Cookie Recipes

[Coach McGuirk]

I need to make cookies tomorrow and these look great. What temp and how long?

350 for 10-12 minutes. Makes about 2.5 dozen cookies good size cookies. Mix the butter and sugars up first in a mixer and then add the remaining wet. Sift together the dry and then add to the wet. mix just enough to full mix the two. Stir in the chips.

[Joe Public]

Triple chip pudding cookies

1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
3.4 oz. package vanilla instant pudding mix
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butterscotch chips
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup white chocolate chips


My sons just called these the best cookies in the world.

Thanks for posting, Coach; I decided to try this one with the kids this afternoon. This recipe was a good one for having the young ones participate. We got about 30 cookies or so out of the recipe, so we had plenty to take to the neighbors. I forgot to take pictures, but they looked like yours.

[chrisrenrut]

350 for 10-12 minutes. Makes about 2.5 dozen cookies good size cookies. Mix the butter and sugars up first in a mixer and then add the remaining wet. Sift together the dry and then add to the wet. mix just enough to full mix the two. Stir in the chips.

Does the pudding mix go in as a dry ingredient, or should it be made into pudding first and added as a wet ingredient?

[Coach McGuirk]

Does the pudding mix go in as a dry ingredient, or should it be made into pudding first and added as a wet ingredient?

beat together butter and sugars until creamy. Add in pudding mix, eggs, and vanilla extract. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until just combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.

[TalkyTina]

There are some great looking recipes here that I am excited to try. This thread needs a thumbprint cookie recipe. Here's the best one I've found:

Raspberry Lemon Thumbprint Cookies

Ingredients:
1/2 cup raspberry jam or jelly
1 tablespoon Chambord or kirsch
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 sticks (1 cup) butter, at room temperature
2/3 cup sugar
2 large egg yolks
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon zest
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly butter 2 large baking sheets.

In a small bowl, combine the jam and Chambord. Stir to combine.

In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt and whisk to blend.

In a large bowl using an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar until light and creamy. Beat in the egg yolks, lemon zest, lemon juice and vanilla. Add the flour mixture in 2 additions and beat just until moist clumps form. Gather the dough together into a ball.

Pinch off the dough to form 1-inch balls. Place on the prepared baking sheets, spacing 1-inch apart. Use your floured index finger or 1/2 teaspoon measuring spoon to create depressions in the center of each ball. Fill each indentation with nearly 1/2 teaspoon of the jam mixture. Bake until golden brown, about 20 minutes.

Transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool completely.

Notes: I'm too cheap to buy $30 bottle of Chambord to use one tablespoon in a recipe. I usually just omit that and go with the jelly. I have tried all different varieties of jams/jellies. Raspberry works with best with the slight lemon flavor, IMO.

[chrisrenrut]

beat together butter and sugars until creamy. Add in pudding mix, eggs, and vanilla extract. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until just combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.

I managed to screw these up, but it turned out ok. Our ward gives dads a small bag of cookies after church on Fathers Day, and we had to have 2 dozen cookies at the church by 9:30 this morning. I didn't get the message until midnight last night.

First mistake, my wife made up the pudding and put in the fridge last night. That was what made me question, since it was listed between wet ingredients instead of dry. I saw your reply too late.

I also ended up putting in twice as much brown and white sugar as I should have.

So I added about a cup of flour, enough to firm up the dough. The cookies turned out light and fluffy with a cake like texture, and with a really good taste. It made about a dozen more cookies. I'll consider this a 'good miss'. However, next time I am going to follow the recipe, now that I have learned my lesson.

[TalkyTina]

Some posts in that food pet peeves thread gave me an idea (I happen to be hungry at the moment). Let's share our favorite cookie recipes. I'll go first.

The following is an old family recipe and is my all-time favorite. They are very good cold, but are simply divine directly from the oven with a glass of milk.

Ginger Snaps (aka Molasses Cookies)

2 C sugar
½ C butter (do not use margarine!!)
1 C shortening
2 eggs
½ C molasses (Granny’s is a good brand)
4 C flour
3 t baking soda
1 ½ t cinnamon
1 t salt
1 t ginger

Cream the sugar, butter and shortening. Add remaining ingredients and beat together. Roll into small balls and roll in sugar.
Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees. How long you cook it depends on your preference. We like them crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside. To do this, you need to take them out while they are still quite soft and let them sit a minute before you take them off the sheet. Experiment to find what you like. We generally cook for 8-10 minutes in a convection oven.

All I can say is that these are fan-freaking-tastic. One of the best cookie recipes I have ever made. I don't know that I would have considered making these if I just came across a recipe. Thanks so much for sharing. I put some extra sugar on top of mine, which is why they already look white and moldy. Also, my oven (non-convection) required 11-12 minutes of baking time. It made exactly 5 dozen.

[Jeff Lebowski]

All I can say is that these are fan-freaking-tastic. One of the best cookie recipes I have ever made. I don't know that I would have considered making these if I just came across a recipe. Thanks so much for sharing. I put some extra sugar on top of mine, which is why they already look white and moldy. Also, my oven (non-convection) required 11-12 minutes of baking time. It made exactly 5 dozen.

[LA Ute]

I'm always looking for prep/baking technique ideas, as opposed to recipes. This is a nice video in that regard:

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I'm not endorsing all her suggestions. I always use parchment, for example. Just some interesting ideas for a basic chocolate chip cookie.

The video without the advertisement tacked on at the beginning is here.

[Clark Addison]

If CUF were to suddenly disappear, this may well be the thread that I miss the most.

[falafel]

If CUF were to suddenly disappear, this may well be the thread that I miss the most.

Off the top of my head, there are two cookie recipes here that have become regulars in my rotation: Grandma Lebowski's Ginger Snaps and the Oatmeal Chocolate Chip (w/ pulverized oatmeal - thanks Surfah). For years I used only one chocolate chip recipe, but this one has supplanted it.

[The_Douger]

Do Grandma Lebowski's gingersnaps turn out soft?

[Jeff Lebowski]

Do Grandma Lebowski's gingersnaps turn out soft?

Soft and chewy little nuggets from heaven.

[The_Douger]

Soft and chewy little nuggets from heaven.

These will be made in the Douger's home fairly soon, I'm certain, then.

[Clark Addison]

Off the top of my head, there are two cookie recipes here that have become regulars in my rotation: Grandma Lebowski's Ginger Snaps and the Oatmeal Chocolate Chip (w/ pulverized oatmeal - thanks Surfah). For years I used only one chocolate chip recipe, but this one has supplanted it.

The two I use most often from here are JL's Ginger Snaps and Gidget's Sour Cream/Sugar cookies. I was looking for this thread today to get Gidget's recipe, but I am getting tired, so I think I will go with the Ginger Snaps. Less work.

Speaking of cookies, we had a rehearsal for a Stake Christmas program this morning. The director and her husband had very considerately bought three packages of Costco cookies for everyone. While I prefer homemade, there are worse things than a Costco cookie, so I went over to grab one or two. When I got there, I found that ALL THREE PACKAGES were oatmeal raisin cookies. WTF? Needless to say, last I saw, only about 4 cookies had been taken.

EDIT: Oh, and to answer The Douger's question, if taken from the oven at the right time, the cookies are very chewy.