Pooh Recipes 2

Fixings
3 eggs
2 cups biscuit mix
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
About 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening (not butter or margarine)
1 12-ounce package Nestlé Toll House Morsels

Tools
1 wooden spoon or mixing spoon
Measuring cups (dry and liquid)
Pastry brush or waxed paper
Measuring spoons
1 large mixing bowl
1 15x10x1-inch baking pan
1 rubber spatula
Potholders
1 small saucepan
1 table knife or spreader

1. With adult help, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In the large bowl put the biscuit mix, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, and milk. Stir until well mixed.

2. Stir in just half of the Nestlé Toll House Morsels (1 cup). (Save the rest for the frosting later.)

3. With a pastry brush or a piece of waxed paper, spread about 2 teaspoons of the shortening, over the bottom and sides of the 15x10x1-inch baking pan. Use the rubber spatula to spread the mixture to the sides of the pan. It might not look like there's enough batter, but there will be!

4. With adult help, bake the cookies for 14 to 16 minutes, or until golden brown. With help take the pan out of the oven. Put in on the cooling rack. Cool for 2 hours.

5. Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes. Be sure to cut shapes close together so you'll have more cookies. With a table knife carefully remove the cookies from the pan. Put on a plate. (To use the scraps that are left, break them up with your hands, and put them in a plastic bag. Sprinkle them over your ice cream or pudding for a fun dessert.)

6. To frost the cookies, put the rest of the chocolate chips (1 cup) into the saucepan. Add 1 tablespoon of the shortening. With adult help, carefully melt the Nestlé Toll House Morsels over medium-low heat. Watch and stir frequently until the chocolate melts. (Stirring keeps the morsels from sticking to the bottom of the pan.)

7. Spread the chocolate frosting over each cookie. Put the cookies next to each other on a plate. Put the plate in the refrigerator for 5 minutes so the frosting will get hard. Now they are ready to eat. makes about 26 cookies.

1. In a medium bowl empty the two packages of gelatin. In a medium saucepan measure water and apple juice; stir.

2. With grown-up help, heat the apple juice mixture to boiling (the mixture bubbles all over). With help, carefully pour the boiling liquid over the gelatin.

3. Stir the gelatin until it all dissolves. Remember to stir slowly so the hot liquid doesn't splash.

4. Lightly spray the 13x9x2-inch pan with aerosol cooking spray. (This will help the animals come out of the pan easily later.) When you can't see any more gelatin particles, carefully pour it into the pan. Cover the pan with plastic wrap, but don't let the wrap touch the liquid in the pan.

5. With grown-up help, carefully place the pan in your refrigerator. Wait 3 to 4 hours, or until the gelatin feels firm on top when you press gently with your finger.

6. Cut out the animals with cookie cutters. Be sure to cut shapes very close together so you'll have more bouncing animals. Give them to your friends! Makes 12 to 14 animals.

Fixings
Cookies
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
Icing
1 cup sifted powdered sugar
1 tablespoon butter or margarine, melted
3 to 5 teaspoons milk
Nestlé Toll House Morsels, raisins, and cinnamon candies

Tools
medium mixing bowl
Measuring cups and spoons
Electric Mixer
Big wooden spoon
1 or 2 cookie sheets
Plastic wrap
Rolling pin
Ruler
Drinking straw
Metal spatula
Cooling rack
Potholders
Small mixing bowl
Small spoon

1. With grown-up help, preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. In a medium mixing bowl put the butter, sugar, and vanilla. With help, mix on the lowest speed of the electric mixer.

2. Sprinkle about one-third of the flour into the bowl with the butter and sugar mixture. Mix on low until the flour is combined.

3. With your big wooden spoon stir in more flour (the mixture is too heavy for the mixer now). Keep adding flour and stirring until it blends in. If you need to, ask for grown-up help. With your hands, shape the dough into 2 balls. Wrap one ball in plastic wrap.

4. Put some flour on the countertop or a wooden board. Put the other ball of dough on it. Sprinkle some flour on the rolling pin. Flatten the dough with your fist. Roll it out to a 10-inch circle. (Use your ruler to check this.) With your cookie cutters, cut shapes from the dough.

5. With the spatula, put the cookies on the cookie sheet. Shape the leftover scraps of dough into a ball. Roll it out and cut more cookies. Put them on the cookie sheet. Do it again with the second ball of dough.

6. Take your straw and push one end into the top of each cookie, about 1/4 inch from the top. That makes a hole in each cookie so you can hang them on your holiday tree.

7. With grown-up help, bake the cookies for 19 to 21 minutes, or until the edges are just beginning to brown. With help, take them out of the oven. Use the spatula to put the cookies on a cooling rack.

8. To decorate your cookies, in a small bowl stir together the powdered sugar and the butter, then add 3 teaspoons milk. Stir until it's well mixed. Add 1 or 2 teaspoons more milk until the frosting makes a thin line into the bowl when you lift the spoon. Use the tip of your spoon to decorate your cookies with faces or squiggly lines. Sprinkle Nestlé Toll House Morsels, raisins, and cinnamon candies to decorate the frosted lines. Tie a string onto each cookie so you can hang them on your holiday tree. Makes 24 to 28 cookies.

1. With grown-up help, preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. In the medium bowl, stir together the biscuit mix, Nestlé Toll House Morsels, and the milk until well mixed.

2. Put some flour on a large wood board or the countertop. Rub some on your hands too. Lift the biscuit dough onto the board. Sprinkle a little bit of flour over the dough, then fold the dough over on itself. Turn the dough, then fold it 10 times. (This is called "kneading.")

3. Now put some flour on the rolling pin. Roll the dough until it is bout 1/2-inch thick (use your ruler to check). If the dough sticks to the rolling pin, add some more flour to rolling pin. With the cookie cutters cut out the biscuits. Be sure to cut the shapes close together so you'll have more biscuits.

4. Use the metal spatula to put the animals on the cookie sheet, about 1/2 inch apart. With adult help, bake the biscuits for 5 to 7 minutes, or until they are golden brown.

5. While the biscuits are baking, in the small bowl stir together the butter and honey until mixed well. With grown-up help, take the biscuits out of the oven and use the spatula to put them on the cooling rack.

6. Serve the biscuits while hot with honey butter to spread on them. Makes about 20 animal biscuits, and 1/2 cup honey butter.

1. With grown-up help, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Have your grown-up helper use the small knife to cut off the ends of the sugar cookie roll, remove the wrapper, and cut the roll of dough in half. Sprinkle a large wooden board. Put some on the rolling pin too.

2. Roll out the dough until it is 1/8-inch thick. (Use your ruler to check this.) With your cookie cutters, cut out shapes in the dough. Be sure to cut them close together so you'll have more cookies. With your metal spatula put the cookies on the cookie sheet.

3. Shape the dough scraps into a ball and roll it out. Cut more cookies. Put them on the cookie sheet. Do it again with the rest of the cookie dough roll.

4. With grown-up help, bake the cookies for 7 to 9 minutes, or just until the edges start to turn brown. With help, take them out of the oven. Use the metal spatula to put the cookies on the cooling rack.

5. To make the paints, in a medium bowl stir together the powdered sugar and the milk until smooth. Now divide the mixture into the 4 little bowls. Each of these bowls will become a different color "paint". Just add one or two drops of a different food coloring to each bowl. Stir well to make a pretty color in each one.

6. Use your imagination and your paintbrushes to pain each of your cookies. Put the painted cookies back on the cooling rack until the paint has set. Makes 3 dozen cookies.