~~Peanut Butter Cookies~~


    1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
    3/4 tsp baking soda
    3/4 tsp salt
    1/2 cup butter or margerine
    1/2 cup peanut butter
    1/2 cup sugar
    1/2 cup packed brown sugar
    1 egg
    1/2 tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Stir together flour, soda and salt.
In a mixer bowl beat butter for 30 seconds on medium.
Add peanut butter and sugars; beat till fluffy. Add egg and vanilla;
beat well. Add dry ingrediants to beaten mixture, a little
at a time,beat until well combined.
Shape dough into 1-inch balls; roll in white sugar.
Place 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet or baking stone.
Make crisscross on top with tines if a fork.
Bake for 10 minutes.
Cool and eat!!!
Makes about 36 cookies

You better make alot of these they don't last very long!!

My favorite part of making these is cracking the egg and dumping all the stuff into the bowl.





~~Poke Cake~~

    1 box white cake mix
    1 small box jello - any flavor
    (we like raspberry and lemon)
    1 Cup boiling water
    1/2 Cup cold water
    1 container Cool Whip
    Wooden Spoon

Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour rectangular pan. Mix white cake according to directions on box pour into pan, bake and cool.
Poke holes into top of cake 3/4 way down with rounded end of wooden spoon. about one inch apart
Dissolve gelatin in boiling water,add cold water and spoon over cake
Chill for 3-4 hours
Top with Cool Whip.

We made a layered version of this at Christmas. We used 2 round pans insted of the rectangularone. Then we used red jello for one layer and green for the other
***YUMMY***




~~Mud Pies~~

    4 Tbsp Cocoa
    2 Cups Sugar
    1/2 Cup margerine
    1/2 Cup milk
    1 cup Peanut Butter
    1 tsp vanilla
    3 cups quick cook oats

Combine cocoa, margerine, sugar and milk in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and Boil for 1 minute stirring constantly
Remove from heat, add remaining ingrediants
Cool slihtly and drop onto wax paper. If nessicary, refridgerate.





~~Chex Mix~~


6 Tbsp margerine
2 tbsp worchester sauce
1 1/2 tsp season salt
3/4 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
8 cups chex or crispex cereal
(optional)
1 cup mixed nuts
1 cup pretzels
1 cup bite size bagel chips

Melt margerine in open roasting pan in preheated 250 degree oven. Stir in seasonings
Gradually add cereals,nuts, pretzels, and bagel chips; stir to coat evenly
Bake 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Spread on absorbant paper to cool, store in airtight container.

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