A few of our favorites

I have been thinking about doing this for awhile now, and Monica has now developed a new recipe blog (I am not that ambitious, it's hard enough to regular blog), so I thought I would share a few of our families favorites. These recipes are yummy, tried and true! Hope you like them as much as we do.

Chewy Blondies

1/2 cup butter
2 cups packed brown sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla
Powdered sugar (to dust after finished)

Preheat oven to 350* Grease a 9x13" pan. In a med. sauce pan, melt the butter. Turn off heat, add brown sugar and stir until smooth. (will still be grainy) Stir in the eggs. Stir together the flour and baking powder and add to the sugar mixture. Stir in the vanilla. Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 20 minutes. When cool, dust with powdered sugar ( I use my mesh colander).
This recipe can be easily halved - use an 8x8" pan, or doubled, using a jelly roll pan.

Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup butter
3/4 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3 cups flour
3/4 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. baking soda
1 bag chocolate chips

Cream together butter. sugars, eggs. and vanilla. In a seperate bowl sift together flour, salt and baking soda. Add to creamed mixture and beat well. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop onto cookie sheet by heaping tablespoons, I use cookie scooper. Bake @ 350* for 8-10 min. until lightly browned.

Easy Brownies

2 cups white sugar
1 cup butter
1/2 cup cocoa
1 tsp. vanilla
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt  
1/2 cup walnuts (opt.) I use one cup of choc. chips instead. 

Melt the butter and mix all ingredients in the order given.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 20 to 30 minutes in a 9 x 13 inch greased pan.