Cookies

I made delicious chocolate chip cookies! With two whole bags of chips, they were very chocolaty! They are all gone now! We just made them yesterday!

Recipe

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Oatmeal cookies are really good, if you like oatmeal! I hope that you make these cookies because I bet they are delicious! Here are the ingredients you need to make them...  (All of this information came from http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,2310,153183-237203,00.html)

     1/2 cup vegetable oil

3/4 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup water
2 cups unbleached flour
1 cup raisins (any kind)
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
2 cups quick-cooking oats

 

Here are the directions for making them... 

Preheat oven to 350°F.

In a saucepan, combine water and raisins, then heat until the water begins to boil, turn off heat and cool. Stir in vanilla.
In a large bowl, mix oil, sugar and eggs. Beat well.
Add raisins and all liquid to mixture. Stir in dry ingredients.
Beat well and stir in oats.
Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets.
Bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly golden brown.

Here is a video of someone making oatmeal raisin cookies, don't they look yummy? Her recipie might be a little different from the one above because everyone puts their own touch on the cookies. And you can either heat the oven to 350 or 375 one will just take a little shorter. Make sure you don't burn them!

Tip

Don't use "I can't believe its not butter" butter when you are making cookies because they don't stick together and they turn out horrible.

Oreos

One of my favorite cookies are Oreos. I love them! Basically, if you are not familiar with the brand, they are just two pieces of chocolate shaped into a circle and there is a strip of creme in the middle. Their catch phrase is, "Milks favorite cookie!" and they were founded in New York. They even have their own website... oreo.com! They have double stuffed Oreos too. That means that there is twice the amount of stuffing in the Oreo. Here is a picture of an Oreo.

Halloween Cookie!!

Halloween Cookie Recipe

This seems like the perfect time to introduce a new cookie recipe. It's for Halloween! I know it's a little late and after Halloween but there's still enough time to bake it and enjoy the delicious cookie. If you don't like this recipe you can always just make the type of cookie you like and decorate it with different words or pictures that remind you of Halloween. here is the recipe...

Here is what you will need and a picture of them...

• 1 cup shortening
• 2 cups white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 pinch ground nutmeg
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Here are the directions for making them...

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the shortening and white sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Stir in the vanilla and pumpkin until well blended. Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg; stir into the pumpkin mixture. Mix in the chocolate chips. Stir in the walnuts if desired. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets.
3. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven, until edges begin to brown. Allow to cool for a few minutes on the baking sheets before removing to wire racks to cool completely. 
4.  Enjoy the cookie!

These cookies are perfect because they only take about 40 minutes to make and they are only 75 calories. Here is also a video of a slightly different way to make these unique cookies...

 
 

Video!!!

Video

Here is a video on how to make chocolate chip cookies. I wonder if they taste just as good with some orange juice in them? But if you don't want orange juice in them they taste just as amazing without them. So here is a video about how to make chocolate chip cookies! Enjoy!

Little Debbie Nutty Bar!!

 Little Debbie Nutty Bars

Some people were asking what a Little Debbie Nutty Bar is and so I will explain. This food is a type of cookie. It is a rectangle in shape and they are crunchy. Little Debbie Bars are basically made up of peanut butter, chocolate, and fudge. It is made by a company names McKee. They are also called wafers because they are four wafers piled on top of each other and smothered in chocolate. They are delicious to eat! Yum! Little Debbie also is the name of other types of food, swiss rolls, cosmic brownies, and so on. Overall a Little Debbie Nutty Bar is 4 wafers covered in chocolate. They look like the pictures above.

Fun Facts About Cookies!!!

Cookie Trivia and Fun Facts!!!

• The first commercial cookie was the Animal Cracker. 
• The U.S. is known for how many cookies we make and eat, no other country makes or eats as much as we do! 
• The Oreo is the best selling cookie, it was made by Nabisco. 
• We have a national cookie museum located in Joplin, Missouri, in the Joplin Museum!
• Cookies jar came from the time of the Depression. They came from that time period because the wives started making cookies at home and not buying them from the store and sooner or later they needed a place to keep them and so came the cookie jars. So really cookie jars evolved from the British biscuit jars. 
• The ten top selling cookies in the United States of America are... 

• "Nabisco Oreo

• Nabisco Chips Ahoy

• Nabisco Oreo Double Stuff

• Pepperidge Farm Milano

• Private Label Chocolate Chip

• Little Debbie Nutty Bar

• Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream

• Nabisco Chips Ahoy Chewy

• Nabisco Nilla Vanilla Wafers

• Private Label Sandwich Cookies"

History of Cookies!!

Yummy, delicious, and warm, are three of the best words I can think of to describe cookies. Cookies were created by accident. According to one site that I read, one time people were using just a little bit of cake batter to see what the right temperature would be so that they could create a perfect and appetizing cak,e but when they came out people started calling the little cakes "koekje," "Koekje" is a a Dutch word that actually means "little cake." The cookies were made out of dough and they were eaten as snacks, just as they are today. Cookies are so popular that they are eaten by about 95.5% of Americans.