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Peanut Butter No Bakes       Easy
Ingredients:
1/2 cup peanut butter
1-2/3 cups sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla
3 cups oatmeal
1.   In a pot, bring to a boil the peanut butter, sugar, milk and vanilla.
2. Meanwhile, put the oatmeal in a large mixing bowl.
3.  Remove the heated mixture from the stove and pour it over the oatmeal.  Let it cool somewhat and drop it by spoonfuls on waxed paper or a cookie sheet.

Best Brownies Ever        Easy
Sent by Sara and Tyler in Highlands Ranch, CO
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 cup flour
1.  Grease 8 inch by 8 inch pan.
2.   Melt butter and sugar in the microwave.  Mix until well blended.
3.  Add cocoa and blend.
4.  Mix in vanilla and eggs.
5.   Add flour and mix until just blended.  Don't mix too much.
6.  Bake for about 20 minutes at 350 degrees, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Easy Pleasin' Fudge        Easy
Ingredients:
12 ounce package chocolate chips
14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
1.   Place chips and milk in microwave safe bowl and microwave for 2-3 minutes.  Continue to microwave, 1 minute at a time and then stirring, until the mixture is smooth and thick.
2.   Pour into greased 8 inch square pan and let cool.

Chocolate Covered Rice Crispy Bars    Easy/Medium
Grandma Gladys' recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1-1/2 cup peanut butter
6 cups rice crispy cereal in a big bowl.
1 package chocolate chips
1.   Mix together sugar and syrup in a pot on the stove and bring to a boil.
2.  On low heat, add the peanut butter to the mixture.
3.  Add this mixture to the 6 cups of crispy rice cereal and stir.  Spread out flat on a greased cookie sheet.
4.  Melt chocolate chips with the double boiler method and spread on top of cereal.  Let cool and cut into bars.

Ginger Snaps                   Easy/Medium
Sent by Rhonda in Liberty Lake, WA              Makes 3 dozen
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon EACH of cinnamon, cloves and ginger
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
1.  Mix dry ingredients together. 
2.  Cream sugar, butter, egg, and molasses in a big bowl.
3.  Add dry ingredients to the creamed ingredients, and chill if time allows.
4.  Form into 1 inch balls and roll in sugar. 
5.  Bake at 350 degrees for 9-11 minutes.

Horse Cookies                        Easy/Medium
Sent by Gina in Lancaster, PA
Ingredients:
1 cup oatmeal
1 cup flour
1 cup shredded carrots
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup water
1.   Mix above ingredients. 
2.  Drop by tablespoonful onto cookie sheet or baking stone and flatten.  Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until golden brown.

Edible Landfill Recipe            Medium
A to Z Home's Cool http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/explore/cooking.htm
Assemble the following:
*
A clear plastic cup which is your landfill cell (or premade pie crust);
*Crumble cookies (any kind) and place a small layer in the bottom of the cup.  This represents the 3 feet of clay to prevent fluids from seeping out;
*A thin layer of vanilla pudding for the plastic liner;
*Two 1 inch pieces of licorice "whips" to represent leachate collection pipes;
*More cookie crumbs to be the sand and gravel layer to protect the pipes and plastic from punctures;
Next add:
*1 teaspoon fruit cereal to represent organic waste such as food or leaves;
*2 teaspoons rice cereal to represent paper and cardboard which makes up 40% of landfill contents.  Almost all of this layer could have been recycled;
*Some white chocolate chips for plastics;
*Mini marshmallows for metals;
*Chocolate cereal "rings" for tires;
*Top with a small chocolate candy to represent everything else;
Finishing touches:
*Drizzle chocolate syrup to show leachate, the moisture that percolates through layers of waste material;
*Cover with another layer of plastic - vanilla pudding, that is;
*Cookie crumbs for soil;
*Green sprinkles for grass;

Can't Leave it Bars         Medium
Sent by Donna in Bakersfield, CA
Ingredients:
1 box white cake mix
1/3 cup oil
2 eggs
1/4 cup butter
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup chocolate chips
1.  Mix the cake mix, oil, and eggs with a fork.  It will form a ball.
Pat half the mixture into a 9 by 13 inch pan, ungreased.
2. Melt the butter, condensed milk, and chocolate chipsPour over cake mixture.
3.   Put the rest of the cake mixture on top and swirl with a knife.
4. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

No Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies      Easy/Medium
Sent by Aunt Linda in Rohnert Park, CA
Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/2 cup milk
4 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup peanut butter
dash of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups oatmeal
1.  Combine first 4 ingredients in a saucepan.  Bring to a boil and cook one minute while stirring constantly.  Remove from the heat.
2.  Mix in the last 4 ingredients.  Drop by teaspoon on waxed paper.  Do it quickly before the cookie mixture hardens. 
3.  Let cool and eat up!

Layered Bars             Medium
Sent by Brandie in Bakersfield, CA
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup (1 package) crushed graham crackers
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 package chocolate chips
1 package peanut butter chips
1.  Melt butter in bottom of a baking dish, sprinkle graham cracker crumbs over melted butter.
2.  Pour condensed milk over graham crackers.
3.  Sprinkle chocolate chips and peanut butter chips on the top.  Press chips down.
4.  Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes.

Stained Glass Cookies (Peace Signs and Love cookies)  Medium
Sent by Family Gossels
Ingredients:
Basic plain cookie mix:
     1/3 cup vegetable shortening
     1/3 cup sugar
     1 egg
     3 cups flour (sifted all-purpose)
     1/2 teaspoon baking soda sifted with the flour
     1 teaspoon salt
     2/3 cup honey
1.  Mix and roll dough into sausage strips about 1/4 thick for strong outlines.  Be sure pieces connect for strength.
2.  Make designs on aluminum foil over cookie sheet (It may help to chill dough before rolling).
3.  For the colored filling inbetween: Crack up lollipops, sprinkle in openings.
4.   Bake at 375 degrees for about 8-10 minutes.
5.  Cool; then peel off aluminum foil when dough is firm.

Russian Rock Cookies        Medium
Sent by Madd Russian, US Army Vet, Connecticut, USA
Ingredients:
5 cups self-rising flour
1 box dark brown sugar
1 box raisins
2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 teaspoon baking soda, dissolved
1/2 cup warm water
1 teaspoon vanilla
6 eggs
3 sticks butter, melted
1.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease a cookie sheet.
2.  Mix well all the above ingredients and drop by teaspoon onto cookie sheet.
3.  Bake for about 5 minutes or until when touched lightly with finger will leave a print.

Ukrainian Chereshnyanyk Cherry Bars    Medium/hard
Sent by Madd Russian, US Army Vet, Connecticut, USA
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup butter
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1 cup light cream
can of cherry pie filling
1.  Sift the flour with the dry ingredients.  Cut in the butter.
2.  Combine the lemon juice, rind, and cream.  Add to the flour mixture.  Mix lightly.  The dough should be soft.
3.  Spoon mixture into a greased 9 by 14 inch cake pan and pat gently, elevating the sides to hold the filling.
4.  Pour cherry pie filling on top.
5.  Bake at 375 degrees for 35 minutes, or until done.  Cool and cut into squares.

Clove Cookies                         Easy/Medium
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. ground cloves
1 tsp. cinnamon
2 cups flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1.  Blend together the butter and sugar.
2.   Add the eggs, cloves, and cinnamon and mix.
3.  Mix in the flour, salt, and baking soda.
4.  Scoop cookies onto cookie sheet and bake at 400 degrees for 7-8 minutes.

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