These sound like yummy cookies! And I sometimes dream of cookies while I sleep – so why not make cookies while I sleep? This recipe is from Cross Country Cookery.
Cookies & Candy
Mars Bars Cookies
Whatever you call these, they are delicious. I’ve never even had this recipe for Mars Bars Cookies from Cross Country Cookery, and I know I’ll love them. Why? Because they’re the famous and most beloved Seven Layer Magic Cookie Bar. Or “Hello Dollies” or whatever your family called them. Maybe you gobble them up as…
Lemon Squares
These are not the Lemon Bars you’ve probably had a thousands times before. In this recipe from Cross Country Cookery, there is a cookie base, but that’s where the vague similarity ends. Next comes an eggy, nutty, and coconutty center. Then finally, a lemony lemon icing.
Benne Wafers
From the 1976 Cross Country Cookery cookbook comes Benne Wafers, a thin cookie that spreads a lot as you cook. (Benne seeds are unhulled sesame seeds that are sold by the pound in Charleston, SC supermarkets. Benne comes from ‘bene,’ an African word for seeds. According to legend among descendants of negro slaves along the…
Coconut Macaroons
Coconut Macaroons come from a collection of recipes I picked up at an estate sale a few years ago that I call the Red Plastic Box collection. Why Red Plastic Box? Because the recipes were stuffed into a red plastic recipe box.