h is for hamburger cookies

grandma said when my mom and uncles were little kids they liked to make hamburger cookies and at first Sian and I were kind of scared.  we thought there was really hamburger in the cookies...
and then grandma brought out all of the ingredients...

for the buns, you use vanilla wafers...
for the hamburger, you use york peppermint patties
for the lettuce, you use green coconut
for the mustard, you use yellow frosting
for the ketchup, you also use red frosting...

Sian and I had lots of fun doing them but best of all was eating them...your kids would love these...

here is a link to All recipes for the same cookies:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/hamburger-cookies/

g is for George Washington's cupcakes

my grandma told me that when my mom and uncles were little they made these cupcakes every year on George Washington's birthday cause they have cherry in them...

we made them late this year cause grandma had a hard time finding the cherry extract...

this is a recipe that my grandma found a long time ago in an old magazine...

they are very good...

for the recipe you are supposed to use a cherry cake mix but they do not have them anymore so grandma used the next best thing...

here is the recipe:

1 pkg of vanilla cake mix
1 pkg of vanilla instant pudding
1 1/4 cup of buttermilk
4 eggs
1/2 cup of oil
1 cup of coconut
1 cup of pecans
2 tbs of cherry extract (grandma found this on Amazon)

mix together and bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes...
these cupcakes are very moist and do not need frosting, I sprinkled some powdered sugar on top...

Zoe says hapy cooking for you and your kids...   (:

f is for fudgy crinkle cookies

my grandma found these really neat cookies on the internet and thought I would like to make them...and tomorrow I can take Mrs J. my teacher some too...

these are called cool whip cookies and you can use whatever flavor of cake mix you want to...

we used chocolate, cause that is what we had...

pour the dry cake mix into a bowl, add 2 eggs and one container (8 oz.) of cool whip...mix it up and let it sit in frig for 30 minutes...

then you make into balls and roll into some powdered sugar...

bake at 350 for 9-12 minutes...

very yummy, your kids would love to make these with you...

e is for english muffin pizzas & egg rolls (smores)

my grandma got Sian and me some English muffins and we made them into pizzas...we put sauce, pepperoni, sausage and cheese on top of the muffins and baked them...they were very good...Sian liked them a lot... then for dessert we made smore egg rolls...we got egg roll wrappers and put mini marshmallows, some chocolate chips and some crushed graham crackers in the middle and Grandma fried them in a little hot oil... they were so yummy...we want to make them again

d is for decorating gingerbread houses

and at school too

Pancake cookbook

my Uncle got me this cookbook that came in a kit to make pancakes

Build a Bear cookbook for kids

this cute cookbook came with my Build a bear for Christmas and has it's own cookie cutters too...