bethievt

This chocolate cookie recipe is from the Still Life with Moosewood cookbook and it calls for 2 tsp of peppermint extract, but my son was thinking I could leave that out and put in dried cherries--though he loves mint too.

1 cup butter
1 c brown sugar
1 granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
3 c flour
1/2 c cocoa powder unsweetened
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 c chocolate chips (bittersweet)
2 c chopped nuts
dried cherries

Preheat oven to 350.
cream butter and sugar, beat in eggs, add vanilla.

Sift dry inredients and add choc chips, nuts, dried cherries etc. bake 12-15 minutes.

swimcatsmom

Thanks a lot guys. Now I have to go get some frozen otis spunkmeyer cookie dough out of the freezer and cook myself some cookies!


edit: darn darn darn you all! I have no cookie dough left. And now I really am craving warm cookies. Gonna go sulk.

cartera45

Thanks Bethie - I like the addition of the cherries - makes it interesting.

laxmom

..."Pop or buy a big bag of cheap popcorn and use that to pack around the cookies. Good cushioning..."


Great idea - and then they can either eat the popcorn, or feed it to the ducks..

ebeeeee

swimcatsmom
you could do it the lazy way and order some up. Someone sent me some wonderful cookies from a hot cookie company nearby. Their slogan is "because you can't eat flowers"
Love that.

wis75

Last spring I sent the rice krispies with peanut butter/chocolate frosting bars in a Honey Nut Cheerios box, usining the leftover cereal for packing material around exam time. Moving him home I found the bars- son hadn't wanted them but didn't give them away and commented on the stale cereal... I remember why I don't send care packages... BTW- you can freeze the Nestles cookies before AND after baking to have fresh tasting cookies when you shouldn't finish the batch...

maineparent

wis75,
I think your son is my son...LOL...... commenting on the STALE cereal cracks me up..... funny how they don't all share..... one might think we had starved them and they had to hoard their food, yes?

my son is now a senior, and he had left something home freshman year after his thanksgiving visit .... and my hubby packed it up for him.....and had nothing to add to the package that was a homemade treat (I was away at the time?) so he put in 2 large bags of Nestles Chocolate Chips....the 24oz bags...... my son didn't understand WHY he got so many choc chips with his package without the COOKIE part..... but he ate them..... and when he got home for XMAS he told us he had given up sweets, as a result of sooo much chocolate....and all the holiday baking I had done to welcome him home for XMAS was for naught......

Karen Colleges

Thanks for the recipes and tips!

worrywart

I've been reading this thread with the thought that cookies that travel well are obviously ones that have a long shelf life, i.e. can be made in advance. I'll continue to read this for ideas for S's upcoming graduation party since I don't want to wait until the last minute to bake. Thanks everyone.

wis75

Graduation is easy, son's CC (the sport) team used to have family parties after each meet (100+ runners) and I know the desserts brought were popular. Have the big sheet cake and add all sorts of bars and cookies, you have the advantage of being able to give them away, freeze leftovers or use them.

irishforever

I have found that the best thing to do with a batch of cookie dough is to spread it all in a jelly roll pan, bake, then cut them like brownies. They travel much better that way, and they taste just as good!! S1 loves it when I send anything homemade--and his friends love it, too!

worrywart

Do you adjust the cooking time when you bake them this way?

bethievt

I have made the dough--tomorrow I bake. I put 2 cups of dried cherries in addition to the 2 cups of chips, but I left out the nuts.