OATMEAL SCOTCHIES

3/4 cup butter
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
3 cups Oatmeal
2 cups Butterscotch chips

Heat oven to 375.  Beat butter, and sugars together, add eggs and vanilla.  Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.  Then mix this with the butter mixture until blended.  Stir in outs and butterscotch chips: mix well.  Drop heaping spoonfuls onto a cookie sheet.  Bake 8-10 minutes until light golden brown.  Cool slightly and remove from pan. Cool completly.  Store in airtight container.  Makes about 4 dozen.

SNOWBALL KISSES

11/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup cocoa powder
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
powdered sugar
48 Hershey's special dark kisses unwrapped

Combine granulated sugar and oil in large bowl: Add cocoa, eggs, vanilla and mix well.  Put all dry ingredients in a bowl to combine them.  Then add together and mix.  Once mixed well cover and refrigerate until dough is firm. 

Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.  Scoop out with 1 inch cookie scoop then roll it in your hands to make a ball. Then roll into in the powdered sugar until well coated. 
Bake at 350 for  11-13 minutes. Press chocolates immediately into the cookie. Remove from cookie sheet and let them cool on the wire rack.
Makes about 4 dozen.

SUGAR COOKIES

2 cups white sugar
1 cup butter
1 cup milk
2 eggs
6 cups of flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cream of tarter
2 tsp vanilla

Cream together sugar and butter, then add all of the rest of the ingredients.  Roll out with a light dusting of flour, about 1/4 in thick.  Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.

This is a receipt from A lady I knew as a child.  Everyone in this town made her special receipt at Christmas time.  They are so tasty and moist.  Thank you to Norma Jones!

You may ask why is this the kitchen that laughs.  Let me just tell you why:  It was late in the evening when I caught a second wind.  I needed to bake sugar cookies for various events coming up.    I had not done the recipe in a few years so I glanced at the first few ingredients and decided I wanted to have plenty so I had 2 bricks of butter out so why not just quadruple it.  I got busy plugging in my Bosch and creaming the eggs and butter together.  I then added the 3 cups milk, 8 eggs and then well....  then....  24 cups of flour!!!!!!  The Bosch managed to make it to  holding 12 of those cups of flour.  I could see that this was not going to work.  This is when laughter really began to set in.  The bowl was so full.  Round and round the Bosch went filled to the top.  I emptied it into the largest bowl I had.  I managed to add another 8 cups of four.  Then I gave up and put the remaining amount of flour on the counter dumped my huge blob of dough on the counter and walla.  I had a BIG fun mess in front of me.  I felt like a child playing with play dough, all my dreams had come true!  I began busting up again with crazy laughter this was a ginormous bit of dough to try to manipulate.  I managed to mix it and then I split the dough in half to roll it out and cut the cookies out. So this is not what happens in my crazy kitchen everyday but this is one of the many reasons that it continues to laugh!