Chewy Milk Chocolate Cookies

Chewy Milk Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients

2/3 cup melted butter

2 cups lightly packed brown sugar

2 eggs

2 Tbsp. hot water

2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour*

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

¼ tsp. salt

Stir in 1 package Milk Chocolate chips

Directions

Beat the first 4 ingredients together, mixing well.

Combine the remaining ingredients in a separate bowl and add to the wet ingredients slowly, stirring well after each addition

Drop from small spoon onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 – 10 minutes.

Makes about 5 dozen cookies.

*I added about 1/2 cup extra flour because they seemed too thin, but they would probably be good either way.

Chocolate Banana Snack Cake

Chocolate Banana Snack Cake


2 very ripe medium bananas
1¼ cup flour
¾ cup sugar
¼ cup cocoa
1/3 cup vegetable oil (I used canola)
1/3 cup water
1 t baking soda
1 t white vinegar
¼ t salt

1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350. Place bananas in ungreased 8-inch square pan; mash with fork. Stir in remaining ingredients except chocolate chips. Sprinkle chocolate chips over batter.

Bake 35 to 37 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely, about 45 minutes.

*It was different mixing the ingredients together right in the pan, but it worked and it saves cleaning another bowl.  Although I’m sure you could mix it in a medium bowl first if you wanted.

Pretty much tastes like banana bread...it's tasty & really moist!

Jam-Easy Fruit Bars

Jam-Easy Fruit Bars
Betty Crocker

3/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
2/3 cup sugar
2 t vanilla
1 egg
2 cups flour
½ t baking powder
½ cup favorite jam or preserves
Powdered sugar, if desired


Heat oven to 350. Grease bottom & sides of 9x13 pan with shortening. Mix butter, sugar, vanilla and egg in medium bowl with spoon. Stir in flour and baking powder until dough forms. Pat dough evenly in pan.

Beginning ¾ inch from short side of pan, press ½ inch wide and ¼ inch deep groove in dough, using end of wooden spoon. Make 8 more grooves, each 1½ inches apart. Fill each groove with slightly less than 1 T jam.

*or just do your best…I only had 6 grooves :) and I can’t say they were exactly ½ inch wide or ¼ inch deep. I would put more jam on next time…mine seems to have disappeared

Bake 20-25 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. For bars, cut into 8 rows by 4 rows.