CMP Sanwich Cookies

Ritz crackers
peanut butter
marshmallow fluff
Milk Chocolate melting wafers

Take 1 cracker and spread it with peanut butter. Take another cracker and spread it with marshmallow fluff. Sandwich the 2 crackers together and dip into melted chocolate wafers. Put on wax paper until set.

OK...another quick and easy cookie recipe. My boys love these cookies and enjoy helping to make them. You can make any amount you like and they will disappear quickly.

Another quick and easy variation of these cookies: Take the Ritz cracker and dip into melted chocolate wafers with a few drops of peppermint extract in it. These cookies taste identical to the Girls Scout's Thin Mints.

You may also use baking chocolate or chocolate chips, but the melting wafers are quick and easy in the microwave.

Banana Whoopie Pies

5 cups flour
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 cups mashed ripe bananas
1/2 cup sour milk or buttermilk*
1 tsp vanilla

Combine flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda in a mixing bowl. Cream shortening and sugar; add eggs, bananas, milk and vanilla. Add to dry ingredients and mix well. Drop by rounded tablespoons onto a ungreased cookie sheet...2 1/2" apart. Bake 375 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on wire racks. *If you don't have buttermilk, take a 1/2 cup milk and add 1 tsp. vinegar...sour milk.

Filling
2 tsp vanilla
4 TBL flour
4 TBL milk
4 cups confectioners sugar
1-1/2 cups shortening(plain...not butter flavored)

Combine all ingredients and beat very hard for several minutes on high speed.

Once cookies are cooled, take 1 and spread a generous amount of filling on it and place another cookie on top. Wrap immediately in plastic wrap...this gives it the whoopie pie moistness.

I admit...I have tried making whoopie pies several times and they have failed. I usually have problems with them flattening out in the oven. To avoid this...here are a few tips:

1. Make sure your oven is preheated.
2. Make sure you are using fresh baking powder and baking soda.
3. If you feel the recipe is too runny, you may add more flour. Be careful how much you add...has a tendency to change the texture and make them dry and not moist.

Hershey's Kisses Peanut Butter Blossoms

48 Hershey's Kisses Milk Chocolates
1/2 cup shortening
3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
1 egg
2 TBL milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1- 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
Granulated sugar

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Remove wrappers from chocolate kisses.
2. Beat shortening and peanut butter in large bowl. Add 1/3 cup granulated and brown sugar; beat until fluffy. Add egg, milk and vanilla; beat well. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into mixture.
3. Shape dough into 1-inch balls. Roll in sugar; place on ungreased cookie sheet.
4. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Immediately press a KISSES chocolate into center of each cookie. Remove from cookie sheet to wire rack. Cool completely. Makes about 4 dozen cookies.

I had to put this recipe on, because it's just awesome. I may be a bit biased living in Central PA, but I think Hershey's chocolate is just the best! These cookies are easy to make and they freeze really well...nice for making early Christmas cookies.