I can’t eat puppy chow because of the name. I just can’t! 8-}
I’d need another name for it, MoD.
@bearpanther When you have time (no rush) I’d love that filbert recipe. My grandmother used to make something that sounds just like those and I don’t have her recipe. I always loved those.
I think I can’t remember my grandmother ever baking cookies. Bread was our thing. She’d make little loaves that looked like gingerbread men, with raisins for eyes and buttons.
D’s on-campus job gave them treat bags. It had a chex mix that was super sweet, sugary, and maybe cinnamon. Delicious. I never make Puppy Chow, but will gladly consume it!
I have a Chex Mix recipe that is made with honey, butter, and brown sugar cracked to hard crack stage, poured on the Chex and baked for a hour. Perfection–3 of my favorite ingredients 
Finished making the peanut brittle and need to stash it away so I stop eating it. Candy making is fun, like playing mad scientist.
Can you post or PM me your peanut brittle recipe?
I am going to attempt to make a traditional Polish poppy seed roll. My mom would make it for Christmas every year, and it’s a family favorite, especially with my picky-eater daughter. Newly widowed, my mom has absolved herself from any holiday “duties” – which I applaud and support. I guess the onus is on me to try to carry on the tradition.
Wish me luck. This involves yeast, a thermometer, and above-average baking skills. I feel thoroughly challenged.
This is one of those times where I REALLY wish we could post pictures on here. Good luck, @katliamom!
@katliamom My grandmother always made both nut roll and poppy seed roll (I see we have similar ancestry 
) but we only make the nut roll these days. Mom still makes it but I’ll have to pick up that role eventually. I’ve inherited the cookie baker role that my grandmother played. Getting the dough thin on those rolls is the trickiest part IMO.
@Madison85 Here’s the peanut brittle recipe I use. I don’t chop the nuts and just a warning that I find that it cooks a lot quicker at each stage than the recipe states so keep an eye on the thermometer. It also helps to have everything ready to go because it moves fast at the end.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/old-fashioned-peanut-brittle-2682
Omg, pierogies on one thread, now poppy seed roll. We made the rolls like long braided danish. Love them, grew up with them and prune roll. Maybe I need to make one of those.
MIL makes a fabulous Hungarian nut roll. Christmas and Easter. I’m too scared to even try.
So far have made caramels, chocolate toffee, peanut butter blossoms. Done! I find that after making them all I rarely want to eat any- sick of it all but happy to see others enjoy them.
@leftrightleft , I think @doschicos and I will be over shortly and help you with your efforts.
You bet! Put on the teapot. ~O)
I’ve made rum and bourbon balls before but I was the only one who ate them, so now I stick to pretty basic sugar cookies in interesting shapes. I found a site with all kinds of cookie cutters, so now I have a Labrador retriever (DD’s BF’s dog), a Pomeranian (future step-D’s dog), and a '57 Chevy (as close as I could get to fiancé’s '57 T-bird). Plus the usual angels and trees and stars.
Well…
The loaves are in the oven. They LOOK all right, but I’m worried the dough didn’t rise enough and it will be tough. So just in case I ran out and bought a poppy seed roll at an Eastern European store. Cheating, I know, but it feels nice to have a back up.
I’m now kind of inspired to experiment more with it… it’s not like having a lot of poppy seed roll around will be a problem.
Happykid has made four different types of truffles as presents for friends. I don’t know yet when we will get to baking or what it will be other than the traditional Venezuelan Pan de Jamon. This recipe is pretty close to the one we use: http://www.whats4eats.com/breads/pan-de-jamon-recipe Hint: roll out the bread dough into that long rectangle, cover with the ham slices, then make two or three parallel lines of raisins and two or three lines of olives the long way on the rectangle before rolling up. When you slice the bread after baking, each piece will have some of each.
I’ve never baked a poppy seed roll, but I’ve been known to bring one home from the local Amish Market. If you have success, please share the recipe!
Tonight I made margarita balls. While I was looking up the recipe for rum balls, this recipe appeared. It took me over an hour to make. I also made sweet and sour meatballs.
I made mistake the other night while baking distracted…it was a double batch to make it even funnier. I forgot to add the eggs to the cookie batter . Funny thing is, the cranberry white chocolate cookies turned out really nice. The recipe called for refrigerating the dough for at least an hour before baking them because the dough could flatten out too much. The cookies didn’t spread out at all and are pretty tasty