I love cookies. However, I am not fond of baking cookies. I usually make a mess of my clean kitchen, wind up with flour on my clothes and the oven heats up my apartment while baking a regular recipe of cookies. So yesterday I tested some recipes I had found for cookie mixes.
I just measured the ingredients into quart sized Ziploc bags and wrote the instructions on the outside of each bag.
Last evening I tried the chocolate chip cookie mix and this morning I made the oatmeal cookies.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix
1 Cup flour
1/4 Cup white sugar
1/2 Cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 Cup chocolate chips
Mix together and store in a quart size Ziploc bag. Write instructions on the bag to add: 1/2 Cup softened butter, 1 egg, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Mix and bake at 350 degrees.
Sugar Cookie Mix
1 1/2 Cups flour
3/4 Cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
Mix together and store in a quart size Ziploc bag. Write instructions on the bag to add: 1/2 Cup softened butter, 1 egg, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Mix and bake at 350 degrees.
Oatmeal Cookie Mix
1 Cup flour
1/2 Cup white sugar
1/2 Cup brown sugar
1 1/2 Cup rolled oats
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Optional: 1/2 Cup raisins or nuts
Mix together and store in a quart size Ziploc bag. Write instructions on the bag to add: 1/2 Cup melted butter, 1 egg, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.
Mix and bake at 350 degrees.
Gingerbread Cookie Mix
1 3/4 Cup flour
3/4 Cup brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 Tablespoon ginger
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cloves
Mix together and store in a quart size Ziploc bag. Write instructions on the bag to add: 1/4 cup softened butter, 1 egg, 1/8 cup molasses.
Mix and bake at 350 degrees.
I just emptied a bag into a bowl, added the butter, egg and vanilla and mixed it all together. I suppose a person could use a spoon to mix, but I have always mixed up cookie dough with my hands. I dropped dough by spoonfuls onto parchment paper lined cookie sheets and baked them. Each recipe gave me about two dozen cookies and they taste really good.
I haven't tried the sugar cookies or the gingerbread cookies yet, but I expect they will be as good as the others.
I will make more of these mixes and stash them away in my pantry. The amount of cookies is just right for one or two people, the kitchen stays clean and from start to finish it only took about a half hour.
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I love cookies, too. And, I always have flour all over me and usually the floor and counter! I think I need to try your mix idea. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteCindy...I always manage to take a bath in nearly everything I do, so the mixes work out pretty well for me. :)
DeleteSounds yummy. Good for you trying something new.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
SJ
SJ...Yep. I'll go for quick and easy every time. :)
DeleteThis is a good idea. Isn't parchment paper wonderful? I don't have to kill myself trying to get baked on cookies washed/soaked off the cookie sheet.
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda...Parchment paper was a great invention. I use it a lot, even when cooking bacon in the oven.
DeleteThe wife was making chocolate chip most of the winter. She discovered if you use real butter vs margarine they turn out softer. Who knew. We only use margarine for toast. Cooking is butter from now on. Back in the good old days butter was king in cooking.
ReplyDeleteRob...I used to use shortening for baking cookies, but found butter makes them taste better and they stay softer. Butter is more expensive, but worth it. I use it for much more than toast or cookies.
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