Here's my favorite cookie recipe lately- from Mom, and it makes tons. So, make the whole recipe and take them to your VT/HT families. And you'll still have enough to last the whole week for you & yours...
Let me describe the savory morsels first, to lure you in.
This cookie is a delectable balance between sweet and wholesome.
This cookie is not dry. It has the perfect texture to bite into- not too thick, not too thin. Crispy outside, soft and chewy inside.
On more than one occasion I have caught Bruce oogling the cookie jar. Which is a good distraction for him.
And now to hook you all:
See how the jar is just radiant, almost like it is the "official cookie of the Church". This is how much I had left after taking some to 3 different families. (No, I didn't take them the ones Kara rolled.)1 lb butter
2 C. white sugar
2 C. brown sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
4 C. flour
2 tsp. ea. baking soda & powder
1 tsp. salt
5 C. oatmeal
1 C. raisins/ choc chips/nuts
or butterscotch chips.
cream your butter & sugar first. Do all the other regular stuff. bake 10 min. @ 350. Unless you are feeding Dad, in which he refuses to touch them until they have been baked for 18 minutes and are dunkable.
7 comments:
Ok, I'm makin' em! Thank you!! But I don't have a great cookie jar like that one to lure them in. Doesn't matter, tho, just the sight and smell of home-baked cookies cooling on the counter makes them disappear around here. Great pictures, by the way! And I'd eat the ones Kara made. They're probably the best.
OK Becky, we just finished making these cookies. alissa read it on the blogg and decided to make the dough up. We didn't have any chocolate chips so we chopped up some fine german chocolate bar we had and it was so good. They look great, smell great and taste wonderful. It is the first cookie we have been able to successfully make here. I can't seem to get the oven conversion quite right. It is all in celsius! Crazy. But now we have a family night treat for tonight. Thanks for the recipe from mom. It is great!!
Love, Barbara
See, don't you feel so edified? Now who else will partake?
I've always heard that german chocolate is above and beyond anything you can get in the states. Is that true, do you think? (I'm sure Kathy wants to know this too... She's the real gourmet around here)
You are sssooooooooo right. A cookie needs to be sorta crunchy. The absolute best is to take three of those, a big bowl of bottled peaches, put three halves in the bowl, break up the cookies and put EXTRA juice in the bowl. Makes ONE serving for Dad. You all remember that, just put me in a room with a jar of peaches, a bowl and 6-9 cookies and I'm good until I need to be changed.
P.S. got our yellow fever shots today and you know what? We don't look yellow yet.
Yes, last night for our family night treat we did "chocolate taste testing" it was so fun. We voted on the German chocolate and the swiss chocolate, but we do not like the Belgian chocolate. You can really tell the difference. They just use the best ingredients and there is no wax or anything in it that you can't pronounce. So fun to have some real chocolate. I have to start weaning myself off of it. Barbara
Dad, you are so funny! I can't believe all the weird ways you eat food! Who cares, it all goes to the same place anyway, right?
p.s. Becky, you too....so humble, about who else will partake. You guys make me laugh! The Mia Maids are making these cookies tonight.
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