Tasty Tuesday

Yummy and No Bake!

So if you don't bake you can still have wonderful homemade treats. I know you can microwave! Can't you??

So take your Ritz crackers and put you some crunchy (or smooth) peanut butter between two of them and then melt you some chocolate or Almond Bark and dip your little crackers in it and set them on some wax paper and sprinkle something festive on them or drizzle some more chocolate on them for a beautiful presentation.

And if you don't want to take the time to make peanut butter crackers buy the box of mini Ritz bits and just open the box and melt the chocolate and dip them in and let them set up. They are wonderful. I think I like the mini ones better. Just pop them in your mouth. Yummy, yummy!

Gooey Butter Cookies

Katherine over at Smoky Mountain Cafe posted this recipe that she had gotten off of Priscilla at Priscilla's Baking Adventures. I just had to try them! They were so easy and sooooo good!!! I've now made 5 batches for different occasions that I have had this weekend. They are very moist and almost lemony, if that's a word. They are my new favorite.

Gooey Butter Cookies

1 8oz. pkg. cream cheese

1/2 c. butter, softened

1 egg

1/4 tsp. vanilla

1 yellow cake mix

1/2 c. powdered sugar

DIRECTIONS: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter. Stir in egg and vanilla. Add cake mix & stir until well blended.Powder sugar your hands well. Roll into 1" or 2" balls and dust balls in powdered sugar. Place 1" apart on ungreased cookie sheets (Siplast and parchment paper work well too) . Bake for 10 minutes. Leave on cookie sheet for 3 minutes or more before removing to cool on wire racks.

I couldn't let it go without trying a Chocolate cake mix in the same recipe. It wasn't as good for me as the yellow cake mix was. Still this recipe is a keeper.