Peanut Brittle

1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp water
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup water
1 cup light corn syrup
3 T butter
1 lb unsalted Spanish peanuts

Heat oven to 200 F. Grease cookie sheet with butter; keep warm in oven. In small bowl, mix baking soda, 1 tsp water and the vanilla; set aside.  In 3-quart saucepan, mix sugar, 1 cup water and the corn syrup.  Cook over medium heat about 25 minutes, stirring occasionally to 240 F on candy thermometer.  Stir in butter and peanuts.  Cook over medium heat about 13 minutes stirring constantly, to 300 F.  Immediately remove from heat.  Quickly stir in baking soda mixture until light and foamy.  Pour onto cookie sheet and quickly spread about 1/4 inch think with buttered spatula.  Cool completely and then break into pieces.

Strawberry Shortcake

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla, divided
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 cup mini or regular chocolate chips
16 oz sour cream
2 eggs
2 cups cool whip
Strawberries, rinsed and halved

Heat oven to 350. Grease 9-inch springform pan(I just used a normal dark pan). Beat 1/2 cup sugar and butter in large bowl.  Add 1 egg and 1 tsp vanilla; beat until creamy.  Gradually add flour and baking powder, beating until smooth; stir in 1/2 cup chocolate chips. Press mixture onto bottom of pan.  Stir together sour cream, remaining 1/2 cup sugar, 2 eggs, and remaining 1 tsp vanilla in medium bowl.  Stir in remaining 1/2 cup chocolate chips. Pour over mixture in pan.  Bake 50-55 minutes until almost set in center and edges are slightly brown.  Cool completely on wire rack; spread cool whip over top.  Cover and refrigerate.  Top with sliced strawberries when serving.

Wagon Wheel Cookies

1/2 cup oil
4 ounces unsweetened baking chocolate
2 cups sugar
4 eggs, lightly beaten
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 cup powdered sugar

With a double broiler, melt chocolate and cool to room temperature. Sift together flour, salt, and baking powder. Mix together oil, chocolate and sugar; mix well to fully incorporate ingredients. Blend in eggs, in fourths, mixing well after each addition. Add vanilla. Stir in the dry ingredients. Place covered in fridge and chill several hours or overnight. Preheat oven to 350. Shape dough into balls and roll in powdered sugar. Place on baking sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes.

Cinnamon Jumbles

1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla

Cream shortening, egg, and sugar until fluffy. Add milk and vanilla. Stir in flour, soda, and salt. Drop in cookie sheet. Sprinkle tops with sugar and cinnamon.  Bake at 350 for about 9-10 minutes.

Ice Cream Cake

1 package oreo's
1/4 cup butter (melted)
1/2 can evaporated milk
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter
1 square baking unsweetened chocolate
ice cream
whip cream

Make crust out of crushed oreo's and butter. Flatten on bottom of pan and refrigerate 30 minutes. In saucepan combine milk, sugar, butter, chocolate and cook on medium heat about 8-10 minutes. Cool completely. Cut ice cream into even chunks and lay on top of crust layer. Then layer with chocolate sauce. Freeze for 45 minutes. Add whip cream and garnish with chocolate savings.

Caramel Corn

1 cube butter
1 cup karo syrup
2 cups brown sugar
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla
4 bags popcorn

Begin popping popcorn in the microwave. Once bags have cooled slightly, slowly empty into a large bowl while sifting out any unpopped kernels.

Add butter, syrup and sugar in medium saucepan over med/high heat and boil two minutes.  Add condensed milk and bring back to a boil. Once boiling again, add the vanilla.  Pour carmel sauce over popcorn and quickly stir until evenly coated.

Beware, this makes a GIANT batch but you just might want it all because it is so delicious.

Rasberry Dessert

2 cup flour
2 cubes butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 package cream cheese
1 cup powder sugar
1 (29 oz) tub cool whip
1 package raspberry Danish Dessert
1/4 cup sugar
2 cup raspberries

Crust:
Mix flour and brown sugar, cut in butter. Crumble with hands and spread on cookie sheet. Bake 400 degrees 8-10 minutes. After 4-5 minutes turn pieces over. Cool, then crumble, and put in 9x13 pan.

Filling:
Combing cream cheese, powder sugar and cool whip. Mix well. Spoon over crust.

Topping:
Make Danish Dessert according to pie glaze directions. Add sugar and raspberries. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

One of my neighbors made this for a church activity and it was so delicious. I love raspberries and so it was divine to me, a little rich maybe but still so good.

Strawberry Delight

1 large angel food cake, cubed
2 boxes danish dessert
4 cups strawberries, chopped

Cream Cheese Filling:
2 cups cream cheese
2 cups powdered sugar
1 cup sour cream
1 tub cool whip

Beat first three ingredients together. Fold in cool whip (or if you want to get really fancy you can make your own whipping cream).

In glass dish, layer the angel food cake, strawberries, cream cheese filling. Make sure the last layer is the cream cheese, then decorate the top with extra strawberries.

This is really delicious and great in the summertime. My picture once again doesn't make this seem all that appetizing but it really is. Next time I might only do half the cream cheese filling because it made tons and my favorite part is the angel food cake and strawberries.

The best brownie cups EVER!!

1 German Chocolate Cake Mix
1 egg
1/2 cup butter

In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix, egg and butter until smooth. Scoop batter 2/3rds full into a muffin tin sprayed with non stick spray. Scoop 1 tablespoon pretzel crumble on top of brownie batter. Pat down lightly. Bake at 350 for about 10 minutes. I did the mini muffin cups and they took about the same time to bake.

Pretzel crumble
1/4 cup butter, melted
2 T brown sugar
1 cup crushed pretzels

*I halved this recipe for the mini cups and it worked perfectly.

1/3 bag of caramels- melt in a saucepan until creamy
1 cup milk chocolate chips

*I just used caramel syrup and it tasted fine.

I found this recipe here and I just had to try it out. She has so many good treats that I want to try out. The only thing is that I can't make them just for us because we will end up eating ALL of them in one night. We have no self-control.
So last night we had people over and I got my chance and these brownies were an absolute hit. I can't even describe how delicious they are/were and my pictures really don't do justice, but they are the perfect combination of chocolate and caramel. Just take my word and try them yourself.