Still Life: Oatmeal Cookie Variations

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Oatmeal Cookie Variations

 

Recipe By : Still Life with Menu (1994), Mollie Katzen, page 28

Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00

Categories : Cookies And Bars

 

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

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3/4 cup soft butter -- (1 1/2 sticks)

3/4 cup brown sugar -- (packed)

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/4 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 1/2 cups rolled oats

5 tablespoons water or orange juice -- up to 6 tablespoons

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 cup raisins -- (packed)

3/4 cup chopped walnuts

 

Preparation time: 25 minutes, to prepare, 12 to 15 to bake. Yield: 4 dozen

cookies.

 

Oatmeal cookies are a perennial favorite. The basic recipe is open to many

suggestions and variations, so feel free to be creative. Meanwhile, here

are two of my own favorite versions.

 

CINNAMON-RAISIN-WALNUT OATMEAL COOKIES

 

1. Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly grease a cookie sheet.

 

2. Cream together butter and brown sugar with an electric mixer at high speed.

 

3. Beat in the egg; stir in the vanilla.

 

4. Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt.

 

5. If you are using thick-cut rolled oats (the kind that is sold in bulk

at natural food stores), grind the oats slightly in a blender or food

processor, using a few quick spurts. If you are using a more refined

product, like Quaker Oats, this step is unnecessary.

 

6. Stir flour mixture into the butter mixture, and add all remaining

ingredients. Mix until everything is well combined.

 

7. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto a lightly greased cookie sheet, and

flatten each cookie slightly with the back of the spoon.

 

8. Bake 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from the sheet while still hot, and cool

on a rack.

 

CHOCOLATE-CHOCOLATE CHIP OATMEAL COOKIES Follow the above recipe with these

changes:

 

1. Substitute 5 to 6 tablespoons black coffee for the water or orange juice.

 

2. Omit cinnamon, raisins, walnuts.

 

3. Add 1 cup ground chocolate chips (ground to a coarse meal in a blender,

using quick spurts) and 1 cup whole chocolate chips. Stir these in at the end.

 

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