i am at the tail end of a cookie baking marathon--mexican wedding cookies, an odd hazelnut chocolate cookie with which i was experimenting, and chocolate chippies. new to this year's lineup: bill clinton's oatmeal cookies, from chef sherry yard's "desserts by the yard." i make a lot of oatmeal cookies, and even though they don't look like much (when do oatmeal cookies ever do?), they might be some of my favourite--possibly the only favourite anything i share with the former president. they are crispy on the outside, but chewy with oats, brown sugar, and wine-soaked golden raisins (i added some dried cranberries as well) on the inside. you can futz about with the temperature and time if you want a softer, chewier cookie, but imho, they don't turn out quite so well. stick to the plan, stan, and enjoy.
4 comments:
12/17/2007 10:13:00 PM
Oh, Santos. I made choc chip cookies yesterday but they look nothing like yours - I'll have to try another recipe for choc chip cookies. Such a hard thing to do. ;)
12/18/2007 06:03:00 AM
I have this book and have been dying to make these cookies. Sounds like they're worth it, eh?
12/18/2007 03:40:00 PM
hello patricia! the best chocolate chip cookie recipe i've ever made was from the back of a chocolate chip packet; of course, it involved two kinds of chips and i used twice the amount necessary :)
dana, happy holidays! i like this book a lot. this is the first time i've made from it, and yes, if you like oatmeal and raisins, it is.
12/20/2007 02:36:00 PM
i've been baking waaay too much these days for someone who's not much into baking & sweets. i made pb oatmeal chocolate chip cookies today. oatmeal doesn't look like much but i like that it's identifiable. the bad thing with all this baking is my waistline. can't stop tasting everything! :) happy holidays santos!
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