OK, I know this might be a lame post. However, today my wife made up a recipe for cookies, and they were UNBELIEVABLE. She made oatmeal/peanut butter/butterscotch cookies and I’ve had 4 already.(it’s only 6:12 p.m.) I’ll probably hit 10.
Eating these cookies has renewed my love for cookies in general. (such a healthy love to rediscover) At any rate, I need to know some new cookie ideas. What is your favorite cookie? Is the recipe easy? Obviously there are the standards (chocolate chip, peanut butter, etc), but what I’m talking about are the cookies maybe you or someone you love made up or had passed on to them that are really good secrets.
Please think hard and let me know. This is world changing stuff! By the way, I’m working toward getting the next song commentary posted soon. Time has been scarce and I want to be thorough as you who read my posts already well know. Alright, off to get another cookie.
Hunter
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I am absolutely awed by your wife!! You are such a blessed man. Your baby is not even a month old and she is making up a cookie recipe!!
My hubby’s favorite cookie has always been Snickerdoodles. I use his Mom’s recipe. My kids like this thing my grandmother used to make called Peanut butter cup candy. Very rich but oh soo good.
Your new cookie sounds great.
I made about 600+ cookies at Christmas time to pass out to friends and neighbors. They were all good, but a few of them were really, REALLY good. One was a Cherry Almond Chew–coconut cookie flavored with almond oil with half a maraschino cherry on top! Another was a Cream Cheese Bell–cream cheese dough rolled out and cut into circles, then filled with a pecan-nut paste and folded over into a bell shape. These both are just amazingly delicious! And neither is terribly difficult.
My hubby loves basic, boring chocolate chip cookies, but he’ll eat any cookie I make. He’s great like that!
I ate 12 today. I couldn’t stop. That’ll only take 10 to 14 hours on the treadmill tomorrow to burn off.
This is the funniest post I have ever read!So random !LOL! I am however, THE COOKIE MONSTER!!! I LOOOVE COOOKIES !!! My Weakness!It’s late and I just ate way too much candy,And have the Mother of all tummy aches!So I’ll give ya recipe later. Goodnight Hunter.LOL LOL LOL!!!
Growing up, my favorite cookie was always the oatmeal scotchie (I assume, like your oatmeal-peanut butter-butterscotch cookie, only sans peanut butter).
The other one I loved was oatmeal raisin.
Of course, I don’t think there’s anything secret about either of those!
Just plain ol’ chocolate chip cookies and milk for me. It can do you no wrong :: wink ::
If memory serves, you have a fondness for Krispy Kremes also?
::Sigh::
Yeah, in a kind of “rage against the machine” way I do.
WOOT! I love chocolate cookies and cookie dough and my sister makes the best ones ever!!!! but their a simple recipe and it don’t sound good but tell ur wife to try it, by the way whaats her name?u need to tell us about her,lol. anywas but if u go to the grocery store and get Nestle Toll House semi-sweet chocolate morsels they have recipe and i swear their the best ever!
OK, here we go, this is a very old recipe passed down from generations ago. It’s not easy but not hard either.I don’t think you would find old and easy in the same recipe from this generation,kinda a family secret!Don’t be afraid.These cookies melt in your mouth! Date/Nut/Creams Preheat oven 350 degrees.1/2 cup butter… 1+ 1/2 cup firmly packed light Brn.sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 2 eggs blend well. add 2+1/4 cups flour 1/2 tsp.soda 1/2 tsp.salt mix well Add 1 cup chopped dates and 1 cup chopped pecans. Drop by tsp. full on greased cookie sheet bake 10-12 mins. DO NOT OVER BAKE! Ice cookies while slightly warm with this yumm… 1 stick of butter 1 lb powder sugar thats 1 box and 1+1/4 tsp. maple flavoring cream well. Top each cookie with this and then a pecan half!
Treadmill time: about 12 days non-stop for 12 cookies !
Thanks Rebecca! I will get that one to my wife and get the treadmill warmed up. Sounds incredible.
Hello again,
I would definitely say my favorite cookies are ones from Target (I know that sounds completely lame). My mom and dad make good cookies, but they sell these cookies at Target that are incredible! Archer Farms?
By the way, I wanted to congratulate you on your baby. When you were here in Houston, I told you my birthday was in March and you thought I was due in March. Well, I turned 19 on March 21, and was very excited to read that you and your wife had Samuel.
That story still makes me laugh,
the very UNpregnant, Sara
You are so welcome. Have her melt the butter for the icing,it makes it easier to mix.
rage against the machine?
Here is the college way to do cookies…
You buy the pre-made cookie dough. Add extra chocolate chips to the dough. Then you buy a tub of Chunky Monkey ice cream…
Make sure the cookies are nice and small… Take them out the oven and after they cool for about a minute, put a nice scoop of Chunky Monkey ice cream in the middle of two cookies. Eat and repeat. Then go take a nap
Hey Hunter, how are you doing on those cookies? You didn’t finish them all did you? Save some and send some to me, please!
I love baking and trying out new recipes especially cookie ones. When I moved away my co-workers pitched in and bought me a Kitchen-Aid mixer just because they know I love to bake and had reaped the benefits of it for over 8 years. I’ve got to say I love the “Monster Cookie” recipe the best. I’ve got some good recipes for cookies that we make at Christmas time too. I’ll have to get out a recipe and post it on here later. Have you ate more cookies today? *lol*
Okay…here it is…they are called Kitchen Sink Cookies (they make a large cookie)
1/2 c butter softened, 1/2 c butter, melted and cooled, 1 1/2 c brown sugar, 1/3 c white sugar, 1 1/2 tsp vanilla, 2 eggs, 2 c flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp baking soda, 1/4 tsp salt, 1 1/2 c rolled oats, 2 c crisp rice cereal (Rice Krispies), 1 1/2 c mini marshmallows, 1/2 c butterscotch chips or toffee bits, 1 c. semisweet chocolate chips, 3/4 c chopped milk chocolate bars (Hershey’s), 1 c coconut (optional if you don’t like it leave it out). Preheat oven to 350. Cream soft butter with melted butter, the sugars and vanilla. Add eggs, flour, baking powder and soda, and salt..blend well. Stir in oats, cereal, marshmallows, butterscotch chips (or toffee bits), chocolate chips, chocolate bits, and coconut (if using)…blend well. Scoop 2 to 3 Tbsp of dough and place on cookie sheet 2 inches apart. Bake 12 to 14 minutes
OK–this recipe is so simple but always an enormous hit: Take a box of strawberry cake mix, add 2 eggs and 1/2 cup of oil. You can add some white chocolate chips if you want. Scoop onto baking stone and bake for about 12 minutes (depending on the size of your scoop) at 350. The secret is not to overbake-you’ll think they’re not quite done but that’s the best time to take them out. You can use any kind of cake mix and chips. i.e. yellow cake mix with chocolate chips, white cake mix with white chocolate is great too–I keep several boxes of cake mix on hand all the time and can have homemade cookies for my teenage kids in the blink of an eye! Your kids will think you are AMAZING!!
The closest recepie my super-awesome-baking-husband could find to Paradise Bakery’s chocolate chip cookies was Food Network’s Alton Brown’s recepie for chewy chocolate chip cookies. The first day, they’re incredible - soft on the inside, a little hard on the outside. The 2nd day on, they’re really chewy. Recepie here: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_13617,00.html
Hey there! Really excited ’bout you comin’ to perform in Ft. Wayne, May 4th, so will see you then!
Cookie recipe? So funny I stumbled upon this site, so I will keep up with your blogs! My inlaws just got back from Florida and went over today for dinner. I had the best cookie!! Two of them in fact!
The easiest thing, no writing involved. Here goes:
1 box of any cake flavor (lemon today)
1 tub of cool whip (I prefer fat reduced, haha)
1 egg
Whip all together
Sit in fridge for awhile till thick
Place on baking sheet in typical flat style, thick or roll in balls
Bake
That simple! Let me know what you think, cuz I certainly thought they were divine!
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OMG! I just came home frome Paradise Cafe’ and Bakery! Best cookies ever!Choc.chip will make your hair stand straight up on end!No dinner here tonight! too busy on the treadmill. I just can’t STOP!! So much for my plans to worship with Connersvine tonight in Noblesville,I’ll be listening to your CD and running on the treadmill.Praising God!!Asking Him to rid me of this desire to eat cookies.Oh well it could be worse,I didn’t eat “twelve”,just one.Enjoy Jesus, Becky