These all sound wonderfully and sinfully delicious.

I remember Nancy had some good ones last year. Hope she shares them again.

Here is a recipe that Jennie and I tried this weekend. It involves Butterscotch chips. Those seem to be very popular around here – with very good reason!

Butterscotch Gingerbread Cookies

Ingredients
-3 cups all-purpose flour
-2 teaspoons baking soda
-1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
-1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
-3/4 teaspoon ground cloves
-1/2 teaspoon salt
-1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
-1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margerine, softened
-1/3 cup mild molasses
-1 large egg
-11 oz package of Butterscotch Flavored Morsels

Preheart oven to 350F.
Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, clvoes and salt in a bowl.
Beat sugar, butter, molasses and egg in large mixer bowl until creamy. Gradually beat in flour mixture until well blended. Stir in morsels. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.
Bake for 9-11 min. Cool on wire rack.

2 Cups Peanut Butter
1 ½ Cups Butter
16 oz. (4 ½ Cups) Sifted Powdered Sugar
3 Cups Rice Crispy Cereal
1-6oz. Pkg. Butterscotch Chips
1-6 oz. Pkg. Semisweet Chocolate Chips

In saucepan, melt peanut butter & butter.
In large bowl, combine sugar & cereal; pour peanut butter mixture over cereal and blend together with hands.
Form into ½ inch balls and chill until firm.
Melt chips in double boilers & dip half of candies in each coating. Place on waxed paper and chill.

Another really easy way to make candy is to melt one package of butterscotch chips and one package of chocolate chips in a double boiler on low heat. Add your choice of nuts and stir thoroughly. Drop with a spoon on wax paper and let cool. These will make your traditional peanut clusters and they actually taste pretty good for how simple they are.

You can add coconut instead of nuts and it makes a really nice Haystack.

I need to find my recipe for fudge that my brother-in-law makes and gave to me. It is really quite easy to make and pretty tasty.

My family loves to make and eat Popcorn Balls at Christmas time. We do not make them in the traditional way with Karo Syrup. That really is a disaster in the making for dental work if you ask me. We make them like Rice Krispie Bars.

I start off by popping a large grocery bag full of popcorn. I usually use my air popper because there is a lot less seeds when you make popcorn that way.

Then I melt one stick of butter in a large pan ( 10 quart). Once the butter is melted throw in one bag of marshmallows and stir slowly on low heat until completely melted. Add some red or green food coloring. A grocery bag full of popcorn usually makes two batches of Popcorn Balls so I make one batch green and one batch red. Then poor about 1/2 bag of popcorn into the pan and stir quickly.

With your hands greased with butter, form balls and drop on wax papa or foil and let cool.

They are so good.

Country Oatmeal Cookie in a Jar
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup rolled oats
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup chocolate chips (or 1/2 cup chips, 1/2 cup nuts optional)
(The above ingredients are what go into the jar as the gift. Layer the ingredients in the order listed into a quart jar. I seem to remember needing to pack the ingredients pretty firmly. We created a tag with the cooking instructions and attached it to the lid.)
Cooking Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
You will also need the following ingredients:
3/4 cup butter (1 1/2 sticks), softened
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
Beat butter, eggs, and vanilla until well combined. Add entire contents of jar, mixing by hand.
Drop by heaping tsp. onto baking sheet and bake 12-15 minutes.