Chewy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Cookies are easy, but hard. I love the making of them, but I certainly don’t like putting them on the pan and cooking them. I don’t really know when cookies are done and when they aren’t. And I love the smell of cookies throughout the entire making. And of course, eating them. I got this recipe of All Recipes http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chewy-chocolate-chip-oatmeal-cookies/, which I am on lots to get new recipes to try. And, YUM, these cookies are AWESOME! Here it is.

       Chewy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

1 cup (1 block) butter, softened

1 cup red sugar (if you have brown sugar you can use that)

½ cup white sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 & ¼ cup all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon baking soda

¾ teaspoon salt

3 cups quick-cooking oats

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

·         In a large bowl, cream together the butter, red (brown) sugar, and white sugar til’ smooth (you can do this part by hand, they still turn out great). Beat in eggs ONE at a time, then stir in vanilla.

·         Preheat the oven to 165C (325F).

·         In another bowl, combine flour, soda, and salt. Stir into the creamed mixture til’ just blended. Mix in oats and chocolate chips. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto UNgreased baking sheets.

·         Bake for 8-12 mins in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for5 mins before putting on a wire rack to cool completely (if you don’t have a wire rack you can just put the cookies on a plate).

Vanilla Ice Cream

I’m sorry people in America can’t make this. L I truly am sorry. But I don’t think there’s Dream Whip in America. But I totally wish you could make this because it is so good. Our friends that live in The Philippines gave us this recipe (I don’t know if you can make it there or not). Here it is.

        Vanilla Ice Cream

1 packet Dream Whip

1 cup water

1 cup white sugar

2 cups milk powder

3 cups cold water

·         Whip the D.W. with the water in a stand mixer for 5 mins.

·         Add sugar, milk powder, and cold water and mix.

·         Freeze for 5 hours. Take it out and stir some more. *Freeze some more.*

*** This is best when you freeze it over night. Take it out when you are ready for it.***

Cream Cheese Iced Biscuits

Once, a long time ago, I made some Sweet Cinnamon Biscuits. They lived for their name. They were too sweet. I never made them again. My younger brother was like, ‘Can you make those biscuits again?’ I said no. I had never had too much of one thing. That was the first time. But I discovered another recipe. The pix didn’t look black from the sugar or cinnamon. So I tried it. They turned out really well. I made some the next morning to use some more of the icing. (We didn’t use it all) Anywho, I got this from Sweet Pea’s Kitchen, http://sweetpeaskitchen.com/2011/02/cinnamon-biscuits/ . And here is what I did.

        Cinnamon Biscuits

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/3 cup white sugar

1 Tablespoon baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

1/3 cup butter, softened

¾ cup milk

        Cream Cheese Icing

1 3oz packet of cream cheese, softened

¼ cup butter, softened

1½ cups powdered sugar

½ teaspoon vanilla

1/8 teaspoon salt

1 Tablespoon milk

·          BISCUITS: Line two medium pans with parchment paper or wax paper.

·         In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the flour, sugar, baking, powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon ‘til well combined. Add the butter. Turn the butter over ether using your hands or with a fork ‘til all sides are coated well with the flour mixture. Turn the mixer on ‘stir’. Do this ‘til the butter is no larger than a pea and resembles coarse cornmeal. Add milk, stirring ‘til becomes a sticky dough (do this by hand).

·         Turn the dough onto a floured surface; knead for 5 mins, adding more flour as you go to make it less sticky.

·         *With your floured hands, press the dough into a rectangle ½ inch thick. Fold the dough as if you’re folding a letter to put it in an envelope.* *Do this step two more times, beginning with flattening it out into a rectangle ½ inch thick.*

·         Preheat oven to 218C (425F).

·         Once you’re done, press the dough ½ inch thick on a floured surface. Cut into rounds (or hearts, haha) and place on the pans.

·         Bake 13 to 15 mins or ‘til biscuits are golden brown.

·         While the biscuits are baking, CREAM CHEESE ICING: Stir all the ingredients together. Just spread on baked biscuits.

Breakfast Time

3 recipes 1 post! You don’t have to eat these together, I mean barf. But you could eat the biscuits with the sausage or the biscuits with the chocolate gravy. Let’s not even mention the sausage and chocolate gravy tog… That wouldn’t be too good. It beats me where the sausage recipe came from, but the chocolate gravy came from Buns in my Oven, http://www.bunsinmyoven.com/2010/11/11/biscuits-and-chocolate-gravy/, and the biscuits came from a co-op my used to go to when we were in the Carolinas. Anyway here they are.

        Biscuits

4 cups all-purpose flour

2½ Tablespoons baking powder

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

½ teaspoon salt

1 cup (1 block) butter, softened

11/3 cups milk

        Homemade Sausage

3 pounds ground beef (about 1½ kilos)

1 onion, chopped finely

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

½ teaspoon ground nutmeg

½ teaspoon ground ginger

¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper (or ¼ teaspoon Indonesian chili powder)

1 teaspoon cumin

1 teaspoon coriander

1 teaspoon ground pepper

1 teaspoon sage

1 teaspoon oregano

2 teaspoons salt

½ Tablespoon basil

2 eggs

        Chocolate Gravy

½ cup butter

5 Tablespoons cocoa powder

¼ cup all-purpose flour

¾ cup white sugar

2 cups milk

1/8 teaspoon vanilla

tiny pinch of salt (very small)

·         BISCUITS: Combine flour, baking powder, cream of tartar, and salt. Cut in the soft butter with a knife ‘til it becomes crumbly (the mixture). The little balls should be no bigger than a small pea. Stir in the milk. And stir ‘til it becomes a dough.

·         Preheat the oven to 232C (450F).

·          Then put on a floured counter or whatever and knead about 5 minutes. Then flatten with your hands ‘til it’s about ½ in thick, and cut with cookie cutters. Bake for 12-15 mins.

·         HOMEMADE SAUSAGE: Mix together (I’m not going to name them all) all the ingredients. Shape into a log and wrap in foil. Let it chill for about an hour. Then cut into patties and fry in coconut oil.

·         CHOCOLATE GRAVY: Melt the butter in a sauce pan. Stir in the cocoa powder and flour ‘til combined well and bubbly from heat. Stir in the sugar until the mixture is nice and thick. Then slowly add the milk whisking constantly. Continue to cook over heat, stirring constantly, ‘til the mixture has thickened into a nice gravy like consistency. About 5 mins.

·         Stir in the salt and vanilla and remove from the heat.