Oatmeal Cookies! What cookie could taste any better... loaded up with chocolate chips, pecans and raisins... and still seem "not so bad" with all those oats? Now, why would I be making cookies today? Right?? Today's the first day of Western Mass. and Frontier's Wrestler Team is IN!! I should be sitting on a bleacher... with these boys...
ALL DAY... watching sweaty warriors twist and turn each other into human pretzels...in short 2 minute intervals of blood curdling, heart pounding intensity... but not today. Alas, the ever popular and uninvited puking bug decided to pop in on Stevie, on THIS, the day of his very first WMA Wrestling Tourney! HATE YOU puking bug... and I'm missing our Red Hawk Wrestlers compete. And it's KILLING US to not be there!!
So, the ONLY thing a good self respecting Mommy-fan can do on a day like this (besides check my messages every 10 minutes for wrestling updates, courtesy of the official Federation of Frontier Wrestling Moms in attendance... thanks Moms)... is BAKE COOKIES!
If I can't scream and yell for those boys from the bleachers, I'll bake those boys some supremely awesome oatmeal chocolate chip pecan cookies! It's ON...
These cookies are pretty easy! Start by creaming one stick and 6 tablespoons of butter (14 T) together with 3/4 cups of brown sugar and 1/2 cup white sugar. Use hand mixer or upright mixer and blend until creamy. Add 2 eggs and 1 tablespoon vanilla and mix some more. Now add your dry... 1 and 1/2 cups all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt, and mix some more. To that, add 3 heaping cups of oats and mix to combine.
Now this would be good on it's own, but these cookies are for the TEAM... so we boosted their deliciousness with raisins, chocolate chips, and chopped pecans, about a half cup of each!
Now mix to combine and set your oven to 350 and get your handy dandy scooper ready!
I sprayed my little ice cream scooper with non stick spray, and dropped those cookies onto a baking sheet covered in parchment paper. Any old scooper or spoon will do, and you don't need the paper, I just always do.
This dough was pretty dense, so I pushed the tops down a tiny bit. After 10 minutes check your cookies.
Mine were pretty big (and clearly too close together), so they took 13 minutes. Smaller cookies may only take 8-10 minutes to cook.
When golden brown and set, take them out to cool. Leave them on that cookie sheet at least a couple of minutes, or they will fall apart. Let them cool completely on rack while you cook off the rest of your cookies.
I can't wait to deliver these cookies to my favorite, hard working bunch-o-boys!
Stevie, on the other hand, will be enjoying some less than spectacular jello and ginger ale while he roots for his team from the couch...the day before his birthday!!
Have I mentioned how much I HATE the puking bug!!!
Make some cookies for your favorite athletes, teachers, coaches, neighbors, plow truck drivers, or friends! You KNOW they DESERVE IT!!
Oatmeal Cookies! What cookie could taste any better... loaded up with chocolate chips, pecans and raisins... and still seem "not so bad" with all those oats? Now, why would I be making cookies today? Right?? Today's the first day of Western Mass. and Frontier's Wrestler Team is IN!! I should be sitting on a bleacher... with these boys...
ALL DAY... watching sweaty warriors twist and turn each other into human pretzels...in short 2 minute intervals of blood curdling, heart pounding intensity... but not today. Alas, the ever popular and uninvited puking bug decided to pop in on Stevie, on THIS, the day of his very first WMA Wrestling Tourney! HATE YOU puking bug... and I'm missing our Red Hawk Wrestlers compete. And it's KILLING US to not be there!!
So, the ONLY thing a good self respecting Mommy-fan can do on a day like this (besides check my messages every 10 minutes for wrestling updates, courtesy of the official Federation of Frontier Wrestling Moms in attendance... thanks Moms)... is BAKE COOKIES!
If I can't scream and yell for those boys from the bleachers, I'll bake those boys some supremely awesome oatmeal chocolate chip pecan cookies! It's ON...
These cookies are pretty easy! Start by creaming one stick and 6 tablespoons of butter (14 T) together with 3/4 cups of brown sugar and 1/2 cup white sugar. Use hand mixer or upright mixer and blend until creamy. Add 2 eggs and 1 tablespoon vanilla and mix some more. Now add your dry... 1 and 1/2 cups all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt, and mix some more. To that, add 3 heaping cups of oats and mix to combine.
Now this would be good on it's own, but these cookies are for the TEAM... so we boosted their deliciousness with raisins, chocolate chips, and chopped pecans, about a half cup of each!
Now mix to combine and set your oven to 350 and get your handy dandy scooper ready!
I sprayed my little ice cream scooper with non stick spray, and dropped those cookies onto a baking sheet covered in parchment paper. Any old scooper or spoon will do, and you don't need the paper, I just always do.
This dough was pretty dense, so I pushed the tops down a tiny bit. After 10 minutes check your cookies.
Mine were pretty big (and clearly too close together), so they took 13 minutes. Smaller cookies may only take 8-10 minutes to cook.
When golden brown and set, take them out to cool. Leave them on that cookie sheet at least a couple of minutes, or they will fall apart. Let them cool completely on rack while you cook off the rest of your cookies.
I can't wait to deliver these cookies to my favorite, hard working bunch-o-boys!
Stevie, on the other hand, will be enjoying some less than spectacular jello and ginger ale while he roots for his team from the couch...the day before his birthday!!
Have I mentioned how much I HATE the puking bug!!!
Make some cookies for your favorite athletes, teachers, coaches, neighbors, plow truck drivers, or friends! You KNOW they DESERVE IT!!
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