Desserts/Candy

Banana Cream Pie

3/4 c. sugar
1/3 c. flour or 3 T. corn starch
1/4 tsp. salt
2 c. milk
3 beaten egg yolks
2 T. margarine
1 tsp. vanilla

In sauce pan combine sugar, flour and salt. Add milk and cook over medium heat until mixture boils and thickens. Cook 2 min. longer. Remove from heat and stir a small amount into the beaten egg yolks, then add remaining mixture and cook 2 min. longer stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Add butter and vanilla. Cool to room temperature. Slice bananas in bottom of crust and fill with cream filling. Top with whipping cream (of course add powdered sugar and vanilla to taste.)

This is a recipe from Grandma Elmer. She always made the best pies.

posted by Jan

Caramels
1 C. Butter (I use margarine and it works just fine)
1 C. Brown Sugar
1 C. White Sugar
1 C. Light Corn Syrup
1 14 oz. Can Sweetened Condensed Milk
1 Dash of Salt

Combine ingredients in a heavy pan. Cook over medium heat stirring constantly with wooden spoon. Keep at rolling boil and cook until soft ball forms in cold water (about 15 mins). Pour into buttered 9x13 pan. Cool completely then cut into pieces and wrap in wax paper. Makes about 70-80 pieces.

This recipe came from my Li0n House Cookbook and has been tried and true. I love the finished product and so does everyone else that tries it.
posted by Colette

Chocolate Chip Applesauce Cookies

1 Cup Butter
2 Cups Sugar
3 Large Eggs
4-5 Cups Flour (I use about 4 1/2 Cups)
1 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Cinnamon
1 tsp. Nutmeg
1/2 tsp. Cloves
2 Cups Applesauce
2 tsp. Soda
1 1/2 Cups Chocolate Chips


Cream together the butter, sugar, and eggs. Add dry ingredients and bake. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10-12 minutes.I think these taste better the day after they are made. They stay soft and are always delicious!
posted by Denise



Chocolate Chip Cookies


2/3 Cup Shortening
2/3 Cup Butter, softened
1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Brown Sugar
2 Eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
3 1/2 Cups Flour
1 tsp. Soda
1 tsp. Salt
12 oz. Semisweet Chocolate Chips

Heat oven to 375.

Mix first 6 ingredients together. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown. Undercooked is better. Makes approx. 3 Dozen

I got this recipe from Brian and Stacey Keller
Posted by Denise


Chocolate Crinkles
(supposedly a low cholesterol cookie)

1. C. cocoa powder
2 C. white sugar
1/2 C. veg. oil
4 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
2 C. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 C. confectioners sugar


In a med, bowl mix together cocoa, sugar and oil. Beat in the eggs one at a time (I'm not sure that I did this), then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt; stir into cocoa mixture. Cover dough and chill for at least 4 hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line the cookie sheets with parchment paper. Roll dough into one inch balls and roll in confectioners sugar before placing onto prepared cookie sheets. Bake in preheated oven for about 10-12 mins. Let stand on the cookie sheet for a min. before transfering to wore racks to cool.
posted by Colette


Cream Puffs/Eclairs
1 stick margarine
1 C. water
1 C. flour
1/4 tsp. salt
4 eggs

In a sm. sauce pan melt the margarine and add the water. Bring to a rolling boil. Stir in the flour and salt and remove from heat. Beat the eggs into the flour mixture adding eggs one at a time beating inbetween each egg. Place onto a lightly greased cookie sheet by spoonfuls for cream puffs or shape into long finger shapes for eclairs. Bake in the oven at 450 for 20 mins and then turn the oven down to 325 for an additional 20 mins. DO NOT OPEN THE OVEN inbetween temperature changes or during cooking at any time.

Fill with pudding, whipped cream, or chicken salad. If making eclairs dip the shell into a choc. glaze before piping pudding into it. These are an easy dessert that people are easily impressed with. Can be made ahead of time with pudding piped in and frozen if you need to make days in advance. Leave about one hour thaw time.
posted by Colette

German Chocolate Brownies
2 C. semi sweet choc. chips
1/2 C. butter or margarine
1 1/4 C. flour
1 C. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
3 eggs beaten
1 container Betty Crocker Rich and Creamy coconut pecan frosting

Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a 3 quart saucepan, melt choc. chips and the butter over low heat, stirring constantly; remove from heat. Stir in flour, sugar, vanilla, baking powder, salt and eggs. Spread butter in a lightly greased 13x9-inch pan.
Bake 27-34 mins. or until center is set and toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely, about and hour before frosting.
These are so easy and yummy! They taste just as good as the bakery ones do. Posted by Colette

"Soft" Gingerbread Cookies
1/2 C. Softened Butter
1/2 C. Brown Sugar
1 Egg, beaten
3/8 C. Molasses
3/8 C. Sour Milk (I've used just plain milk and it tastes fine)
2 1/2 C. Flour
1 tsp. Soda
1/2 tsp. Ginger
1/2 tsp. Salt
(I personally added a few more ingredients to make it taste the way I wanted it to. They were as follows; 1 tsp. Vanilla, 1/2 tsp Cinn., and just a shake of Nutmeg and Cloves.)

Cream together butter, br. sugar, egg, molasses and sour milk (and vanilla if you choose to make it my way). Sift together flour, soda, ginger, salt (cinn, nutmeg and cloves). Add to batter and mix well (makes a very soft batter). Chill for 1 hour. Roll 1/4 " thick (I roll out on a floured surface just the same as doing sugar cookies.) Cut out with cutter and bake at 350 degrees until done (I cooked about 11 mins). Will be soft. Decorate when cool.

I got this recipe from Cooks.com one night when I was looking for a soft gingerbread cookie recipe. It has been the only one I've tried, but it has been a good one and reminds me of the cookies Vic would get from the bakery at Christmas time for all of us to decorate on Christmas Eve.
posted by Colette

Microwave Brownies
2 eggs
1 c. sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 c. margarine, softened
3/4 c. flour
1/3 c. cocoa

Mix together eggs, sugar, salt, and vanilla. Add butter and blend. Add flour and cocoa. (Note: for high altitudes use 1 cup of flour.) Put in a microwavable bunt pan and cook on high for 5 1/2 minutes.

J. often tells me that he married me for this recipe.
Posted by Jan

Peanut Butter Bars
1 C. margarine
1 C. sugar
2 eggs
1 C. peanut butter
1 C. brown sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. soda
2 C. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
2 C. oats
choc. chips

Icing
1/2 C. peanut butter
1/2 C. margarine
2/3 C. powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla

Cream together the first 6 ingredients and then add soda, flour, salt and oats. Mix all together and place in a greased pan. Bake at 350 for 15-20 mins in jellyroll pan, or 25-30 mins in a 10x 15 pan. Remove from the oven and sprinkle choc. chips on top. After choc. is melted spread and then cool. When cooled spread creamy peanut butter icing on top.

I got this recipe from a good friend, Karrie Crump and it's DELICIOUS!
posted by Colette

Picnic Cake
8 oz. chopped and pitted dates
1 1/2 Cups Boiling Water
1 tsp. soda

Add these together and cool.

Cream together the following:
1 Cup Sugar
3/4 Cup Butter
2 Eggs
1 3/4 Cup Flour
1 tsp. Cinnamon
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt

Mix dry ingredients together then add the date mixture.
Pour into a greased cake pan. Then add topping before baking.

Topping:
1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
6 oz. Chocolate Chips
1/2 Cup nuts (optional)

Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes.

A family favorite of everyones! Grandma (Arzley) Losser was the one who passed this recipe on to us.
posted by Denise


Puffed Rice Balls
6 oz. Rice Cereal
2 Cups Sugar
3/4 Cups Light Corn Syrup
1/2 Cup Water
1 tsp. Vanilla

Combine ingredients and cook until a soft ball stage. (When the syrup in cold water forms a soft ball). Pour over cereal and mix. Butter your hands before forming into balls. Wrap in plastic wrap to store.
posted by Denise

Sugar Cookies
1 Cup Butter
2 Cups Sugar
4 Eggs
2 Tbs. Milk
2 tsp. Vanilla
4 Cups Flour
2 Tbs. Baking Powder
1 tsp. Salt

Combine all ingredients and put dough in freezer ( or in my case outside on the back porch) until cold. Roll out with plenty of flour.
This is my favorite sugar cookie recipe. They stay soft if stored in a tupperware container. Decorate with frosting and sprinkles.
posted by Denise