Double Chocolate Dream Cookies - YUMMM

I pinned this recipe this morning, made them, had one and oh, my goodness, are they ever good - this recipe deserves an immediate post!!  If you like chocolate, in particular, double chocolate, these are for you.

Double Chocolate Dream Cookies

2 1/4 cups all purpose flour

1/2 cup cocoa

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1 c. butter or margarine, softened

1 c. brown sugar

3/4 c. white sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

2 large eggs

2 c. chocolate chips

I added 1/2 c. chopped pecans.

Preheat oven to 375.

Combine flour, cocoa, b. soda and salt in small bowl.  Beat butter, sugars and vanilla in a large mixing bowl until creamy. Beat in eggs for about 2 minutes or until light and fluffy.  Gradually beat in flour mixture.  Stir in chocolate chips.  Drop onto ungreased sheets ( I always use parchment paper).

Bake for 8-10 minutes or until cookies are puffed.  Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes, remove to wire racks to cool completely.

The original recipe comes from Very Best Baking - a Nestle baking site.

Linking this recipe with Weekend Potluck

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

I was so sick of the look of those last few Christmas cookies that were still hanging around, I just had to bake something new, and I did, Oatmeal Raisin Cookies.  I like this recipe because it's easy, they're good and it makes a small batch.  This recipe comes from my Company's Coming Cookies Book from 1988.  I bet you'll like them too, if you try them...

1 cup butter or margarine, softened

1 cup brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla

1 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. salt

1 1/4 cups rolled oats

1 c. raisins

Cream butter and sugar together.  Beat in egg and vanilla.

Add remaining ingredients.  Mix well.  Drop by spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet(I always use parchment paper, no greasing involved)  Bake in 350 oven for 8-10 minutes. Makes 3 1/2 dozen.  

Linking up with Junkin Joe

Everything Cookies Are So Good!!

It was cookie baking day today!  After making pumpkin cookies that did not turn out at all last week, I went back to one of my tried and true recipes - Everything Cookies, they always turn out!  They really do have a little bit of everything - nuts, coconut, raisins and chocolate chips.  

I had printed off this recipe back in 2010 from Joy of Baking, click right here for the recipe.  It's a great site, I've made numerous things from it and there is never a problem with a recipe!  The recipe calls for toasted nuts, I didn't toast mine,  I just chopped them and used as is, it also called for butter, I used hard margarine.  The recipe also instructed to flatten the cookies with your fingers, I didn't do that.  These are great cookies - they're delicious!!

Check out the other great recipes over at Addicted to Recipes, Melt in your Mouth Monday and Junkin Joe

Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

I like to make these banana cookies but I often forget about them, when those bananas get really ripe, I usually either make a banana bread or muffins.  Mom used to make these,they weren't a regular but  I discovered them again a few years ago in a book called " Great Canadian Cookies".  They're filling up the Pyrex Cookie Jar just fine, it's a really nice cookie!

I'm linking this recipe up with Junkin Joe ,  Weekend Potluck at the Country Cook and for the first time, Melt in Your Mouth Monday

2 1/4 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. baking soda

2/3 c. margarine

1 c. white sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

1 c. mashed, ripe bananas

1 c. chocolate chips, I add a little more

Preheat oven to 400.

Combine flour, b. powder, salt and b. soda

In a large bowl, cream together margarine and sugar until light and fluffy.  Beat in eggs, one at a time, then vanilla and banana.  Stir flour mixture into creamed mixture in thirds.  Fold in chocolate chips.

Drop teaspoons of dough 2 inches apart on a greased cookie sheet, I always just use parchment paper for cookies.

Bake for approximately 10 minutes or until golden.    Enjoy!

 

My Grandmother's Cookies

My grandmother, Louise was a great cook - I was speaking with her brother just yesterday, when I told him that I was making these cookies, he started reminiscing about her molasses cookies - I can still taste them too - thick and oh, so good. This is where all the baking started - isn't that a great old fridge??

The "pantry" above was a new addition to the house, that same fridge used to be out in the kitchen area.  It's not the greatest picture but she is wearing an apron - maybe she had whipped something up that day!

Before Christmas I found this little Robin Hood Flour cookbook while out thrifting  - it's only 28 pages but it's chock full of great cookies and squares..  

Page 4 - Raspberry Swirl Coconut Cookies - these were the ones that she made and I  just loved them.  I used to call them Nazareth cookies, why, I don't know...  I looked through her recipe box and her recipe "scribbler" not there - maybe she had this book herself.

So, I made the recipe from the book - they are just like I remember them - the very same!!! And, they taste so fresh, because I used my raspberry jam that I made this summer.      Click on the recipe if you're interested in making them.  There is one instruction that is funny - pour flour into dry measuring cup.  Level off and pour onto waxed paper.  Add soda and salt, stir well.   What is that?  Stirring on a piece of waxed paper - I have quite enough bowls - I don't need a big mess like that all over the counter, I don't recall ever reading that in a recipe before.

The finished product - on my Pyrex Pink Leaves Plate.

They're ready for anytime snacking in the Pyrex Cookie Jar! This is a great recipe -  let me know if you try it...

I'm linking up with A Favorite Thing at Mockingbird Hill Cottage - these cookies were really one of my favorites all those years ago when I could run across the road to watch my grandmother bake, and they're still my favorite!  I'm also joining in at The Country Cook and Scrumptious Sunday at Addicted to Recipes