PEANUT BRITTLE COOKIES

This Peanut Brittle Cookie recipe is sure to WOW everyone you know.  Straight for Great Grand Moms recipe book, we bring you one of our favorite dessert recipes.  This simple recipe brings out old fashion nostalgia. Share it with friends and family and enjoy our family recipes.  We hope you love this one.  Lets get started.

Sift Together: 1 cup flour - 1/4 teaspoon of soda - 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon

Cream: 1/2 cup butter gradually adding 1/2 cup packed brown sugar - cream well

Blend in: 2 Tablespoons beaten egg and 1 teaspoon of vanilla (reserve remaining egg)

Add:  1/2 cup of salted peanuts chopped finely and the sifted dry ingredients.

Mix thoroughly

Spread dough onto baking sheet (10x14 rectangle)  Brush with remaining egg.  Sprinkle with 1/2 cup salted chopped peanuts.  Bake in oven at 325 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.  Cut or break into pieces while still warm.

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SOFT CHOCOLATE COOKIES

Soft Chocolate Cookies bring a feeling of comfort and joy.  As I search the old cookbook and pull out some of my personal favorites, I felt compelled to write about this one.  Not only am I writing about it, I'm making them myself.  In fact I am pulling out the ingredients and bouncing back and forth to the computer.  I just put it into the oven.  Here are a few pictures of the process.  This is what your gonna need for this recipe.

1 1/4 cup of flour
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1/4 teaspoon of soda
1/4 cup shorting
1 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 egg
2 squares of unsweetened chocolate (2oz)
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1/2 cup of buttermilk (tip: if you don't have buttermilk take 1/2 cup of milk and add 1/2 teaspoon of vinegar and let sit for 5 minutes)

Pre heat oven to 350 degrees.  Sift flour with soda and salt.  Stir in shortining until soft then beat in sugar gradually.  Beat until smooth and then add egg.  Melt chocolate over hot water and add it along withe the vanilla and buttermilk.  Beat until smooth and creamy.  Pour batter onto a cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes.  Let cool and then cut cookies into any shape you like.

If you would like to drop cookies in spoonfuls rather than a batter consistency, follow the following instructions.

Sift flour, soda and salt, set aside.  Softened butter and gradually beat in sugar.  Beat until smooth and then add egg.  Beat hard.  Melt chocolate and add along
with vanilla.  Stir in buttermilk and sifted ingredients.  Mix well and drop onto ungreased cookie sheet by the spoonful.  Cook for 15 minutes.                                                                                           

CHOCOLATE FUDGE

This is a fast recipe to make your own fudge.  Enjoy! making these age old dessert recipes passed down for years.  It's such a great feeling to see all these hand written recipes my relatives enjoyed.  What a better way then to turn them back into life and share them with the world.  Enjoy these dessert recipes and please feel free to share them with your friends and family.
Here is what we need:
2 cups of sugar
1 cup of milk
1 tablespoon of butter
4 tablespoons of cocoa
2 tablespoons of molasses
boil for 25 minutes and then beat until stiff and creamy

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CHOCOLATE CARAMELS FROM NANA

Elizabeth Rowland

1899-1986

While cleaning out our house I came across an old cookbook from my great grandmother Elizabeth Rowland (Nana).  Born in 1899 in the Shenandoah Valley of Pennsylvania, my Nana was a sickly child, but she had a resilience of a super hero. Later in life she became many things, a wife, a mother, a grandmother and great-grandmother, a divine cook and she was even a sharpshooter for the coal mines shooting out the the local rodents! I remember her having the most amazing personality and sense of humor - her laughter was contagious! A strong woman, my Nana was not only a sickly child, but survived the swine flu and 4 out of the 5 strokes she had in her lifetime. 

In any event, outside of being an amazing cook, she was an even better baker! I couldn't be a part of a dessert blog without sharing my Nana'a amazing dessert recipes. The desserts will include a vast menu from chocolate caramels, chocolate fudge, pineapple cookies, peanut butter cookies and my mom's favorite Michigan Rocks cookies to name a few. So, fire up the oven and start making my Nana's desserts that are sure to make you the life of the party! Enjoy!

CHOCOLATE CARAMELS

1 cup of brown sugar

2 cups of molasses

Boil 10 minutes

add 1 tablespoon of flour

butter the size of an egg (I love the way she describes measurement!)

1/2 pound of grated chocolate

Small cap of vanilla

Boil 20 minutes longer

Let cool

Cut into squares

We hope you like the first in a series of many spectacular and easy to put together dessert recipes.  From our family to yours, we hope you enjoy.