My Absolute Favorite Cookie
5 Things I Learned from My Mom:
1. Hate is a very strong word.
2. Inanimate objects can be neither smart, nor stupid. Except for you, stupid TV remote.
3. Saying “time to get a new watch,” when someone asks “what time is it?” never gets old real fast.
4. Adults write in cursive, not print.
5. Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies never go out of style.
So what better way to kick off the start to my 12 Days of Cookies challenge, than to make my all-time favorite cookie?
Trick question, there is no better way.
Do you see that recipe card? All those stains, crinkles and leftover batter are the mark of a truly cherished cookie recipe. Cookies you keep making over and over. Cookies you can remember your mom making when you were younger and had no qualms about eating five in a row.
One made with shortening and butter and sugar and chocolate and lots and lots of love.
Things made with love have zero calories and zero grams of sugar, didn’t you know?
So eat four and share that fifth one with someone you love.
Mom’s Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 cup soft shortening (1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup shortening)
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon hot tap water
- 2 cups oatmeal
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 package chocolate chips
- Heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine soft shortenings, sugars, eggs and vanilla.
- Add flour, salt, soda and water. Then add chocolate chips and oatmeal.
- Place on cookie sheet by the heaping teaspoon.
- Bake 10 minutes or until golden brown.
Yields ~24 cookies
**If you’re feeling frisky, add some chopped walnuts to your dough. And it’s highly recommended that you start feeling frisky now.
5 Things I’ve Learned from Making These Cookies:
1. If you leave them in a room with two 20-something year old guys, they will devour them in a few hours, so get your fill before you leave them unsupervised.
2. Leaving the dough in the fridge for a few minutes results in fluffier cookies.
3. Whether they’re fluffy or not, they’re deliciously addicting.
4. Even moms burn things.
Oopsies.
5. Burnt or not, they still taste better when mom makes them.
Happy Friday, friends!
12 Days of Cookies
Nothing like waking up on December 1st to a fresh new layer of snow, right?
How about waking up to a fresh new layer of snow, deciding to skip yoga and snuggling up in bed for an extra half an hour instead? Pure bliss.
Mother Nature is just begging me to stay home and bake cookies all.day.long. And I’m happy to oblige.
Maybe it was the Ginger Cremes or the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies or my homemade roll-making success, but I’ve been bit by the baking bug.
I want to bake myself into a coma. So I’m doing just that. One batch of cookies at a time.
Until I’ve baked 12 batches of cookies, or until my face in numb from sugar intoxication. Whichever comes first.
Look, I even have a separate board to pin cookies on. And now that I have one, I don’t know remember what my life was like before it.
I have no idea how I’m going to organize this or more importantly, how I’m going to narrow my cookie recipes down to 12, but I’m ready to get my bake on and to share it all with you.
Let the cookie baking commence!
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What’s your all-time favorite cookie?
Are you more of a baker or a cook?
WIAW: Smothered
Good morning from the land of no sun.
Colorado has been so gloomy the past couple of days and it’s making my attitude equally gray.
But gloom does make for excellent cookie baking weather so that’s precisely what I’ll be doing this afternoon with my mom.
So let’s get straight to the WIAW party so I can show you all the things I ate smothered in nut butter, sauce and chocolate galore! Thanks to Jenn of Peas and Crayons for hosting 🙂
Breakfast:
Nog and Nutmeg Pancakes smothered in Nog-Spiked Nut Butter Sauce.
How’s that caption for some enticement?
I can’t emphasize enough how much I love nog. Always have, always will.
These were so good. Don’t worry, I’ll share the recipe soon!
Lunch:
Fall Kale Salad + chickpeas.
Leftover sweet potato casserole.
Bread and buttah.
Dinner:
Enchiladas!
Smothered in homemade sauce.
Don’t even get me started on how I left our black beans in our new crockpot for 7 hours on Monday night and came home to find uncooked beans.
The enchiladas were delayed by a day, but they were good nonetheless and hey, I even made my own ranchero sauce!
Bedtime Snack:
Rice cake smothered in peanut butter and honey.
Except that’s a recycled picture and in reality it was chocolate chips instead of honey.
And then I had a glass of “real deal cow’s milk!” Can’t remember the last time I did that.
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What’s your favorite smothered food?
Are you an eggnog fan?
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