1 cup peanut butter chips
1 cup butterscotch chips
2 1/2 - 3 1/2 cups of corn flakes*
Melt peanut butter and butterscotch chips in microwave, stirring constantly until melted. Stir in corn flakes until completely coated. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto waxed paper lined cookie sheets.
(Dione says: These are the easiest things ever, the only way you can screw these up is by not stirring the chips often enough causing them to burn or form a big lumpy mess. Don't ask me how I know. I usually microwave them for about thirty seconds, stir, then microwave and stir every ten seconds until melted.
*I'm not sure how many corn flakes to add... I start with two cups and then keep adding more as long as there's enough peanut butter-butterscotch stuff to coat them. If you add too many corn flakes the thingies might not stick together quite right, but they'll still taste really good. And that's what's important, right?)
(Photo above, a new generation of cookie bakers - Amanda at three, baking chocolate chip cookies for the first time.)
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These thingies are something I came up with when I was living with my friend, Beth. During one of our Christmas-cookie-baking-marathons we challenged ourselves to make as many different types of cookies/candy as we could. I was all over that challenge because at the time I was still trying to be a "good Norwegian girl" in my Grandma Bea's eyes.
As the marathon continued, we got tired/loopy/silly and started inventing all kinds of weird stuff just to improve our numbers. This is one that I came up with...just an easier version of Grandma Bea's hopscotch or haystacks since we didn't have the other ingredients on hand and you never run to the store in the middle of a marathon.
Since then I've made these zillions of times because they're so dang easy and everybody likes them.
Back to the "good Norwegian girl" thing, I remember Grandma Bea making some insane variety of cookies every year for Christmas and she said "A good Norwegian girl" always bakes at least ___ kinds of cookies at Christmastime."
I don't have a clue what the actual number is because when my Grandma's cookie baking days ended and she started keeping Oreos on hand instead, I tried to grab the torch and carry on the cookie-baking tradition. So every year I'd make as many cookies as I could and report my results, "Grandma, I'm a good Norwegian girl, I made seven kinds of cookies!"
At which point Grandma would say something like, "A good Norwegian girl bakes at least ten kinds of cookies," and I would slap myself on the forehead and say, "TEN kinds!?! How could I have forgotten?"
And the following year I would say, "Grandma, I'm a good Norwegian girl, I made ten kinds of cookies!" To which Grandma would reply, "Ten kinds? A good Norwegian girl always makes twelve kinds of cookies for Christmas." Queue the forehead slapping.
Not sure how many years this went on before I finally figured out Grandma was yankin' my chain. But from that point on I decided it would be more fun to be a not so good Norwegian girl, just like my Grandma Bea.
HAHAHA! I'm jealous that I missed Grandma Bea's "good norwegian girl" phase. I think I downed enough oreos for several great-grandkids though.
I actually wanted to comment about the picture of Amanda making chocolate chip cookies: dione, I KNOW you set this one up. That child has not one smear of chocolate or dusting of flour ON HER! Send Amanda over to my house so I can REALLY teach her how to make a mess. Ahem, I mean cookies. Yea. Send Amanda over to my house so I can REALLY teach her how to make cookies.
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