My Husband loves cookies I am not a good baker need a simple recipe for sugar cookies and oatmeal raisin.?!
Answers: simple simple simple don't have a lot of kitchen gadgets.
I found a great oatmeal raisin cookie recipe on the inside flap of Crisco butter flavored shortening sticks, follow the link to the recipe on line. Happy baking!
http://www.crisco.com/scripts/display_re...
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Pillsbury... just follow the directions... they taste pretty good
she's right, I have made from scratch and the pillsbury ones are just as good. Sometimes I buy the refridgerated precut pillsbury cookies.
In the grocery store by the sugar and baking products are cookie mixes that come in a bag( sealed of course) and they are very simple and all you need are the ingrediants on the bag an cookie sheet or two and read the directions! They are really good actually. They are low cost also.
My mom ran a bakery out of her house when we kids were little, so she could stay home with us. I picked up her love for baking. Here are a couple of our family recipes for the cookies you asked about. I use them all the time for my son and hubby (just made the oatmeal ones with fresh apples on Sunday, and make the sugar every year as cut-out christmas cookies).
For the Oatmeal cookies:
Cream together,
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 tablespoon cinnamon
until they are all fluffy. Stir in;
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Finally, fold in;
3 cups oats (not instant)
1 1/2 cups raisins, or chopped apples
Using a tablespoon, scoop dough onto a greased cookie sheet and press flat. bake at 350* until the cookies are golden brown (about 12 minutes or so).
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The easiest thing for "sugar cookies" I make are actually a shortbread. Shortbread is wonderful because it's so simple, and has very limited ingrediants. The most important thing when baking them is quality. Use REAL butter if you can, and you will not be sorry. Make sure your flour is fresh, too.
1 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Mix together all ingrediants, scoop out onto a cookie sheet, and press flat (these have so much butter, it really makes no difference if you grease it or not), bake at 350* until edges are golden brown. You can sprinkle them with extra sugar to make them more "sugar cookie" like, or, my favorite, throw the dough in the fridge until it's nice and hard, then roll it out and make cut-out cookies with cookie cutters to decorate after baking.
Honey Come On! go to the supermarket........
We live in the USA.
or You can also follow those recepies in the back of the regular oatmeal can ..they are good trust me!!
Here is a Drop cookie reciped that's simple:
1 stick butter
1 cup sugar [or sugar substitute combination]
2 1/2 cups plain flour
1/2 cup oil
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
Blend one at a time; drop by teaspoonful on a cookie sheet [about 2 inches apart]. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 - 12 minutes or until golden.