Chess Squares--Janice and Andrea

When Lady asked for the chess brownie recipe, I gotta admit I thought chocolate. Not so. Janice has fessed up she and Andrea brought the Chess Squares, using a recipe from Any Blonde Can Cook. , a cookbook "written in Blonde ADD form (step by step by step) so anyone can understand and they have no more than 9 ingredients." I couldn't find that particular recipe, so I looked some up on the net, and they were the same as the Chess Squares in the 2003 Kin Cookin--Vowell Style. This recipe was contributed by Beverly Tolbert Terrell in 1979, so this is a genuine, antique Southern recipe, y'all.

1 box yellow cake mix
1 stick oleo
1 egg

Mix together by hand. Press in bottom of 9 X 13 pan. In mixer, mix 8 ounces of cream cheese, one 1 pound box of powdered sugar, and 3 eggs. Pour on top of cake mix mixture. Bake 40-45 minutes at 350 degrees.

variations: may add 1 cup chopped nuts, 1/2 teaspoon each vanilla and lemon flavoring to cream cheese mixture.

Janice thought the reunion Chess Squares were a little undercooked. Andrea, if your recipe isn't the same, let us know.

While we're on sweets,

and just to get this plug in, if you are in a sweet mood, Keetha brought me some of these cupcakes. Banana. Butterfinger. Cupcakes. yummy