Chocolate Mousse Pie

This is one of the 1st recipes I remember making from Quick Cooking Magazine. I'm not a huge pie person, but this one is easy & delicious.

Chocolate Mousse Pie
(From Quick Cooking Premiere Magazine)

Photo from Tasteofhome.com

1 milk chocolate candy bar with or without almonds (7 oz) (I use Original Hershey's Chocolate Bar without almonds)
16 large marshmallows or 1-1/2 cups of mini marshmallows
1/2 cup milk
2 cups whipping cream, whipped (I use 2 cups of cool whip)
1 pastry shell, baked or graham cracker or chocolate crumb crust (8" or 9")

Place the candy bar, marshmallows & milk in a heavy saucepan; cook over low heat, stirring constantly until chocolate is melted & mixture is smooth. Cool. Fold in whipped cream; pour into crust. Refrigerate for at least 3 hours.

Garnish with additional chocolate pieces or curls.

Makes 6-8 servings.

Grandma Ann's Fudge

Today I'm going to do something I seldom, if ever, do...post a recipe I haven't made myself.

Here's why: I am not a fudge maker. Anything that has to "set up" causes me great distress. (Need proof? Ask me to make some No Bakes/Cow Patties).

Anyway, these 2 fudge recipes are my Grandma Ann's (Livi's Great-Grandma on my Dad's side). I KNOW they are delicious & I KNOW they set-up if you are a fudge maker & the "set-up" gods do not hate you like they do me. So, even though I haven't personally goofed up made these, I can attest to their goodness.

Grandma Ann's Chocolate Fudge

4 cups white sugar
1 can (12 oz) PET milk
1 bag (12 oz) semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 bar German Chocolate
1/2 stick butter
small jar of marshmallow creme
2 tsp. vanilla
Tblsp. of peanut butter (optional)

Boil sugar & milk for 8 minutes.
Melt chocolates.
Remove from heat - add other ingredients.
Stir & put in a 9 x 13 pan.

Grandma Ann's Peanut Butter Fudge

3 cups brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
1 can (12 oz) PET milk
3-1/2 Tblsp. butter (stick)
small jar of marshmallow creme
2 tsp. vanilla
1 small jar of peanut butter
2/3 of a big jar of peanut butter

Boil sugars & milk for 10 minutes.
Remove from heat - add other ingredients
Stir & put in 9 x 13 pan.

Buckeyes

This recipe was given to me years ago by Toby's sister-in-law. Although they are super yummy, unless you have a small village to help you roll the peanut butter balls, I'd recommend you drastically cut this recipe down. I don't remember exactly how many it makes, but it's gotta be somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 million...ok, I exaggerate...it makes about 900,000 ;)  However, if you are making candy for a lot of people, this is great recipe for making lots of candy on a budget.

Buckeyes

Photo from
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/
buckeyes-i/detail.aspx

3 lbs. powdered sugar
2 lbs peanut butter
1 lb. soft butter

1-1/2 package of chocolate chips
1 stick paraffin

Mix powdered sugar, peanut butter & butter. Roll into small balls & chill.

Melt chocolate chips & paraffin in sauce pan.

Dip rolled balls in to chocolate by stabbing peanut butter ball with toothpick & then dipping.
Cool on wax paper.

5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake

Since getting this recipe in a email years ago, I've since seen similar ones on websites via Pinterest. Including a site here that has about 2 zillion types of cakes you can make in mugs...ok, maybe not 2 zillion but A LOT! Anyway, this is the only one I've personally tried (& I only post recipes on here that I've tried myself) so I'm going to share this one. If you try one of the others from the above website, let me know how they turn out :)

Labeled as the most dangerous cake recipe ever ('cause let's be honest, do we really NEED to be able to make chocolate cake in 5 minutes with stuff we usually always have around the house?)

5 Minute Chocolate Mug Cake

4 Tblsp. flour
4 Tblsp. sugar
2 Tblsp. cocoa
1 egg
3 Tblsp. milk
3 Tblsp. oil
3 Tblsp. chocolate chips (optional)
a small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug

Add dry ingredients to mug & mix well. Add the egg & mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk & oil & mix well. Add the chocolate chips, if using & vanilla extract & mix again.

Put your mug in the microwave & cook for 3 minutes.@ 1000 watts (high). The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't freak out!

Allow to cool a little & tip out onto a plate if desired.
Enjoy!!!

This is enough for 2 if you really want to share....