These are a family favourite and are just as quick to make as a trip to the store to buy cookies.1 cup butter
3/4 to 1 cup brown sugar
1/4 to 1/2 cup white sugar
Cream butter and sugar together. Beat in until smooth
2 eggs
In another bowl mix together
2 cups flour
1 cup rolled oats
1/4 tsp salt (these may need no salt if using salted butter)
1 tsp baking soda
Stir into butter mixture. Add
1-2 cups pure chocolate chips, nuts, raisins, or whatever.
Place on a cookie sheet by spoonfuls and bake in preheated oven (375F) for about 10 minutes or until lightly browned and set.
4 comments:
Do you think half of the flour could be substituted for whole wheat?
For sure...I usually always use 1/2 whole wheat or use some wheat germ. The oats add some whole grain too. The cookies can be a little heavier with the whole wheat and I would freeze any that you are not going to use in a couple of days.
My great-grandma used to make these very same cookies; she called them Cowboy Cookies, but I'm not sure why.
BTW, the dough freezes well, and far better than the actual baked cookies. If you use a scoop, you can parcel it out into dough balls on a cookie sheet. Freeze, then pop them off and put them in a big Ziploc bag.
Then, when you need homemade cookies, put a few of the dough balls on a cookie sheet and bake them slightly longer than you would thawed. Insta-cookies!
And of course the frozen cookie dough balls make excellent guilty pleasure snacks. Not that I would know.
My daughters love cookie dough icecream so I am sure the frozen dough would gradually disappear. You idea is really good, especially now that we have so few living at home.
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