Oatmeal and Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients
110g (4oz) butter, softened
110g (4oz) caster sugar
110g (4oz) soft brown sugar
1 egg
2 tbsp water
1 tsp vanilla extract
250g (9oz) porridge oats (rolled oats)
110g (4oz) self-raising flour
1 level tsp salt
110g (4oz) chocolate chips, raisins or chopped nuts

Preheat the oven to 180oC (350oF), Gas Mark 4. Cream the butter in a large bowl or in an electric food mixer until soft. Add the sugars and beat until the mixture is light and fluffy. Add the egg, water and vanilla extract while still beating. Reduce the speed and gently mix in the oats, flour, salt and raisins to form a dough. Using your hands, roll the dough into walnut sized balls and place slightly apart on two baking trays. Bake in the oven for 12-25 minutes or until light golden brown but still slightly soft in the centre. Allow to cool on the trays for a minute before transferring to a wire rack to cool.

Chewy chocolate cookies

This is another fabulous cookies that are loved by both kids and adults. You can add cocoa powder to the mixture to make it taste more chocolaty. When I bake these cookies, it will never be enough and they are completely gone before christmas.




Ingredients

2 eggs
265g brown sugar (can reduce if you want it not too sweet)
125ml vegetable oil
1tsp vanilla essence
150g plain flour
110g self raising flour
1/2tsp bicarbonate soda
1 cup walnuts chopped
150g choc melts halved
3/4 cup raisins


Methods
1. beat eggs and sugar for about 1 minute.
2. stir in oil, essence and sifted dry ingredients until combined.
3. stir in walnuts n choc melts.
4. cover, refrigerate for an hour. (mixture will be soft)
5. roll rounded tablespoon of mixture into balls, pressed down slightly and placed
on greased oven tray.
6. baked at preheated oven 180 degrees for 12 minutes or until lightly brown

Cookies

Since Christmas is just around the corner, I will be baking a lot of cookies for this festive season to be given to friends and relatives. I share with you this wonderful tasting cookies shared by a friend in Mylot where I have great many friends who are willing to share their homemade cookies. Should try this out. You will never have enough.

Holiday Buttter Tarts
1 cup butter softened
2 3oz packages cream cheese (6 oz)
2 cups all purpose flour

Blend together butter and cream cheese; stir in flour. Cover and chill for one hour,or until easy to handle. Shape into 1-3/4 inch balls;press into bottoms and up sides of ungreased muffin cups. Fill each cup with one heaping teaspoonful of raisin filling. Bake at 425 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes; reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake for an additional 10 minutes. Cool slightly in muffin cups; remove and cool completely. Makes 3 dozen.

Raisin Filling:

2 eggs
2 cup brown sugar, packed
2/3 cup butter, melted
1/4 cup evaporated milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 tsp all purpose flour
1 cup Sun maid raisins

Beat together eggs, brown sugar and butter in a small bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients.