Party Squares Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Flatten crescent rolls onto a baking sheet and press seams together. Bake 10-12 minutes; set aside. Combine soup mix, mayonnaise, and sour cream. Add spinach, artichoke hearts, water chestnuts, garlic, and feta cheese. Spread mixture over crescent roll dough. Top with parmesan cheese. Bake 10-12 minutes. Cut into squares with a pizza cutter and serve hot.

Steps:

• Layer 1:.
• In a double boiler (or a metal bowl over a pot of boiling water, as I do) add; 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup brown sugar and 1 egg (well beaten). Stir constantly until smooth and shiny. Remove from heat and add 2 cups graham crumbs. Pack into 9x9 pan.
• Layer 2:.
• Stir together 3/4 of a can of sweetened condensed milk and 8 ounces coconut. Spread on graham layer.
• Icing:.
• Combine 1/4 cup butter with 2 cups icing sugar and 1 tbsp milk. Add a few drops of red food coloring, until a nice pink shade is reached, and stir until smooth. Spread on top of coconut layer.
• Refrigerate at least 3 hours.

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar and salt; cut in butter until crumbly. Gradually add water, tossing with a fork until dough forms a ball., Divide dough in half so that one portion is slightly larger than the other; wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 1-1/4 hours or until easy to handle., Preheat oven to 375°. Roll out larger portion of dough between two large sheets of waxed paper into a 17x12-in. rectangle. Transfer to an ungreased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Press pastry onto the bottom and up the sides of pan; trim pastry even with edges., For filling, in a large bowl, combine sugar, flour and salt. Add raspberries and lemon juice; toss to coat. Spoon over pastry., Roll out remaining pastry; place over filling. Trim and seal edges. Cut slits in pastry. Brush top with cream and sprinkle with coarse sugar. Place pan on a baking sheet. Bake 40-45 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely on a wire rack. Cut into squares.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 375. Unroll both packages of crescent rolls and lay in the bottom of a 9 x 13 baking pan lining the bottom, squeeze it all in..you may have some left over. Bake 10-12 minutes...or until light golden brown; remove from oven.
• 2. Meanwhile combine mayonnaise, sour cream and soup mix; mix well. Drain spinach in small colander, squeezing out as much moisture as possible; add to mixture. Drain artichokes and water chestnuts..chop with knife or food chopper. Add artichokes, water chestnuts, feta cheese and garlic..mix well with all the other ingredients.
• 3. Spread spinach mixture evenly over crust. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese over entire pan. Bake 10-12 minutes or until heated through. Remove from oven; cut into squares.