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                    Deluxe Chocolate Marshmallow Bars

Recipe By     : _Taste of Home Magazine_  Premiere Edition 1993
Serving Size  : 36   Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Cookies

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
     3/4  cup           butter or margarine
   1 1/2  cups          sugar
   3                    eggs
   1      teaspoon      vanilla extract
   1 1/3  cups          unbleached flour
     1/2  teaspoon      baking powder
     1/2  teaspoon      salt
   3      tablespoons   cocoa powder
     1/2  cup           chopped nuts -- optional
   4      cups          miniature marshmallows
                        Topping:
   1 1/3  cups          chocolate chips -- 8 ounces
   3      tablespoons   butter or margarine
   1      cup           peanut butter
   2      cups          crispy rice cereal

Preheat oven to 350x.

In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar.  Add eggs and vanilla; beat until
fluffy.  Combine flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa; add to creamed
mixture.  Stir in nuts, if desired.  Spread in a greased jelly roll pan.
 Bake for 15 - 18 minutes.

Sprinkle the miniature marshmallows evenly over the cake.  Return the pan to
the oven for a brief 2 - 3 minutes, then use a knife dipped in water to
spread the melted marshmallows evenly over the cake.  Cool.

For the topping:  Combine the chocolate chips, butter and peanut butter in a
small saucepan.  Cook, over low heat, stirring constantly until melted and
well blended.  Remove from the heat; stir in the cereal.  Spread the topping
over the bars.  Chill.

Makes about 36 bars.

Recipe by Esther Shank in _Taste of Home Magazine_ .
Formatted by Ilene Warfield.

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An aside:  The recipe comes from the very first edition of _Taste of Home_ ,
which I received for free in the mail.  I don't know what mailing list I was
on to merit it.  Anyway, I didn't subscribe, mostly because I had once worked
on a small-scale non-advertised magazine like that and it went belly up.  But
I thought it was a nice idea.  I hadn't thought of _Taste of Home_ again
until recently when I saw it mentioned here on the list.  I was surprised and
delighted to see that it is still up and going and now available on the
newstand.   And last night as I was digging around to find that beef fajita
recipe to format into MasterCook, the original copy turned up!

If anyone tries these, let us know how they turned out!

PS:  Thanks to those of you who wrote me with ideas about my whipping cream
problem!

Ilene
Evanston  IL