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Butterscotch Delight

March 14, 2010 Arlene Leave a comment
  • ½ cup butter
  • ¾ cup graham cracker crumbs
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
  • 1 cup butterscotch chips
  • ½ cup coconut
  • ½ cup chopped nuts
  • 1 can condensed milk

Melt butter in a cookie sheet (15” x 10”). Layer each ingredient in order. Pour condensed milk last on top evenly. Bake 30-35 minutes in 350° oven. Cut into squares.

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Chocolate Cream Cheese Cake

March 3, 2010 Arlene Leave a comment
  • 2 3-oz. packages cream cheese, softened
  • ½ cup butter, softened
  • 4 tbsp. butter
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 6½ cups sifted powdered sugar
  • 4 oz. unsweetened chocolate
  • 3 eggs
  • 2¼ cups all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1¼ cups milk
  • ⅓ cup milk

Cream together: cream cheese, ½ cup butter and vanilla. Alternately beat in powdered sugar and ⅓ cup milk (room temp). Blend in the chocolate. Remove 2 cups of the mixture which will be for your frosting. Cover and refrigerate it. Cream together remaining chocolate mixture and 4 tbsp. softened butter. In a bowl, stir together 2¼ cups flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Beat this dry mixture into the creamed mixture alternating with 1¼ cups milk. Turn into 2 greased and floured 9 X 1 ½” round cake pans. Bake in 350 degree oven for 30 minutes. Cool in pans 10 minutes. Remove and cool racks. Remove frosting from refrigerator 15 minutes prior to frosting the cake.

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Chocolate Walnut Cookies

March 1, 2010 Arlene Leave a comment
  • ¼ cup butter
  • ¼ cup shortening
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 (1-oz.) squares unsweetened chocolate, melted
  • 1¾ cups enriched flour
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • ½ cup milk
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cream butter and shortening; add sugar gradually. Beat well. Beat in egg. Stir in melted chocolate. Add flour sifted with baking soda and salt. Alternate with milk. Mix. Stir in vanilla and walnuts.

Drop cookie dough by teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheet, leave 2” in between. Bake in hot oven about 8 to 10 minutes. Slide cookies onto cooling racks. Makes 3 dozen cookies.

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Chocolate Kahlua Cake

November 15, 2009 Arlene Leave a comment

Cake

  • 1 lb. 5 oz. package chocolate cake mix
  • 3 ¾ oz. package chocolate instant pudding
  • 2 cups sour cream
  • ¾ cup cooking oil
  • 4 eggs
  • ⅓ cup Kahlua
  • 6 oz. package semi-sweet chocolate chips

Topping:

  • ¼ cup Kahlua
  • ¼ cup powdered sugar

Combine all ingredients except chocolate chips and topping. Blend well. Stir in chocolate chips. Pour into greased 10” Bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. Cover with foil the last 15 minutes of baking. Let cool in pan for five minutes; then invert onto rack.

Blend Kahlua with powdered sugar in small bowl until smooth. Drizzle over warm cake.

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Good and Easy Brownies

November 8, 2009 Arlene Leave a comment
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup butter, melted
  • 4 oz. unsweetened chocolate, melted
  • 1 cup flour
  • 6 oz. chocolate chips

Beat sugar, eggs, melted butter and melted chocolate together. Mix in 1 cup flour. Pour into 9 x 13 inch greased and floured pan. Sprinkle chocolate chips on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes. Enjoy!!

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Outrageous Chocolate Chip Cookies

November 3, 2009 Arlene Leave a comment

This recipe is from my niece, Lori Perlinger, and appears in the “Favorite Recipes from Zion Lutheran Church of Grant, NE” cookbook.

  • ½ cup sugar
  • ⅓ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup margarine, softened
  • ½ cup peanut butter
  • ½ tsp. vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup flour
  • ½ cup oats
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat sugars, margarine, peanut butter, vanilla and egg in medium bowl until creamy. Mix in flour, oats, soda and salt. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until light brown. Cool one minute before removing from cookie sheet. Recipe can be doubled.

Crisp Toffee Bars

September 8, 2009 Arlene Leave a comment

The original recipe first appeared in the September 1959 “Better Homes and Gardens” magazine.

  • 1 cup butter or margarine
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 cups sifted enriched flower
  • 1 6-oz. package semisweet chocolate pieces
  • 1 cup chopped California walnuts

Thoroughly cream together butter, sugar and vanilla. Add flour and mix well. Stir in chocolate and walnuts. Press mixture into 15½ x 10 x 1 inch jelly-roll pan. Back at 350 degrees for 24-25 minutes or until brown. While warm, cut into bars or squares. Cool before removing from pan. Makes about 5 dozen.

No-Bake Chow Mein Noodle Cookies

September 1, 2009 Arlene Leave a comment
  • 12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 12 oz. butterscotch chips
  • 5 oz. can chow mein noodles
  • ½ cup peanuts or cashews

Combine and melt chocolate and butterscotch chips in double boiler stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in chow mein noodles. Add nuts. Mix quickly to coat noodles and nuts. Drop by teaspoonful onto wax paper. Chill.

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Heavenly Hot Fudge Sauce

September 1, 2009 Arlene Leave a comment
  • ½ cup butter
  • 4 oz unsweetened chocolate
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 13 oz. can evaporated milk
  • ½ tsp salt

Melt butter in top of double boiler. Add chocolate and blend. Add sugar, milk and salt and cook on low heat stirring frequently for 20 minutes. Serve over Redwood Lane Original Vanilla ice cream…or any other vanilla ice cream!

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