What am I up to?

October 3, 2018

Or, to what am I up?

Today is my birthday – many of my friends also have birthdays this week. To help us all celebrate, I baked up, with the help of my lovely assistant, HMS Defiant, The Best Cookies in the World – or, Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, cherry, oatmeal cookies. And they really are TBCITW

Here is the recipe:
3/4 cup shortening
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup water
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon soda
3 cups regular, long-cooking rolled oats
1/2 cup chocolate chunks – chopped up Easter bunnies or candy bars work well
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
1 cup dried cherries

Heat the oven to 350 degrees.
Cream the shortening and sugars. When well blended, add the egg. Mix in the egg, then add the water and vanilla. Add the salt, soda and flour all together and mix. Add one cup of oats – mix. Add the chocolate chunks – mix. Add the second cup of oats – mix. Add the white chocolate chips – mix. Add the third cup of oats – mix. Add the dried cherries and mix them in.

I bake them on heavy baking pans lined with parchment paper.

I roll the cookies into big balls with my hands. The unbaked cookies are probably bigger than a golf ball, but smaller than a tennis ball.

Place them a couple of inches apart on the baking pan and bake for 15 to 18 minutes. Cool on the pan for a few minutes then place on a cooling rack.

I don’t have a problem giving out the recipe. It is based on the original Quaker Oats recipe that they have now changed.

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6 comments

Happy birthday, and I love the recipe! May need to mod them for the people who eat cookies here (I’m the only one who likes white chocolate).
by wordtapestry October 3, 2018 at 4:11 pm

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- I say be creative with the add-ins. This recipe is also good if you leave out the chocolate and cherries and add walnuts, raisins and 1/4 cup of maple syrup – yeah, I know!
  by Anne Bonney October 3, 2018 at 4:21 pm
  
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They are really good!
by Curtis October 6, 2018 at 4:32 am

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- 🙂
  by Anne Bonney October 7, 2018 at 2:37 pm
  
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So……………..what happened to the second set featuring alt flavors? Enquiring minds want to know.
by Curtis October 9, 2018 at 2:03 am

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- They are coming . . . they are coming!
  by Anne Bonney October 9, 2018 at 9:58 am
  
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