Desserts
This page is devoted to cookies, cakes, pies, sweet rolls, etc...
The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
In a medium bowl, mix together:
2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1tsp. salt
In a large bowl, mix together:
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 eggs
1tsp. cinnamon
1 12-oz bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips (sometimes I add more :-))
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
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Preheat oven to 375°F. Fold the "wet" ingredients together, then add in the flour. Mix everything together until well-combined (I've only done this by hand, but I suppose you could use one of those big mixers if you don't like mixing stuff by hand. I can't promise the results will be the same though!)
Drop by tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 375° for 9-11 minutes.
Florentine Cookies (From the Nestle Toll House Cookbook)
2/3 cup butter
2 cups quick oats, uncooked
1 cup sugar
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup corn syrup
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 tsp. salt
2 cups milk-chocolate chips (I've used mint-chocolate chips as well....mmmmm!)
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Preheat oven to 375°F. Melt butter in medium saucepan over low heat. Remove from heat. Stir in oats, sugar, flour, corn syrup, milk, vanilla extract and salt; mix well. Drop by level teaspoonfuls, about 3 inches apart, onto foil-lined cookie sheets. spred thin with rubber spatula. Bake at 375°F. for 5-7 minutes. Cool completely on wire racks. Peel foil away from cookies. Melt over hot (not boiling) water, milk chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Spread chocolate on flat side of half the cookies. Top with remaining cookies to make "sandwiches."
Banana Oatmeal Cookies ( From Country Magazine - Feb-Mar, '93 issue)
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter-flavored shortening
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. ground cloves
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
3 medium bananas, mashed
2 cups quick-cooking oats
1 cup (6ozs) semisweet chocolate chips
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In a large bowl, cream sugar, shortening, eggs and vanilla. Combine flour, baking soda, cloves and cinnamon; add to creamed mixture. Stir in bananas, oats and chocolate chips. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets.
Bake at 375° for 10-12 minutes. Immediately remove cookies to wire racks to cool.
Yield: about 4 dozen.
Rhubarb Cake
Cream together:
1/2 cup shortening
1-1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
Add to the above:
1 tsp. vanilla
1 egg
Mix together and add to above:
* 1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp. baking soda
Add to above:
2 cups flour
Add to above:
1-1/2 cups rhubarb, diced
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Pour into greased 9 x 13 pan. Top with 1/3 cup sugar & 1 tsp. cinnamon.
Bake at 350° for 45 minutes.
(1-1/2 cups rhubarb is about 3-4 stalks, depending on size of stalks.)
* Instead of buttermilk, you can add 1-2 tsp. vinegar to milk.