banna bread muffins

1/2 c butter
1 1/4 c sugar
2 eggs
4tbsp sour cream
1 tsp baking soda
3 mashed bannanas
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 c flour

375...15 min for mini cupcakes, 20 for regular

grape salad

4lbs red seedless grapes- washed and dried

mix 8oz of cream cheese and 8oz of sour cream. Add 1tsp vanilla and 1/2c sugar.
Fold in grapes.

You can add chopped walnuts if you like.
Best if made the night before

snickers salad

1 package of vanilla pudding
8oz cool whip
4-5 snickers cut up (or a bag of minis cut up)
1 c milk
2 apples cut up into small pieces

mix pudding, and milk, fold in cool whip. Refridgerate 4 hours. Add apple and snickers prior to serving.

If making for a party...double

old glory cookie

1 tube of sugar cookie dough (18oz)
11oz cream cheese
3/4 c powdered sugar
4 1/2 tsp lemon juice
1/2c blueberries
2 c quartered strawberries

press dough into greased jelly roll pan. bake at 350 for 10-12 min.
beat cream cheese, sugar, and lemon juice until smooth. Frost cookie. Place blueberries and strawberries so they look like a flag (you can use any fruit you like if you dont want to make a flag)

apple slices

Crust:
2 1/2c sifted flour
1 tsp salt
cut in 1c shortening
1 egg yolk plus enough milk to = 2/3 c
mix into ball, cut in half

apple:
12c sliced apples, no skin
1/2c flour
1 1/2 c sugar
2 tsp cinnamon

roll out half of dough into jelly roll pan, cover with apples, place the remaining dough rolled out ontop. seal edges and slit top

bake 350 for 1 hour. drizzle with powder sugar icing.

Brownies

So, yeah, brownies are easy--just a couple eggs, oil and brownie mix. I get it.

Brownies a la Amy
However, we prefer to "jazz up" our brownies by simply adding in semi-sweet chocolate chips. It gives the brownies an extra kick without using nuts (which I am not a fan of in baking). Just an idea.

Brownies a la Peter and Girls
Instead of using chocolate chips, they crushed up Keebler chocolate chip cookies and added them in.