W4DW-Jodi's Amazing Brownies

What's for Dinner this Wednesday?  Well, May is Beef Month and now you are looking at the picture below wondering what on earth Chocolate and Marshmallows has to do with Beef Month.  To find the answer read my son's post from last year here.

I have some amazing friends that help me out from time to time on my blog.  They let me know when I have typos, when links don't work and things just don't look correct.  One of most faithful blog assistants is Jodi.  She quickly calls if something isn't right and hasn't even commented on Facebook to fix the needed caption if I am in a meeting.  LOVE her!  Thank you for being there from almost the beginning of this blog journey!!

She shared her family's recipe for Taco Soup this winter and with the cold weather coming in tonight it might be really good tomorrow with these brownies that she shared with me this week.  Love this recipe.  They are delicious and actually pretty easy to make. 

Jodi's Amazing Brownies

1/2 c butter
1/2 c oil
1 c water
2 c sugar
2 c flour
1/4 c cocoa
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 c milk

Heat butter, oil and water until the butter melts.  Add sugar, flour, cocoa and eggs and stir well.  Then add baking soda and milk, mix well.   Pour into a greased jelly roll pan (or a cookie sheet with sides).

Bake at 350 for about 18 min. They are done when toothpick comes out clean or they spring back.

Quickly cover with a bag of miniature marshmallows. Put back in oven. Watch them carefully. When marshmallows puff up take them out of oven. Let them cool.
Then frost.

Frosting

2 tablespoons cocoa
2 c powdered sugar
1/4 c melted butter
2 tablespoons milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
Mix ingredients together. Spread carefully over marshmallows and brownies.

Thanks so much for sharing Jodi!

-A Kansas Farm Mom

W4DW- Nut Free No Bake Cookies

It's not Wednesday, but I have another recipe to share with you this week.   I hope you enjoy this one as much as my kids do.  They can even make them by themselves.

The holidays are upon us and that means almost everyone is looking for yummy cookies and candies to make.  My oldest son made this recipe for the county fair this last year.  One of his cousins had made it before and won Grand Champion, so he really wanted to try it out.  I kept asking what was so special about THIS no bake cookie that it could beat muffins and baked cookies.  Her dad would say, “It’s like eating a candy bar.”  After trying it myself, I agree it IS like eating a candy bar.

My youngest son is in a school that has a student with a severe nut allergy.  Nothing is allowed in the school that has nuts or has what I call the nut allergy statement on the packaging.  We used to grow sunflowers on our farm and learned about Sunbutter.  It is a peanut butter substitute made from sunflowers and therefore contains no nuts.  My kids really like it, so I thought we would try this cookies with the Sunbutter.  Turns out my boys really liked them.  Our local drug store, Porter Drugs, carries Sunbutter in their gift section.  Everyone always seems to want to try it before they buy it.  If you are in town this weekend for the Christmas parade, be sure to stop by and try one of these cookies made with Sunbutter and if you did stop by and are visiting my blog for the first time to get the recipe-THANK YOU!  I hope you will come back again and see what we are doing on the farm.

Chocolate Yummies

1 cup sugar

1 cup white corn syrup

1 cup chocolate chips

1 ½ cups Sunbutter or peanut butter

3 cups crisp rice cereal

1 cup mini marshmallows

Heat sugar and corn syrup and boil 1 minute.  Remove from heat.  Add chocolate chips, peanut butter and cereal.  Stir until well mixed.  Add marshmallows and mix well, but do not over stir.  Drop by teaspoonfuls onto wax paper.

-A Kansas Farm Mom

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