Peanut Butter Balls

Disclaimer: despite the fact these are absolutely crave worthy, they'll kill you if you aren't careful!

Ingredients

4 cups confectioners' sugar

1 cup butter, softened

2 cups peanut butter

(recommend Adam's Natural Peanut Butter)

1 package chocolate chips

wax paper

Directions

(FYI: I halved the recipe and still filled up a cookie sheet and a half).

Combine confectioners' sugar, butter, and peanut butter in a bowl and mix together until smooth. Place in the refridgerator for a few minutes. This allows the dough to set a little, helping to make rolling into small balls much easier. Take out a cookie sheet and line with wax paper. Roll small balls, whatever size fits you best, and place on the wax paper. Once it's filled, put it in the freezer for about thirty minutes to an hour. Meanwhile, slowly melt your chocolate in a microwave safe bowl beginning with 1 minute, then alternate stirring and cooking every 12 seconds until the chocolate is liquified.  Pull out your balls, and dip the ball into the chocolate, knocking off any extra on the sides. Place your plan back in the fridge or freezer until ready to serve! 

 I froze the extras and put them in a ziploc bag. 

Homemade Oreo Cookies

After giving in to the constant begging from my husband, I finally decided to whip up a batch of one of his favorite cookies. Call them what you may, Whoopie Pies, Oreo Cookies, Sandwich Cookies, they still taste the same and would make for a perfect Valentine's Day gift with pink frosting! Why didn't I think of that before? They taste wonderful! Here's the simple recipe. Enjoy!

Homemade Oreo Cookies

Cookie Ingredients

1-package devil's food cake mix

2 eggs

1/2 cup oil

Directions

Heat oven to 350°. Add oil and eggs to cake mix and blend together. Roll dough into balls. Place on greased cookie sheet. Bake for 8 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on sheet.

The rest is pretty explanitory! Spread and smash!

Cream Cheese Filling

1 stick butter

1 8oz package philly cream cheese

3-4 cups confectioner's sugar

1 tsp vanilla

(food coloring if desire)

White Chocolate Oreas with Peppermint

Christmas came too fast this year! I found myself running up against the clock with a fun, cute, yummy treat to give to friends and neighbors & was so relieved when I came across this great idea, dipping oreo cookies into white chocolate and sprinkling with crushed candy canes! I dipped a whole pan in about five minutes and had them bagged and ready to deliver. Merry Christmas!

Ingredients Needed:

White Almond Chocolate Bars
Oreo Cookies
Crushed Candy Canes



Line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil.
Melt the chocolate in a microwave safe bowl for two minutes. Remove and stir. Put back into the microwave for 12 second intervals, stirring after each one. Once chocolate is liquid enough to dip, start dipping the oreos.

Place Oreo's on a cookie sheet and sprinkle with candy canes. Place in the freezer for one hour.

Magic Cookie Bars

There is nothing better than being able to put together an all time favorite dessert recipe in less than 5 minutes! Growing up my Dad always made these and substituted the graham crackers for oats. In keeping tradition, I love the yummy taste of these Magic Cookie Bars! They are good right out of the oven with ice cream or put them in the fridge and serve them cold later on - which is what I prefer. There are no tricks and no possible way you can mess up. Enjoy!

 

 

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs or oats

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted

1 (14-ounce) can Sweetened Condensed Milk

2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 1/3 cups flaked coconut

1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F. 

In a small bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs and butter; mix well. Press crumb mixture firmly on bottom of 13x9-inch baking pan.

Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over crumbs. Layer evenly with remaining ingredients; press down firmly with fork.

Bake 25 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool. Chill if desired. Cut into bars. Store covered at room temperature.

RECIPE VARIATION

Substitute 1 cup butterscotch flavored chips, peanut butter flavored chips or white chocolate chips for 1 cup semi-sweet chips and proceed as directed above.

Oatmeal Raisin Chocolate-Chip Cookies

Craving cookies tonight. After another long weekend I wasn't feeling up to it, but this recipe sounded worth it and after I threw in a few twists it was definitely satisfying. They are soft, fluffy, and melt in your mouth. It only took me max, 10 minutes, to have this whipped up and into the oven! You will love these!

Ingredients:

3/4 cup butter, softened

2/4 cup white sugar

3/4 cup packed light brown sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/4 teaspoon all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking  soda

3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 3/4 cups rolled oats

1 cup raisins

1/2 cup white chocolate chips

1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

*chocolate chips are optional, but will definitely do the trick if you're craving chocolate and the husband wants oatmeal raisin.

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375° F. 

In a large bowl, cream together butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs and vanilla until fluffy. Stir together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Gradually beat into butter mixture. Stir in oats and raisins and chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake 8-10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown. Cool slightly, remove from sheet to wire rack. Cool Completely.

*I've found mixing with electrical mixing bowls tends to make the cookies less fluffy and soft. You beat out all the air. Mix with a wooden spoon or spatula and don't beat the ingredients to death - guarantee you'll have better cookie turnouts!