Waffle Brownies

Looking for something fun to make?

Something the kids would have fun helping with?

This is it!

It is easy and fun, and not too bad for the kids to help with!

Heck, they'd just enjoy watching you pour the mix into the waffle maker...probably!

Waffle Brownies

1 cube butter or margarine

7 tbsp. cocoa

4 slightly beaten eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 cups flour

1/2 tsp. salt

Preheat waffle iron...

In a large, microwave safe bowl, melt butter.

Add cocoa, and combine well.

Then add the slightly beaten eggs and vanilla.

Mix well.

Then add the flour, sugar and salt.

Batter will be thick.

Drop by spoonfulls onto hot waffle iron.

If you need to grease your iron, please do so.

Cook for 1 minute.

and when I say 1 minute, I mean 1 minute.

Make sure that the waffle iron comes to temperature again!

You know me, I like to have them bite size, so I did some small spoonfulls.

And I would suggest a regular waffle iron, not the belgium waffle iron.

Now for the chocolate frosting!

1 stick softened butter

3 to 4 cups powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla

3 tbsp cocoa

and milk for consistency

Mix ingredients in a small bowl, adding milk as needed.

Make sure you don't get the frosting too runny.

Frost cooled brownies.

Serve!

Don't they look cute?

Berry Cookie Cobbler

With Thanksgiving coming up this week,

Some of you might be looking at a way to ease the burden

of all the cooking you are going to be doing.

If you are looking for a shortcut on something,

this is it!

This is the one of the EASIEST recipe I have made!

My sister in law Kuki got this off of the Food Network

and brought it to one of our family dinners.

It was and is SO GOOD!

Serve it up with a little ice cream,

and there you have your shortcut for Berry Pie!

Berry Cookie Cobbler

1 21 oz can apple pie filling

2 bags 12 oz frozen berry medley, thawed

1/3 cup sugar

1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1 tube sugar cookie dough

Preheat oven to 350*

In a bowl, combine the berries, apples and cinnamon and sugar.

Mix well.

Pour into a ungreased 9x13 pan.

I take the cookie dough a little at a time and flatten it and lay it over the berries.

That way it leaves a nice even layer over the berries.

Bake in the over for 45 minutes.

Let it rest, but serve warm with ice cream.

So, so easy.

And it is really good too!

Cake Mix cookies

A friend of mine at work was telling me about these cookies that her mom makes.
Her mom is a professional cake decorator and she deals with cakes all the time.
She makes cookies out a cake mix.
Any cake mix.
All you have to have is a cake mix and 3 eggs.
And some sugar.
She also said that they were good.
So, I thought I'd try it out!
And she was right.
I tried yellow and chocolate.
I did prefer the yellow ones more...
but they were so easy, you could easily do BOTH!

CAKE MIX COOKIES

1 box cake mix
3 eggs
sugar
*cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350*

Using a hand mixer, mix cake and eggs.
Using a scoop (as always!) form cake mix into a ball.
The cake mix will be sticky, but it's ok.

For the yellow cake, I mixed 3/4 cup sugar and 2 tbsp cinnamon.
Roll the cake mix balls into the cinnamon sugar mixture.

Place cake mix dough on a cookies sheet.

Bake for 10 minutes.

When they come out of the oven, they are so light and fluffy!

Unfortunately, they do flatten, but the flavor is still there!

These kinda had a snickerdoodle flavor.

And they were so soft!

So...I thought i'd give it another shot with the chocolate cake mix.

I did it the same way, with the cake mix and 3 eggs.

I formed them into balls with my scoop again.

I rolled them in just plain sugar.

Placed them on a cookie sheet

and baked them for 10 minutes.

I don't know if it was because these were chocolate, but it seemed

like they were cooked too long. They were still good, just not as soft

and moist as the yellow cake mix cookies.

I would probably cook them for 8-9 minutes instead.

If you are in a need for a quick cookie,

these are definately your *go to* cookie for quick.

Golden Graham S'mores

Who doesn't love a good ol' fashion camp fire?
Roasting marshmallows, melting chocolate, graham crackers.
Now that the weather has turned cold, do you wish you could still have that?

(I mean the s'mores, not the fire!)
Well, YOU CAN!
These are the easiest version of a s'more that I have ever seen!

GOLDEN GRAHAM S'MORES

3/4 c. light corn syrup
3 tbsp butter
1 12 oz package chocolate chips
1 tsp. vanilla
3 c. miniature marshmallows
1 pkg. (12 oz) Golden Graham cereal (9 cups)
One greased jelly roll pan (or cookie sheet pan)


In a large pot, bring syrup, butter and morsels to boiling, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.

In a large, seperate bowl, pour chocolate mixture over cereal.
Mix until all cereal is coated.

Fold in marshmallows 1 cup at a time.

Press in greased pan.

Let stand for 1 hour.

Pour yourself a nice glass of milk, grab a camp chair, and set

it up in your living room. There's even enough s'mores to

invite over your camping buddies to talk about the

the fun times you had during the summer.

Blueberry Sour Cream Pie

This recipe is from my Aunt Nancy. She makes it EVERY year on Christmas Day and I absolutely love it!

1 large package vanilla instant pudding

16 oz sour cream

2 1/4 c. milk

Mix pudding and milk together.

Add sour cream.

Pour into graham cracker crust.

Let it set up for 1 hour in fridge.

Top with blueberry pie filling.

*I had quite a bit left over, so you could pour it into some cupcake liners with a vanilla wafer in the bottom, or some of those individual size graham cracker pie crusts.