I feel the need to make cookies, so I'm hoping to get some incredible cookie recipes. I was eating trail mix the other day and thought I should throw it into a cookie, so I'll try that, but does anyone else have recipes for me to try? Easy recipes are best, naturally, but if I actually have to learn beyond my tiny skill, I suppose IT CAN'T BE AVOIDED. Thanks!

man, let me post a recipe when I get back to work on monday... someone had brought some killer "fruit drop" cookies to work around christmas time and I had them email the recipe to me.

Ooh, I'll look forward to it.

Any kind of cookies in particular? I've recently discovered Molasses cookies, which I really like. I need to find a good recipe to make some myself though.

As far as chocolate chips go, look no further than the one on the back of the Nestle Milk Chocolate Chip bag. MMMMMMmmmmmmm.

Yup, those are pretty much the way to go. There are a few tweaks here and there (different flour amounts for different areas of the country, etc.) but they sure do make a tasty cookie.

Made sugar cookies for Xmas, but I misread the ingredients. I put in 3 sticks of butter instead of 2.5. Made for a tasty cookie, but man was that dough hard to work with...

3 step recipe for great cookies:

Go to store

Buy your favorite cookie

Eat your favorite cookie.

Or my version:

1. Send Jason to store to buy my favourite cookies.
2. Hope he comes back.

Hmm, I may need to tweek that recipe a little.

I always have trouble with the fourth step. Maybe I should talk to my doctor.

Ha ha, man, but you guys are virtually no help! I've bought a lot of cookies, but it just gets old going for the ones at the store. Plus, it's different having them fresh out of the oven. To ease myself into it, however, I think I may just get pre-made dough and play with what ingredients I add to that.

<- goes to kitchen. Grabs one of his favourite home made Christmas cookies.

You know, your right. There is something special about home made you just can't get from store bought.

Seriously, the only home made recipies I have are Christmas cookies. I used to have an excellent choco-chip recipe that included several types of nuts, but I think the ex ended up with that one.

Charles, do you like Chocolate Chip Cookies? If so , one of the best receipes is right on the bag they come in, well the Nestle ones we have up here anyway.

I like them, of course, but if I'm going to go to the trouble of making cookies, it usually feels like I should be doing more than the most common cookie in existence. Still, I love cookies enough to try any recipe, no matter if it's chocolate chip or not.

For me there is nothing better than a hot chocolate chip cookie right out of the oven, except maybe a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie.

Best Chocolate Chip Cookies EVAR

Mix (with electric mixer) in large bowl:
1 lb butter
1 box (2 cups) dark brown sugar
1 1/2 cup sugar

Add:
3 eggs
4 tbsp high quality vanilla (important!)

Beat for about 3 minutes.

Add:
4 cups flour
1 cup oats (quick for less texture, regular for more texture)
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon

Mix.

Add:
4 cups chopped pecans or walnuts
4 cups Nestle chocolate chips

Drop onto ungreased cookie sheets and bake at 350 for 10-15 minutes per tray. (I usually take them out closer to 10 for softer cookies.)

Makes a buttload of cookies.

Normally, this takes less than 2.

And how long with no touching?

5 weeks.

That's why I hardly ever use that method.

Taking lessons from Sting and Trudie? We'll have to call you Tantric_Guy now.

I'm still laughing. Funniest. Post. Ever.

I can smell them now. Eww.

No, no, he meant the cookies add to your butt load.

No, no, I didn't mean it that way, I meant it the other way.

His meaning and your interpretations are taking the scenic route, I guess.

I tried this recipe:

Black Forest Cookies

I only had Original Craisins, though, not Cherry. They still taste good. Not my perfect cookie, so the search continues, but a nice first effort.

I like the orange flavored Craisins the best.

Not sure how they'd fare in the cookie, though.

dang it... i forgot to post the recipe from work.

I've never had the other flavors of Craisins. Orange sounds good. I'll have to experiment.

Yeah, you fruit-dropped the ball.

I wasn't crazy about the cherry flavored ones. Although, I have been enjoying dried cherries, they're very tasty.

Good thing, as everything's going to be dry and shriveled in Arizona.

Not if my water-cooled underwear can help it.

Wasn't "Slosh-Thruster General" the ride that Negative Orange helped unveil at Danger Park USA?

I don't know, but I bet J.P. has the "I Survived the Thruster!" t-shirt to prove it.



He also has a lot of explaining to do to his friends whenever he wears it. . . .

We should really have that shirt made. Wearing in-jokes is always fun.

I think J.P. would get kicked out of Walt Disney World rather quickly sporting that shirt.

I'd pay to see that, though.

Ha ha, yes, seeing someone ejected is worth the price of admission.

If you want something dried that tastes like cherries, why not just buy dried cherries in the first place? Personally I like my canberries to taste like cranberries strange as that may be.

Ocean Spray needed to diversify.

That's a very good point, Fred. I don't have an answer for you!

OK, now I wanna know what dried cherries taste like, but I have never seen them around here. I suppose now I have to go out and buy cherry flavoured craisins. :rollyeyes:

ok cv, I sent my work email account a reminder email from my school email account. now I can't possibly forget to post the fruit drop cookie recipe... right?

I think you're golden now.

I made chocolate chip cookies from a recipe that Kruncher sent me. I'll make Peter's probably next weekend. I also made the following:

Trail Mix Cookies

I substituted dark chocolate M&Ms for the chocolate chips, made it 1/2 cup peanuts and 1/2 cup slivered almonds instead of 1 cup of slivered almonds, and I didn't have any flax seed, so I just left that out. I think they turned out pretty good.

Flax seed trivia: Unless its ground, adding flax seed is a waste. We can't digest the whole seed so it passes right on through.

Holiday Fruit Drops
(Anything else is just a cookie)
Ingredients

1 cup Shortening
2 cups Brown Sugar
½ cup Buttermilk
3-1/2 cups Flour
1 tsp Soda
1-1/2 cups Broken Pecans
1 cup Pecan Halves
2 cups Candied Cherrie Halves
2 cups Chopped Dates
2 Eggs

Mixing

Mix shortening, sugar and eggs well,
Stir in milk.
Mix dry ingredients-Sift in flour
Blend with wet ingredients; add cherries, pecans and dates

Chill for 1 hour, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place rounded tablespoons of dough on un-greased cookie sheet 3 inches apart. Place Pecan Half on each cookie. Bake for 8-10 minutes.

Get a big glass of milk and enjoy!!

FYI: These cookies are good even though the holiday season is over.

Thanks for the recipe, David. I'll let you know when I try it out.

Good to know.