Smore Cookie Bars

I saw these on The Sisters Cafe blog. I tried them for a group desert tonight - daring I know - trying an unknown recipe on other people - but it turned out super yummy! They didn't look as pretty as their picture, but they tasted delicious.

Smore Cookie Bars
submitted by Jen Boss

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 king-sized milk chocolate bars (e.g. Hershey’s–although I used Chocolate chips this time)
1 1/2 cups marshmallow creme/fluff (not melted marshmallows)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease an 8-inch square baking pan.
In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light. Beat in egg and vanilla. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt. Add to butter mixture and mix at a low speed until combined.

Divide dough in half and press half of dough into an even layer on the bottom of the prepared pan. Place chocolate bars over dough. 2 king-sized Hershey’s bars should fit perfectly side by side, but break the chocolate (if necessary) to get it to fit in a single layer no more than 1/4 inch thick. Spread chocolate with marshmallow creme or fluff. Place remaining dough in a single layer on top of the fluff (most easily achieved by flattening the dough into small shingles and laying them together).

Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool completely before cutting into bars.

Peanut Butter Bars

A lady in my ward made these for us and they were YUMMY! I think they are a pretty generic recipe but we didn't have it yet.

Peanut Butter Bars
3/4 c. softened butter
1/2 c. sugar
1 1/4 c. brown sugar
2 eggs
3/4 c. peanut butter
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
MIX and then add:
1/2 c flour
2 cups oatmeal

Pour into a large cookie sheet and cook 12-15 minute or until lightly brown at 350
Let cool completely. Frost with chocolate frosting:
1/3 c. butter
1/2 c. unsweetened chocolate (beat chocolate into butter first)
4 c. powdered sugar
1/4 c. milk
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla

Apple Crisp

Here is a great desert! I have made it a few times now, it's my mother-in-law's and it's the best ever - easy too - and that's the best right?

6 cups diced apples (that is 3 large apples I have found)
2 cups sugar
2 heaping T. flour
dash of salt
cinnamon to taste (I do probably about 1 1/2 T. - maybe more, I just shake it on)

Pour that in a 9x13 ungreased pan. For the topping mix the following in a bowl.

1 1/2 cups oatmeal
1 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
2/3 c. melted butter

mix well until butter is absorbed by the dry stuff. sprinkle over top the apples. (We like more topping so we 1 and 1/2 that topping.)

Bake at 350 for 25 minutes.
Serve with whip cream or ice cream or plain - YUMM!