Desserts

Orange Cream Cookies

1 family-size box of orange cake mix

1 box of orange Jello

12 oz white chocolate chips

1 stick of unsweetened butter 

2 room temperature extra large eggs

1/8 tsp of vanilla

Zest of 1 orange

Juice of half an orange

½ cup flour (depending on moisture content)

Mix everything except the chocolate chips.

Fold in the chocolate chips. 

Bake at 350 for 11-13 minutes.

Lexi's Brownies

1 cup all-purpose flour

2 cups of sugar

¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 ½ teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

¾ cup butter, melted and cooled

4 large eggs, well beaten

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Grease a 9x13 pan

Melt the butter and allow to cool.

Combine flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, & salt in a large bowl.

Add beaten eggs and cooled butter.

Mix well to combine. Add chocolate chips.

Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out mostly clean with a few moist crumbs.

Allow to cool before cutting. Unless it was a bad day, then just dig in, you deserve it :)

Fudge in a Bag

1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
1 tablespoon softened butter
2 teaspoons softened cream cheese
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder

Put all the ingredients in a ziplock bag. Close the bag. Squish everything together until mixed well. Cut a corner off the bag and use it to decorate other sweet things or squeeze directly into your mouth. Your choice. No judgement.

Hot Fudge

16oz bag of chocolate chips

A stick of butter

A can of sweetened condensed milk

Melt butter and chocoalte chips in a saucepan until smooth and well mixed, then add sweetened consensed milk and stir until smooth.

Rice Crispy Treats

4 cups marshmallows
4 cups dry Rice Crispy cereal
1/2 stick of butter

Butter an 8x13 pan. Melt marshmallows and butter in a saucepan. Mix in a bowl with Rice Cereal until well mixed and then pour into pan. let cool, cut and serve.

Fudge Crispy Treats

Butter two(2) 9x13 pans. Make the Rice Crispy Treats recipe above with 8 cups of cereal. Make the Hot Fudge recipe above and mix it into the cereal the same time as the marshmallow mix. Stir well. Pour half into each pan. Chill and serve.

Divinity  (as published in Arizona magazine 15 October 1967) by Grandmother Margaret

2 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup white Karo syrup
3 egg whites

Cook sugar, water and Karo to firm ball stage, boiling rapidly.  Beat egg whites stiff. Pour 1/4 of syrup into whites as you beat with mixer.  Put syrup back over heat. It will boil up at once.  Pour another 1/4 of syrup into whites. Continue heating syrup and beating it until syrup is all in egg whites. Continue beating until candy remains in peaks. Quickly drop on waxed paper by teaspoon.

Oreo Truffles

1 package regular Oreo cookies.

8 oz cream cheese.

Almond bark.

1. Get out cream cheese and allow to warm up to room temperature.

2. Grind up Oreos in food processor until fine.

3. Add cream cheese in small cubes until well mixed.

4. Roll Oreo mixture into balls (approximately 1-2") and freeze for an hour.

5. Melt almond bark in a saucepan on low heat. Use a spoon to roll truffles in almond bark and place on wax or parchment paper to cool.

For thicker coating, let cool and then repeat step five. 

ginger snaps

congo bars

Cinnamon Rolls

See Rolls

Mississippi mud cake

Mom's Fudge

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