I know..that is why the inside of my post says staff is getting cookies/candy..nm

JUST CLICK ON THE NAME OF THE COOKIE AND BAM, THE RECIPE IS THERE. GOOD TO KEEP HANDY FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

Creme DE Menthe Chocolate Squares

Cream Wafers

Crescent Cookies

Crispy Crunchies

Date Nut Balls

Date-nut Pinwheel Cookies

Diabetic Peanut Butter Cookies

Disgustingly Rich Brownies

Doodles

Double chocolate chip cookies

Double-Chocolate Crinkles

Eatmore Cookies

Eggnog Cookies

Elizabeth's Sugar Cookies

Elves Quick Fudge Brownies

Emily Dickinson's Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

Emily's Best Brownies

Famous Oatmeal Cookies

Firemen Cookies

Fluffy Shortbread Cookies

Forgotten Cookies

Frosted Peanut Butter Brownies

Fruit Cake Cookies

Candy making
I use chocolate bark to dip with. I do know you have to watch the humidity outside. If the humidity is high, the chocolate will not set, but you can put it in the refrigerator to get it to set. Have fun!!
candy making
Aww, my favorite time of year. You can freeze your candy and it will still be good until Christmas. I make chocolate and peanut butter fudge and freeze it. As a matter of fact, it is really good frozen, takes longer to eat, just melts in your mouth. I have to disguise the candy in the freezer, otherwise people will pick at it and it will be gone by Christmas. YUM!
Candy and website

I am working on getting it back up and running...tell me what your interested in and I will send you some pics.

Oh, he is mostly arm candy and he is a looker!
Actually when it comes to money I have more than him so maybe I might find someone even younger than him but I doubt that. I never doubt his love for 1 minute.
Christmas cookies, etal.....

Sorry, Have to click on www.northpole.com

cookies 101..love to bake...sm

This will get you in an early holiday mood.... and if you don't bake...send the list to someone as a big hint!!!

JUST CLICK ON THE NAME OF THE COOKIE AND BAM, THE RECIPE IS THERE. GOOD TO KEEP HANDY FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

1-2-3 Cookies

7 Layer Cookies

Allie Nelson's Famous Snickerdoodle Cookies

Almond Crescent Shortbread

Amish Sugar Cookies

Andies Candies Cookies

Angel Crisps

Angenets

Applesauce Cookies

Apricot Fold-Overs

Aunt Edy's Molasses Crinkles

Auntie Linda's Ginger Gems

Bakeless Dream Cookies

Banana Drop Cookies

Best Chocolate Chip Cookies in the World

Biscotti

Biscotti

Blueberry Cookies

Boiled Chocolate Oatmeal Drop Cookies

Bronwnies

Brown Sugar Shortbread Brownie Cookies

Brownie Delight

Brownies

Buccaneer Snowballs

Buried Cherry Cookies

Butter Cookies Butter Nut Balls

Butterballs

Butterscotch Haystacks

C.O.P. Cookies

Candy Cane Cookies Candy Cookies

Caramel Shortbread

Cheesecake Brownies

Cherry Buns Cherry Crowns Cherry Winks

Chewies Chewy Noels

Chinese Chews/Haystacks

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Chip Meltaways

Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies

Chocolate Christmas Trees

Chocolate Cream Cheese Squares

Chocolate Crinkles

Chocolate Mint Snow-Top Cookies

Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies (no bake)

Chocolate Snowball Cookies

Chocolate Streusel Bars

Chocolate Sundae Cookies

Chocolate Walnut Crumb Bars

Choco-Scotch Crunchies

Choose A Cookie Dough Recipe

Christmas Crackers

Christmas Crunch Bars

Christmas Ginger Snaps

Christmas Macaroons

Christmas Mice Cookies

Christmas Shaped Cookies

Church Window Cookies

Coconut Cookies

Congo Squares

Cookie in a Jar

Corn Flakes Cookies

Cornflake Christmas Wreaths

Cowboy Cookies (oatmeal)

Cream Cheese Cookies with Apricot Filling

Creme DE Menthe Chocolate Squares

Cream Wafers

Crescent Cookies

Crispy Crunchies

Date Nut Balls

Date-nut Pinwheel Cookies

Diabetic Peanut Butter Cookies

Disgustingly Rich Brownies

Doodles

Double chocolate chip cookies

Double-Chocolate Crinkles

Eatmore Cookies

Eggnog Cookies

Elizabeth's Sugar Cookies

Elves Quick Fudge Brownies

Emily Dickinson's Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

Emily's Best Brownies

Famous Oatmeal Cookies

Firemen Cookies

Fluffy Shortbread Cookies

Forgotten Cookies

Frosted Peanut Butter Brownies

Fruit Cake Cookies

wrapping cookies cheap.
Are they being mailed?? If so, wrap them in plastic wrap and then foil and put them in Pringle's Potato Chip tins. This works great for care packages going to Iraq.
P.S. Couldn't really say John Candy or that would have
completely given it away.

Had to make ya work for it right?! :)
Doesn't that just frost your cookies?
Frosted mine, anyway.

Every feasible thing except a volcano raining lava down on my house has happened this month to suck every spare penny out of me, and I'm not counting CHRISTMAS (THERE! I said the evil word!) expenses. I just get in from snow shoveling for the gazillionth time and finally got a chance to open the mail. After the electric bill darn near killed me, I open a bill from the prodigal son's university. Son goes to state univ., but not in our state. Here's the cost for 2007/2008:

Out-of-State Tuition: $21,770/year
Mandatory Fees: $2,260/year
Room and Board: $6,204/year
TOTAL: $30,234/year

Books, meal plans, health insurance, etc. not included. He gets lots of financial aid, though.

The bill for spring semester was due a couple of weeks ago and has been paid. I just received another bill, as I do every semester right after tuition is paid, for the following:

Course Fee #1: $15.00
Course Fee #2: $10.00
Photocopying Fee: $15.00

Course fee? Wouldn't you think that $21,700 for tuition ought to cover that? Photocopying fee?? I can buy a whole package of paper at Staples for $7.00. How much paper/ink/electricity does it take to make a photocopy? $15 worth? Over 14,000 students are enrolled there. That's $210,000 charged for photocopying fees/semester, $420,000/year.

How does one get into the photocopying business?

I got 5 pounds of chocolate candy

Hubby remembered one night...just 1 night...and can't remember when, that I was so hungry for a piece of chocolate, he gave me 5 pounds of chocolate for Christmas!!! I love chocolate but not that much!!!! I think he wants me to get fat.

I ate 2 pieces so far since Christmas. Hmmmmmmmmmm, think I'll go grab a piece now. It seems to be calling me.

I transcribed a Candy Caine once. sm

There was a doctor in the town I used to transcribe for named Dr. VonSick. Ironic?

There is an accounting firm in the next town over named Cheatham and Goleno. Cheat em? Not my accountant!

I went to school with a Candy Kiss = sm
She dropped out of school in 10th grade and married a man whose last name was Kowalski.
Girl Scout cookies are here!

I love Girl Scout cookies!

They are $4 a box this year. I always tell the little girls they were 50 cents a box when I sold them and they look at me like, okay, old lady, just buy the cookies.

Girl Scout Cookies
My daughter is a Girl Scout so we bought quite a few boxes. I love the thin mint and could probably eat a whole box myself in one day. They're $3.50 here, but every year I swear the cookies get smaller and smaller.
sneakers. Cookies or cake?
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Chocolate chip cookies! Who needs anything else? -nm

Do you keep a candy dish on your desk?

What's inside it?

I have one on my desk, but it usually only has sugar-free gum in it. Boring I know, but I hate it when my kids get cavities and since they raid my dish all the time, I have to take precautions. I also don't want to tempt myself all day long with sugar. Sometimes I get sugar-free Werther's candy or sugar-free lemonade candy but those bags are so tiny they don't last long.

Halloween candy warning

HALLOWEEN CANDY RECALLED

There is a new warning put out by the Canadian Food Inspection
Agency....

Sherwood brand Pirate's Gold Milk Chocolate coins are being
recalled due to the fact that they contain Mel amine, the ingredient in milk
product that has caused many infant deaths in china. These candies are
sold at Costco, as well as many bulk and dollar stores. please make sure to
check your childrens halloween candy and DO NOT LET THEM EAT THE
PIRATE COINS (you know the ones wrapped in the shiny gold foil) and
please let other parents know about this!

Christmas candy ideas
My husband and I make about 30 tins of candy each year to give to family and friends. We make chocolate covered cherries (just dip cherries in melted chocolate), white chocolate covered pretzels with red and green chocolate drizzled on top, turtles (I buy a 5 lb chunk of caramel), buckeyes (peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate), peanut butter kiss cookies, mixed nut clusters dipped in chocolate and peanut butter fudge. All of it is pretty simple, just time consuming. My family really looks forward to receiving it each year. I use a double boiler for melting chocolate. I haven't had much luck in the microwave. If you would like specific instructions for any of the above, feel free to e-mail me. I think the kids could do a lot of the dipping to help out.
Candy making question

If I make some candy would it still be good for Christmas? I'm going to make those Peanut Butter Bon Bons today.

How do you make you choolate chips and paraffin wax to dip them in? I can't remember how many choc chips I used before, but one time the candy didn't get as hard as it should.

I always keep these in the fridge anyway.

Nutmeg muffins, cookies, cake
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Is there a local candy making store?
They may have them, but not sure. I'm in Delaware, but we have a store that carries all kinds of little things to make your own candy. I do remember seeing cinnamon chips, and I wonder where they went? I wonder if you also tried Hershey's website for them or other websites. I wonder if you Google cinnamon chips???? just a thought....
What's your favorite Christmas treat/candy, etc?
Mine are the 'chocolate oranges' and Andes mints.

For homemade stuff, can't beat fudge, Chex mix and Christmas sugar cookies.

What're your favorites?
Or hard candy clicking around in their mouths, nm
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And bring lots of candy gelt.
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