Somebody's gotta test those cookies to make sure they came out right, ya know.

Made mistake of buying Pepp Farm Gingerman; NOT good, and package difficult.

REMIND self: ONLY buy STOUFFER's ginger snaps!!

I like with tea

But I always have to try one or two to make sure they are adequate to serve to others.

Peanut butter oatmeal with raisins!

yum!

One bite of a friends cookie baked me last month. Too old to enjoy that these days.

One of my younger cousins has been baking chocolate chip cookies since her teens. If we go over for Xmas she usually has them. Yum!

The only thing I ever baked were these quik bake flat oats and ?nuts muffins

My mom was the best!

He will tell me that a particular cake is either better or not as good as the last time I made it;

like a coconut shortbread. settlement cookbook's version. more sugar. 1 sticks butter. 2 c flour of makes the right dough. 3/4 c wh sugar. toast 1/ bag of coconut. 1/2 tdp of bs. some salt. i like mine darker. works w/ sesame seeds or nuts. pecans + almond soak up butter so less flour.
then theres the beulah's cookies. 1 c flour, 1 c sugar(br), 1 c lard, 1 c oatmeal, 1 egg, nuts. gotta add salt. chewy version use butter + 2 eggs. a teaspoon of oats.
sugar cookies, butterscotch cookies. frosted melting moments. 3 fruit oatmel cookies. shit. i made the best peanut cookies when i smashed peanuts + added them to my sugar cookie recipe. i added cooffee grounds to the sugar cookies too. coconut sugar.

It's the only thing.
Even though I cook a lot, I don't bake. Not enough room to experiment in baking, because ratios are so important.
Since I don't bake, eating cookies is my one & only job!

In the old Betty Crocker Cookbook - the one everyone's mom had - there was a recipe for Citrus Slice Cookies. These were a refrigerator cookie that looked like a lemon, lime or orange slice. I didn't have the recipe so I field-modified a sugar cookie recipe to do the same thing and it was REALLY popular. I found the actual recipe and I think I'll just stick with what I have been doing.

The difference: The official recipe calls for making a batch of cookie dough, dividing it into either three (if you're just doing orange and lemon) or four (if you're also doing lime) then coloring two of them and adding citrus zest for flavor. You stick these chunks of dough in the fridge for an hour, turn them into logs then chill the logs for an hour. What I do is make three or four entire batches of dough. one for each color, and use LorAnn Candy Oils - EXTREMELY concentrated flavoring - to get the flavor. They also want you to use supermarket-grade liquid food coloring; I use confectioner''s-grade gel coloring because it's more vivid. I add both during the "creaming the butter" stage rather than kneading it in after it's been made. Doing it this way gets you an absolute shitload of cookies and requires two pounds of butter but since I make cookies for office parties it's okay.

I also have my Chocolate Chip Snickerdoodle (make standard snickerdoodle recipe using pumpkin pie spice instead of just cinnamon, add 1 cup of miniature chocolate chips to the dough) and my Chocolate Covered Raisin Cookies (make a Toll House cookie recipe with chocolate-covered raisins instead of chocolate chips) that have been very well received. Our HR person declared the Chocolate Chip Snickerdoodle "the best damned cookie I ever ate."

were much easier to make.

Baking cookies more than eating them!

I def enjoy eating them more.

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us and knew we liked them

I never got to even meet my grands. All dead before I was born.

I tend to lean toward making simple but good quality cookies, not pretty cookies (someone above said the same thing)
Chocolate chip, peanut butter, oatmeal, Snickerdoodles, etc. All of my guys hate pecans!

Of course I have to taste a few to make sure they are acceptable.

As pointed out earlier, few things are as good as warm cookies just out of the oven. Plus if you make cookies yourself, you get to scape the bowl and eat the scraps of cookie dough.

Wins all the way around.

Mostly because if you are not careful, cookies can get done faster than they should and burn on the bottom. Plus I hate the in and out of the oven part if you have several sheets of cookies.

Great refrigerator cookie:
Very chocolaty, with cayenne, black pepper, & cinnamon in the recipe. They are so good and it is the best cookie dough I have ever tasted! The only recipe I will use Mexican vanilla in. Anytime I take them to a group, they are well received