Cookies

Last week, I made some rice krispie treats with birthday cake granola which were a whole lot easier than I thought and kind of created a fake Baking Monday. So, I ended up having a Baking Friday to make up for it.. Lots of cookies. All recipes below.

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Original recipe here
Made 30-40
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients: 

1/2 cup (1 stick + 6 tablespoons) butter, softened
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
3 cups old fashioned oats 
1 cup raisins

Directions:
1. Heat oven to 350
2. In a large bowl, beat butter and sugars together
3. Add eggs and vanilla
4. Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
5. Add to wet mixture.
6. Add oats and raisins.
7. Mix well and then drop dough onto ungreased cooking sheet.
8. Bake 8-10 minutes or until the edges are golden brown but center is still soft to the touch.
9. Enjoy!

Chocolate Chip Cookies
Original Recipe here
Made 30-40 
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients: 

2 1/4 cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 eggs

2 cups (a 12 ounce package) of chocolate chips

1 cup nuts (optional)*

*Note: apparently if you do not add nuts, you're supposed to add 2 more tbsp flour.. I forgot.

1. Directions:
2. 1. Preheat oven to 375
3. 2. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt
4. 3. In a large bowl, beat butter, sugars, and vanilla until creamy.
5. 4. Add eggs
6. 5. Beat in flour mixture gradually
7. 6. Add chips (and nuts)
8. 7. Drop onto uncreased baking sheet and bake for 9-11 minutes.
9. 8. Let cool for about 2 minutes then move to wire rack to cool completely.
10. 9. Enjoy!

Vegan GF Sugar Cookies

Original Recipe Here (includes recipe for vegan royal icing, if curious)

No photo sadly but, these were fine.. super easily crackable so be careful when transferring them to cool and wait a bit longer. Also, they may need to cook longer to get brown. 

Prep Time: 2 hours 15 minutes (incl. resting)

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 2 hours 25 minutes

Ingredients: 

2 cups + 1 tbsp gluten-free flour

1/2 tbsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

pinch of salt

1/2 cup coconut oil, room temperature but able to scoop*

3/4 cup + 2 tbsp sugar

1/3 cup water

1/2 tsp vanilla

*Mine was very melted so this may have been where the texture was different

Directions: 

1. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

2. In a large bowl cream together coconut oil and sugar

3. Add water and vanilla.

4. Add flour mixture.

5. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and freeze for 1 hour

6.  Let dough sit at room temperature 30 minutes - 1 hour

7. Preheat oven to 325

8. Roll dough out onto parchment paper and cut out into shapes.

9. Transfer cookies to baking sheet with parchment paper, approx 1" apart

10. Bake 8-10 minutes until cookies are lightly browned

11. Enjoy!