Aggression Cookies

1 c. brown sugar
2 c oatmeal
1 c. flour
2/3 c. margarine or butter
2 tsp baking soda

Preheat oven to 350. Place all ingredients into a bowl. Knead and play with this dough as long as you wish. The longer the dough is worked, the better the cookies are.
Drop heaping teaspoons of dough onto ungreased cookie sheet, bake 12 minutes. Makes 2 dozen cookies.

I so want to make these Banana Cheesecake!

Found this and want to make it!

Another version of a popular Banana Cake recipe...the yummy Banana Cheesecake recipe.

It's very easy to prepare, uses minimal ingredients and most importantly, it's soooo delicious!

Banana Cheesecake recipe.



Ingredients.

2 cups digestive biscuits or Chocolate Hob-Nobs, crushed

1/3 cup butter, melted

3 (8 ounce) packs of cream cheese, softened

3/4 cup caster or white sugar

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1/2 cup mashed bananas

1 banana, sliced, optional

Chocolate sauce, optional.

Preparation.

1. Preheat the oven to 175 degrees C.

2. In a bowl, mix together the biscuits and melted butter. Press into the bottom of a greased medium-sized round baking dish. Place in the refrigerator to allow it to set.

3. Meantime, in another bowl, lightly beat the cream cheese with the sugar until smooth. Add eggs one at a time, then the vanilla essence and mashed bananas. Pour into the prepared crust.

4. Bake for 30 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the center is set. Cool, and refrigerate for at least 3 hours.

5. Place the sliced bananas on the cheesecake and pour chocolate sauce on top.

Tips:

1. I recommend using Philadelphia Cream Cheese as it's really soft and seems to do well when baked.

2. You can crush the biscuits in two easy ways: either pound on them gently without taking them out of their wrapping or place them in freezer bags and pound them to crumbs.

Be careful that you don't tear the wrapping or the freezer bag. That will result in crumbs flying all over your kitchen counter! Yikes!

3. Melting butter is easy; after measuring, place the lump of butter into a saucepan and let it melt over very low fire or you can microwave it on medium. I prefer the saucepan method though.

4. You can purchase the chocolate sauce in most quality shops selling baking products or established supermarkets.

Enjoy preparing this Banana Cheesecake Recipe.

Chewy Oatmeal Squares

One of Kayla's favorites!
Hard to believe she will be TWO in a few months. Hard to believe she was ever as small as the baby in the picture in the header of this blog...and even harder is to believe now we have her baby brother, who is even smaller than the little girl in the header picture.
Tis why I have been slacking over here on my path of recipes!

Anyways, Enjoy!

This is low in fat and very healthy for you.

Here is a good healthy dessert recipe. My one year old loves this. I throw in a small handful of chocolate chips to sweeten it up for her.
Chewy Oatmeal Squares - serves 18
1/2 cup vegetable oil Vegetable oil spray 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar 1 4 1/2-ounces jar strained applesauce(baby food) 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 cups quick-cooking oats 1/3 cup chopped walnuts 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp ground cinnamon
Preheat oven to 325 F. Spray a 9-inch square pan with vegetable oil spray. In a mixing bowl, combine oil, brown sugar, applesauce and vanilla. Add oats, walnuts, baking powder, and cinamon. Mix until blended. Press mixture evenly and firmly into prepared pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, or until edges are golden brown. Cut into 36 squares while hot. Allow to cool in pan. Store in an airtight container.

Cheerios Treats

This recipe was as easy as could be and oh so yummy.
I decided to make this because yesterday was the first of Kayla's WIC checks that we got THREE huge boxes of cheeries. I know she/we cant eat it all in a fair amount of time and over every month we would just have a ton of Cheerios. So, I made this.

Im hosting a Pampered Chef party this weekend and Im going to be making this along with a slew of other things.

Cherrios Treats

5 cups Cheerios
1/2 cup peanut butter
3 tbs butter
1 package mini marshmallows

Melt 3 tbs butter in saucepan. Melt in marshmallow and peanut butter. Remove from heat. Stir in Cheerios. Mix well. Press into 13x9 pan. Cool. Cut into squares.

It comes out sorta like Rice Krispie Treats, only with Cheerios and peanut butter instead.

Its hard for me to stay from these so I gave half of the pan to my neighbor.

Great Grandma's 'Ice cream' sandwhiches

So, this idea comes from my Great Grandma. Not sure where or who she got the idea from, but its marvelous!
All you need is whip cream and graham crackers. Pile some whip cream in between 2 whole graham crackers. Wrap in foil. Freeze for at least 24 hours before you eat it.
Why? Because the longer its in the freezer the better it is. The graham cracker gets soft just like those chocolate ice cream sandwiches you buy in the store. If you eat it any sooner then seriously, its not as good.

These are soooo good. Id say they are even better than the ones in the store. Well, except those strawberry shortcake ones from Turkey Hill.

Peanut Butter Swirled Brownies

I made these Peanut Butter Swirled Brownies over the weekend to take to a BBQ. I never made them before, but I had all the ingredients on hand, 1 box of brownie mix and 1/2 cup peanut butter.

Mix brownie batter as directed on package. Pour into greased pan. Microwave 1/2 cup peanut butter for 20 seconds or until melted. Pour over brownie batter. Swirl with butter knife. Bake as directed on package.

They turned out really good. The recipe came from the Skippy peanut butter.

Here they are baking in the oven and then finished. The house smelled really good while they were baking!

Apple Cinnamon Chex mix- YUCK

I made the Apple Cinnamon Chex mix, and it turned out quite gross. I think I burned them. Yuck.

So, I will making something else very soon!

Muddy Buddies

I so took this from chex.com website. This recipe is for Muddy Buddies, also known as, Puppy Chow, Reindeer Food, Monkey Munch and many others.

I make this a lot. Much more than I should. But ever sugary sweet calorie is so worth it.

9 cups chex cereal- any kind. We use corn chex because of my picky husband.
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips, 1/2 cup peanut butter, 1/4 cup butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar, although, I never measure out the sugar. I use the amonut that looks good to me.

In a large bowl measure out the cereal and set aside.
In a 1 quart microwaveable bowl, stir together chips, peanut butter and butter. Microwave 1 minute, stir. Microwave 30 seconds more as needed until mixture can be stirred smooth. I find that 1 minute does the job. Stir in vanilla. Pour mixture over cereal, stirring until evenly coated. Pour into a 2-gallon ziplock bag.
Add powdered sugar. Seal bag. Shake until well coated. Spread on wax paper to cool. Store in airtight container in fridge. We never store these in the fridge though. Its usually all gone within 2 days.

Banana Loaf

Sorry it's been a while since I blogged a recipie. I will try to do better.
Please vote on my poll I have going on! Its on the right hand sidebar.

Coming soon........ Homemade Fresh From Scratch....PORK LUMPIA! Next grocery shopping trip I will be buying the ingredients.
What inspired me to do this? Today was Kayla's WIC appointment. In the parking lot is a little 'snack shop' on wheels where they sell lumpia for 3 for $1. I bought 6 and was in heaven eating all 6. I NEED some more of this. It's been too long since I had it! Now I know where to go for my craving! The WIC office parking lot! LOL!

But for now... my Banana Loaf.

So simple to make. That is my kind of recipie. A couple weeks ago I made this for a BBQ we were invited to. Everyone complimented me on it. It was the first time I made it, and I will make it again.

1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 2 eggs well beaten, 2 cups flour, 1 tsp baking soda, 3 medium bananas mashed, 1/2 cup ground walnuts (optional or raisins)

Cream butter and sugar together until smooth. Add eggs.
Add flour, baking soda to butter and egg mixture. Stir to blend well. Add bananas, nuts, raisins.

Pour in greased and floured 9x5x3 loaf pan. Bake at 350 for 60 minutes. (However, my load took longer than 60 minutes for some reason)

Remove from pan. Cool. Slice.

Taaadaaa! Enjoy!

Simply Sensational Truffles

So, a couple of you want to make this recipe for the holiday coming up, as well as I do. I have never made these before so I dont have pictures (besides this one I stole) and I dont have an opinion of them yet since I havent made them. But, they do sound evil. Too evil. Evil meaning...cant stay away from them.

Here is the recipe. Taken from Kraft Foods.

Prep Time:
15 minTotal Time:
1 hr 15 minMakes:
18 servings, 2 truffles each


2-1/2 pkg. (20 squares) BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate, divided
1 pkg. (8 oz.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened
decorations: chopped PLANTERS COCKTAIL Peanuts, multi-colored sprinkles

MELT 8 chocolate squares. Beat cream cheese with mixer until creamy. Blend in melted chocolate. Refrigerate until firm.

SHAPE into 36 balls. Place on waxed paper-covered baking sheet.

MELT remaining chocolate. Use fork to dip truffles; return to baking sheet. Decorate, then refrigerate 1 hour.

Sprinkle truffles with crushed peppermint candies in addition to, or instead of, the chopped peanuts and colored sprinkles


Hmmm, now that I've gotten to see this picture and read the recipe AGAIN, maybe I will make them in the next few days and let you all know how they turn out.

Thin Mint recipe coming soon! These, I HAVE made before!