Thursday, January 7, 2010

I need an easy cookie recipe?

i would love to bake some cookies for my two year old daughter and also my mother and baby group, but the problem is i cant cook very well and would love some help from anyone who knows a quick and easy recipe that everyone would love and is safe for toddlers eg, no nuts


please help me xxxI need an easy cookie recipe?
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars:





Prep and Cook Time: about 30 minutes. Notes: You can store these bars airtight for up to 2 days.





2 tablespoons butter, at room temperature


2 tablespoons vegetable oil


1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar


1 large egg


1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce


1 teaspoon vanilla


1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour


1 teaspoon baking powder


1/2 teaspoon baking soda


1/2 teaspoon salt


2 cups regular rolled oats


1 cup semisweet chocolate chips


2 tablespoons granulated sugar





1. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter, oil, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in egg, applesauce, and vanilla until well blended.





2. In another bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; stir or beat into butter mixture until smooth, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Stir in oats and chocolate chips.





3. Spread dough evenly in a lightly oiled 8-inch square baking pan. Sprinkle top evenly with granulated sugar.





4. Bake in a 350掳 oven until pale golden brown, about 15 minutes. Let cool on a rack about 10 minutes, then cut into 1- by 4-inch bars. Let cool completely.





Yield: Makes 16 barsI need an easy cookie recipe?
put a square of chocolate and a marshmallow in between 2 digestives and pop in the microwave until choc and marshmallow melts- kids love it
I hate a lot of cookie recipes on my blog, My Sister's Kitchen, that are very simple to make. Nothing terribly difficult.





Probably the easiest, fastest cookie recipe I've ever found is one that you make with cake mix. If you have a boxed cake mix in your cupboard, you very nearly have cookies!





Stir together the cake mix with 1 egg and 1/3 c. oil. Any oil will work but I prefer vegetable oil. If you need to, you can even melt down some butter or margarine and use that.





Drop the cookies by the spoonful on a cookie sheet and bake at 350掳 for about 11-12 minutes. You can do this with ANY flavor of cake mix. So if your daughter loves pink, you can use a pink cake mix. If you want to roll the dough in a little cinnamon-sugar, you can make snickerdoodles. If you're a chocolate-lover, then make chocolate cake mix and you can even add chocolate chips!





Good luck. When you're feeling inclined to try a regular cookie recipe, check out my blog. YOu can do a search for cookies or click on the COOKIE category.





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';Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares'; - 1 1/2 lbs.





2 cups confectioners' sugar


3/4 cup creamy peanut butter


2/3 cup graham cracker crumbs


1/2 cup butter; melted


TOPPING:


2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips


4 1/2 tsp. creamy peanut butter


1/2 tsp. butter





Line a 9'; square pan with foil. Butter the foil and set aside.


In a large bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, peanut butter, crumbs and butter; spread into prepared pan.


Combine topping ingredients in a microwave-safe bowl; heat until melted. Spread over peanut butter layer. Refrigerate until cool. Using foil, lift out of pan. Cut into 1'; squares. Store in airtight container in the refrigerator.
Try the following





Date Swirls Cookies


INGREDIENTS


FILLING:


355 g chopped dates


235 ml water


200 g sugar


120 g chopped nuts


10 ml lemon juice


DOUGH:


225 g butter or margarine


220 g packed brown sugar


200 g sugar


3 eggs


5 ml lemon extract


500 g all-purpose flour


6 g salt


3 g baking soda


DIRECTIONS


In a saucepan, combine filling ingredients. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture becomes stiff, about 15-20 minutes. Chill.


For dough, cream butter and sugars in a mixing bowl. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add extract. Combine flour, salt and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Chill for at least 1 hour.


On a lightly floured surface, roll out half of the dough to a 12-in. x 9-in. rectangle, about 1/4-in. thick. Spread with half of the filling. Roll up, starting with the long end. Repeat with remaining dough and filling. Wrap with plastic wrap; chill overnight.


Cut rolls into 1/4-in. slices. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Bake at 375 degrees F for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on wire racks





or Easy Cookies


INGREDIENTS


1 (18.25 ounce) package vanilla flavored cake mix


2 egg yolks


1 cup butter


1 teaspoon vanilla extract


1/3 cup granulated sugar for decoration


DIRECTIONS


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).


Beat egg yolks and margarine together until well blended. Stir in vanilla. Gradually add cake mix while beating with an electric mixer. Mixture should be stiff. If it is sticky to the touch, refrigerate for 20 minutes.


Form teaspoonfuls of the dough into balls, and roll in sugar. Place on ungreased cookie sheets.


Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 11 minutes for soft cookies, and for 13 minutes for crispy cookies.





or Crisp Sugar Cookies





INGREDIENTS


1 cup butter or margarine, softened


2 cups sugar


2 eggs


1 teaspoon vanilla extract


5 cups all-purpose flour


1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder


1 teaspoon baking soda


1/2 teaspoon salt


1/4 cup milk


DIRECTIONS


In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with the milk. Cover and refrigerate for 15 to 30 minutes. On a floured surface, roll out dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut out cookies into desired shapes and place 2 in. apart on a greased baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.





or White chocolate and cranberry cookies


These cookies should be quite soft when they are taken out of the oven so that when they cool down they are crisp on the outside but moist and chewy inside.


Ingredients


110g/4oz unsalted butter, softened


110g/4oz golden caster sugar


110g/4oz light muscovado sugar


1 egg


1 tsp vanilla essence


170g/6oz plain flour


陆 tsp baking powder


录 tsp salt


150g/5oz white chocolate, cut into small chunks


85g/3oz dried sweetened cranberries





Method


1. Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5.


2. Beat the butter together with the sugar. With a fork beat the egg together with the vanilla essence and add this to the butter mixture.


3. In a bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder and salt. Add this to the butter and egg mixture and blend well. Mix in the chunks of white chocolate and cranberries.


4. Make the cookies: line four baking sheets with non-stick baking paper.


5. Using your hands, form the dough into walnut-sized balls and arrange on the baking sheets spaced well apart.


6. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes. Allow to cool for a few minutes and then transfer to a wire rack
mix flour, margarine,1 egg and sugar together ( like a pastry mix) add colour if you want . it should be like a cake mix concistency, then blob tea spoon size blobs onto a baking tray and cook for about ten mins.......................dead easy, no measuring and fail safe,promise!
For the ultimate in cookery recipes no matter what it is you want to cook look at www.epicurious.com it has millions of recipes from all over the world and many with pics too.


Happy baking.
All Occasion Cookies


1 pound (4 sticks) butter or margarine, divided (do not use vegetable oil spreads)


2 3/4 Cups (11 oz.) Flour


1 pkg. White Cake Mix





1.Preheat oven to 350潞 degrees. In small batter bowl, microwave 2 sticks of the butter on HIGH 1 minute or until melted. Using Paring Knife, slice remaining butter into 1/2-inch pieces; add to melted butter, tossing to coat using Classic Scraper. Allow butter to stand 3-5 minutes or until softened.


2.Meanwhile, accurately measure flour into large Colander Bowl by lightly spooning flour into Adjustable Scoop. Level off surface by scraping off additional flour using Handy Scraper. (For most consistent results, use Kitchen Scale to weigh flour.) Add cake mix to flour; blend well using Stainless Steel Whisk to break up any large lumps. Using stainless Steel Whisk, whisk butter until smooth and free of lumps. If necessary, return butter to microwave for 10-20 seconds or until creamy and pourable. Do NOT melt completely. Pour butter, all at once, into dry ingredients; thoroughly scrape butter from Batter Bowl using Classic Scraper. Using Bamboo Spoon, mix until dry ingredients are incorporated and dough is smooth. (If dough is too stiff to stir, knead until smooth by hand on Cutting Board.) Shape dough, bake and decorate as desired.





Flavor Variations:


鈥hocolate: Substitute one package devil's food cake mix for the white


cake mix. Add flour and butter as recipe directs.


鈥pice: Substitute one package yellow cake mix for white cake mix. Add 1


Tablespoon Pantry Cinnamon Plus Spice Blend. Add flour and butter as


recipe directs.


鈥eanut Butter: Substitute one package yellow cake mix for the white


cake mix. Add flour as directed. Whisk 2/3 Cup Peanut Butter into softened butter until smooth; add to dry ingredients as recipe directs.





This dough is versatile, can spread cream cheese on top, and add pie filling.


You can use this for drop cookies, cookie press cookies or my favorite roll out, cut into flowers. On half of them use a small circle and cut out the center. After cooled, spread full cookie with jelly of your choice and top with one with a hole. Then you put powdered sugar on it and it鈥檚 like a linzer tart. You can add nuts, chips, candy bars cut up鈥?it鈥檚 really versatile.
Chocolate No Bake Cookies





I cup sugar


1/4 c. butter


1/4 c. milk


2 T + 2 t cocoa


1 1/2 c. oats


1 t. vanilla


1/3 c. peanut butter





In sauce pan, combine sugar, butter, milk and cocoa. Stirring constantly, bring to a rapid boil. Remove from heat. Add peanut butter. Mix until smooth. Add oats and vanilla. Drop mixture (spoon size) on wax paper lined cookie sheet. Let dry completely.
Snickerdoodles are a favorite with lots of kids. Very simple. The recipe is on this site.
This is the easiest one that I could find. Hope it easy enough for you. The little ones can ';help'; decorate the cookies.





SUGAR COOKIES


1 cup butter, unsalted


1 cup white sugar


2 eggs, lightly beaten


1 teaspoon vanilla


3 cups flour


2 teaspoons baking powder


1 teaspoon salt





In a bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Beat in the eggs and vanilla.


In a second bowl, combine and mix well the flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir flour into butter mixture 1 cup at a time. Chill dough for 3 to 4 hours.


Roll out dough and cut into shapes with cookie cutters or a knife. Brush with milk and sprinkle with colored sugar. Bake on a sheet pan or a parchment lined sheet pan in a preheated 350 degree F oven for 10 to 15 minutes depending on the size of the cookie. Remove cookies to a rack to cool completely.
I'm a guy, a medic student, 21 years old, I cook for myself everyday, so I do need to have 'easy', hassle-free, delicious, great food. For cookies, I always tell my friends, why the stick to the rigid measurements when it's all just supposed to be fun? I usually put 4 cups of flour into a large container, make a well in the center, break an egg into it, a cube of melted butter, and 2 cups of sugar. Slowly twirl the flour from the outside into the well, mix lightly first with your fingers, then slowly use your palm into kneading the dough. If it fells too sticky, add hald a cup more flour, add appropriately until the dough achieves a smooth surface. (You may consider a few other options, like melting chocolate along with the butter, then add 2 table spoons of cocoa to make chocolate cookies, or crush some corn flakes and add into the well before kneading, or even hazel nuts. Best- add all 3 additional ingredient and you'll get crispy, crunchy, chocolaty cookies). Mold them into any shapes you want, lay them on a pan slightly swept with oil, bake in the oven at 150 degree celcius for 10-15 minutes. The best thing is, you can do it together with your daughter, you definitely get to spend quality time doing something you both love. Enjoy, and do try it out sometimes.
I use the Nestle Toll House recipe on the back of the bag as a basic dough and then get creative.





I love substituting white chocolate chips and dried cherries.


Use peanut butter and milk chocolate chips.


1 cup oatmeal plus butterscotch chips.





It's a great recipe to for you to add any flavors (fruit/nuts/chips) you like.
go to the store and buy a roll or two of nestles tollhouse cookie dough all you do is porton it out and bake it nobody will know the difference and they will love them
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