Tuesday’s Taste Tempters 4.23.13

Posted: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:00 pm

Today’s recipe comes from the Curves Community Walk of Hope team’s cookbook.
The team is selling spiralbound, washable cover cookbooks, featuring 67 pages of recipes in nine categories from 50 contributors. The price is $12, with all funds going to help local cancer patients through the Obion County Cancer Agency’s Hometown Walk of Hope.
Call 885-3330 or 335-0483 or go by Curves at 1433 South First St. in the Reelfoot Shopping Center to purchase a cookbook.
Suzanne’s Really Really Famous Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
1 cup shortening, butter-flavored makes a richer tasting cookie
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups self-rising flour
12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped nuts, optional

Mix together the first five ingredients with an electric mixer. Add flour and continue mixing. By hand, stir in the chocolate chips and nuts. Spray a large cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray and dump the whole mixture in the pan. Flour your hands and spread out evenly. Bake at 375 degrees for about 20 minutes.

Sometimes, I add white chocolate chips to this recipe. Everything is the same, but I add 1 cup of white chips or use 6 ounces (1 cup) of semi-sweet and 1 cup of white. YUMMY! — Suzanne Hill

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