Easy Muffins

By Kimberley

Serves: 12
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Great for lunch boxes or morning/ afternoon tea.

Ingredients
1 3/4 cup self-raising flour
1/2 cup milk choc bits
1/2 cup white choc bits
1 1/4 cup milk
75g butter, melted
1 cup Milo
1 egg

Method
1. Combine sifted flour and choc bits in a bowl.
2. Combine milk, butte and Milo. Add to dry ingredients with lightly beaten egg, mix well.
3. Spoon mixture into deep lined muffin pans.
4. Bake 200 degree Celsius for 20-25 minutes.

For an extra surprise place a Caramello square or Rolo in the centre of muffin before baking. I've been using choc buttons instead of bits for mine. And also dark choc instead of milk choc to cut down some of the sweetness. You can alter the recipe slightly to your liking. Have fun!

Cherry Coffee Cake

This is a delicious desert! And you don't have to use cherries.....

Ingredients:

• 1 24oz can of any pie filling, such as: cherry or apple
• 2 containers of crescent rolls (the kind where you pop the container open)
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar
• 1 8oz pack of Cream Cheese
• 1/2 tsp flavoring (such as: vanilla extract, almond extract.)
• 1 egg

1. preheat oven to 350'
2. lay out the crescent rolls in your pizza platter, cake pan, or whatever you are using. And roll it out flat.
3. pour your pie filling on top, and spread it out, leave a little room on the sides.
4. mix together the Cream Cheese, egg, flavoring, and powdered sugar, and pour on top of the pie filling, spread it out.
5. if you have extra crescent rolls, then you can be creative with it!
6. bake for 20 minutes.

No-bake Cookies

By Allyssa

INGREDIENTS
1 stick (or 1/2 cup) of butter
6 Tbl. Cocoa (baking cocoa)
1/2 cup of Milk
2 cups Regular Sugar
1 cup crunchy peanut butter*
3 cups Oatmeal
1 Tbl. Vanilla

INSTRUCTIONS
Bring butter, sugar, cocoa and milk just to a rolling boil, Then take it off the heat and add Peanut butter, oatmeal, and vanilla. Mix well. Drop in spoonfuls on a wax paper sheet. Eat when firm and cool. ~ Enjoy!!!

* You can use creamy or crunchy peanut butter but it tends to be better with crunchy.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

By Grace Jasmine

2 Cups of flour
1/4 Cup of sugar
500 g butter
1/4 cup condensed milk
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 bag Nestle dark choc chips
1/2 bag Nestle white choc chips

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit).
Melt the butter. Mix with the sugar. Sift in the flour and baking powder and pour in the condensed milk. Squish together with your hands until its a stiff dough that is malleable but holds its own shape. Add extra flour or butter/ condensed milk if necessary. If its way too dry, add an egg. Then add the choc chips. Knead it some more. Roll the dough into small balls. Place them on a tray and press them down with the back of a spoon, and pinch the edges back together to make them look nice. Bake in the oven for 13 minutes, or until golden brown.

Chicken Marinate

By Amy

3/4 cup of soy sauce
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 white or rice vinegar
2 Tablespoons ginger
1 small clove of garlic

Just mash it all together, and let the juices do their thing! If you increase the brown sugar by about 1/8 to 1/4 of a cup, it will be sweeter, and the meat will be nearly as tender as if you don't. Mostly, the vinegar will break down the toughness of most meats.

We use this for both chicken and beef, so it's very versatile! (In fact, I'm making a tri-tip roast tonight for my Great-Grandma's birthday party with this mix!)

Italian Wedding Cookies

by Chelsea McBay

Ingriedients:
1 1/2 cups butter
3/4 cup confectioners sugar, plus 1/3 cup, for rolling
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups finely ground almonds
5 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour

Directions:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Cream butter in a bowl. Gradually add confectioners sugar and salt. Beat until light and fluffy. Add almonds and vanilla. Blend in flour gradually and mix well. Shape into crescents using about 1 teaspoon for each cookie. Place on ungreased cookie sheets, and bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Do not brown. Cool slightly, then roll in the extra confectioners' sugar. Yummy!!

The (not-so) Original Neiman-Marcus Cookie Recipe

By Cheri O'Kelley

Ingriedients:
2 cups butter
24 oz. chocolate chips
4 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups sugar
1 18 oz. Hershey bar, grated (Oh! The chocolate! )
5 cups blended oatmeal
4 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups chopped nuts (optional)

Directions:
Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder. Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and soda. Add chocolate chips, hershey bar, and nuts (if you so choose). Roll into balls, and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees (Farenheit). Notice: This makes 112 cookies, so, unless you have either a huge sweet tooth or a exceptionally large family, I would suggest halving the recipe!

Chocolate Chip Muffins

by Hannah Rachel

Ingriedients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup light-brown sugar, packed
1/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup milk
1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 (11 1/2 ounce) package milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup walnuts or pecans, chopped

Directions:
-Preheat oven to 400°F.
-Grease twelve muffin cups.
-In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugars, baking powder, and salt.
-In another bowl, stir together milk, eggs, butter, and vanilla until blended.
-Add milk mixture and stir just to combine.
-Stir in chocolate chips and nuts.
-Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
-Now bake for 15-20 minutes
-Remove muffin tin to wire rack.
-Cool for 5 minutes.
-Remove from tins to finish cooling.

7-Up Pound Cake

By Allison Kate

Ingredients:
1/2 cup Crisco
2 sticks Margarine
3 cups sugar
5 eggs
3 cups flour
7 oz. 7-Up or Sprite
1 tablespoon almond extract

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. combine crisco, margarine, and sugar. add eggs, one at a time. add flour, 7-up and almond extract. put in a greased bundt pan and bake for one hour and fifteen minutes. ENJOY!!

Chocolate Eclair Dessert

By Kaci Jacobs

2 boxes French Vanilla pudding
3 1/2 C. milk 8-9 oz.
Cool Whip
1 box Graham Crackers

Mix first 3 ingredients. Butter bottom of pan & layer crackers & pudding, ending w/ crackers on top. Chill

Frosting
6 T. cocoa
2 T. oil
2 t. wh. corn syrup
2 t. vanilla
3 T. margarine (softened)
3 T. milk
1 1/2 C. powdered sugar

Mix together and spread on chilled dessert.

Tony's Tortellini Salad

by Mercy

Ingredients:
3 lbs cheese tortellini(Brand-celentano)tri-colored.
2 cans black olives, pitted-with juice
1 orange pepper-chopped
1 red pepper-chopped
1 yellow pepper-chopped
2-3 lbs. broccoli
1/2 cup chopped sun dried tomatoes
1 quart cherry or grape tomatoes
3 tbs lemon juice
1/4 cup light olive oil
1/4 cup "peccorino" romano cheese(you can use parmesan cheese if you like it better)
1/2 cup FRESH basil leaves-chopped
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
1. First cut your broccoli so that there is only a LITTLE bit of stalk left. Put the broccoli in a strainer. Put the strainer in a pot of boiling water for 60 seconds. Put the now cooked broccoli in a large bowl.
2. After the broccoli is done, add the 3 lbs. of tortellini to the boiling water.
3. While tortellini is cooking chop the 3 peppers, basil leaves, and sun dried tomatoes.
4. Add the chopped vegetables, cherry or grape tomatoes, olives(with juice), and cooked tortellini to the bowl.
5. Mix in Romano cheese, oil, and lemon juice. Add Salt and Pepper to your taste. Eat warm or chill over night and enjoy cold.
6.This salad is so colorful and good! You can use any brand of tortellini that you like, and really any vegetables that you like. Enjoy!

Molasses Snaps

By Caroline H.

1 1/2 cups Shortening
2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup molasses
4 cups flour
4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp each ground ginger & ground cloves

In mixer on medium speed, cream shortening until smooth. Add egg & molasses until smooth. (Turn mixer down to low.) In separate bowl, mix ALL dry ingredients, stir gently. Scoop dry ingredients into wet mixture, scraping bowl occasionally, until all is blended well. Roll into small balls, roll in white sugar, place on baking sheet. Bake at 375 degrees For 9 minutes or until tops are cracked. Place on wax paper to cool. Enjoy!!

Sweet Potato Casserole---By Sarah C.

Ingredients:
3 cups mashed sweet potato (fresh is best)
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup melted butter

Topping:
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup flour
1/3 cup melted butter
Allspice

Instructions:
Combine the first six ingredients. Beat well until smooth. Pour into a 2 quart, greased casserole dish. Mix topping well (You may want to add a little milk to the topping if you find it too thick). Evenly pour on top. Add as much Allspice as you want, but don't over do it. Bake @ 350 for 30 to 40 minutes until hot and brown. (Temperatures may vary on the kind of oven you have).

Triple Treat Dessert

by Mercy

Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 20 minutes Ready In: 35 to 40 min. Servings: 15

Ingredients:
1 cup flour
1 cup graham crackers
1 stick margarine or butter
1/2 carton cool whip
1 cup powdered sugar
8oz. cream cheese
2 small boxes instant pudding (any flavor)
3 cups milk remaining cool whip Directions

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Blend 1st three ingredients (flour, graham crackers, and butter)and spread in a 9x13 inch pan. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes. Let cool.
3. Beat together next three ingredients (1/2 carton cool whip, powdered sugar, and cream cheese) and spread over crust.
4. Mix pudding and milk. Spread over cream cheese mixture.
5. Spread remaining cool whip over pudding.
6. Chill until serving time.
7. ENJOY!!!!!

Crockpot BBQ

By Andie

Ingriedients:
1, 4lb roast (e.g.Chuck, Sirloin)
1/4 C sugar
1/2 C soy sauce
1/2 C ketchup
1/4 C vinegar (red wine)
1-2 cloves garlic, minced
1/8 tsp pepper

Directions:
In large zip-top bag, mix everything but the meat. Add the roast to the bag and turn to coat meat. Seal bag tightly and refrigerate overnight, turning once or twice to marinate (If you need to, you can skip the marinating overnight, we usually forget). Place contents of bag in large crockpot. Cook on low for 7-8 hours. Shred and serve on buns if desired. Delish!

Snickerdoodles

by Amy R. K.

Ingriedients:
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 1 large egg • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 4 Tablespoons granulated sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees (F). In a mixing bowl, beat the butter on medium speed for about 30 seconds. Add the 1 cup sugar, baking soda, and cream of tartar. Beat until well combined and fluffy, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in the egg and vanilla until well blended. Beat in as much flour as you can with the mixer, and stir in remaining flour with a wooden spoon. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour (Overnight actually works best). Combine the 4 tablespoons sugar and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon. Shape the dough into 1 inch balls and roll in cinnamon sugar mixture to coat. Place balls of dough 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 to 11 minutes or until edges are beautifully golden. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool. Enjoy!!

The Ewe's 100% Whole wheat yeast rolls

By Andie

Dissolve 1T yeast into 1 C warm water. Let sit at least 5 minutes. When yeast bubbles, add 2T honey, 3/4 t salt and 1/2 stick melted butter. Stir well. Add to the yeast mixture 1 1/2 C whole wheat flour. Beat w/ electric mixer 2 minutes. Add up to 1 1/2 C additional flour--you want to add as little as possible: add it 1/2 C at a time. If the dough is too sticky, yet holds together in a ball, grease your hands and the dough rather than add flour. Doing it this way will help keep your bread from being too crumbly. Knead gently a few minutes--it doesn't take much. Let sit an hour. Punch down. Knead a few minutes. Shape into rolls (this amount of dough will make 16 rolls for me) and place on cookie sheet. When the rolls are on the sheet, turn on oven to 400 degrees. (I find that the preheat time is just about the right rising time for the rolls.) Once oven is preheated, bake the rolls about 12 minutes. Enjoy! These taste great w/ a slathering of honey butter or Lioness' cinnamon butter.

Cheese Ball

by Kyrene Denise

Ingriedients:
2 pkg. (8 oz) Cream Cheese
1pkg. (4oz.) Shredded Cheddar cheese
1/4 c. Mayo
1/4 c. Chopped black olives
1/4 c. Chopped onion

Directions:
Mix everything togeter and cool for 1 hour. Then shape into a ball.

Ranger Cookies

by Megan Langham

Ingriedients:
1 1/2 c. butter
1 c. granulated sugar
1 c. packed brown sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 c. flour
2 c. rolled oats
1 c. flaked coconut
1 c. raisins
1 c. chocolate chips


Directions:
Beat butter 30 seconds. Add granulated sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, and baking soda; beat till combined. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Beat in as much of the flour as you can. Stir in remaining flour. Stir in oats, coconut, raisins, and chocolate chips. Drop by rounded teaspoons 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake in a 375 oven about 8 minutes or till edges are golden. Cool on cookie sheet about 1 minute. Transfer to a wire rack; let cool. May these cookies lend cheer to your heart and strength to your limbs on whatever path you take!

Pizza Hotdish

by Amy R. K.

Ingriedients:
4 to 5 good-sized potatoes, peeled and sliced (like scalloped potatoes)
2 lbs hamburger
1 medium-sized onion, chopped
salt
garlic salt
1 can cheddar cheese condensed soup (I've only used Campbells, so I don't know if generic brands will work as well or not)
1 can of milk
1 jar (about 14 ounces) of pizza sauce
Mozzerella cheese (yum!)


Directions:
First, brown the hamburger meat with the onion, salt, and garlic salt. Be careful not to burn the onions! Take a 9x13x2 pan and layer the bottom with potatoes. Layer next the browned hamburger/onion mixture, after you've drained the grease off. (If you don't, this will be very runny. It's fixable, but you'll end up with stuff burnt to the pan, which makes cleanup a pain.) In a bowl, mix together the soup mix and milk. Spoon over the hamburger. Pour the pizza sauce over the top, cover with foil, and bake at 350F for 45 minutes. (About 180C) Remove the foil, and sprinkle the grated mozzerella cheese over the top. (the cheesier, the better!) Bake another 15 minutes.