Originally, I had planned to get started immediately in the morning, but my brain doesn't kick in till about 10, so I got a late start. My 4 year old helped, so that took a bit more time, but we made a lot! We made bread dough and then made oatmeal chocolate chip cookies while the bread was rising. Then we punched down the dough and made these oat muffins -still using up apples-while the bread rose again. Then I remembered that hubby's birthday is this week and I should have made a cake instead of cookies, so after the kids were in bed, I made a little chocolate cake.
The grand tally:
3 loaves of bread
8 rolls (because I only have 3 bread pans)
2 dozen crumbly cookies -not sure what happened
18 muffins
1 9x9 chocolate cake
1 bowl of cookie dough, because it makes me happy
I wanted to share my cookie recipe, because I love these cookies so much, and with the oatmeal, I can pretend that they are healthy. I've honestly been making this recipe since I was a little girl. I'm not sure why they fell apart, maybe I didn't let them sit on the pan long enough. They still taste good though.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soda
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
4 Tbs milk
4 cups rolled oats
1 cup chocolate chips, or raisins if you really want to be healthy, or dates or nuts...
Preheat oven to 375
Sift flour with soda and salt into mixing bowl.
Add butter, sugar, brown sugar, egg, vanilla and milk. Mix until smooth.
Add rolled oats and chocolate chips.
Drop by spoonful on ungreased cookie sheet about 2" apart.
Bake for 10-12 minutes
*food storage friendly changes:
add egg powder, butter powder, or milk powder with dry ingredients, then add needed water when recipe calls for milk.
I used 4 Tbs egg powder and 1/2 cup water in place of the eggs, and 8 tsp powdered milk and 1/4 cup water.
You sure did a bunch of stuff! Think it will last a whole week? Those muffins sure look good! MMmmm wish I had one now!
ReplyDeleteWell, if I had to guess, I would say the cookie dough will definitely not last the week and the cookies normally won't either, but my kids are a little scared of these ones because they fall apart, plus, there's halloween candy to be devoured. I froze half of the muffins so we can pull them out later. The bread... we'll see, I guess.
ReplyDeleteI need a baking day. I need a spa day too, but that's another story!
ReplyDeleteYour work looks like it really paid off!
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