Another Cookie Recipe

Since I posted the Oatmeal Crispies yesterday I decide it was only fair to post son #1’s favorite. He and his 3-year-old nursery school class made this cookie for Christmas. We all loved the cookie and I asked the teachers if they would share the recipe. After you read the recipe imagine 12 little hands rolling these cookies in sugar and cinnamon and eating them after baking.


Sinckerdoodles

Mix together thoroughly
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup canola oil
1 ½ cups of sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix 2 ¾ cups of flour
2 teaspoons cream of tarter
1 teaspoon soda
¼ teaspoons salt
Add to the mixture.

Form into ball the size of small walnuts, roll in equal parts cinnamon and sugar. Place about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake about 10 minutes in 400 degree oven. Makes about 5 dozen cookies. These cookies puff up at first and then flatten out with crinkled tops.

Remember the hint about the cookie sheet. This recipe came from an unknown cookbook. I made some small changes to the recipe.

Favorite Cookie from a Cookbook

I just got home from Christmas with my Mother (she was 89 on her birthday on December 24th) and my two sons who live in the same city. Like all families we have some traditions and one came from different sources. Each of my sons has a favorite cookie and I make a batch to give each at Christmas. The recipe for Oatmeal Crispies came from a cookbook, the recipe for Snickerdoodles came from a cookies that my oldest son made in nursery school and the third is the recipe on the back of the chocolate chip bag (this favorite cookie is my son who lives in Denver and I will see him next weekend). My sons found the Oatmeal Crispies recipe in a cookbook. All three sons along with my husband used to sit in the kitchen looking through cookbooks and would read me recipes while I cooked. This year the Oatmeal Crispies were shared with son #3’s friends and generated several requests for the recipe. I decided to post the recipe on my book blog. After all a cookbook is a book so it fits.

Oatmeal Crispies

1 cup of vegetable oil
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 ½ cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon soda
6 cups Quaker Old Fashioned Oats
1 package butterscotch chips
½ cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Mix shortening and sugars, beat in eggs and vanilla, and add butterscotch chips. Mix flour, salt and soda and stir into mixture. Add oats and nuts. Drop by small spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 about 10 minutes or until lightly brown.

For any of you who are not cookies bakers following the recipe is important, but the cookie sheet you use is also important. Use a clean shiny cookie sheet. That will insure that all the cookies bake evenly and turn out looking great.

Recipe is from an unknown cookbook. I did make some small changes. Make up a batch and enjoy