Banana Spit Icebox Cake

If you're going to a BBQ or a potluck you defiantly want to bring this! It supper easy and it taste amazing!! Happy Summer Cooking!

Ingredients

• 1 carton (16 ounces) frozen whipped topping, thawed
• 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
• 1 package (3.4 ounces) instant vanilla pudding mix
• 1 can (8 ounces) crushed pineapple, drained
• 24 whole graham crackers
• 2 medium bananas, sliced
• Toppings: chocolate syrup, halved fresh strawberries and additional banana slices

Directions

• In a large bowl, mix the whipped topping, sour cream and pudding mix until blended; fold in pineapple. Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag; fill with pudding mixture.
• On a flat serving plate, arrange four crackers in a rectangle. Pipe about 1 cup pudding mixture over crackers; top with about 1/4 cup banana slices. Repeat layers five times. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
• Before serving, top with chocolate syrup, strawberries and banana slices. Yield: 10 servings.

Kickin' Craisen Cookies

The recipe for these super yummy cookies came from a series of murder mystery books that toss in a few recipes every chapter.  Josi S. Kilpack books are quick and easy reads.  I recommend the books and seriously, all the recipes I've tried out of these books are awesome.

Ingredients

• 1 c. Butter (softened to room temperature)
• 1 c. Sugar
• 1 c. Brown Sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 2 c. Flour (I use 1/2 white 1/2 wheat flour)
• 2 1/2 c. quick oats
• 1/2 tsp salt, cloves, and ground ginger
• 1 tsp baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon
• dash (1/8 tsp or so) cayenne pepper
• 1 1/2 c. craisens
• 1 c. white chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees
2. Cream butter and sugars together in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs one at a time.  Mixing well after each addition.  Add vanilla, mix well.
3. Combine flour and oats in a separate medium mixing bowl.  In a small dish combing salt, cloves, ginger, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and cayenne pepper.  mix well.  add to flour mixture. Mix well.
4. Add 1/2 dry mixture to butter mixture mixing well.  Add the rest of the dry mixture.  Mix well.  add white chocolate chips and craisens and mix with a wooden spoon.  Drop by the tablespoon, 2 inches apart, onto an un-greased cookie sheet.  Bake at 400 for 6-9 minutes.  remove from oven.  Cool on pan for 2-4 minutes and continue cooling on cooling rack.  

Makes a little over 3 dozen.  

*Beware.  These cookies ARE addictive.  You WILL eat the entire three dozen if you're not careful.