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I made Magic Cookie Bars this week, using the Eagle Brand recipe, which I've also included in this blog post, with my additional notes:

Ingredients
        
non-stick cooking spray

1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup butter, melted (=1 stick / 8 tablespoons)
1 (14 oz.) can Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (~1 11.5 oz bag)
1 1/3 cups flaked coconut (~2/3 of a 7 oz bag)
1 cup chopped nuts

Instructions

HEAT oven to 350°F.

Coat 13 x 9-inch baking pan with no-stick cooking spray.

COMBINE graham cracker crumbs and butter in small bowl.

Press into bottom of prepared pan.

Pour sweetened condensed milk evenly over crumb mixture.
(Maybe pour milk on last, on top of everything else?)

Layer evenly with chocolate chips, coconut and nuts.

Press down firmly with fork.

BAKE 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned. (~18 minutes in my oven, on middle shelf.)

Loosen from sides of pan while still warm; cool on wire rack.

Cut into bars or diamonds.

For perfectly cut cookie bars, line entire pan with foil, extending foil over edge of pan. Coat lightly with no-stick cooking spray. After bars have baked and cooled, lift up with edges of foil to remove from pan. Cut into bars.

VARIATIONS

SUBSTITUTE chocolate chips or nuts with candy coated pieces, dried cranberries, raisins, mini-marshmallows, butterscotch chips, or peanut butter chips.

Snowballs / Mexican Wedding Cookies / Pecan Balls / Russian Tea Cakes / Butter Balls

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I based my recipe on the Kraft recipe.

All of these recipes are very similar:

Mexican Wedding Cookies

Pecan Balls

Snowballs

Russian Tea Cakes/Cookies

Butter Balls

Ingredients:

2 cups (4 sticks) unsalted butter, softened (Stop and Shop Sweet Cream Butter Unsalted)

1 cup powdered sugar

6 tsp. vanilla

2 tsp. salt

2 cups finely chopped Pecans

4 cups flour

1 cup powdered sugar for coating

Directions:

1) Preheat oven to 350°F.

2) Beat butter, 1 cup of the powdered sugar and the vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy.

3) Add salt and beat on medium speed.

4) Gradually add pecans, beating on low speed after each addition until well blended.

5) Gradually add flour, beating on low speed after each addition until well blended.

6) Use cookie scooper to drop dough, 1-1/2 inches apart, on ungreased baking sheets.

Bake 10 to 15 min. or until bottoms of cookies are lightly browned. Time may vary based on your oven. Cool 5 min. on baking sheets. Roll warm cookies in remaining 1 cup powdered sugar until evenly coated; place on wire racks. Cool completely. Store in tightly covered container at room temperature.

Makes about 96 cookies. (4 x 6 on 4 cookie sheets.)

250 Dollar Cookie Recipe

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I took today off from work and made these cookies this afternoon, after making my Great Grand Mother's Thanksgiving stuffing this morning. Someone forwarded me this cookie recipe in an email (I think back then it was originally the "$200 recipe"). The story was something about the person eating these delicious cookies in a restaurant, asking for the recipe, and getting charged $250 for it, so they were sharing it with everyone. The story is probably an urban legend, but the cookies are delicious. The recipe is below and free for anyone to copy. I made the recipe cut in half, which is shown below the original one.

$250.00 cookie recipe:

2 cups of butter

2 cups of sugar

2 cups of brown sugar

4 eggs

2 tsp of vanilla

4 cups of flour

5 cups of blended oatmeal **

1 tsp of salt

2 tsp baking powder

2 tsp of baking soda

24 oz of chocolate chips

1 8oz Hershey bar (grated)

3 cups of chopped nuts (your choice)

** measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder

Cream butter and both sugars together. Add eggs and vanilla; mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Add chocolate chips, Hershey bar and nuts. Roll into balls, and place two inches apart on cookie sheet.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 112 cookies.

Recipe halved:

1 cup of butter

1 cup of sugar

1 cup of brown sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp of vanilla

2 cups of flour

2 1/2 cups of blended oatmeal **

1/2 tsp of salt

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp of baking soda

12 oz of chocolate chips

4oz Hershey bar (grated)

1 1/2 cups of chopped nuts (your choice)

Makes 56 cookies