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Traditional Peanut Butter Cookies
By adama
1. Make into balls and press with fork
- 1 cup of brown sugar
- 1 cup of white sugar
- 1 cup of shortening
- 2 1/4 cups of flour
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup of peanut butter
- 1 tsp of baking soda
- 1 tsp of baking powder
- A pinch of salt
Apricot Nectar Cake
By RedPat
Mix cake mix and jello (dry)
- Cake
- 1 package yellow cake mix (in a bag, not a box)
- 1 package lemon jello (small box)
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 3/4 cup Apricot Nectar
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 tsp. lemon extract
- 4 eggs
- Glaze
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1 cup powdered sugar
Orange Sugar Cookies
By marie.kelker
Grandma Rolph's recipe
- 2/3 cup shortening
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon orange peel
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 4 teaspoons milk
- 2 cups flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Rum Cake
By Carolyn Haslam-ODea
Great for Christmas time
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 yellow cake mix with pudding
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 cup oil
- 3/4 cup cold water
- 1/4 cup rum
- Glaze:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 c. rum
Mama's white fudge
By M-E
Line a 9 in pie dish with foil , Set aside
- 1 2/3 sugar
- 2/3 cup evaporated milk
- 2 tbsp butter
- 9 oz coarsely chopped white chocolate
- 2 cups mini marshmallows
- 3 oz melted semi sweet chocolate
Peanut Butter Pie
By Alleycat
Pie
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 8 ounce bowl Cool Whip
- 1 8 ounce package Cream Cheese softened
- 3 tablespoons Peanut Butter
- 1 9 inch Graham Cracker Pie Shell
Easy Make Cookies
By Nayta
Mix Cool Whip and dry cake mix Drop by spoonfuls on cookie sheet
- 1 8 oz Cool Whip
- 1 box cake mix with pudding
Ma Rhymer's "Fantasy Fudge"
By elean0rrigby
This is my grandmother's recipe, one of the few I have that are in her handwriting
- 3 cups sugar
- three quarters cup Parkay margarine
- two thirds cup evaporated milk
- 1 package Bakers semi sweet real chocolate chips
- 1 jar Kraft marshmallow cream
- 1 cup chopped nuts
- 1 tsp vanilla
Chess Pie
By rkollect
Cream butter and sugar. Add beaten eggs
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 unbaked pie shell
Purple Monster
By Nayta
Follow directions on package of Jello adding blueberry pie filling and crushed pineapple
- 2 boxes raspberry Jello or 1 large box
- 1 1/2 cup hot water
- 1 can blueberry pie filling
- 1 pint Cool Whip
- 1 8oz can crushed pineapple do not drain
Peach Pound Cake
By Apez27
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy
- 1 cup butter
- 3 cups sugar
- 6 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/2 tsp. almond extract
- 3 cups flour
- 1/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 2 cups peaches
Classic Lemon cake
By Apez27
Make cake first. Put 3 sticks of butter, 1 cup sugar, 4 eggs and 3 cup flour in a bowl, mix
- 4 stick butter
- 4 cup sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3 cup flour
- 8 egg yolks
- juice of 3 lemons plus zest
- 1/4 tsp. cream tartar
- 2 egg whites
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 tsp. vanilla
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