Oatmeal Cookies

One of the best oatmeal cookie recipes I've found.

• 1 cup butter, melted
  
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
  
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 3 cups oats

Mix butter, sugar, and brown sugar until creamy. Beat in eggs, add vanilla. Mix flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon separately. Then mix in with the other mixture. Bake at 375 for about 10 minutes. Makes ~3 dozen cookies.

Original recipe was found here.

Brown Sugar Pecan Bars

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1/2-1 cup pecans, crushed/chopped

Cream butter and brown sugar. Add egg, vanilla, beat. Mix all dry ingredients except pecans. Slowly add to wet ingredients. Mix in chopped pecans. Drop spoonfuls on cookie baking tray. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes. Recipe from this link.

Fat Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies turn out gigantic and fat and soft. They're less sweet than you'd think a chocolate chip cookie should be, but tastes great with ice cream. If you want them without the ice cream, I would say increase sugar to 1/2 or 1 cup instead.

• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 bag chocolate chips

I mixed everything together in one bowl. Preheat oven to 375. Round into 1 inch sized balls and bake for 16 minutes. Original recipe used I Can't Believe It's Not Butter sticks.

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Strawberry Cookies

Yummers. These turned out super soft, perhaps I should have used butter instead of the vegetable oil sticks to make the cookies hold a bit stronger (like the original recipe said to do), but they turned out good anyways.

• 1 cup 70% vegetable oil sticks (2 sticks)
• 1 1/4 cups brown sugar
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups flour
  
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 heaping tsp cinnamon
• 3 cups oats
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1 1/2 cups fresh strawberries, cut in quarters
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
  

Mix wet ingredients. Mix dry ingredients, but save chocolate chips and strawberries for later. Combine the two mixes. Carefully fold in chocolate chips and strawberries so you don't break/crush the berries. Bake at 350 for about 15-20 minutes.

Blueberry Oatmeal Cookies

DE-LI-CIOUS.

Freezing the blueberries before use definitely helped a LOT. It kept them from being squished when being mixed in.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is my all time favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. I've made it so many times and don't get tired of it. I've tried variations, with and without nuts, little and a lot of chocolate chips. This time I tried making them into cookie bars rather than regular round cookies. When making the round ones, they turn out looking exactly like the picture in the Cookie Madness blog. (I love that blog.)

Lemon Bars

I tried this recipe and it looks amazing.

The only differences: I used salted butter because, unfortunately, that's all I had -- so I didn't add any of the optional salt listed in the ingredients. I didn't have fresh lemons to grate the lemon zest, so instead I added an extra tablespoon of lemon juice to makeup for it (not sure if that's the best substitution, but it turned out good).

Brown Sugar Cookie Bars

I got this recipe off the back of a bag of brown sugar that I have.

• 1/4 C butter
• 1 C brown sugar
• 1 egg, beaten
• 3/4 C flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1/3 C chocolate chips or chopped nuts (optional)

Melt butter in a saucepan. Remove from heat and add brown sugar. Stir until smooth then mix in the egg. Stir together the flour and baking powder and then add to the brown sugar mixture. Mix in vanilla. Add chocolate chips or nuts. Spread into a greased baking pan and bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes.

I made this using margarine instead of butter and used about 2 fistfuls of chocolate chips (add more or less depending on how much you like them). I also baked them for exactly 20 minutes and took them out of the oven immediately. If you like cake-y cookies, you could try leaving them in the extra five minutes. These came out looking a lot like blondies. Next time I might try adding oats for a thicker texture. The batch is small and makes about 12 bars so I'd multiply the recipe for a lot of people.