So I love cookies. Not store bought, processed, crumbly pieces of cardboard that some call cookies. No, homemade, from scratch, warm from the oven cookies! Oatmeal (no raisins, which are grapes soaked in evil), chocolate chip, peanut butter, macaroons, black and whites, sugar, chocolate crinkles, snickerdoodles... I can go on and on and on about cookies. I do have some favorites, though if anyone is interested in sending me cookie recipes, I'd love to get them so I can try something new. Bring em on.
My mother makes me cookies. I'm a grown man, 34 years of age, yet my mother knows of my weakness. When she comes to visit, she makes as many cookies as I can stuff down my throat. Dough is rolled and frozen and tucked in the freezer for after she's gone, even though I'm perfectly capable of mixing my own cookies. Every so often a mystery package arrives in the mail for me, and it's Pringles cans full of cookies!
I am lucky. I'm tall and skinny and run. So my cookie consumption is burned off every day, but I'd have to say I eat at least a dozen a day. Yes, some people say they're junk food...but to me, they're little bits of heaven. And it's these heavenly bits, which I'm slowly teaching my son to make (it's manly to make cookies), is what my new blog is titled after. Just thought you'd all like to know.
Did your mom ever make you corn flake cookies when you were a child? Now I am not normally a fan of anything that involves coating stuff with cereal and calling it gourmet however try these you wont be sorry!
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* 1 cup butter
* 1 cup vegetable oil
* 1 cup white sugar
* 1 cup brown sugar
* 1 egg
* 1 cup crushed corn flakes
* 1 cup chopped nuts (I use walnuts or pecans)
* 1 cup quick-cooking oatmeal
* 4 cups flour, decrease to 3 1/2 cups for a chewier cookie
* 1 tablespoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Directions
1 Preheat oven to 325.
2 Cream butter, sugars and egg.
3 Add oil.
4 Mix in dry ingredients.
5 Form dough into walnut sized balls.
6 Place on cookie sheet and flatten with a fork dipped in water.
7 Bake for 10- 12 minutes.
8 Cool on pan for a minute or two, then transfer to a rack to cook.
mmmm will your mom make me some cookies? i miss home made cookies. maybe I should make some...hmmm good idea :)
ReplyDeleteI want sour cream cookies with cherries. Mmmmm.
ReplyDeleteMmmmmmcookies. I sounds like the cookie monster but that's ok! I'm a big fan of Girl Scout Cookies...I love thin mint! As for home made...I make chocolate chip but can't say I keep them. My husband loves my cookies so much he snags them fresh from the cookiesheet out of the oven.
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