Hamburger Cookies

I made these for Jeffrey's birthday. He said he wanted a barbecue for his dinner, and I found these and decided to go all out.  Besides, they are just too cute, and so easy!

What you need:

Vanilla Wafers

Grasshopper cookies

Frosting

Coconut 

What to do:

• Scoop out frosting into three bowls.  Leave one bowl white and add red food coloring to one, and yellow food coloring to the other.
• Take a vanilla wafer and spread white frosting on the bottom.  Make it sloppy.  You want the white to spill over the edge a bit.
• Put one of the grasshopper cookies on top of the white frosting.
• Spread yellow frosting on half the grasshopper cookie.
• Spread red frosting on the other half of the cookie.  Remember, you want it to be sloppy and spill over the edges.
• Put your shredded coconut in a bag with green food coloring and mix it all around to coat evenly.
• Sprinkle some of the coconut on top of the red and yellow frosting. 
• Put another vanilla wafer on top of the whole ensemble. 
• Eat.
• Repeat.

See?  Easy peasy.  Now go make some for your next barbecue!

Missouri Mud

I had a realization the other day.

I have never made Jeffrey's favorite cookies.

We have been married nearly three years and he still hasn't had me make them for him.

What a horrible wife I am turning out to be!

And so as not to get the Worst Wife of the Year nomination, I decided Keith and I are going to make them.

They are probably the simplest cookie out there even.

You know, the delectable delightful No Bakes!

What you need:

2 c sugar
1/2 c milk
1 tsp vanilla
3c + 2 c quick cooking oats
1 tbsp butter
3 tbsp cocoa
1/2 c crunchy peanut butter

What to do:

Mix sugar, butter, milk and cocoa. Bring to a rolling boil and cook 1 minute. Remove from heat and add remaining ingredients. Add the 3 cups of oats then gradually add more until the right consistency is reached. Drop quickly by teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper.
Cool and enjoy!

Oatmeal Cookies

Whenever I need to make some cookies and don't want to pour over recipe books, I always go to this. It is my favorite cookie recipe and always gets a standing ovation. You can have it without raisins or chocolate chips, or you can add them, according to prefrence. Either way, they are scrum-didily-umptious!

What you need:

3/4 c soft shortening
1 c brown sugar
1/2 c white sugar
1 egg
1/4 c water
1 tsp vanilla
1 c flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp soda
3 c oatmeal
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp allspice
(or you can use just 1/2 heaping tsp allspice instead of all the other spices)

What to do:

Beat wet ingredients together until creamy. Cream in the flour, salt soda and spices. Once that is all mixed slowly add the oatmeal. Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes. Makes about 5 dozen.

Buen Provecho!

Cookie Dough Brownies

So I got this fabulous recipe from my sister in law Tisha. They are such great brownies, fusing the best of the cookie world, and the best of the brownie world into one. How great is that?

1 Fudge brownie mix (or make your own batch of fudge brownies)
1/2 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. sugar
1/2 c. butter
2 T. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. flour
1 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 T. vegetable oil

Bake brownies as directed and cool. Cream sugars and butter together. Add milk and vanilla. Mix in flour (dough will be thick). Spread over cooled brownies. Melt one cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips and one T. oil in microwave. Spread on cookie dough. Chill and keep chilled.

Congo Bars

My grandmother always made these cookies, and they are so good! I don't know if I like them more for the memory or more for the taste, but either way, they sure make the mouth water.

Congo Bars
3/4 cup butter, melted

2 1/4 cups packed brown sugar

3 eggs

2 3/4 cups all purpose flour

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 TBS vanilla extract

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Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325* degrees.

2. In large mixing bowl, combine butter and brown sugar; cool slightly. Beat in eggs, one at a time. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt; add to sugar mixture and mix well. Stir in chocolate chips.

3. Pour batter into a 9x13 pan. Bake for 25 - 30 mins. When almost cool, cut into squares. Eat with milk and lots of other people, or you may end up eating them all by yourself.