Chocolate Chip Cookies
2/3 cup butter (softened)
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
2 cups chocolate chips
2 teaspoons vanilla
Mix and bake at 375º for 7-10 minutes.
Molasses Cookies (from Grammoo)
1 1/2 cups shortening
2 cups sugar
1 cup molasses
2 eggs
4 teaspoons soda
4 cups flour
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ginger
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
Mix. Refrigerate dough until easy to handle. Roll in sugar. Bake at 350º for 6-8 minutes; take out when still puffed.
Blueberry Muffins (from Grammoo)
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 cup blueberries
400º 20-25 minutes.
Moist Chocolate Cake (from Grammoo)
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 cup cocoa
2 cups sugar
1 cup oil
1 cup hot coffee
1 cup milk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Stir dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Add oil, coffee, and milk; mix at medium speed for 2 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla; beat 2 more minutes. (Batter will be thin.) Pour into a greased and floured 9×13 pan. Bake at 325º for 25-30 minutes.
Peanut Butter Cookies
1 cup butter or margarine
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Thoroughly cream butter, peanut butter, sugars, egg, and vanilla. Stir together dry ingredients; blend into creamed mixture. Bake at 375º for 10-12 minutes.
(This recipe is doubled)
If you would like to add a chocolate kiss to the center of each, do so after they come out of the oven. Simply unwrap and press into the center.
Pizza Dough, or Bread Sticks, ect.
2 1/2 teaspoons yeast
1 cup warm water
2 1/2 cups flour
2 tablespoon oil
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
Dissolve yeast in warm water in bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients. Beat vigorously 20 strokes. Let rest 5 minutes. Press onto 2 greased cookie sheets.
Chocolate Fudge Frosting
1/3 cup butter
2/3 cup cocoa
2 2/3 cup powdered sugar
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Melt butter in small saucepan over medium heat. Add cocoa. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture just begins to boil. Remove from heat. Pour into mixer bowl; cool completely. Add powdered sugar alternately with milk, beating to spreading consistency. Blend in vanilla.
Try using coffee instead of milk.
You Know You Are A Large Family When…
You know you are a large family when …
- People mistake your oldest daughter as the mother when they don’t see you.
- Changing diapers, baths and clothes is like an assembly line.
- The family quits drawing names for Christmas because your family ends up doing everyone elses’ family and some of your own.
- You dream of a minivan as being an economical run-around car.
- Ten pounds of potatoes isn’t enough for a meal.
- At the grocery store, people think your pile of groceries are for a month, when in fact, they are for 3 days.
- No one will let you rent from them.
- You go through 25 pounds of flour each week.
- You go somewhere with half the kids and folks still think you have a large family.
- Your younger children have never been to a restaurant $$$
- Your soup pots resembles vats.
- You don’t take samples at Costco, because you’d clean them out.
- The whole family can’t participate in a board game because it calls for “between 4-6 players”.
- You take up an entire pew…and then another.
- You have to double a cookie recipe just so everyone can have 2 cookies.
- A casserole takes 3 lasagna pans for one meal.
- You teach the lactation specialist and midwife a thing or two.
- When you need to buy the family flu medicine, by the time the family is over it, you’ve spent $100!
- Illnesses go through the family and take 3 months to complete the circle
And my favorite…..
- you belong to cmomb’s forum!
Anyone else???
Baked Oatmeal
6 cups Regular oats
2 cups Milk
1 cup Oil
1 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
4 eggs
3 t Baking Powder
2 t Salt
2 t Cinnamon
Mix everything together and pour into a greased9 x 13 pan. Bake 20 minutes at 350º.