Extract

3c Old-Fashioned Quaker Oats

1 (18 1/3 oz) package Nestle Toll House butterscotch-flavored morsels (about 2 cups)





Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a small bowl; set aside.

Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, eggs, anmd vanilla in a large bowl.

Gradually beat in flour mixture.

Stir in oats and morsels.

Drop by rounded Tablespoonfuls onto an ungreased baking sheet.

Bake 7 to 8 minutes for chewy cookies, 9 to 10 minutes for crisp cookies.

Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes, remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Simple, Easy Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies

SIMPLE, EASY PEANUT BUTTER NO-BAKE COOKIES


2 cups Sugar

1/4c Butter

1/2 Milk

1c Peanut Butter

1 tsp Vanilla

2 3/4c Rolled Oats


In a large saucepan, mix sugar, butter, and milk. Bring to a full boil over medium heat.

Remove from heat and stir in peanut butter and vanilla. Stir until peanut butter is melted. Stir in oats.

WORKING QUICKLY, drop by spoonfuls onto waxed paper covered newspaper.

Makes about 24 regular sized cookies.

Simple, Easy & Soft, Sugar Cookies

NETTE'S SUGAR COOKIES


1 c Butter

2c Sugar

2 Eggs

1 tsp Vanilla

2 1/2 c Flour

2 Tbsp Milk


Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Stir in flour. Add milk to make dough soft, not sticky. Drop by teaspoonful on greased cookie sheet. Bake 8 -10 min. at 350 degrees F.