Reitha's Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients:

3 3/4 c flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 c butter
1 1/2 c white sugar
1 1/2 c brown sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 c peanut butter

Directions:

Sift together flour and baking powder. Set aside.

Mix butter, white sugar, brown sugar and eggs in bowl.

Add 1 c flour mixture to butter/sugar mixture. Mix well.

Add remaining flour and peanut butter.

Stir or mix until flour is well blended.

Make balls of dough and make criss crosses on top of each cookie with a fork. This helps flatten the cookies a bit.

Bake at 350* for 12 or so minutes.

Walt and Reitha's Peanut Butter Fudge

Ingredients:

3 3/4 cups powdered sugar,

3 tbsp cocoa powder

1 cup butter

1 cup peanut butter

1 tsp vanilla

Directions:

Sift together the powdered sugar and cocoa

Melt 1/2 lb butter with 1 c peanut butter and 1 tsp vanilla

Mix together and press into pan

Refrigerate

Mimi’s Peanut Butter Bon-Bons

Ingredients:

3 c. Rice Krispies

1 stick melted butter

1 box (16 oz.) powdered sugar

2 c. peanut butter (chunky or creamy)

1 c. chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans or no nuts at all)

1 large package semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 Hershey chocolate bar - 4 oz.

1/8 stick of parafin (wax), cut into shavings {This is the unpopular step that I don’t tell people about because they go- ooooohhh, yuck, wax! And you don’t have to put it in- but the chocolate sets up so much better.

Directions:

In a saucepan, melt the peanut butter and butter. In a large bowl combine powdered sugar and Rice Krispies; pour peanut butter mixture over the dry mix. Add the chopped nuts. Blend together with your hands. (At this point it probably should go into the fridge for a bit if the peanut butter mixture is too fluid/sticky) If you can work with the mixture at this point without putting the stuff in the fridge- go ahead and form into half inch balls. Chill the balls well.

Melt parafin shavings in a double boiler and add all the chocolate. Melt. Dip cookies in the chocolate, coating and swirling with the back of a spoon. Place on waxed lined paper on a cookie sheet until they set up. These freeze really well.

Yummy!