A classic cookie

I like a good old fashioned cookie recipe.  Simple and classic.  All the ingredients are on hand.  How can you lose?

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe adapted from Brown Eyed Baker

Ingredients:

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• ½ cup whole-wheat flour
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (8 ounces) unsalted butter, softened but still cool
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
• 1½ cups semisweet chocolate chips

Method:

Preheat oven to 350 and put foil on at least 3 baking sheets.  In a small bowl, mix flour, b powder, and salt.  In the bowl of a stand mixer cream the butter and sugars.  Add eggs one at a time and mix.  Add vanilla and mix.  Add the flour in two additions with the mixer off, then turn it on and watch out for flour spray.  When flour is combined add the oats and chocolate chips and mix to combine.  Spoon walnut-sized balls of dough onto the baking sheet leaving at least 1½ inches between cookies.  Bake for 12 minutes and then check them, if you like a chewier cookie you can take them out, if you like a browner crunchier cookie you can leave them in for 3 minutes and check them again until they are your desired shade of brown.  I like mine pretty brown.

Trail mix cookies

Wow, long time no post right?  Thanksgiving come and gone, these are the cookies I made that were inhaled shortly after arriving at my grandma's house.

Chewy Maple Trail Mix Cookies
Adapted from Hungry Rabbit

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 cups (4-1/2 ounces) old-fashioned oatmeal
• 1-1/3 cups (6-3/4 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
• 3/4 cup (6 ounces) packed light-brown sugar
• 10 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1/4 cup pure grade B maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 tablespoons boiling water
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 cup shredded sweetened coconut
• 1 cup dried cranberries or raisins
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Method:
Preheat oven to 300.  In small bowl mix oats, flour, salt, and sugar, coconut, raisins, and chocolate chips, set aside.  Melt butter in small saucepan and stir in sugar, maple sugar, and vanilla.  In another small bowl mix baking soda and boiling water and then add to sugar/butter mixture immediately.  Pour sugar/butter mixture into dry ingredients and mix til combined.  You might have to add a little more maple syrup at this point (1 or 2 Tbsp) if the dough is a little dry.  Make walnut-sized balls of dough and place on a tin foil-lined baking sheet.  You can crowd these cookies on the tray because they don't really spread.  Flatten the cookies a bit with your hand because they don't melt down like a regular cookie.  Bake for around 20 minutes give or take depending on the cookie size.  I like these quite brown on the edges, otherwise they don't hold together as well.  Let them cool before you remove from the sheet or they will fall apart.  Sometimes I add nuts to these or other seeds or dried fruit.  They are a big-time crowd fave.