Home Cookin' - A Family Recipe Book!

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155 pages of great little recipes, easy-to-make and budget-friendly. Great for kids leaving home, newlyweds, or Moms trying to decide what's for dinner.  Desserts, elegant entrees, sumptuous salads and side dishes, breads, party foods and appetizers!  Something for everyone!

Fun and tasty, quick and easy, mouthwatering, prize-winning family favorite, delicious recipes! 

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Sugar Cookies!!

So.  Valentine's Day.

Around here, we all spin through the driveway like it's a revolving door.  That being said, we are mostly home for dinner.  And we take turns in the kitchen.  And on Valentine's day, when we had all landed back home for the evening, the Dad had made Sugar Cookies.

BEST. COOKIES. EVER!  Especially after slathering on the cream cheese frosting.  And don't forget the sprinkles.  

Prize-Winning Sugar Cookies

Cream together:

1 cup butter

2 cups sugar

Add:

2 T. cream

4 eggs

1 t. vanilla

In a separate bowl, mix together:

4-1/8 t. baking powder

1 t. salt

4 c. flour

Combine with creamed mixture.  Refrigerate dough for 1 hour.

On a well-floured surface, roll out dough about 1/4" to 3/4" thick  Cut out with cookie cutters.  Place 1" apart on parchment-lined baking sheet, then bake at 400-degrees for 5 to 6 minutes until barely cooked through.  Place cookies immediately on cooling rack.  When cooled, frost with Cream Cheese Frosting and decorate.  Might as well make a double batch, because you'll eat the first batch by yourself.  

Cream Cheese Frosting

Combine and beat until creamy: 

8-oz brick cream cheese, softened

1/4 c. softened butter

1/2 t. vanilla

1 lb. powdered sugar

~the Dad

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Ryler's Fabulous Make-You-Sick No-Bake Cookies

Ryler made some snacks for a family vacation.  These are the type of cookies that you eat until you're sick.  It even says so in the recipe.

Chocolate-Peanut Butter No-Bake Cookies!

In a saucepan, mix:

2 c. sugar

1/2 t. salt

1/2 c. milk

Add:

1/2 c. butter (1 cube)

Place over medium heat.  

Bring to a boil while stirring constantly, melting butter completely.

Remove from heat and stir in:

1 t. vanilla

Add:

1 c. peanut butter

2 T. cocoa powder (optional, but why?)

OR

3/4 c. peanut butter

1/4 c. Nutella (oh, yeah!)

Add:

3-1/2 c. oatmeal

Stir well.  Allow ingredients to cool in refrigerator until consistency will stay together.  Use a small ice cream scoop and drop on parchment-lined cookie sheet.  Refrigerate to set up, then eat until sick!  

Bite-sized goodness.

Prize-Winning Cookies!!

CONGRATULATIONS, Nicole!!

Nicole won SWEEPSTAKES at the Wasatch County Fair with her amazing White Chocolate Chip/Craisin Oatmeal Cookies!!  Best cookies in the whole county!

Big old Sweepstakes Ribbon,
$20 Cash in an envelope.
Smiles and cookies all around!

Woohoo!!  Way to go, Coco!  This prize-winning recipe has never failed!


PRIZE-WINNING OATMEAL COOKIES

In a large mixing bowl, combine and cream together:

4 sticks butter or margarine

2 c. sugar

2 c. brown sugar

4 eggs

2 t. vanilla

In a separate bowl, stir together:

4 c. flour

2 t. baking powder

1 t. baking soda

1 t. salt

Add to creamed mixture, stir well.

Add and stir in by hand:

4 c. quick oats

2 to 3 c. chocolate chips

Line a baking sheet with parchment.  Use a small ice cream scoop and drop mounds on the cookie sheet.  Bake at 350o for 10 minutes or so.

Makes a TON of Prize-winning cookies every time!  Bake up a few, then freeze unbaked cookie mounds to save for later.

VARIATIONS:

Substitute any flavor of chip for chocolate chips: try half chocolate chips and half peanut-butter chips, or any combination of mini chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, mint chips, toffee chips, etc., or any combination of the above with raisins or craisins, walnuts, pecans, macadamia nuts, etc.  

 Oh, M.M.M.M.M.M!!!
So proud of you, Nicole!
~ the Momma

Instant S'mores!

When it looks like the PICNIC is going to be rained out....

... and you happen to have left the package of cookies and bag of marshmallows in the hot car...

Just stick them together!

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2)

3) Mmmmmm.  (Look, raindrops on the windshild ↓↓)

Melts in your mouth... and on your hands... yummy!

1 Package Keebler Fudge Stripe Shortbread Cookies

1 Bag Jet-Puffed large marshmallows

~the Momma

Peanut Butter Cookies

No chocolate chips to be found in the house?

 The perfect Sunday afternoon treat.  Made by the DAD.  Eaten by everyone.  Sooo good.

Peanut Butter Cookies
Thoroughly cream together:

• 1 c. shortening
• 1 c. sugar
• 1 c. brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 t. vanilla

Stir in:

• 1 c. peanut butter

Sift together and add:

• 2 c. sifted flour
• 2 t. soda
• 1/2 t. salt

Stir into the creamed mixture.

Scoop into balls with a 1” ice cream scoop and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
Press each cookie with back of floured fork to make crisscrosses.

Bake at 350o for 9 minutes.  Yield:  About 60 soft yet crispy cookies.

~Evan., the Dad.