Oatmeal Chocolate Bars

Oatmeal Chocolate Bars

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Ingredients

Filling:

Instructions

  • Mix together butter, brown sugar, egg, flour, soda, salt, and oatmeal.
  • Pat half of this mixture in a 9 x 13 pan.
  • Melt filling ingredients and stir well.
  • (We melt them in a bowl in the microwave.
  • ) Pour over crust.
  • Sprinkle with remaining oatmeal mixture.
  • Bake at 350º for 20-25 minutes.
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Course; Candy / Chocolate

Caramel Bars

Caramel Bars

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Ingredients

48 caramels

  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup cream or evaporated milk
  • 1 ½ cups flour
  • 1 cup + 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
  • 1 ½ cups oatmeal
  • 1 cup + 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
  • ¾ teaspoon soda

Instructions

  • Melt together caramels and cream or evaporated milk.
  • Blend butter or margarine and brown sugar.
  • Add soda, salt, flour, and oatmeal.
  • Pat ¾ off oatmeal mixture into pan and bake for 10
  • minutes at 350º.
  • Put caramel mixture on top.
  • Add chocolate chips and sprinkle top with the remaining dough.
  • Bake another 15 minutes.
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Course; Candy

Homemade Caramel Sauce

Homemade Caramel Sauce

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Ingredients

Makes 1 cup.

Instructions

  • Melt margarine.
  • Stir in brown sugar and syrup.
  • Bring to a boil; cook until dissolved, about 1
  • minute, stirring constantly.
  • Stir in ice cream.
  • Return to boil.
  • Remove from heat.
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Course; Sauce

Cranberry-Date Bars

Cranberry-Date Bars

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Ingredients

Makes about 32.

Instructions

  • For filling, in a medium saucepan combine cranberries, dates, and water.
  • Cook covered, over low heat for 10-15 minutes or until cranberries pop, stirring frequently.
  • Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla.
  • Set filling aside.
  • In a large mixing bowl stir together flour, rolled oats, brown sugar, baking soda, and salt.
  • Stir in the melted margarine or butter until well blended.
  • Pat half of the oat mixture onto the bottom of a 13 x 9 x 2 baking pan.
  • Bake at 350º for 8 minutes.
  • Carefully spread filling over baked oat mixture.
  • Sprinkle with remaining oat mixture.
  • Pat gently.
  • Bake for 20-22 minutes more or until golden brown.
  • Cool in pan on a wire rack.
  • For glaze, in a medium mixing bowl, combine powdered sugar, orange or lemon juice, and ½
  • teaspoon vanilla.
  • Stir in enough additional juice, 1 teaspoon at a time, until of drizzling consistency.
  • Drizzle glaze over cooled mixture in pan.
  • Cut into bars.
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Course; Candy / Fruit

Carrot Bars

Carrot Bars

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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Beat eggs; add sugar, then oil.
  • Add mixed dry ingredients.
  • Add carrots last.
  • Bake in 11 x 17
  • pan 30 minutes at 375º or in 9 x 13 pan for 40 minutes at 350º.
  • Frost and spread with nuts.
  • Makes lots of frosting.
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Course; Candy

Grama’s Pumpkin Bars

Grama’s Pumpkin Bars

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Ingredients

frosting:

Instructions

  • Mix all ingredients, this will be thin.
  • Bake in greased jelly roll pan at 350º for 20 minutes.
  • Frost with cream cheese frosting:
  • Mix until creamy, spread on cool bars.
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Course; Candy

Pumpkin Bars

Pumpkin Bars

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Ingredients

Frosting:

Instructions

  • Mix eggs, oil, sugar, and pumpkin.
  • Sift together remaining ingredients and add to pumpkin mixture; mix well.
  • Bake in a greased 12 x 18 x 1 jelly roll pan at 350º for 30 minutes.
  • Frost.
  • Tastes like pumpkin pie–without all the work.

Frosting:

  • Beat cheese, butter, vanilla, and cream until soft.
  • Add sugar until spreading consistency.
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Course; Candy

Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Ingredients

Makes about 8 dozen.

Instructions

  • Combine sugar and margarine; add eggs and vanilla.
  • Mix in quick oats, milk, flour, soda, and salt.
  • Add chips.
  • Drop by teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheets.
  • Bake at 375º for 10-12 minutes.
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Pistachio White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Pistachio White Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Ingredients

Makes 5 dozen.

Instructions

  • Cream butter with sugar.
  • Beat in eggs and vanilla.
  • Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and oats.
  • Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, mix well.
  • Stir in chocolate chips and 1 cup pistachios.
  • Drop batter by heaping teaspoons onto ungreased baking sheets, allowing for spreading.
  • Sprinkle and press some of remaining pistachios on top of each.
  • Bake at 350º for 8-10 minutes, or until light golden.
  • For chewy cookies, do not overbake.
  • Let cool awhile on cookie sheet to set
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Cinnamon Crispies

Cinnamon Crispies

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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Lightly spoon flour into measuring cup; level off.
  • In large bowl, combine 1 cup flour, 2
  • tablespoons sugar, salt and yeast; blend well.
  • In small saucepan, heat water and ½ cup margarine until very warm (120-130ºF).
  • Add warm liquid and egg to flour mixture.
  • Blend at low speed until moistened; beat 3 minutes at medium speed.
  • By hand, stir in 1 – 1 ½ cups flour to make a stiff dough.
  • Cover tightly; chill 2 hours or until dough is easy to handle.
  • Turn dough onto lightly floured surface.
  • Roll to 18 x 10-inch rectangle; spread with 2 tablespoons margarine.
  • Combine 1 ½ cups sugar and cinnamon.
  • Sprinkle ½ cup of mixture over dough.
  • Starting with 18-inch side, roll up tightly, pressing edges to seal.
  • Cut into 18 1-inch slices.
  • On cookie sheet or large sheet of foil, spread remaining sugar-cinnamon mixture.
  • Place slices, one at a time, on mixture; roll each to 5-inch circle, turning once.
  • Place crispies on ungreased cookie sheets.
  • Sprinkle each with 1 teaspoon nuts, if desired; press in gently.
  • Heat oven to 400º.
  • Bake 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
  • Remove from cookie sheets immediately; cool completely.
  • Makes 18 crispies.
  • If crispier product is desired, place crispies on greased cookie sheets.
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