I want to make a batch for my sister’s birthday and I just realized I have never made them before.
She likes them chewey but not super chewey. Definitely not crispy.
Please help! Her birthday is today and I want to make them before she gets home from work in 9 hours.
Thanks!
I really like these, and I substitute raisins for chocolate chips and omit the nuts.
Those look really good. I will make those.
But not today.
I had a brilliant idea. I went to a bakery and got a dozen oatmeal raisin cookies, 4 French pastries (I think I got sugar shock just from looking at them) and a pound of butter cookies. I had them all boxed up nice and pretty and got a balloon. Then, I delivered it to her work. I had an e-mail from her when I got home. She was thrilled. Said she has never, not once in her life, gotten a delivery at work.
I still want to make cookies though. They’re her favorite.
So, I still need recipes but there’s no rush now.
Here’s the one we make:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cookie-Mix-in-a-Jar-III/Detail.aspx
We assemble many jars of the mix and give it out as gifts but you can certainly make them up any time you want them, and just skip the “jar” portion. We tried a number of recipes from that site before settling on this one and we definitely like this the best.
Honey makes for a chewier cookie, cut with some brown sugar if you don’t want super chewy.
My wife uses the recipe on the lid of a can of Quaker Oats and hers always come out fantastic. She says the secret is not to overmix the batter. (Apparently that’s why mine always come out flat and crispy.) Also, I think it helped that we replaced our ten-year-old can of baking powder with a fresh can recently.
Baking time is another thing to consider. You want to make sure you don’t leave them in too long.