C is for Cookie, Cookie Starts with C (cookies & bars)

Peanut Butter Bars by Susan (littlelambs)

1/2 cup butter or margerine, softened (I use the real thing)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
1/2 cup quick cooking oats
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Icing...
1/2 cup confectioner's sugar
2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
2 tablespoons milk

Cream together butter, sugars and peanut butter! Add egg and vanilla and mix well! Combine flour, oats, baking soda and salt and stir into creamed mixture! Spread into greased 9x13 baking pan and sprinkle with chocolate chips! Bake at 350 for 20 or 25 minutes or until lightly browned! Cool for 10 minutes! Combine icing ingredients and drizzle over bars!!

Breakfast Cookies by LauraJean SAHM

Ingredients

1 cup vegetable oil
1-1/2 cup brown sugar
4 eggs, beaten
1 cup milk
2 cups flour
3 cups bran cereal
3 cups quick cook oats
1-1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
3 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
2 cups raisins
1 cup sunflower kernels
flaked coconut (optional)

Procedure

Blend oil, sugar, eggs, and milk. Add rest of ingredients and mix together. Spoon
onto greased cookie sheet and bake 350 degrees until brown (about 15 - 20
minutes).

Misc. Comments:

Yields about 4 dozen bigger sized cookies.

These work as pan bars too.

For the bran cereal...
i've substituted lots of things - just kept the quantity the same. i've used oat bran, wheat bran,
wheat germ. sunflower seeds, etc.

I use Raisin bran cereal or that cereal that has bran flakes and almonds and other
healthy things. I don't crush it, I just throw it in and mix it. The original recipe calls
for just bran (oat or wheat like Emyanne said) but I use the cereal because that's
what I have on hand. I think it would be just fine to substitue Grape Nuts. It's a
pretty flexible recipe.

Vanilla Wafer Cookies by JewelsM70

This recipe is from a Taste of Home from 1997.

1/2 cup butter (no substitutes), softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tb vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 ts baking powder
1/4 ts salt


In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture and mix well. Drop by teaspoonfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Remove to a wire rack to cool.


Yield: about 3 1/2 dozen

Pecan Bars by hsmom71


1 c. light brown sugar, packed
1/4 c. butter
1 egg
3/4 c. chopped pecans
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1 c. flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder

Melt butter with sugar, do not overcook. Cool slightly; add beaten egg, salt and vanilla. Sift flour and baking powder; add to egg mixture. Fold in pecans.

Bake in a 9" square pan, greased and floured for about 45 minutes at 300.

You may use self rising flour and omit salt and bakng powder.

Yumm..

Vanessa

Easter Cookies with GREAT teaching to do with them. (by Saralynn)

A friend shared this with a group of us this morning.

Whether you are celebrating Easter or Passover this year, this sounds like a really fun activity to try with the kids!!!

Easter Story Cookies
Ingredients:
• Bible
• 1 c whole pecans
• 1 tsp. vinegar
• 3 egg whites
• pinch of salt
• 1 c granulated sugar
• 1 qt. or gal. size zipper bag
• wooden spoon
• tape
Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.

2. Place pecans in ziploc bag and let kids beat them with the wooden spoon to break into small pieces.
Explain that after Jesus was arrested, He was beaten by the Roman soldiers. Read: John 19:1-3. Then
Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his
head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, "Hail, king of the
Jews!" And they struck him in the face.

3. Let each child smell the vinegar. Add teaspoon of vinegar into the mixing bowl. Explain that when Jesus
was thirsty on the cross He was given vinegar to drink. Read John 19:28-30...Later, knowing that all was
now completed, and so that the Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, "I am thirsty." A jar of wine
vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and
lifted it to Jesus' lips. When he had received the drink,Jesus said,"It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

4. Add egg whites to vinegar. Eggs represent life. Explain that Jesus gave His life to give us life. Read
John 10:10-11. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life,
and have it to the full. "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."

5. Sprinkle a little salt into each child's hand. Let them taste it and brush the rest into the bowl.
Explain that this represents the salty tears shed by Jesus' followers, and the bitterness of our own
sins. Read Luke 23:27 A large number of people followed Him, including women who mourned and wailed for
Him.

6. So far the ingredients are not very appetizing. Add 1 cup of sugar. Explain that the sweetest part of the
story is that Jesus died because He loves us. He wants us to know and belong to Him. Read Psalm
34:8--Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him~and John 3:16--"For
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whoever believeth in Him shall not perish
but have everlasting life."

7. Beat with a mixer on high speed for 12-15 minutes until stiff peaks are formed. Explain that the color
white represents the purity in God's eyes of those whose sins have been cleansed by Jesus. Read Isaiah
1:18--"Come now, let us reason together," says the Lord. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall
be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool." And John 3:1-3 Now there
was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at
night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one could perform the
miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him." In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth,
no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."

8. Fold in broken nuts.

9. Line cookie sheet with waxed paper. Drop mixture by spoonfuls onto waxed paper.

10. Explain that each mound represents the rocky tomb where Jesus' body was laid. Read Matthew 27:57-60 As
evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple
of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus' body, and Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph
took the body, wrapped it in clean linen cloth, and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut out of
rock. He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.

11. Place the cookie sheet in the oven, close the door and turn the oven OFF. Give each child a piece of tape
and seal the oven door. Explain that Jesus' tomb was sealed. Read Matthew 27:65-66 "Take a guard," Pilate
answered. "Go, make the tomb as secure as you know how." So they went and made the tomb secure by putting
a seal on the stone and posting a guard.

12. GO TO BED. Explain that they may feel sad to leave the cookies in the oven overnight. Jesus' followers
were in despair when the tomb was sealed. Read John 16:20 "I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn
while the world rejoices. You will grieve, buy your grief will turn to joy." And John 16:22 "So with you~
Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your
joy."

13. On Easter morning, open the oven and remove the cookies. Take a bite. Notice~the cookies are hollow. On the first Easter Jesus' followers were amazed to find the tomb open and empty. Read Matthew 28:1-9 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning,
and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead
men. The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was
crucified. He is not here; He has risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay. Then go
quickly and tell His disciples: "He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There
you will see Him. Now I have told you." So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with
joy, and ran to tell His disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them, "Greetings," He said. They came to Him,
clasped his feet and worshiped Him.
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Romans 11:6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. (ESV)

Devil's Food Cookies by JewelsM70

Devils Food Cookies~ or any kind of cookie

This is the easiest cookie recipe ever. You can adapt it depending on the box cake
mix you choose. These are the moistest cookies you can make.

1 box of cake mix (Betty Crocker or something similar)
2 eggs
1 stick of butter (softened)
chocolate chips (you decide how much you'll use )


Mix all the ingredients (I mix choc. chips in last) and then drop onto an ungreased
cookie sheet and bake @350 for 8-10 minutes.

Comment by Betsy:
This sounds very similar to the chocolate cookies with butterscotch chips. Have you
tried it that way? Yummy! (Now I'm going to have to try this recipe.)