The GUILD 12-9-2001 COOKIE RECIPE EXCHANGE DAY!!!!

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Yes folks, this is the day you have all been waiting for. The Cookie Recipe Exchange. Please post your favorite recipes here

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

To Die For Chocolate Chip cookies.

4 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp salt 1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cream of tartar
1 cup butter room temp
1 cup light brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup vegetable oil, Wesson preferable
1 tsp cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg, slighty beaten
1 bag chocolate chips
1 cup walnuts

Preheat over to 350. Sift together the first 4 ingredients, set aside. In a large bowl with mixer at high speed beat butter until smooth. Add sugars and beat until combined. Reduce speed to medium: beat in next 4 ingredients until combined. Reduce speed to low: beat in flour mixture until combined. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts.

Drop be 2 tablespoonfuls 2" apart on to cookie sheets. Bake 16 minutes. Cool for a couple minutes before you put them on a rack. They are crumbly at first.

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. Meringue Cookies-- light as a cloud

2 Egg whites - room temperature
1/8 ts Cream of tarter
1/8 ts Salt
1 ts Vanilla
3/4 c Superfine sugar
1/2 c Chocolate chips
1/4 c Nuts; optional

Preheat oven 300 degrees.

Beat egg whites, cream of tarter and salt together until soft peaks form.

Add vanilla, then add sugar gradually, beating until stiff.

Fold in choc. and nuts.

Drop by teaspoon fulls 2 inches apart on ungreased brown paper ( Paper grocery bag) layed on cookie sheet. Bake until dry approx. 25 minutes.

Let cool slightly before removing from brown paper.

Set on rack to cool before storing in airtight container. Freezes well.

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Helpful Hint--- Make on a sunny day. Humidity makes them less crisp

[BrooklynGOP]

Mmmm... nothing like chewy chocolate chip cookies and milk! The problem with my generation (I am 23) is that not many girls can cook :(. Not in NYC at least.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

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[SassyMom]

Ok, as promised, here are the drop down the drain cookies!!! LoL :)

NO-BAKE CHOCOLATE DROPS

2 Cups granulated sugar
1/4 Cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 Cup plus 3 TBSP milk
1/2 Cup butter
1/2 Cup peanut butter
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 1/2 Cups quick oats

In a saucepan, bring sugar, cocoa powder, milk and butter to a boil, stiring. Cook 1 minute, then remove from heat. Set aside. Add peanut butter and vanilla and mix well. Place oats in a large owl, and pour in peanut-butter mixture. Mix and drop dough by large teaspoonfulls onto a cookie sheet lined with wax paper. Refrigerate

[SassyMom]

GINGER KRINKLES

3/4 Cup shortening
1 Cup sugar
1/4 Cup molasses
1 1/2 tsp soda
1 tsp ginger
1 egg
2 1/2 Cups flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp cloves

Cream shortening & sugar. Add molasses & egg, beat well. Add sifted dry ingredients. Mix will. Roll into small balls and dip in granulated sugar. Place 2 inches apart on greased cookie sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes, until they crack 375 degrees.

[Channel_Islands_EANx_Diver]

How sad is that? Once again, the feminists have gotten away with brainwashing little girls into believing that cooking is demeaning. I'm a 43 year old guy who's always done ALL the cooking in our house. My wife was raised by hippies and she couldn't boil water without burning it. I'm printing this great thread.

[mountaineer]

These cookies are very tasty and kind of butterscotchy, and I'd bet even people who don't like coconut would like them.

Coconut Oatmeal Cookies

1/2 c. butter or margarine
1 c. packed brown sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 c. rolled oats
1/2 c. shredded coconut
1 c. sifted flour
1/2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. soda
1/2 t. salt

Cream butter and sugar, beat in egg; add oats and coconut. Add sifted dry ingredients and bglend. Shape dough into small balls (I use a #70 scoop) and place on greased cookie sheets. Flatten with fork. Bake about 10 minutes at 375 degrees.

[SassyMom]

This might me a cure for the broken car blues.... :)

PEANUT BUTTER CUPS

2 sticks oleo
1 Cup peanut butter
1 3/4 cups crushed graham crackers
2 1/3 cups powdered sugar
2 Cups (12 oz) milk chocolate chips

Melt oleo, add peanut butter, graham crackers and powdered sugar. Press into a 9 x 13 pan.

Melt chocolate chips spread over mixture in pan; cool.

Hint: It helps to score chocolate when partially cool to make easier cutting when completely cool.

[BrooklynGOP]

Nothing wrong with cooking. I had to learn how to cook when I moved off campus at college.

[BrooklynGOP]

Nothing wrong with cooking. I had to learn how to cook when I moved off campus at college.

[mountaineer]

I've never tried the Silpat, although many recommend them. I generally use parchment paper. It's expensive, but if you know anyone who runs a restaurant, you might have that person order it for you from a food service company like Sysco, rather than going to the supermarket and getting the tiny little package for a big price. And, as always, I recommend the King Arthur baking catalogue for all your baking needs!

[gorio]

Good Medicine Cookies

1 cup butter
1 cup dark brown sugar
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups all purpose flour
2 ½ cups oats
½ cup walnut, chopped
12 ounce chocolate chips

Makes 15 cookies
Cream butter and sugars. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine baking powder, baking soda, salt and flour. Mix dry ingredients together with butter mixture until blended. Mix in oats, nuts, and chocolate. Use ¼ cup of batter per each cookie. Bake on a cookie sheet for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
Note: butter scotch chips can substitute chocolate chips

[mountaineer]

Here's a gingerbread house recipe I've never tried, but here goes:

Dough

3/4 c. heavy cream, whipped
1-1/4 c. dark brown sugar, packed
1/2 c. molasses
1 T. baking soda
1-1/2 t. ginger
1-1/2 t. grated lemon rind
4-1/2 c. sifted flour

Stir together first 6 ingredients, then stir in flour till well-blended and smooth. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate.

Make patterns out of cardboard or paper for front, back, gable, roof, chimney, etc. of your house. Roll dough out about 1/8" thick on lightly floured surface.

Lay patterns, side by side, on the dough. With a sharp knife, cut around each. With broad spatula, transfer the cutouts, with patterns still in place, to greased sheets; place about 1/2" apart.

Carefully cut out windows, doors, etc., and lift off patterns. Brush all cutouts lightly with cold water. Bake at 300 degrees 10-15 minutes or until done. Cool on sheets.

Assembly: For glue, melt 1/2 c. granulated sugar, stirring until it's a golden syrup. Dip house pieces into the syrup and press against the other pieces. If syrup gets stiff, re-melt over low heat.

Decorating: For icing, stir 4 c. sifted confectioners' sugar into 2 egg whites until smooth and creamy.

Flat licorice pieces may be used for roof tiles, sticks of chewing gum for shutters, waffle wafer cookies for chimney bricks, candy canes for columns, etc.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

My daughter has been making these and I've heard they were terrific!

Gooey Butter Cookies

8 ounces cream cheese (1 package)
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 18.5-ounce package yellow cake mix
1/4 cup powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 350 F (175 degrees C). In a medium bowl, cream together the cream cheese and butter. Stir in the egg and vanilla. Add cake mix, and stir until well blended. Roll into 1" balls and then roll the balls in the powdered sugar. Place 1 inch apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 to 13 minutes. Remove from baking sheets to cool on wire racks.

[mountaineer]

Chocolate-Covered Oatmeal Bars

1 c. butter
1/2 brown sugar
1/2 c. granulated sugar
2 egg yolks
1 c. sifted flour
1 c. rolled oats
6 oz. Hershey bar chocolate
2 T. butter
1/2 c. chopped nuts, e.g., walnuts

Cream butter and sugars. Beat in eggs. Add flour and oats; mix well. Spread in greased and floured 13x9 pan. Bake at 350 degrees for about 22 minutes. Cool 10 minutes.

Melt Hershey bars and 2 T. butter together. Spread over cookie and sprinkle with nuts.

[SassyMom]

I just have to tell you that I am completely and totally addicted to your Garlic Smashed Potatoes. I make them at least once a week if not more and I can eat them as a meal. I just love them!!!! :)

[WillaJohns]

Could you give more info on the King Arthur Baking Catalogue?

I've been waiting for this thread. My contribution for now is the following:

For almost any cookie that you'd like to jazz up BIG TIME, go to your closest candy making supply store (look in your yellow pages for confectioner supplies) and buy a bag or two of dipping chocolate (light or dark whatever your preference). Make the most boring cookies you know, those spritz cookies that you shoot from a gun work very well. Set them aside to cool to room temperature. Take about 3/4 cup of the dipping chocolate discs and melt either over hot water (DON'T get any water in the chocolate) or nuke it low (this chocolate melts very quickly). Have waxed paper covered cookie sheets ready. Take your cookies and dip the tip, or half or even the whole cookie in the melted dipping chocolate and place them on the waxed paper covered cookie sheets. When the sheet is full of chocolate covered or dipped cookies, place the sheet in refrigerator for 15 minutes. NOTE: The chocolate will not set unless it is refrigerated for a short time.

Your friends and family will be amazed and delighted with these delicacies. Most will simply insist you had to have buoght them in the store. Last year I made a simple Lemon Spritz cookie recipe, shot them from the cookie gun in the shape of Christmas trees, dipped the tips of the "trees" in chocolate, and they were a big hit.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I am so glad you like them. You might find yourself adding more and more garlic! I just went in my fridge to get some leftover smashed potatoes to have with my beef wellington and they were all moldy. Ewwwww.

[WillaJohns]

Your Coconut Oatmeal cookie recipe is my daughter's favorite cookie, she requests a batch for her birthday and special occasions. No one except the baker even knows there is coconut in them and the coconut gives them an incredible smooth flavor. I add one teaspoon of vanilla to mine. Also, my recipe calls for smashing them with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar instead of using a fork to push them down.