Ingredients

1  stick Crisco® Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Sticks, softened

1  cup Domino® granulated sugar

1  cup Domino® firmly packed light brown sugar

2  large eggs

1  tsp McCormick ®pure Vanilla extract

2 1/2  cups Pillsbury® all-purpose  flour

1  tsp Arm & Hammer® baking soda

1/8  tsp salt

1 12-oz pkg M&M’S® Dark Chocolate Candies

            Directions
In a large bowl, mix granulated and brown sugars, eggs, Crisco butter flavor stick, and vanilla thoroughly. Add flour, salt, and baking soda to creamed mixture.  Blend together well.  Add 3/4 cup of M&M candies.  Drop dough by teaspoonful onto ungreased cookie sheet.  Slightly push a few M&M's on top of each dough ball with remaining candies.  Bake at 350 degrees F  for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown.

http://www.mms.com

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Even Rocker Steven Tyler and his daughter Liv enjoy Girl Scout Cookies!!   

     Nearly forty years ago, I sold my first box of Girl Scout Cookies, walking up and down my neighborhood streets, going door to door. I was lucky, the economy was good, and most every house represented a sale, including my parents. The experience taught me how to handle money, answer product questions, and understand the need to be accurate in my order taking and deliveries. I also learned that the more effort I put forth, the better results; more sales, and the greater rewards; out-of-state adventures and camping trips. Those skills have served me throughout my life's work.

     Today, as I placed my order on-line for the first time, (each year I normally find a troop with a sales table set up in my local grocer), I sat and thought about all the memories, friends, opportunities, and skills that I gained being a Scout. All the times my Mom volunteered for road trips, and overnight campouts during all kinds of weather, for my sister and I, and our troop. The many things my leaders taught us, such as sewing and recognizing poison ivy, how to cook over open fires and be able to administer first aid in an emergency, to stay fit through hiking and swimming, and to be a good citizen and have pride in my Country.

Now I know why I buy these cookies every year. So that somewhere, another troop of girls will blossom into the intelligent, well-rounded, young women tomorrow needs.


http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/

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Ingredients
1 1/2 cups dark molasses
1 cup packed DOMINO brown sugar
2/3 cup cold water
1/3 cup CRISCO shortening
7 cups all-purpose PILLSBURY Flour
2 tsps baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp ground McCORMICKS allspice
2 tsp ground McCORMICKS ginger
1 tsp ground McCORMICKS cloves
1 tsp ground McCORMICKS cinnamon 
2 tubs BETTY CROCKER white icing

Prepartion/Baking Directions
Mix molasses, brown sugar, water and shortening.  Mix in remaining ingredients except frosting.  Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours.
Heat oven to 350 degrees.  Roll dough 1/4 inch thick on floured board.  Cut with floured gingerbread cutter or other favorite shaped cutter.  Place about 2 inches apart on lightly greased cookie sheet.  Bake until no indentation remains when touched, 10-12 minutes; cool. 

Divide both tubs of icing into several small bowls (depends on how many colors of icing you will be using).  In each bowl, mix in 2-3 drops of food color with the white icing and blend thoroughly.  Fill decorators' tube (bag) with one color at a time and decorate each gingerbread person.  Makes about 2 1/2 dozen cookies.



Musubi is dedicated to Marvin and his family...Aloha

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