I’m in over my head this week Peeps, I’m reposting this from last year and it’s full of yumalicious, delicious and nutritious recipes!!! Well 2 outta 3 anyhoo…
I’m linking to Michale Lee West’s blog party: FOODIE FRIDAY!!!
Thank you Michael for hosting!!!
Some of my peeps wanted the recipes from my Let’s Do Dessert Bash my girls and I had last week! When they were growing up we always baked every year…here they are making sugar cookies when they were itty bitty!
Sooo, here are the recipes! (Check out the “Bonus” one at the end of the post! It’s a doozie!)
Sugar Cookie Icing
1 cup XXX sugar (powdered sugar)
2 teaspoons milk
2 teaspoons lite corn syrup
(¼ teaspoon Almond extract, I don’t use this but some people love it!)
Put XXX sugar in a bowl and add milk…stir until smooth…
Beat in corn syrup until icing is smooth and glossy~if it’s too thick, add more corn syrup! Divide and add food coloring. You can make this the night before, just cover it!
Each cookie needs to be decorated with sprinkles immediately after you ice it because it dries to the touch pretty quickly. The icing takes a few hours to completely set.
I made about 60 sugar cookies (the size of my hand) and used 9 recipes of the icing with a bit left over.
Peanut Butter Balls
1 lb. Peanut butter (creamy or crunchy)
2 sticks almost melted butter1 ½ boxes XXX sugar (powdered sugar)
About 2 - 2 ½ bags of good Chocolate chips (semi sweet) and a little of the chocolate flavored candy bark (the cheap stuff you find at Christmas time!)
Mix and make balls! Put them on cookie sheet lined with wax paper.
Pop them into the freezer for 10 minutes (maybe more)
Melt the chocolate chips and chocolate candy in microwave safe bowl, stirring halfway through. If the chocolate mixture is too goopy, add a bit more of the bark or a tiny bit of crisco…I try not to add the crisco but sometimes you just have to!
Using a spoon, dip thos PB balls…this is not for the faint of heart. It’s messy, at least when we do it!!!
Haystacks ~ 3 Kinds!
Butterscotch Peanut Butter Haystacks
1 cup Butterscotch chips
3 cups Chow mein noodles/broken up a little
1 cup salted peanuts
1 cup peanut butter
Melt chips and add other ing. And drop by teaspoon fulls onto wax paper. These take a little while to dry~put in fridge to speed up the process!
(Makes app. 16!)
Okay…other variations of this little candy:
White Chocolate Pretzel Haystacks
1 11ounce package of white chocolate chips ( I love Ghirardelli)
1 1/2 cups thin pretzel sticks broken in half
1/2 cup of salted peanuts
Melt chips and add pretzels and peanuts
Use tablespoon to put on wax paper
(Makes about 15)
Chocolate Hay Stacks
1 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanuts
3 cups chow mein noodles
You could also add 2 cups mini marshmallows to this!
Melt the chips and add peanuts and chow mein noodles
Use tablespoon to put on wax paper
(Makes 18)
Chocolate-Oatmeal Peanut Butter No Bake Melt in your mouth cookies!
1 ¾ cups sugar
1 stick butter
½ cup milk
3 ½ Tablespoons cocoa
½ cup peanut butter
3 cups oats
generous splash of vanilla
Combine all ing. In a sauce pan, except peanut butter and oats and vanilla
Slowly bring to a boil
Boil, stirring all the time for about 1 ½ minutes
Add peanut butter, oats and vanilla
Scoop out with a teaspoon onto wax paper and let set!
This makes about 2 dozen! (Which is not many! I always double!)
Extra Special Bonus Recipe!!!
This is one of our favorites! You’ve probably done these before, but you know I get excited about everything!I got the recipe from my pal Leslie a long time ago, Leslie calls them Plaza Park Squares but I’ve seen something similar on Paula Deen and she calls them Ooey Gooey Bars!
Whatever you call them…they are one of the easiest and best desserts I’ve ever made!
Plaza Park Squares
1 box yellow cake mix
1 egg
1 stick butter
1 cup chopped pecans
Mix by hand, not mixer! Press into well greased 9 by 13 pan (Press well)
Use a mixer for this part! For topping…
1 box XXX sugar(powdered sugar)
1 (8 oz) cream cheese softened
2 eggs
Mix and spread over pecan mixture.
Bake at 350* for 35 to 40 minutes
Let cool and the cut into small pieces. These little suckers are richer than rich!
~ Have a Yumalicious Day~
