Oatmeal Munchies

 

This is another recipe that Sloan made at school. This is a little different than my regular no bake cookies because it has some flour in it. I like these so much better. We will be making these a lot at our house!

Oatmeal Munchies

In a saucepan:
4 Tbsp. margarine

3/4 C. sugar

1/4 C. brown sugar

1/4 C. milk

1 Tbsp. plus 1 tsp. cocoa
Pinch of salt

In a mixing bowl:

1/4 C. peanut butter

1/2 tsp. vanilla

1 1/2 C. quick oats

1/4 C. flour

In a small saucepan combine margarine, sugar, brown sugar, milk, cocoa, and salt. In a small mixing bowl, measure the peanut butter, vanilla, quick oats, and flour.

Place the saucepan on burner with medium high heat. Stir constantly with a wooden spoon.

Bring mixture to a boil and let it boil for one minute. (Begin timing when first bubble rises from the bottom of the pan.)

Remove the pan from heat and place on heat-resistant surface.

Add contents of the mixing bowl to the pan. Stir until well mixed. (Mixture should be moist and shiny. If mixture is dry and crumbly, add milk 1 Tbsp. at a time until mixture is moist and shiny.

Scoop onto the cookie sheet with a cookie scoop.

Allow mixture to cool. (They will set up as they cool.)
Makes about 24 cookies.

Tropical Traditions Coconut Peanut Butter Review & Giveaway!

This month I got to try Tropical Traditions  Traditions Coconut Peanut Butter! I was excited about the combination, coconut and peanut butter, yum!

 

                                        

Coconut Peanut butter

I was excited to try Tropical Traditions Coconut Peanut Butter! I’m a big peanut butter fan (like dipping a spoon into the jar fan). I tried the coconut peanut butter in my favorite Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies and it was a big hit with my family. You can find my recipe here.

Tropical Traditions also has lots of recipes on their bog here.

 

     

Here’s a little information that Dan over at Tropical Traditions told me~

Our Organic Coconut Peanut Butter is mixed with Virgin Coconut Oil which makes it sensitive to temperature.  If you were to store it above 76 it would be more spreadable.  You can also heat it by placing it in a warm/hot bowl of water.  My personal favorite thing about this peanut butter is to take it and warm it up and put it on ice cream. Which once it chills to the ice cream it makes it hard like a candy shell.

Chauncey tried some Organic Coconut Peanut Butter on his ice cream and he really liked the shell it made!

Tropical Traditions  is giving one lucky Songberries follower the same (16 oz) Coconut Peanut Butter To enter you must be a follower of Songberries and visit Tropical Traditions and tell me  something you learned or something else you like, leave me a comment telling me!

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I want to thank Tropical Traditions  for sponsoring this giveaway. This giveaway is open to US Residents only and will close January 29th, 2011 at 12am.

~I received a product sample in order to write my review. I received no monetary compensation. All opinions expressed are mine.

Pudding No Bake Cookies

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There's a fun giveaway over at Bobbypins Boardwalk for some Hedge Apples. You want some, don't you! She has a picture of them in case you don't know what they are!

I found this recipe the other day over at My Little Gems, and had to try it. I have three other no bake cookie recipes (Butterscotch, Peanut Butter and Chocolate), that my family loves, and now we have a new one! I didn't want to run to the store, so I used a White Chocolate pudding mix that I already had and I added some white chocolate chips and semi sweet chocolate chips to it. I can't wait to try it with a butterscotch pudding. There are also some variations- you can use peanut butter instead of the butter and use chocolate pudding, or a low fat version would be fat free pudding mix and low fat evaporated milk. It still has all the sugar, so you wouldn't be saving much.


Pudding No Bake Cookies

2 1/4 cups sugar
2 tablespoons butter
6 oz evaporated milk
4 oz instant pudding mix, I used white chocolate
3 2/3 cup oatmeal

In a large saucepan combine the sugar, butter, evaporated milk and the pudding mix. Cook until it reaches a full boil, then remove it from the heat and let it sit for 15 minutes to thicken. Add the oatmeal and stir well. I added some white chocolate chips and some regular chocolate chips, about 3/4 cup each. Then drop them out onto a cookie sheet with a cookie scoop.

Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies and a little about me

These are a family favorite recipe of ours. They are Peanut butter No Bake Cookies. I like them because they are fast, easy and I always have the ingredients on hand. They are also great to make in the summer when you want a treat but don't want to heat up the house. I'm also sharing the regular Chocolate No Bake Cookie recipe and the Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookie recipe.



Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies

2 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup milk
1 cup peanut butter
3 cups quick oats
In a large saucepan over medium heat, cook butter, milk and sugar until it comes to a full boil. Turn down the heat and boil for 3 minutes. Stir in peanut butter until smooth, mix in quick oats. Drop out onto a cookie sheet. Let sit until cool or you can put them in the refrigerator to set up.






Chocolate No Bake Cookies

2 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup milk
6 tablespoons cocoa powder
3 cups quick oats
1 teaspoon vanilla

In a large saucepan over medium heat, cook butter, milk, sugar and cocoa until it comes to a full boil. Turn down the heat and boil for 3 minutes. Stir in the vanilla and quick oats. Drop onto a cookie sheet. Let sit until cool or you can put them in the refrigerator ti set up.





Chocolate Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup milk
6 tablespoons cocoa powder
1/2 cup peanut butter
3 cups quick oats
In a large saucepan over medium heat, cook butter, milk, sugar, peanut butter and cocoa until it comes to a full boil. Turn down the heat and boil for 3 minutes. Stir in quick oats. Let sit until cool or you can put them in the refrigerator to set up.

Welcome to the 2009 edition of getting to know you're Friends.

I received this in an email the other day, and I thought I'd share it here.
So, if you want to get to know me, here's some stuff about me. Feel free to
copy this and send it to your friends with your answers!


1. What time did you get up this morning? 6:00 am

2. Diamonds or pearls? Pearls

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinemas? Earth

4. What is your favorite T.V. Show? Bones

5. What do you usually have for breakfast? Hot cereal with raisins
and toasted walnuts
6.What is your middle name? Louise

7. What food do you dislike? Liver

8. What is your favorite CD at moment? Neil Diamond and Barry Manalow

9. What kind of car do you drive? A red PT Cruiser

10. Favorite sandwich? Swiss Cheese, Sprouts, Cucumber and Tomato on Whole Wheat
(but I don't eat bread anymore)
11. What characteristic do you despise? Lieing

12. Favorite item of clothing? Jeans

13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go?
England
14. Favorite brand of clothing? Whatever is cute

15. Where would you retire to? Not sure

16. What was your most recent memorable birthday? I really liked my last one, I
spent it with my oldest daughters family and I got to
hug my grandkids!

17. Favorite sport to watch? Ice Skating

18. When is your birthday? February 2 (groundhogs day)

20. Are you a morning person or a night person? Morning

21. What is your shoe size? Size? 9 or 10

22. Pets? Fifi and Seamus (dogs) Lucy (rabbit) Stripes (fish)

23. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with us? No not really

24. What did you want to be when you were little? Teacher

25. How are you today? Pretty good

26. What is your favorite candy? York Peppermint Patty

27. What is your favorite flower? Lilac's

28. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? June 3rd - Last
day of school

29. What is your favorite pastime? Running,reading,blogging,hanging out with
family and friends

30. What are you listening to right now? My playlist

31. What was the last thing you ate? Yogurt with strawberries and Fiber 1 cereal

32. Do you wish on stars? Yep

33. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Pink

34. How is the weather right now? Very nice and warm

35. The first person you spoke to on the phone today? My hubby

36. Favorite soft drink? Don't drink any

37. Favorite restaurant? Sizzler

38. Hair color? Natural? Brownish Blonde, brown is natural with some gray

30. What was your favorite toy as a child? Dolls

40. Summer or winter? Summer.

41. Hugs or kisses? YES! Both!

42. Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate

43. Coffee or tea? Tea, herbal

44. When was the last time you cried? A week or so ago

45. What is under your bed? What isn't? Drawers with clothes in them

46. What did you do last night? Went to my daughter Sloan's graduation dinner,
she graduated from grade school

47. What are you afraid of? Losing someone in my family

48. Salty or sweet? Sweet

49. How many keys on your key ring? 6

50. Favorite day of the week? Friday

51. How many towns have you lived in? 6