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Cake Ingredients 3 cups flour 1 cup sugar 4 teaspoons baking powder 2 eggs 4 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups milk (I used skim) 1/2 cup butter, melted Filling Ingredients 3/4 cup butter, softened 1 cup brown sugar 2 tablespoons flour 4 tablespoons cinnamon Glaze Ingredients 2 cups powdered sugar 5 tablespoons milk (I used skim) 2 teaspoons vanilla Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a nine-by-13-inch baking pan by spraying it with cooking spray.

CHENEY – Lauren Lofton, a graduate of Cheney High School, has been named as one of two winners in the Jeff Jordan Composition Competition from the Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA). Lofton was honored for “Espacio,” a composition for full band and choir that debuted at Cheney High School last spring.

GARDEN PLAIN – Marek Rex of Garden Plain was named to the University of Sioux Falls fall 2023 dean’s list. Rex is majoring in computer information systems and business administration.

Despite being a “food columnist,” I have to admit that a lot of my tastes are fairly, well, childish. For rare meals where I’m eating on my own, I’m likely to give in to my cravings for a serving of box macaroni and cheese or a bowl of cereal, or even more likely, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Ingredients 2-3 tablespoons peanut butter (creamy or crunchy) 4 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 inch fresh ginger, grated 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1/2 to 1 tablespoon chili crisp 1 teaspoon honey 1 teaspoon sesame oil 1/2 packet ramen seasoning or 1 bullion cube 1 packet ramen or other Asianstyle noodles (I used udon) green onions/scallions, for garnish chopped peanuts, for garnish sesame seeds, for garnish Begin by cooking your noodles according to package directions (minus the seasoning). Save back about 1/3 cup of the pasta water when you drain the noodles.

It turns out, chocolate chip cookies are a much newer invention than I would have thought. An article on the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library website notes that the famous cookies were first invented in 1938 by Ruth Wakefield.

Ingredients 1 pie crust 2 eggs 1/2 cup flour 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 3/4 cup butter, room temperature 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, plus a few for decorating 1 cup walnuts, chopped about 2 cups whipped cream Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Roll out your pie crust and place it in a deep, nine-inch pie plate.

TSnews HAYSVILLE- Campus High School will be performing a musical adaptation of “You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” based on the Charles Schultz Peanuts comic strip. It is also based on the 1967 musical by Clark Gesner and the 1999 revision by Andrew Lippa.

TSnews CHENEY – Cheney High School will be performing “Persephone Rules!” by Michael R. Mc-Guire this weekend.

Your Life For a recent get-together at our office, I decided I wanted my snack table to look ready for fall. I set up a mini scarecrow, laid a garland of orange and red leaves along the back of the table and sprinkled candy corn strategically around the plates of goodies.