Got Milk? Fave Cookie Recipes

[Alice]

The holidays will be here before we know it, so let's share those recipes in plenty of time for the baking frenzy.

My Grandmother would often have these cookies waiting, warm for the oven, for me after school. I'm baking some right now!

Grandma Alice's Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Mix dry ingredients in a medium size bowl:
1 1/2 C flour
1 tsp soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp nutmeg

In a large bowl mix:
2 sticks of REAL butter, well softened
1 C tightly packed brown sugar
1/2 C granulated sugar
~cream together the butter and sugar until well blended then add
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

add the dry ingredients to the large bowl, stir well and then add
3 C quick oats
1 C chocolate chips

drop by rounded spoonful onto a cookie sheet and bake for 9-12 minutes at 350F, remove to racks to cool.

I like my cookies on the soft side so I bake them 9-10 minutes. Sometimes I'll cut the choc chips down to 3/4 of a cup and add a 1/2 cup of nuts, peanut butter chips or butterscotch chips to the mix.

Mmmmmm

[Deborah]

I lost one of my favorite cookie recipes years ago. It was for oatmeal cookies but the oats were sauted in a huge amount of butter before being mixed into the dough. I've tried to recreate it but it has never come out quite the same.

[cath]

Ymmmm Alice! you can send me a batch right over. I'll make you a latte

[Jeremy1973]

Oh yes...the holidays...time to whip out the cookie cutters! I think I owe a certain wonderful awesome kind generous quick to hug lady who lives in SC and sent me some of her mom's cookie cutters, some cookies!

I was just telling Danielle, that mom had a type of sugar cookie recipie, but the main use for this version was, you make one batch red, one batch normal color... you take a little of each, roll them out like a snake..then..twiste the two together, curve the handle..and voila.. A candy cane looking and shaped sugar cookie! Simple, festive, fun!

OOh..and cornflake "rice crispy" treats... make them like normal rice crispy treats, but you stir in green food coloring.. then you form them in to wreaths..and add red hots for decorations! OOh...and.... *the creative thoughts are flowing now* Hmm..if stores can put Christmas stuff up in October..can I start Christmas cookies now?!

[cath]

Here's a quickie

My favorite PB cookie recipe is soooo easy. Equal parts of brown sugar and PB . If you use 1 C each, then add 1 tsp of vanilla. No flour or levening. Just PB and sugar

Mix well, and spoon out and make hash marks with the fork (that makes em PB, right?) and bake 8-10 min. at 250. (too bad I'm at work and can't make the degree mark with a PC....)

[Junkzoo]

Boy , a lot of these so-called good cookie recipes,,,
Indiana may not be the "show me" state, but if anyone wants me to back up their claims on their cookies, e-mail me for my mailing address,,,,,
have milk, ready for dunkin' !
don't worry about large boxes of cookies, my mail carrier will leave packages on my front porch LOL
"never met a cookie i didn't like!

[Doug1]

Wow sounds good, I think that the standard TollHouse cookie is hard to beat if you pay attention to time and temp, so they are soft and chewy.
Then again I never met an Oatmeal Raisen cookie I didn't like

[cath]

Shouldn't that be Oatmeat Cookie, Doug?

Thought I'd pull out this thread, too!

[Doug1]

I dont big game hunt for food in grain fields or soybean patches, my cereal is cereal and my animals are meat thats why they taste so good.
FWIW I love my oatmeal cooked thick with butter and brown sugar with a little Irish Creme or Filbertjuice coffee creamer. It should be thik enough to really cling to toast

[tdwyatt]

I have a recipe that i originally made to make the crust for one of my cheesecakes. It is very simple, flour, butter, a little salt, egg yolk, chopped macadamia nuts and lemon zest. I cold prolly make a lighter cookie without the egg yolk, but I always need the crust to be strong enough to hold the cheesecake.

It's a no-brainer, but it is the MOST AWESOME cookie, and makes a great crust for the amaretto cheesecakes. I always make enough crust dough to have left overs that can bake while I am assembling the final waterbath, etc. for the cheesecake.

[tdwyatt]

Originally Posted by Deborah

I lost one of my favorite cookie recipes years ago. It was for oatmeal cookies but the oats were sauted in a huge amount of butter before being mixed into the dough. I've tried to recreate it but it has never come out quite the same.

HMMMmmm...


after reacing Alice's recipe and seeing your comments here, I may have to try a few experiments on this over the next few days, expecialy since Kelley has been asking me about something she can make for xmas gifts...


hmmmm...