primitives discuss cookie recipes

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Rowdyboy (20,534 posts)    Fri Mar 29, 2013, 01:45 AM

Do you have a favorite cookie recipe and would you share it?

About 2 months ago our rural southern Episcopal church got a new priest-the first woman in our 175 year history. She asked me if I would help her by making coffee and putting out cookies bought by the church after the service. I suggested I could bake some and two months later I'm cooking roughly 8 dozen a week and having a blast (previously I had only made two recipes-sugar cookies and oatmeal-pecan). I make two different kinds most weeks and haven't repeated myself yet.
 
Neither my partner nor I eat many sweets so this is the only way I get to experiment with desserts. I'd really appreciate any good cookie recipes you guys might have and I'll share a kick-ass one I discovered just today (I made it EXACTLY to package directions except I have an old oven so it takes a few minutes longer to cook). I couldn't believe how easy these were.
 
Chunky Chocolate Cakemix Cookies

1 package Dark Chocolate cake mix
(I used Duncan Hines Chocolate Fudge)
2 large eggs
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
1/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Place cake mix, eggs, melted butter, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large bowl. Stir with spoon until thoroughly blended. Stir in chocolate chips and pecans. Drop by level measuring tablespoonfuls onto greased baking sheets (or use parchment paper).
 
Bake 12 minutes for chewy cookies or 14 minutes for crisp cookies.

Lugnut (8,641 posts)    Fri Mar 29, 2013, 02:06 AM

1. I always have some kind of cookie available for dessert.

My favorite oatmeal raisin cookie recipe is the one inside the lid of a Quaker Oats canister. After trying a bunch of chocolate chip cookie recipes I think the best one is the original tollhouse cookie recipe from the semi-sweet morsels bag.

Rowdyboy (20,534 posts)    Fri Mar 29, 2013, 02:10 AM

2. One of my favorites is my mom's sugar cookies-came from a baking soda box....

From Arm and Hammer Baking Soda

DROP SUGAR COOKIES

2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup shortening
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 egg
2 tbsp. milk

Have all ingredients at room temperature. Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda.
 
Cream together sugar, butter, shortening, and vanilla thoroughly. Add egg; cream until mixture is fluffy. Stir in dry ingredients until mixture is smooth; blend in milk.
 
Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet; flatten with bottom of water glass which has been dipped in additional sugar.
 
Bake in a 400 degree F (hot) oven about 12 minutes. Cool.

Makes about 5 dozen (2-inch) cookies
Arm & Hammer Baking Soda box, date unknown

pinto (97,387 posts)    Fri Mar 29, 2013, 02:20 AM

3. I like simple off-the-shelf-mix peanut butter cookies with diced dried fruit, candied ginger.

Raisins, dates, pineapple, etc. Candied ginger gives them a kick. You could add almond paste, too.
 
I've made them scooped small to bake, about half the size of a standard cookie. Good bites.

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Liberal Jesus Freak (242 posts)    Fri Mar 29, 2013, 07:33 PM

8. lol.

I baked 120 dozen (not a typo!) chocolate chip cookies today for our open house tomorrow. I did it the easy way though--Otis Spunkmeyer is my best friend

dem in texas (81 posts)    Sat Apr 13, 2013, 10:32 PM

9. Orange Chocolate Chippers - the best

Orange Chocolate Chippers – Revised - Dec. 2012(makes about 6 dozen)

My mother took this recipe from the Recipe of the Month section of a Better Homes and Gardens magazine back in the 1950’s. It has been a family favorite ever since. The original recipe called for a 3 oz, package of cream cheese and only made 3 dozen cookies. Many grocery stores no longer carry the 3 oz package of cream cheese and this recipe is so good that 3 dozen cookies is never enough so I adjusted the recipe to use an 8-oz package of cream cheese and make 6 dozen cookies. This is truly the Queen of cookies – the best cookie recipe hands down. My grandson and his wife were in from New York and his wife first request was to show her how to make these cookies.
 
2 cups shortening (do use butter)
2 cups sugar
1 8oz. Package cream cheese
4 eggs
5 or 6 tablespoons finely chopped orange peel, use mirco plane zester for fine peel
4 ½ cups flour
2 teaspoons salt
2 12-oz bags semi sweet or milk chocolate chips (1 of each is good)

Cream shortening, sugar and cream cheese together. Stir in eggs, one at a time. Add orange peel and vanilla. Mix well.
 
(Note: I grate the orange peel with a micro planner, it is a very fine grate. This gives the cookie a more intense orange flavor)
 
Sift flour and salt together. Add to creamed mixture. Add the chocolate chips and mix well.
 
Drop by teaspoon full, 2 inches apart on greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes or until edge of cookies start to brown. Place on cake rack to cool.
 
Watch closely as these cookies burn easily. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper for best results when baking these cookies.

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pinto (97,387 posts)    Fri Mar 29, 2013, 02:20 AM

3. I like simple off-the-shelf-mix peanut butter cookies with diced dried fruit, candied ginger.

Raisins, dates, pineapple, etc. Candied ginger gives them a kick. You could add almond paste, too.
 
I've made them scooped small to bake, about half the size of a standard cookie. Good bites.

I was scared. All of the recipes were sounding a little too normal. Thankfully pinto stepped in to ruin some peanut butter cookies.