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Decorations and Receipes

A little Christmas cheer from my house to your house!!

I bought a set of the Christmas "candy cane" striped needles a couple months ago, and the rest are vintage needles. You can pick up a set of the striped ones at Herrschner's.

Here are two of the cookie receipes that I used for the party on Sunday:

Peanut Butter Squares: (this receipe requires no baking, and it's one of my favorites)

ingrediants:
2 sticks butter melted
1 cup of crunchy peanut butter
(1/3 lb) or 1 3/4 cups of graham cracker crumbs
(1 lb) or 2 1/3 cups powdered sugar
1- 12 oz. bag of chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate chips

1. Mix melted butter, peanut butter, sugar, and crumbs together
2. Pat firmly into 9x13 pan
3. Melt chips over low heat or in a double boiler
4. Pour melted chocolate into the pan and spread evenly over other mixture
5. Allow to cool before cutting into squares, but no longer than one hour. You want to cut them before the chocolate gets too hard and will crack if you attemot to cut it.
6.Enjoy!!

No Bake Cookies:

ingrediants:
2 cups sugar
3 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup milk
dash salt
3 cups Quick-cooking Oats
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 tsp. Vanilla

1. Mix sugar, cocoa, butter, milk, and salt. Bring to a boilon your stove for 1 minute.
2. In another mixing bowl, (have this one ready as soon as the other mix boils!!) have the oats, peanut butter, and vanilla. Pour the boiling mixture over the oat mixture and stir. Make sure that all the peanut butter is mixed in.
3. Spread out wax paper and drop the cookie dough onto it by the spoonful. The cookies will spread a little bit.
4. Enjoy!

Posted by Stacey at December 14, 2005 07:47 AM