Cookies & Bars:

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Permalink Reply by Denise Love on May 25, 2009 at 4:42pm

David Love, Janie & Ken Willems visiting South Padre Island, Texas in February 2009

Janie’s Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies
Submitted by Janie Willems

Note: Janie has made this recipe for many years selling them at fund
raisers for the Mennonite Relief Work around the world. She could easily start a business
making these cookies but instead has used them to bless others.

Her two secrets are: Take the cookies out after 10- 12 minutes
And let them cool on the sheets. Second: mixing the batter by hand not with an electric mixer!

Ingredients

2 cups butter
2 cups Crisco
4 cups sugar
2 cups brown sugar
4 tsp vanilla
8 eggs

Mix the above ingredients by hand beating with a heavy spoon.

Stir in and add the following:

9 cups flour
2 tsp salt
4 tsp baking soda
3 12 oz bags chocolate chips
chopped nuts

350 Oven for 10 – 12 minutes

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Permalink Reply by Denise Love on October 24, 2009 at 10:19pm

Hiphugger Bars submitted by Joyce Cain from Bogota, Colombia
Chocolate mixture:
1 can sweetened condensed milk
2 Tablespoons butter
1 cup chocolate chips
1 teaspoon vanilla

Crumb mixture:
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/4 cup flour
1 1/2 cup oatmeal (quick-cooking rolled oats)
Method

In a saucepan combine ingredients for the chocolate mixture: milk, butter, chocolate chips and vanilla. Stir over low heat until combined. Set aside. Combine ingredients for the crumb mixture: Beat butter, brown sugar, egg, soda, salt, and vanilla. Stir in flour and oats. Press 2/3 of crumb mix in bottom of a 9X13 pan. Pour on choc mixture; flatten pieces of the remaining crumb mixture and scatter over all. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes at 350 degrees.

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