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Four Ingredients or Less

Are All That's Needed for These Recipes

By Carroll Pellegrinelli, About.com

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If you keep your pantry stocked, you should be able to make all of these recipes as they are made with 4 or less ingredients.

Peanut Butter Fudge

You can also make this with creamy peanut butter.Photo © 2008 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc.
This peanut butter fudge is not only simple to make but it is tasty too.

Extremely Easy Fudge - another 4-ingredient fudge recipe.

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Easy Tomato Soup Cake

Tomato Soup CakePhoto © 2008 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc.
There are only 4 ingredients in this easy recipe for Tomato Soup Cake.

More Cake Mix Cake Recipes

Haystacks a.k.a. Chocolate Spiders

Haystacks also are great for gift giving too.Photo © 2008 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc.
You can't get an easier than with this recipe for Haystacks a.k.a. Chocolate Spiders. There are only four ingredients in this recipe.

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Homemade Syrup

2008 Fruited French Toast Photo by Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com.2008 Fruited French Toast Photo by Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com.
Your own homemade syrup makes all those breakfast treats like pancakes, waffles and French Toast taste so much better. This is a strawberry syrup I made to go with the Fruited French Toast.

Gloria's Scottish Shortbread

I can always make shortbread as I always have flour, sugar and butter on hand in my kitchen.Photo © 2006 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc.
I like shortbread most of all because all I need to have on hand is flour, sugar and butter. You can't get more basic than that.

Bar Cookie Recipes

Quick Caramel Corn

Caramel Corn seems to be the most popular, but Kettle Corn is catching-up.Photo © 2006 Carroll Pellegrinelli, licensed to About.com, Inc.
Using the microwave makes this recipe a snap.

More Sweet Popcorn Recipes

Beer Bread

The men really love this bread with a big bowl of chili.

More Quick Bread Recipes

Forgotten Cookies a.k.a. Chocolate Chip Meringues

If you didn't add the chocolate chips, there would only be 2 ingredients in this cookie recipe. Meringues are low fat, too.

How to Make Meringue Cookies Video

Caramel Apples

You don't have to go to a fair or carnival to eat these.

Candied Apples Recipe

Pineapple Angel Food Cake

There are just 2 ingredients in this 5-star recipe.

Low Fat Angel Food Cake

Flavored Butters

You can even take a plain piece of store-bought bread and make it taste better with one of these 4 or less ingredient Flavored Butter recipes.
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