Spice Cookies

These would be good to keep on hand for those snacks after school.

Spice Cookies

1/4 cup light syrup
1/4 cup dark syrup
1 Tablespoon molasses
1/4 cup sugar
3 Tablespoon butter
1 Tablespoon milk
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 egg
3/4 cup raisins, cooked

Combine syrups and molasses and heat to boiling point. Add sugar, butter and milk. Sift together flour, soda, salt and nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice. Add to mixture. add egg and raisin. Mix well. Roll each teaspoon of dough in sugar and place on buttered cookie sheet. Bake 15 minutes at 350 degrees.

Brownie Mint Torte

Brownie Mint torte

3 egg whites
1/8 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup chocolate wafer crumbs, crunched
1/2 cup pecans, chopped
1 cup whipping cream, whipped
1/4 cup crushed peppermint stick candy
1 square ( 1-oz) unsweetened chocolate, shaved

Beat egg whites and salt until soft peaks form. Add sugar, 1 Tablespoons at a time, beating after each addition, until glossy. Beat in vanilla. Fold in crumbs and nutmeats. Spread in buttered 9-inch pie plate. Pile meringue high at sides. Bake 35 minutes at 325 degrees. Cool. Whip cream until stiff. Fold in crushed peppermint candy. Pile mixture into baked pie shell. Chill at least 3 hours. Trim with curls of shaved chocolate. Serves 6.

This would be around the holidays, when peppermint is everywhere in the stores.

Banana Tea Bread

I love Banana bread...this could be dessert as well.

Banana Tea Bread
Mrs. Sondra Rater

1 3/4 cup flour,sifted
2 teaspoon baking powder
1.\/4 teaspoon soda
2 egg, well beaten
1 /2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup shortening
2/3 cup sugar
1 cup bananas, mashed ( 2 or 3)

Sift flour, baking powder, salt together. Beat shortening un till creamy. add sugar gradually and continue beating until light and fluffy. add eggs and beat well. add flour mixture alternately with bananas. Beat well after each addition until smooth. Pour into well greased bread pan. Bake 1 hour and 10 minutes at 350 degrees.

Cream cheese Salad

Here is a cream cheese recipe that is not a dessert , or it could be a dessert.

Cream Cheese Salad
Mrs. Agnes Shapley

1 cup red cinnamon candies
1 cup boiling water
1 package lemon gelatin
2 1/2 cups applesauce
2  8-oz packages cream cheese
1/2 cup black walnuts, chopped
 pinch salt

Pour boiling water over cinnamon candies. Let dissolve. Add gelatin and applesauce. Pour 1/2 mixture into 7 x 11 x 2-inch dish. Cool until congealed. add enough cream to cheese to make a spreading consistency. Add nutmeats and salt. Spread over first mixture. Add remaining gelatin mixture.

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal cookies

I love chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies.

Chocolate chip Oatmeal Cookies

1 cup shortening
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
3 cups oatmeal
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup nutmeats

Cream together shortening, sugars and eggs until fluffy. Sift together flour, soda, baking powder and salt. Add to creamed mixture and beat well. Add oatmeal and vanilla and chocolate chips and nutmeats. Mix well. Drop by round teaspoons on greased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake 10 to 15 minutes at 350 degrees. Makes about 4 1/2 dozen.

Fudgies

Here is a cookie recipe from 1967.

Fudgies

3 Tablespoon cocoa
1/2 cup margarine
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup flour, sifted
1/2 to 1 cup walnuts, chopped

Melt cocoa and margarine. Remove from heat and beat in sugar. Next beat in eggs. Mix well. Add vanilla, salt, flour and nutmeats. Beat well. Pour into well-greased 8-inch square cake pan. Bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Cool 1/2 hour . Cut into squares.

Angel cake Dessert

This really isn`t a cake recipe, but it uses cake.

Angel cake dessert

2 packages raspberry gelatin
2 cups hot water
1/4 cup sugar
1 pint whipping cream
16 marshmallows, cut real fine
1 small can crushed pineapple, drained
1 loaf angel food cake, sliced in thirds

Combine gelatin, hot water and sugar. Refrigerate, let jell and whip with beater. combine whipping cream, marshmallows and pineapple. Add to cream. Fold in whipped gelatin. Put half gelatin in bottom of pan. Alternate layers of angel food cake and layers of mixture. Refrigerate until solid.