Holiday Cookies
Greetings and Merry Christmas to you all!!!
Christmas is nearly here and I must confess that shopping and gift wrapping still loom before me. I am behind on many things as usual, but have managed to get some cookies baked this year. I hosted a cookie exchange and so that got us all started with our baking. This year I decided to try out several new types of recipes for candy and cookies. They were good but not especially yummy. Then I tried some fancier cookies that required more uncommon ingredients and more work. They were good but not anything to write home about.
Now I would like to share with you my overall favorite cookie
recipe this season. It's so very basic, so very humble, and so very delicious. This is the type of cookie your Grandmother probably made too.
So once again the lesson for me is to keep it simple and walk in the old ways!! Please try these old fashioned oatmeal cookies and watch your neighbors and friends go on and on about how good they are. I think we are all getting tired of these new fangled ideas, and gourmet recipes and we secretly long for simpler times and basic humble ingredients. I realize that it's just a cookie recipe but It has a deeper meaning for me. So lets all put on some Christmas music, and an old fashioned apron, and prepare these wholesome cookies. Have a cozy Christmas everyone.
Oatmeal Cookies
3/4 cup softened butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar (or less if your want them to be less sweet)
1 egg
1/4 cup water
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups oatmeal
1 cup flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp soda
preheat oven to 350
blend together first 6 ingred.
combine and add dry ingred.
drop rounded teaspoonfuls or make into balls.
Bake for 12-15 minutes.
Allow to finish baking on cookie sheet outside of oven so
that they will stay soft and chewy.
Makes about 4 dozen.
Christmas is nearly here and I must confess that shopping and gift wrapping still loom before me. I am behind on many things as usual, but have managed to get some cookies baked this year. I hosted a cookie exchange and so that got us all started with our baking. This year I decided to try out several new types of recipes for candy and cookies. They were good but not especially yummy. Then I tried some fancier cookies that required more uncommon ingredients and more work. They were good but not anything to write home about.
Now I would like to share with you my overall favorite cookie
recipe this season. It's so very basic, so very humble, and so very delicious. This is the type of cookie your Grandmother probably made too.
So once again the lesson for me is to keep it simple and walk in the old ways!! Please try these old fashioned oatmeal cookies and watch your neighbors and friends go on and on about how good they are. I think we are all getting tired of these new fangled ideas, and gourmet recipes and we secretly long for simpler times and basic humble ingredients. I realize that it's just a cookie recipe but It has a deeper meaning for me. So lets all put on some Christmas music, and an old fashioned apron, and prepare these wholesome cookies. Have a cozy Christmas everyone.
Oatmeal Cookies
3/4 cup softened butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar (or less if your want them to be less sweet)
1 egg
1/4 cup water
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups oatmeal
1 cup flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp soda
preheat oven to 350
blend together first 6 ingred.
combine and add dry ingred.
drop rounded teaspoonfuls or make into balls.
Bake for 12-15 minutes.
Allow to finish baking on cookie sheet outside of oven so
that they will stay soft and chewy.
Makes about 4 dozen.
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