CUB GRUB AND FUN FOODS

Magic Cookie Bars
Alice, Golden Empire Council

This is the favorite recipe using Eagle Brand milk – the magic is that you can create a cookie without eggs – and they taste great!

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted
• 1 (14-ounce) can EAGLE BRAND® Sweetened Condensed Milk
• 2 cups (12 ounces) semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 1/3 cups flaked coconut
• 1 cup chopped nuts

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350°F (325°F for glass dish).
• In small bowl, combine graham cracker crumbs and butter; mix well.
• Press crumb mixture firmly on bottom of 13X9-inch baking pan.
• Pour EAGLE BRAND® Condensed Milk evenly over crumb mixture.
• Layer evenly with remaining ingredients;
• Press down firmly with fork
• Bake 25 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Cool.
• Cut into bars or diamonds. Store leftovers covered at room temperature.
• Makes 2-3 dozen bars
• You can also substitute chocolate chips or nuts with: candy coated pieces, dried cranberries, raisins, mini marshmallows or butterscotch chips.

Edible Wands
Sam Houston Area Council

Ingredients:

• Pretzel sticks
• White frosting in a tub
• Knife or small spatula
• Small bowl
• Edible star sprinkles
• Wax paper

Directions:

• Scoop out a small amount of frosting and put in a small bowl. (Note: The pretzels will make the frosting taste salty, so only take out as much as you need. Save the rest of the frosting for icing cookies, etc.)
• Dip the pretzel in the frosting and twist and pull the pretzel out of the frosting.

Out of the Hat Cake
Alice, Golden Empire Council

• 1 cake mix
• 1 recipe of dark frosting – if you use paste food coloring, you can even have black! Or you can use 1 can of dark chocolate frosting
• Pudding or jam, your choice

• Mix the cake as directed on the box
• Bake in three 8-inch round pans.  Reduce the baking time listed by 5 minutes. 
• While the cakes cool, cut a 9-inch circle from cardboard. 
• Then cut out a 6-1/2 inch circle from the center, leaving a 1-1/4 inch wide ring. This will be the hat brim of your Magician’s Hat. 
• Cut the same size ring from waxed paper and attach to the cardboard with a glue stick. 
• Cut out two bunny ears from white construction paper, and two inner ears from pink construction paper. 
• Place a toothpick on the white ear so half of it extends below the ear. 
• Now glue the pink inner ear on top of the white, sandwiching the toothpick in between.
• Assemble the 3 cake layers, putting more frosting, jam or pudding between the layers. 
• Frost the cake and also cover the ring with frosting and place it on the cake. 
• Smooth the frosting over the cake and ring so they look like one piece. 
• Place the rabbit ears in the center of the cake.

Now you have a Magician’s Hat, complete with the Rabbit!

Magic Peanut Butter Pie
Alice, Golden Empire Council
Watch out for Peanut Allergies!

Ingredients:

• 1 graham cracker pie crust
• 1 18 oz. jar of peanut butter
• 1 8oz package softened cream cheese
• ¾ c. honey
• 1 8oz tub frozen non-dairy whipped topping
• 1 semi-sweet chocolate baking squares
• ½ t. vegetable oil

Directions:

• Beat together cream cheese and honey until well mixed.
• Stir in peanut butter; mix well.
• Gently fold in whipped topping.
• Spoon into crust.
• Using a microwave, melt chocolate and vegetable oil in a glass, liquid measuring cup for 1 1/2 minutes; drizzle over pie.
• Chill 4 hours. Refrigerate leftovers.

Magic Pie, It makes its own crust!
Sam Houston Area Council

Ingredients:

• ½ cup butter or margarine
• 2 cups milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 eggs
• ½ cup flour
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup shredded coconut or crushed pineapple

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place all ingredients in a blender and combine thoroughly.
• Grease and flour 10" deep dish pie plate.
• Pour mixture into pie plate and bake in preheated 350-degree oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until set.
• "Pie" will make its own crust as it cooks.
• Serve at room temperature.

Abracadabra – Bigger Edible Wands!
Sam Houston Area Council

Ingredients:

• ½ cup white chocolate pieces
• 1 teaspoon shortening
• 10 long pretzel logs
• Decorative candies or colored sugar (the kind you decorate cupcakes with)

Directions:

• Melt the white chocolate with shortening.
• Dip pretzels half way in chocolate,
• Then roll the pretzels in candy or sugar.

Magic  Potion  
Sam Houston Area Council

Ingredients:

1 package unsweetened drink mix (any color)

Lemon-lime flavored carbonated soda, chilled

Water

Directions:

• Mix the drink mix with 1 ½ cups water. Pour mixture into an ice cube tray and freeze solid.
• To serve, pour the soda into clear cups. Put 1-2 flavored ice cubes into each glass.
• As the ice cubes dissolves, the drink will change color and flavor – like magic.

Magic Brew Root Beer
Sam Houston Area Council

Ingredients:

• 5 gallons water
• 8 cups sugar
• 1 bottle Hire's Root Beer extract
• 10 lbs. dry ice (handle with leather gloves and or tongs as exposed skin can be easily frostbitten)

Directions:

• Mix all ingredients. This will give a great “magic brew” with bubbles and smoke.
• Stir frequently.
• DO NOT drink until all dry ice has dissolved.
•  Can also make ½ of a recipe.