Forgotten Cookies and German Chocolate Brownie Bites |
Big Soft Sugar Cookies |
"Cooking with Big Love" is a cookbook put out in 1978 by the ladies of the Lutheran Church I was raised in and my Mother still belongs too in Noblesville, Indiana. I have found several rather interesting and somewhat unique recipes that I have adapted for today's baking!!
The first is for a Soft Sugar Cookie and is interesting because of the ingredients. It calls for oil (I used Canola) and buttermilk rather than shortening or butter and you scoop the batter out in a 1/4 C. measure to form big soft cookies I embellished with sugar sprinkles.
Here is my version: SOFT SUGAR COOKIE
1 C. vegetable oil
1 C. sugar
2 eggs
1 C. buttermilk
1 t. soda
3 C. flour
1 T. baking powder
1/2 T. vanilla
1 C. sugar
2 eggs
1 C. buttermilk
1 t. soda
3 C. flour
1 T. baking powder
1/2 T. vanilla
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Using an electric mixer combine the oil, sugar, and eggs until creamy. Stir together the buttermilk and soda and add immediately to the oil mixture. Mix together the flour and baking powder and add to the batter. Fold in the vanilla.
Pour by 1/4 C. measuring cup onto an ungreased cookie sheet, forming only 6 per pan. Sprinkle the cookie tops with sugar and bake for 8 minutes. These are enormous cookies. I used a 1/4 C. measure and they are about 5-6" across!! Yield 18 giant cookies.
Using the offset spatula to loosen them helped to remove them intact and with ease. Just run it all of the way around the plate sized cookies before removing them with a spatula.
I expect the little ones will have to have these enormous cookies cut in half while Grandpa will gulp them down just like the big boys do.
Even using half sheet pans and 1/4 C. measure you can only bake 6 cookies at a time. |
Offset spatulas help loosen large cookies. |
Yellow and Orange Fall colored sprinkles made for a festive cookie. |
My next "FIND" was Forgotten Cookies which fascinated me from the start!! When I read the recipe I thought they would be great for anyone pressed for time. YOU BAKE THEM IN THE EVENING AND LEAVE THEM OVERNIGHT IN THE TURNED OFF OVEN!! They are ready to go next morning, just remove fro the pan. They have to be great, sweet crunchy clouds with tiny chocolate chips. Away I tried them and was not disappointed!!
Forgotten Cookies couldn't be a quicker to mix and easier to bake treat. |
2 egg whites
2/3 C. sugar
1 small bag of mini chocolate chips
1 t. vanilla
2/3 C. sugar
1 small bag of mini chocolate chips
1 t. vanilla
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. before you start!!
Completely cover cookie sheets with aluminum foil.
Forgotten Cookies do not spread or rise so more can be placed on the baking sheet. |
Stir in the chocolate chips. Drop the mixture by teaspoon full onto the prepared cookie sheet. Place the cookies in the hot oven. Yielded 28 cookies.
IMMEDIATELY TURN OFF THE OVEN AND DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR UNTIL THE NEXT MORNING. Just remove from the pan and you've got treats any child will love.
NOTE: Egg whites have a lot of proteins and nutritional value.
NOTE: Egg whites have a lot of proteins and nutritional value.
German Chocolate is the main ingredient in these delightful cookies. |
BROWNIE DROPS:
2 (4 oz.) bars German Chocolate
1 T. butter
3/4 C. sugar
1/4 t. baking powder
3/4 C. chopped pecans if desired (I used walnuts instead.)
2 eggs
1/4 C. flour
1/4 t. vanilla
dash of Cinnamon
pinch of salt
1 T. butter
3/4 C. sugar
1/4 t. baking powder
3/4 C. chopped pecans if desired (I used walnuts instead.)
2 eggs
1/4 C. flour
1/4 t. vanilla
dash of Cinnamon
pinch of salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease baking pans.
Melt chocolate and butter in a double boiler. Beat eggs until foamy and then add the sugar, 2 T. at a time; beat until thickened. Blend in the chocolate; add the flour, baking powder Cinnamon , and salt mixing well. Stir in the vanilla and the nuts, if desired.
Shinny fudge like batter marks this cookie. |
2 comments:
Now this is my kind of post! I absolutely love cookies and getting three recipes at once, yum! These recipes look scrumptious too. I will have to give them a try asap. Thanks for sharing
Glad you like the post!! My three year old little twin grandsons loved them too. One likes the forgotten cookies best and the other the brownie bites best!! So they will remain in my ""do again" file. Thanks again. PS: Grandpa likes the sugar cookies the best!!
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