Woot! Recipes, anyone?!?

Wowza~ we finally got a place to share all our cooking secrets!!

I love making chocolate chip cookies and things to that nature, in general. Anyone care to share some cookie and/ or cake type recipes?? Thanks!!

YAY!!!!

I'll go and get some, but this thread is perfect!
I am looking for a recipe...
Have you ever had those chocolate chip bars that are gooey? I know they have sweetened condensed milk, but I can not find the recipe to save my life. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

Originally Posted by Jillie I'll go and get some, but this thread is perfect! I am looking for a recipe... Have you ever had those chocolate chip bars that are gooey? I know they have sweetened condensed milk, but I can not find the recipe to save my life. Anybody know what I'm talking about?

OMG... you're making me hungry... I'm gonna be in my kitchen cooking in 2 seconds, lol. I do think I've seen that recipe somewhere... I'll try to look for it later tonight! Let me know if you do find it, please... those things are to die for!!

I'll see if I can find the recipe for the gooey bars. Up North they're called dream bars, real simple to make.

I know they're simple, and I could try and wing it but those NEVER turn out good.

Oh great, it was bad (fattening) enough to read what every one was cooking for dinner, now I'll be compelled to wander into this thread and drool!

I have given this recipe out to at least 15 people, really, everyone says it's the best they have had. My Family likes it better than Cheesecake Factory. This is the original recipe from the 50's. I didn't make this at Christmas and everyone was bummed! It's a New York style cheesecake


1 cup sifted all purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/3 cup butter or margarine
2 to 3 tablespoons milk ( I use about 5 tablespoons)

Sift flour with sugar, baking powder and salt into mixing bowl, add butter until texture is fine. Add milk form into a ball. Press mixture over the bottom of a springform pan working the dough up a couple of inches on the sides.

Filling:

5 - 8 ounce packages of softened cream cheese
1 3/4 cups of sugar
3 tablespoons of flour
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
6 eggs
1/4 cup heavy cream

Cream the cheese in a bowl add sugar, flour, vanilla and salt; beat well. Add eggs one at a time, beat between each egg. Blend in cream. Bake at 500 degrees for 10 minutes (I usually bake for 15 minutes), turn the oven down to 200 degrees and bake for an additional 70 minutes until filling is golden brown.

Cool. Before serving top with pie filling or canned pineapples. Sometimes I use 2 different toppings and quarter the top alternating between blueberry pie filling and canned diced pineapples. My family likes it topped with cherry pie filling.

PS: still looking for the dream bars

OH, man....... I love cheesecake!!!!!

Finally a place to share some good recipes!!! I just had to reprint Benders's sugar cookie recipe from a few months back.

I love to cook.

I show ya mine if you show me yours....lol

I'll start with a fav that can be made a couple days in advance, great as leftovers and freezes well. It's not a fancy dish but good...

Serves 6 to 8 people

1/2 lb mild/sweet Itailan Sausage
2 lbs Ground Beef
1 med. onion, diced
1 med green pepper, diced
2 garlic cloves minced
1 tsp. dried oregano
1 tsp. dried basil
1 tsp. dried thyme
1 tsp. dried rosemary
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2 Tbl. Olive oil
1/2 C Italian red wine - optional ( I use Valpolicella)
1 16 oz. can tomato sauce
1 14 oz. can cream of celery soup
8 oz. mozerella cheese
parmeson cheese (fresh is best)
1 pkg refrigerated angel hair pasta ( or equivalent in dried pasta)

Preheat oven to 350
Brown Ground beef and Italian Suasage (breaking up chunks) with the next seven ingredients. Drain. Return pan and beef mixture to heat. Add Olive oil and wine and simmer for 7-10 min.
Meanwhile cook pasta according to directions and drain.
In a 9-1/2x13-1/2' baking dish, layer 1/2 of the beef mixture, spaghetti, mozerella cheese and remaining beef mixture. Spread cream of celery soup over the top. Pour the tomato sauce over all. Poke holes in the mixture to let the tomato sauce soak into the mixture. Top with parmeson cheese.
Bake 30-35 min.

Serve with remaining wine, garlic bread and Italian salad...

Enjoy!

kt

Jillie,
I remember those chewy chocolate bars.....my Mom used to make them from a recipe on the back of a Borden's Condensed Milk can. I went to their website and here is the link to the cookies and bar cookies recipes. It might be here....

http://www.eaglebrand.com/results.asp

Kathy a that sounds yummy thanks for sharing. My mom used to make something called Pied Piper Pie the recipe came from some kids show in the early 70's Puff n stuff or something. Giggle Snort Hotel?? Any way it was condensed milk, butterscotch chips, chocolate chips and coconut VERY EVIL!!!! oh so good.

Anyone have any ideas to organize this forum? Like sub forums? for ex dessert, main dishes, appetizers, bread, etc? I know me Ill spot a recipe and have to come back later to copy it and have to spend 3 hrs trying to find it again.