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.

Fruit Salsa and Cinnamon Sugar Chips

We are making this for our treat at YW tonight. I will let you know how it is. Looks yummy though.

Fruit Salsa with Baked Cinnamon Chips

by Allrecipes.com

2 kiwis, peeled and diced
2 apples - peeled, cored and diced
8 ounces raspberries
1 (16 oz) carton of strawberries, diced
2 tablespoons white sugar 1 T. brown sugar
3 T. strawberry preserves

10 (10 inch) flour tortillas
melted butter or butter flavored cooking spray
2 cups cinnamon sugar

In a large bowl, thoroughly mix kiwis, apples, raspberries, strawberries, white sugar, brown sugar and fruit preserves. Cover and chill in the refrigerator at least 15 minutes. Preheat oven to 350 degrees for the chips. Coat one side of each flour tortilla with melted butter or butter flavored cooking spray. Sprinkle tortillas with desired amount of cinnamon sugar. Cut into wedges and arrange in a single layer on a large baking sheet. Spray again with cooking spray (not necessary if using melted butter). Bake in the preheated oven 8 to 10 minutes. Repeat with any remaining tortilla wedges. Allow to cool approximately 15 minutes. Serve with chilled fruit mixture. Best when made and eaten the same day otherwise the fruit gives off so too much juice and it gets runny.

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Best Veggie Dip

For Easter I had to bring a veggie tray and I wanted to find a really good dip. This was a hit and I should have made a double batch. :) Enjoy!

http://thisoldfarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/best-veggie-dip-ever.html

Time flies! Meatloaf

Sorry I haven't posted on this blog forever. Honestly, it just hasn't been a priority... at all :) Sorry about that!

But, here you go, a recipe that is worth repeating. I can't remember if I've put it on this blog, but I don't really care to go investigate, either! So there!! Ha ha.

It's super easy, my kids eat thirds if I let them & it's FAST. A warning for you, though. It's not a set recipe. It's just kind of adapted from "a little of this, a little of that..." Have fun & make it your own if you want to.

Mindee's Meatloaf

Spray or grease a 9x12 casserole dish & preheat oven to 350 before doing everything else. It's best to completely defrost the hamburger, without the use of a microwave, but it still works if you forgot to take it out of the freezer the night before :)

Meatloaf:

1 lb ground beef
2-3 cups of oats
3/4 cup bread crumbs (really, the crumbs, not just chunks of bread :)
some Worcestershire sauce (to taste)
1/4 tsp onion powder
2-3 eggs (2 large OR 3 medium)

• Mix in a bowl, by hand (more like "squish" in a bowl, with your hands!)
-form a loaf out of the meat and place it in the casserole dish to wait for the sauce.

Sauce:

Tomato Sauce
Ketchup
Barbecue sauce
Tiny bit of Mustard
LOTS of Brown sugar

• don't really have set amounts for this, so it's mostly experimental! Just keep tasting it until it tastes like you want it to. I usually have one of the small cans of tomato sauce, a cup & 1/2ish of ketchup, a cup-ish of BBQ sauce, SMALL squirt of mustard & a Holy TON of brown sugar. Probably close to 2 cups!
• Mix the sauce ingredients together with a fast whisking & pour it over the meatloaf.
• The meatloaf should pretty much be drowning in sauce, trust me :)

Bake at 350 for 35-45 minutes, until beef is done.

We like to serve it with a small baked potato & some sweet corn. Have fun!