Christmas Greetings!

Merry Christmas 

                            and 

                                  Happy New Year

            To each and everyone of you!                  

S'More Cookie Bars

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Sugar Cookie Icing

1 cup powdered sugar

2 teaspoons milk

2 tsp corn syrup

1/2 teaspoon extract (vanilla or almond!)

Simple ingredient list, right? 

Add your powdered sugar to a medium sized bowl and to that bowl add your milk and your corn syrup.  Mix well.  Then add your extract and slowly add more milk and corn syrup until you get the consistency you prefer. 

Twas the month after Christmas

                                        Twas the month after Christmas
                                              and all through the house
                                     nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.

                                The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd taste...
                                  all the holiday parties had gone to my waist.

When I got on the scales there arose such a number!
When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber)

I'd remember the marvelous meals I'd prepared;
the gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared.

The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese.
And the way I'd never said, "No thank you, please."

As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt,
and prepared once again to do battle with dirt---

I said to myself, as only I can--
"You can't spend a winter disguised as a man!"

So--away with the last of the sour cream dip,
get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip.

Every last bit of food that I like must be banished,
'til all the additional ounces have vanished.

I won't have a cookie--not even a lick,
I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick.

I won't have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie,
I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.

I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore---
but isn't that what January is for?

Unable to giggle, no longer a riot,
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all and to all a good diet!!

Pineapple Cranberry Ham

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Breakfast Bread Pudding

• 12 slices white bread
• 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, cubed
• 12 eggs
• 2 cups milk
• 1/3 cup maple syrup
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
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• Remove and discard crusts from bread; cut bread into cubes. Toss lightly with cream cheese cubes; place in a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. In a large bowl, beat eggs. Add milk, syrup and salt; mix well. Pour over bread mixture. Cover and refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
• Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes before baking. Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 40-45 minutes or until a knife inserted near the center comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes before cutting. Yield: 6-8 servings.

Cake in a Can ( what I sent to Brad in Iraq)

INGREDIENTS
8 oz butter
8 oz bittersweet chocolate
6 whole eggs
6 Tbs sugar
1/2 C flour
Caramel cream cheese frosting
1 1/2 pounds cream cheese
1/2 pound butter
1/2 pound confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup caramel



DIRECTIONS
Melt butter and chocolate together.

Whisk eggs and sugar together.

Whisk melted chocolate mixture into egg and sugar mixture. Whisk in cake flour.

Pour cake mix into a tin can or container, bake at 350 degrees F for 20-25 minutes until outside of cake is set and center is still soft.

Top cake with your choice of toppings while still hot.

For icing: Cream butter and sugar. Fold in cream cheese.

Finish with caramel and vanilla.

Surprise Cookies

These cookies are awesome with either Rolo's or Milk Dud's
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Puppy Chow or Monkey munch

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Cute appetizer idea

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Sweet Potato Whoopie Pies with Maple Marshmallow Creme

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These sound so good!  I may just try them

Scotcheroos with Chocolate topping

Yesterday I posted Kellogg's version of Chocolate Scotcheroos.  However that is not how I made them last night.  My version:

6 cups of Rice Crispies
12 oz of butterscotch chips
3/4 Cup of peanut butter
12 oz of semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 TBS  of shortening                                                                                                                                     Melt the chips and peanut butter in a saucepan on stove.  Pour this over Rice Crispies so the cereal sticks together.  Spread in a 9 X 13 pan.  Refrigerate.   Melt chocolate chips and shortening in a saucepan on stove.  Pour over cooled butterscotch Rice Crispy bars.  Refrigerate until chocolate hardens.