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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Snickerdoodles from Jill Kounovsky

Snickerdoodles from Jill Kounovsky

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Ingredients

Makes about 36 cookies.

Instructions

  • In large mixing bowl, cream ¾ cup sugar and butter or margarine with a wooden spoon.
  • Beat in the eggs and vanilla.
  • Stir in flour, salt, baking soda, and cream of tartar.
  • Mix well with spoon.
  • In a small bowl, combine the 2 tablespoons sugar and cinnamon.
  • Grease 1 or 2 cookie sheets with shortening.
  • Shape dough into 1″ balls, roll each in the sugar-cinnamon mixture.
  • Bake 8-10 minutes at 375º.
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Monster Cookies

Monster Cookies

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Ingredients

  • 6 eggs
  • ½ pound butter
  • 2 ¼ cups brown sugar
  • 2/3 1 ½ pound can peanut butter (1 7/8 cups)
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
  • 9 cups oatmeal
  • 1 ½ teaspoons Karo syrup
  • 12 oz. chocolate chips
  • 4 teaspoons soda
  • 12 oz. M & M’s candy

Instructions

  • Bake 12 minutes at 350º.
  • Do not overbake (no flour)!
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Cranberry Cookies

Cranberry Cookies

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Ingredients

about 8 dozen.

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375º.
  • Measure flour, baking powder, soda, and salt into a bowl; stir with a fork to mix.
  • Cream butter and sugars in a large bowl until fluffy; beat in egg, milk, and lemon juice.
  • Stir in flour mixture, a little at a time, until well blended; stir in cranberries and walnuts.
  • Drop dough by teaspoonfuls, about 1″ apart, onto greased cookie sheets.
  • Bake 15 minutes, or until firm and golden.
  • Watch to make sure bottoms don’t get overdone, especially when using dark pans.
  • Remove from cookie sheets to wire racks; cool.
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Date Cookie Roll

Date Cookie Roll

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Ingredients

Filling:

Instructions

  • Roll dough ½-inch thick and spread filling, then roll like a jelly roll and chill.
  • When ready to bake, slice.
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