Sweet Chex Mix-Shaylin

Ingredients-

2 blocks butter

2 cups golden brown sugar

1/2 box Honey Comb box

1/2 box Rice Chex

1/2 box Corn Chex

1/2 bag pretzels

1/2 bag Fritos

(Other things you may want in a sweet chex mix)

1 extra large pan (make sure that it can hold a lot of cereal and other ingredients) Something to mix sauce and cereal with (large wooden spoon)

Directions-

STEP #1: Sauce

2 blocks butter

2 cups golden brown sugar

Mix ingredients listed above in a small pot over medium heat until melted.

STEP #2: Combine cereal

1/2 box Honey Comb box

1/2 box Rice Chex

1/2 box Corn Chex

1/2 bag pretzels

1/2 bag Fritos

(Other things you may want in a sweet chex mix)

***Combine cereal in extra large pan

STEP #3: Mix ingredients.  Pour sauce over cereal.  Mix (try not to smash cereal)

STEP #4: Bake

Oven set to 250.  Stir cereal every 15 minutes for an hour and 15 minutes.

STEP #5: Take out of oven and let it cool down.  Bag when cool.  Fills about three Ziploc gallon-size bags.

TIPS/INFO:

If you like things sweeter, add more sugar.  You can always make the portions smaller to make a smaller batch.  Be ready to share if you make the whole batch! 😉

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Banana Cream Pie-Amanda

INGREDIENTS:

– 50 Nilla Wafers

– ¼ cup margarine, melted

– 8 ounces Philadelphia Neufchatel Cheese, 1/3 less fat than cream cheese

– ½ cup powdered sugar

– 1 (8 ounce) tub Cool Whip Free Whipped Topping, thawed

– 3 medium ripe bananas

– 3 cups fat free milk

-2 pkg. (4 serving size) Jell-O Vanilla Flavor Fat Free Sugar Free Instant Reduced Calorie Pudding and Pie Filling

-(Optional) ½ (1 ounce) square Baker’s Semi Sweet Baking Chocolate, grated

DIRECTIONS:

1.      Mix wafers and margarine.  Press firmly onto bottom of 13×9-inch dish.

2.      Mix Neufchatel cheese and powdered sugar with wooden spoon until well blended.  Gently stir in 1-1/2 cups of whipped topping.  Spoon mixture evenly onto crust; spread carefully.  Cut bananas in slices and arrange banana pieces over Neufchatel cheese mixture.

3.      Pour milk into a large bowl.  Add dry pudding mix.  Beat with a wire whisk for 2 minutes.  Spoon over bananas.  Spread with remaining whipped topping.  If you wish, you can sprinkle the top of the whipped topping evenly with chocolate.  Refrigerate for at least 3 hours before eating.  Enjoy!

HELPFUL TIPS:

1.      Spreading the Neufchatel cheese topping can be difficult because you could accidently detach some of the crust.  Try this; instead of just plopping it on with a spatula, put some in a Zip-lock bag and cut the tip.  Now you can easily squirt out the topping without ruining the crust.  After you finish squirting the Neufchatel cheese, get a very small spatula and spread the top of it to make the layer smooth.

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Lemon Bars-Conner

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup butter, softened (2 sticks)
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 ½ cups white sugar
  • 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 2 lemons, juiced

Directions:

1.      Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

2.      In a medium bowl, blend together softened butter, 2 cups flour and ½ cup sugar. Press into the bottom of an ungreased 9×13 inch pan.

3.      Bake for 15-20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until firm and golden. In another bowl, whisk together the remaining  1 ½ cups of sugar and 4 tablespoons flour. Whisk in the eggs and lemon juice. Pour over the baked crust.

4.      Bake for an additional 20 minutes in the preheated oven. The bars will firm up as they cool. For a festive tray, make another pan using limes instead of lemons and adding a drop of green food coloring to give to give a very pale green. After both pans have cooled, cut into uniform 2-inch squares and arrange in a checkerboard fashion.

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Haole Brownies-Mimo

8×8

1/4 c. veg. oil

1 c. brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla

3/4 c. flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 c. chopped nuts

9×13

1/2 c. oil

2 c. brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

1 1/2 c. flour

2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp salt

1 cup nuts

15×10

3/4 c. oil

3 c. brown sugar

3 eggs

1 Tbsp. vanilla

2 1/4 c. flour

1 Tbsp. baking powder

1 1/2 tsp salt

1 1/2 c. nuts

Preheat oven to 350.  Mix oil, brown sugar, egg, vanilla.  Stir in flour, baking powder, salt.  Stir in nuts.  Spread in greased pan.  Bake 25 min.  May add butterscotch chips or brickle chips at same time as nuts.

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Eight-layer Bean Dip-Tahiti

Ingredients:  2 cans of Rosarita refried beans, Guacamole, Sour Cream, Taco seasoning, Diced Olives, Green Chilies, Diced tomatoes, Cheese.

Directions-

1.      First choose a pan size according to the size of your party (number of people).

2.      Then layers two cans of Rosarita beans and press it down flat, spread all around the pan evenly.

3.      After layer the beans with guacamole by scooping it out and placing it in each corner, then take your spoon and spread evenly on the beans.

4.      After applying the guacamole apply the sour cream, (same way), do not let guacamole and sour cream get mixed together.

5.      Then take your taco mix and sprinkle it all around the sour cream

6.      After use the chilies and spread them evenly around the pan

7.      Next use the diced olives and do the same

8.      After applying olives sprinkle the diced tomatoes all around to cover everything so nothing is showing

9.      Last apply a whole bag of cheese so you are not able to see any other ingredients but cheese.   Serve with chips.

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Butter Mochi-Sierra G.

Ingredients-

1 block butter (1/2cup)

3 cups sugar

4 cups mochiko (1 box)

3 tsp baking powder

4 cups milk

4 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

Directions-

Preheat oven to 350.

Cream sugar and butter.

In a separate bowl, mix baking powder and mochiko.  Add the remaining ingredients. Pour into 9 x 13 pan.

Bake for 1 hour 15min. or until top is golden brown.

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Orange Dream Cake-Sierra D.

Ingredients-

1 box Pillsbury white cake mix with pudding

1 box orange jello

1 cup boiling water

1 box vanilla pudding

1 cup milk

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 tsp. orange extract

1 tub (12-16 oz) Cool Whip

Directions:

Bake cake according to box directions. Let cake cool.

Dissolve jello in boiling water. Let cool. In the mean time, poke holes all over the cake. Pour cooled jello all over cake.

Frosting:

Mix vanilla pudding and milk, until firm. Add Cool Whip to the pudding mixture. Next, add the vanilla extract and orange extract and mix thoroughly. Frost cake and refrigerate overnight.

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Yellow Pound Cake-Naomi

Ingredients-

1 package of Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe classic yellow cake mix

1 package vanilla (or chocolate) instant pudding and pie filling mix

4 large eggs

1 cup of water

1/3 cup of vegetable oil

Directions-

Preheat the oven to 350.

Grease and lightly flour a 10-inch bunt pan or a tube pan.

Combine all the ingredients together and beat at medium speed for two minutes.

Pour batter into pan.

Bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes or until you can insert a toothpick in the center and it comes out clean.

Cool in pan for at least 25 minutes.

Put onto heat resistant pan.  Cool completely.

Glaze:

Heat your favorite frosting in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly.

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