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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

COOKIES, YUM, YUM C.O.O.K.I.E.S!!!!!

Does your family have a favorite cookie?  We sure do! It is one that we never grow tired of.  This recipe was acquired from my aunt back when I had graduated from the 8th grade.  My Mom and I traveled to Iowa and So. Dakota to visit family.  Just the two of us flying off together.  Oh I remember back then you put on your Sunday best to fly.  Boy have things changed now.  Comfy all the way now!  Oops!  I got off subject, easy for me to do. Do I dare say the summer of 1963, yikes!!!

Both my Aunt Etta and Mom were wonderful cooks. They always traded recipes through the mail. This recipe she gave us that summer were a bar cookie and oh so good.  They are flavorful, rich, chocolaty, peanut buttery, gooey and oh man my tummy just did the happy dance.


The recipe makes a large batch.  Enough for a plateful to eat and enough for a plateful to freeze.  They freeze really well.  That is if you can stay out of the freezer.  Yes,, they are delicious frozen.  My Mom would put some in a coffee can in the freezer to have for later.  Many of times when she went to retrieve them half were gone.  I wonder who ate them, hummmmm???  I got smart when my kids were young.  I would put them in the freezer and I labeled the container LIVER!!  Not one of the kids would come close to that container. Ha-Ha!!!!  It worked for years!





You use a large jelly roll pan and the trick is not to eat 6 dozen while cutting them up!

I thought I would share this recipe with you today.  We've called them Gram ma's Peanut Butter Bars  I'm sure they must have come with another name clear back then.

                                 Gram ma's Peanut Butter Bars

2 cups dark Karo Syrup (16oz bottle)
2 cups white sugar

Melt over low heat until sugar dissolves.
Add 1 1/2 cup peanut butter ( Extra Crunchy Skippy)
Stir to mix

Pour over 13 cups Special K cereal
Press into jelly roll pan ( I butter my hands for this)

Melt 2 cups milk choc. chips and 2 cups butterscotch chips.
Spread over above, cool, cut into bars

Mine are in the freezer waiting for Thanksgiving weekend.  Hopefully there will be some left for I still have no will power!

Enjoy June




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4 comments:

  1. KarenNovember 13, 2013 at 7:07 AM

    Oh, June, those bars are delicious! I have the same recipe unimaginatively named 'Special K Bars'. I like Gram Ma's Peanut Butter Bars for a title MUCH better, lol. My sons absolutely adored these bars (and ok, I do too). Keeping them in a container marked 'Liver' is ingenious, lol. The only problem is, how can I hide them from me??

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  2. JuneNovember 14, 2013 at 12:20 PM

    oh boy, does this sound delicious!!!!! When you told about raiding the freezer I just knew we had to be twins. I still can't stay out of things. : )
    many hugs...

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  3. This N ThatNovember 18, 2013 at 12:44 PM

    Ah, yes..We used to get dressed up to do most things..People don't even dress for church and weddings these days..My grandmother used to make almond bars..Loved them..Wonder if I can find the recipe??

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  4. Bee Haven BevNovember 21, 2013 at 7:28 PM

    Oh my, June, those look so yummy!! By the way....I love your new pic!!

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