Pan and Bar Cookies
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Pan and Bar Cookies are probably my favorite kind of cookies, because you just mix it and spread it in a pan and bake. I think I first got hooked on Pan Cookies with the Toll House Pan Cookie Recipe. Plus having four kids, you never have enough cookies.
Prepare soft, moist cookies that can handle jostling rather than fragile, brittle cookies, that might crumble. Brownies and bar cookies are generally sturdy although avoid shipping those with moist fillings and frostings since they become sticky at room temperature. For the same reason, shipping anything with chocolate during the summer or to warm climates is also risky.
Bar cookies should be packed in layers the size of the container, or they can be sent in a covered foil pan as long as the pan is well cushioned inside the shipping box. For other cookies, wrap each type of cookie separately to retain flavors and textures. Cookies can also be wrapped back to back in pairs with either plastic wrap or foil. Place wrapped cookies as tightly as possible in snug rows inside a sturdy shipping box or container.
Fill the bottom of the shipping container with an even layer of packing material. Do not use popped popcorn or puffed cereal. Place crumbled waxed newspaper, newspaper or paper toweling between layers of wrapped cookies. Fill ant crevices with packing material like bubble wrap, and add a final layer at the top of the box.
Fork Print Pan Cookies
1 1/4 cup flour
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/8 tsp. salt
1/2 cup plus 2 Tblsp soft butter
1/2 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
Grease a 9 x 13 pan. Sprinkle lightly with flour and remove excess. Start oven 10 min before baking. Set at 300. Sift first 3 ingredients. Cream butter till smooth and shiny, add sugar and cream well. Add the half egg, beat until fluffy. Stir in vanilla, then flour and beat well. Turn batter into pan and spread out with a spatula to even thickness and until top is smooth. Now draw a fork over dough to make straight, shallow lines, 1 1/2 inch apart. Go both ways in a criss cross pattern.
Bake 30 minutes or to a pale golden color. Remove from oven and immediately cut into 5 strips each way to obtain bars. Let cool in the pan or cake rack. Then remove carefully. Store in container with tight fitting cover. Makes 25 bars
Baby Ruth Bars
1 cup white syrup
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 (6oz) package butter or vanilla chips
1 cup salted Spanish peanuts
1 (6oz) package chocolate chips
1 cup peant butter
6 cups corn flakes
Bring sugar and syrup to boil. Add peanut butter. Mix with peanuts and
corn flakes. Spread into a 9x13 inch buttered pan. Melt chocolate chips
and butter or vanilla chips and spread on top.
Recipe from 1997 Friedens Reformed United Church of Christ, Tripp,
SD recipebook pg 33
York Cookies
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup flour
1 egg
1 tablespoon milk
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1 tablespoon lemon or orange juice
Cream the butter and sugar and add flour gradually. Beat up the egg, add the milk and mix together. Add the soda nutmeg, lemon or orange juice. Spread very thin on a cookie sheet. Sprinkle with sugar and bake at 375 until a golden brown. Cut into squares.
Chinese Chews
Blend 1/2 cup sugar with 1/2 cup butter.
Add 2 eggs, 1 cup flour sifted with 1 tsp. baking powder and 1/2 tsp.
salt.
Add 1 tablespoon hot water and 1 tsp vanilla.
Add 1 pkg finely cut dates. and 1/2 cup chopped nuts.
Spread into a well greased and floured pan. Bake 15 to 20 minutes at 350
F. Cool. Cut into squares and roll in powdered sugar.
Recipe from 1963
Kit Kat Bars
Club Crackers
2 cups crushed Graham Crackers
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 cup butter or oleo
2/3 cup peanut butter
1 cup chocolate chips
Line a 9x13 inch pan with Club Crackers. Boil crushed graham crackers, brown sugar, milk and butter for 5 minutes. Stir constantly.
Spread 1/2 onto crackers. Put another layer of crackers on top, then
the remaining mixture. Top with another layer of crackers. Frost with
melted chocolate chips and peanutbutter.
Recipe from 1997 Friedens Reformed United Church of Christ, Tripp,
SD recipebook pg 35
Bar Cookie Crust
No stick cooking spray
2 1/2 cups flour
1 cup cold margarine, cut in pieces
1/2 cup confectioners sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
Preheat oven to 350. Spray a 15x10x1 inch baking pan with cooking spray. In large bowl with mixer at medium speed, beat flour, margarine, sugar, and salt until mixture resembles coarse crumbs; press firmly and evenly into prepared pan. Bake 20 minutes or until golden brown.
Yum-Yum Bars
25 graham crackers, crushed fine
1 cup nuts
1 cup chocolate chips
1 can (15oz) condensed sweet milk
1 cup coconut
1/4 tsp. salt
Mix all ingredients together. Spread in a greased and floured 9x13 inch
pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Cut into any size bars or squares
as desired.
From 1997 Friedens Reformed United Church of Christ Tripp, SD recipebook
pg37
Wackie Bars
1/2 cup butter
1 1/2 cups graham crackers crushed
1 package chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups nuts
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup coconut
1 package butterscotch chips
Melt butter in a 9x13 inch pan. Add graham crackers, coconut, chips,
and nuts. Drizzle milk over top. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
From 1997 Friedens Reformed United Church of Christ Tripp, SD recipebook
pg37
Famous Candy Bars
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
6 cups corn flakes
6 oz. milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup peanut butter
6 oz. chocolate chips
Heat sugar and syrup; boil 1 minute. Add peanut butter and stir well.
In separate bowl, mix flakes and nuts; add syrup to coat. Pat into a 9x13
inch buttered pan. Melt all chips together and pour on top. Break or cut
into pieces. Freezes well.
From 1997 Friedens Reformed United Church of Christ Tripp, SD recipebook
pg38
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And here's a recipe for Buttermilk Brownies that has a frosting on top.
And here's a recipe for Applesauce Brownies
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This is a pan cookie recipe called Chocolate Indians.
A bar cookie recipe called Chocolate Crunch
Fudge Bars looks pretty easy to make.
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This recipe called Chip Nut Chews is loaded with goodies!
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Note to self: Try this recipe for Sour Cream and Raisins Bars.
Also see Sour Cream Cookies (here's the Sugar Cookie baking instructions)
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Here's a recipe for Lemon Squares. The basic recipe, real easy to make.
Here's a variation called Lemon Coconut Squares.
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