NO-BAKE COOKIES RECIPE. NO BAKE FRUIT PIE

no-bake cookies recipe

nO BAKE FRUIT PIE RECIPE

MERRY CHRISTMAS 
AND  HAPPY holidays

cookies recipe
ingredients

1 cup cocoa powder

1 cup milk 

 2 cups 'quick cook' oatmeal or crushed graham crackers

3/4 cup white sugar

 1/2 pound butter

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup raisins - chop or minced

method

Melt butter in a saucepan.

Mix the cocoa powder, milk, sugar and butter. 

Stir until mixture is of even consistency. Pour into the pan.

Add in the oatmeal and stir until they are evenly spread and distributed.

Let the mixture cool for five to ten minutes.

Spoon the mixture into balls on a cookie sheet, leaving enough space between them for their spreading out.

Let stand on counter for at least 20 minutes to stiffen, or you may refrigerate for quicker stiffening of the cookies.

tips and variations

May use peanut butter to give the no-bake cookies an extra flavor.

FRUIT PIE

Do a pie instead of cookies.

Make a pie crust using graham crackers.

6 1/2 oz graham crackers (12 crackers), finely ground (=1½ cups) = makes one “9-inch pie crust”.

Pour the hot mixture into the crust of Graham crackers.

Once cooled, top with whipped cream and fruit or other toppings. Voila ! done!

Technically, crackers are not really graham crackers unless they are made with graham flour, which is a hard (high protein) wheat flour in which the constituent bran, germ, and endosperm have been ground separately, the first two coarsely and the third finely… graham pie crust and crackers below>

ORIGINAL MUFFINS RECIPE. MOLASSES MUFFINS. ALMOND TOASTED MUFFINS RECIPE.

ORIGINAL MUFFINS recipe

VARIATIONS:  

MUFFINS WITH MOLASSES  recipe or

MUFFINS WITH TOASTED CINNAMON recipe

I have been regularly consuming Kellogg’s cereal for breakfast and only lately realized that their cereal can be also be used to make muffins.

Try this simple, delicious hot muffins fresh from the oven….

ORIGINAL MUFFINS

INGREDIENTS

1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 cup sugar

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups Kellogg's® All-Bran® Original cereal

or 1 1/2 cups Kellogg's® All-Bran® Bran Buds® cereal

1 cup milk

1 egg

1/3 cup shortening- i use vegetable shortening

DIRECTIONS

Stir together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Set aside.

In large mixing bowl, combine KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN cereal and milk. Let stand about 2 minutes or until cereal softens. Add egg and shortening. Beat well. Add flour mixture, stirring only until combined. Portion evenly into twelve 2 1/2-inch muffin-pan cups coated with cooking spray.

Bake at 400°F about 25 minutes or until lightly browned. Serve warm.

Link here  yields 12 pieces

Crisco –vegetable shortening sticks and veg shortening with butter flavor, a popular brand.

Shortening is a semisolid fat used especially in baked foods. It inhibits the formation of long gluten strands in wheat-based doughs, giving them a "short" texture.

VARIATIONS-

                                 backstrap molasses

MOLASSES:  Decrease milk to 1/2 cup.

 Add 1/2 cup molasses to KELLOGG'S 
ALL-BRAN cereal with milk. 

Omit sugar. Follow same directions as above.

Molasses is a viscous by-product of the beating of sugarcane, grapes or sugar beets into sugar. 

TOASTED CINNAMON: Split cooled muffins in half crosswise. Spread cut surface liberally with butter. 

Sprinkle with mixture of 1/2 cup sugar and 2 tablespoon cinnamon. 

Place buttered sides up on broiler rack. 

Toast under broiler for 2 to 3 minutes or until bubbly and browned.

ICE CREAM AND WAFFLES DESSERT. BELGIAN CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM

ICE CREAM AND WAFFLES DESSERT
BELGIAN CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM

CHOCOLATE WAFFLE

I had a delicious waffle complimented with the best ice cream FROM  Häagen-Dazs 

One scoop of  Häagen-Dazs Belgian Chocolate and one scoop of Chocolate Midnight Cookies, a warm treat of Belgian waffle with Belgian dark chocolate sauce and fresh raspberries. 
Strawberries would be delicious too.
It was such a perfect dessert.

Do check out Elisabeth Wright's  interesting blog post “Udderly All About Milk”  link here