New to Me Cookies
I used to post more recipes on this blog. I still cook (believe me I still make a meal each night - who knew that would be one of the hardest adult chores of my life) but we are just stuck in a rut where I am making the same old favorites so no new recipes to post.
A new recipe website did come across my pininterest board the other day, Amish Heritage. It appears to have lots of easy but delicious recipes to try. A few of them found their way onto our weekly menu plan. But I decided to start with the important stuff first, cookies!
I made a batch of Outrageous Cookies the other night after work. They are outrageously delicious! All of the ingredients meld together so that not one flavor overwhelms the other. They contain oatmeal but not so much they could be classed as an oatmeal cookie, the peanut butter taste is subtle.
The recipe makes about 4 dozen cookies (using my normal cookie scoop). I baked about 1 1/2 dozen. Almost half of that amount was eaten immediately (my taste testers were hard at work LOL) and the other half were frozen in a vacuum seal bag. The remainder of the dough I scooped out and placed on trays to quick freeze.
A dozen frozen cookie scoops were gifted to a work friend who is having a hard week (you can treat herself and her family). The remainder of the bags were placed in the deep freeze to be pulled out when there is a cookie emergency! If I freeze the dough for the family I only put 1/2 dozen in each bag. The perfect amount if you just need a quick cookie for a tea break or unexpected company comes calling.
Trust me having frozen balls of cookie dough in your freezer is a gift you give yourself. You can pull a bag out when needed. It also means you don’t have to make all the cookies at the same time. Often my family just wants a cookie or two not an entire batch. The cookies would go stale before they were eaten. Not anymore since I just vacuum seal the dough balls. You can take them out frozen and pop them into the oven to get fresh baked cookies.
