RECIPES

BLUEBERRY COBBLER

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour

Ingredients:

2/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
3/4 cup water
3 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
1 teaspoon melted butter
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup milk
3 tablespoons melted butter

PREPARATION:
-In a saucepan, combine sugar & cornstarch, stir in water. Bring to a boil; stirring constantly, boil for 1 minute. Add blueberries. Pour blueberry mixture into a lightly buttered 1 1/2-quart baking dish or 9-inch pie plate. -Sprinkle with cinnamon & drizzle with 1 teaspoon melted butter.
-Sift together the flour, baking powder & salt. Pour milk & 3 tablespoons melted butter into a measuring cup; add to flour mixture all at once. Stir just until mixture is moistened and forms a ball. Drop spoonfuls onto the blueberries. 
-Bake at 425° for 25 to 30 minutes, or until lightly browned.
Serves 6

CHOCOLATE CHIP QUICK BREAD

Cook Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

INGREDIENTS: 

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup milk
1 cup milk chocolate chips

PREPARATION:

-Cream butter & sugar.  Add eggs 1 at a time.  Beat well.  Combine flour & baking powder.  Add to batter alternately with milk.  Beat well.  Add chocolate chips.  Beat well.  Bake in crock, which has been greased & floured, for 1 hour @ 350 degrees.
Serves 4-6

Simple Cinnamon Streusel Muffins

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes

INGREDIENTS:Streusel Topping

½  cup all-purpose flour

⅓ cup firmly packed brown sugar

1  teaspoon cinnamon

3 tablespoons cold butter

¼ cup rolled oats

½ cup chopped walnuts or pecans(optional)

Muffins

2  cups all-purpose flour

½ cup sugar

¼  cup firmly packed brown sugar

1  tablespoon baking powder

1  teaspoon cinnamon

½  teaspoon salt

¾ cup milk

½   cup butter, melted

1  teaspoon vanilla

2  eggs, beaten

1 cup grated carrot (optional)

1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)

PREPARATION:

-Heat the oven to 400°F. Lightly spray 12 cups in a muffin pan with nonstick cooking spray or grease with shortening.

Streusel Topping

-Combine the flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon & oats in a small bowl. Cut in the butter with a fork until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

Muffins

-Combine the flour, sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, cinnamon & salt in a large bowl. Make a well in the center of the flour by pushing ingredients out toward sides of bowl.

-Combine the milk, melted butter, vanilla, and eggs in a medium bowl. Pour the milk mixture into the flour mixture & stir until the flour is moistened.

-Divide the batter into prepared muffin cups, filling them about 2/3 full. Sprinkle about 1 tablespoon of streusel over each muffin.

-Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until golden brown & a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out dry. Cool slightly. Run a small metal fork around the edge of each muffin to loosen it & lift gently from the pan. Serve muffins warm with butter.

Makes 12 muffins

BEST-EVER BASIC COOKIE DOUGH

Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes

INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar

1/4 cup + 2 TBSP margarine or butter

1 Egg

1 tsp. vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp baking soda

PREPARATION:

-Cream sugar & margarine or butter together in a bowl.
-Add egg & vanilla extract.
-Beat or stir mixture together, scraping down sides of bowl.
-Sift together flour, salt & baking soda in a separate bowl.
-Spoon dry mixture into creamed mixture.
-Beat or stir until the cookie dough is completely mixed together.
Makes 40 cookies

CRANBERRY WALNUT COOKIES

Cook time: 10-12 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

PREPARATION:

-Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

*Prepare the BEST-EVER BASIC COOKIE DOUGH recipe above*

Add:

1 cup rolled oats

3/4 cup dried sweetened cranberries

3/4 cup chopped walnuts

3/4 cup white chocolate chips

-Lightly spray baking cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray.
-Drop cookies by rounded TBSP onto the baking cookie sheet.

-Bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned around the edges.

-Let sit for 1 minute.
-Remove from baking cookie sheet to cool.

Makes 40 cookies