1/2 c Shortening

3/4 c Butter

3 oz Cream cheese

2 c Granulated sugar

3/4 c Brown sugar

5 Eggs

1/4 c Sour cream

1/4 c Ricotta cheese

1/4 c Small curd cottage cheese

5 1/2 c All-purpose flour

2 ts Baking powder

1 ts Baking soda

3/4 ts Salt

1/4 c Milk

3/4 c Buttermilk

1/2 c Heavy whipping cream

1/4 Sweetened condensed milk; *

-see 1 ts Vanilla

12 oz Chocolate chips

1 c Walnuts; chopped

1 1/2 c Raisins

(simmered and drained) 2 pk Peanut butter chips

(10 oz each) 1 c Coconut

12 oz Chocolate chunks

This recipe took First Place in the Dairyland Bake-Off here. Cream shortening, butter and cream cheese. Add both sugars, and beat well. Add eggs, sour cream, ricotta and cottage cheese, and beat well. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt, alternating with milk, buttermilk, whipping cream,condensed milk and vanilla. Stir in chocolate chips, walnuts, raisins, peanut butter chips, coconut and chocolate chunks. Drop by heaping teaspoonsful onto a lightly greased cookie sheet 2" apart. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes. Wis/Gramma * NOTE from

Jo--Don't know if this should be 1/4 cup of sweetened condensed milk or 14 oz can of the milk. -----