hey this seems like the place i need to be . i havea red and white better homes and garden cook book and have lost a few pages. can anyone help me i need pagea 157 to 164  . this is the cookie section. there is a recipe for double chocolate cookie with a moca frosting in there somewhere. please help me if you can  i have had this book a long time but cannot find a date on it . thank-you

                                                                       chery

This is a different version of the cookbook - since I found it on pg 310 of my Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook (paperback, 1985) - but maybe this is the recipe you're looking for:

Double Chocolate Drops

1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder 

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 cup shortening

2 squares (2 ounces) unsweetened chocolate

1 cup packed brown sugar

1 egg

1/2 cup buttermilk or sour milk

1 teaspoon vanill

1 6-ounce package (1 cup) semisweet chocolate pieces

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Mocha frosting

Grease a cookie sheet.  Stir together flour, baking powder, soda, and 1/4 teaspoon salt.  Melt shortening and unsweetened chocolate over low heat.  Cool 10 minutes.  Stir in brown sugar, egg, buttermilk or sour milk, and vanilla; mix till smooth.  Stir dry ingredients into saucepan mixture; mix well.  Stir in chocolate pieces and nuts.  Drop from a teaspoon 2 inches apart onto a greased cookie sheet.  Bake in a 350 degree oven about 10 minutes.  Cool about 1 minute before removing to a wire rack.  Frost with Mocha Frosting.  Makes about 42

Mocha Frosting

Beat together 1/4 cup butter or margarine, 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder, and 2 teaspoons instant coffee crystals.  Stir in 2-1/2 cups sifted powdered sugar, 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla, and enouhg milk to make of a spreading consistency (about 2 to 3 tablespoons). 

Chery, could this be it?

Mocha Frosted Drops

1/2 cup shortening    

2 1 oz. squares usweetened chocolate

1 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp. vannilla

1/2 cup buttermilk or sour milk

1 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1 6 oz. package (1 cup) semitsweet chocolate pieces

mocha frosting

Melt shortening and unsweetened chocolate together in a sauce pan. Cool 10 minutes. Stir in brown sugar. Beat in the egg, vanilla and butter or sour milk.

Sift together dry ingredients and add to chocolate mixture. Stir in nuts and chocolate pieces.  Drop from teasppoon onto greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375* about 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool. Frost with mocha frosting. Top with walnut half, if desired. Makes 3 1/2 dozen.

Mocha Frosting:

cream 1/4 cup butter, 2 tablespoons ( regular type, dry ) 2 teaspoons instant coffee powder, and dash salt. Beat in 2 1/2 cups sifted confectioners sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla, and enough milk for spreading consistancy.

thank you all so very much i am making them i will let you know

you did so well lets see if you can find a recipe for banana split cake?????I remenber it had a butter crumb bottom with nuts,

the cream had condensed milk in it

it has a layer of each /strawberries, bananas ,pineapple

                                         thanks so much

It seems I remember that recipe being in the original Make-a-Mix book. If someone still has it maybe they could look it up for you. Edey

chery:

if you can find a recipe for banana split cake

There are many recipes on the net for banana split cake, let me know if you find any you like.  I do have the Make - A - Mix books and cant find it located in either of them.  : )

Brianschef Michelle