Warm oatmeal chocolate chip raisin cookies

[carbonel]

Last night I...hmm, what is the right word? "Cooked" is wrong, and "assembled" sounds odd, and "stirred up" is too casual. In any case, I made the dough for the cookies last night, but it was too warm in the house for baking. When the thermometer hit 81 degrees F, I turned on the air conditioner.

This afternoon, I rolled out the cookies and baked them. This is my second attempt at playing with the recipe; the version from the website (bottom one on this page: http://byfaithonly.com/Recipes/OatmealCookie.html) makes a very sticky dough and has to come out of the oven at the exact right moment or it burns or is underdone. On judith_dascoyne's recommendation, I tried adding an extra quarter-cup of flour to the recipe. It seems to have done the trick -- the dough is easier to roll out, and I haven't had a burnt batch since.

Most of these will be going to Wiscon for the bake sale, but I'll keep a few for me.

Tea party, anyone?

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm confused about why "stirred up" is too casual. Were you wearing a tiara?

[carbonel]

Not "casual" as in dressed up, but as in too offhand. "Oh, I just stirred up a few batches of cookies for the bake sale."

Even now that I have a KitchenAid, baking feels more planned-out for me. I'm not in the habit of doing it.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Ah. Baking is not any kind of an event here. It's just something that happens from time to time.

Like today or tomorrow, ideally. Sigh.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"Prepared" is the word you're looking for.

B

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Chocolate chip are one kind of cookie, and oatmeal raisin are another kind. Each kind is the favorite of one of us, and they are not improved by combining them, we are convinced.

K.

[carbonel]

That is a perfectly valid viewpoint, but it is not my viewpoint. There was this one time that I only had a half-cup each of chocolate chips and raisins, so I used both, and I discovered that I like my oatmeal cookies that way. Not all the time, necessarily, but definitely sometimes.

The cookies all disappeared, in any case.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

"The cookies all disappeared, in any case. "

No surprise there.

B