This is a cookie recipe that I came up with when I was about 12 years old, and I tell ya, I was onto something! It’s been a while since I last made them but they’re just as good as I remember: buttery, chewy oatmeal cookies with a hint of caramel from brown sugar, loaded with chocolate chips, nuts, and dried fruit. They are thick and almost cake-like in the middle, and thin, lacy, and crisp around the edges. Seriously delicious.
Enjoy these – we certainly did!
Korena’s Cookies
Makes a few dozen
Preheat oven to 350˚F. In a bowl, cream together until light and fluffy:
1 cup unsalted butter, soft
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
Beat in:
2 eggs (one at a time is easier, as I discovered!)
1 tsp vanilla
Then add:
1 cup flour (I used 1/2 cup all purpose and 1/2 cup whole spelt)
1 cup old fashioned oats
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
The dough will be quite soft and sticky. Add:
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup toasted almonds, coarsely chopped (or other nuts)
1/2 cup dried cranberries (other other dried fruit)
Drop the batter by heaped tablespoons on a baking sheet lined with a silicon mat or parchment paper, and bake in the preheated 350˚F oven for about 15 minutes, until deep brown around the edges and set on top.
Let them sit for a few minutes on the baking sheet before removing to a cooling rack, where they will firm up some more upon cooling. They are best eaten the day they are baked, but they can be stored in an airtight container. They will lose their crunchy edges after a day but they are still very yummy!
You were a talented baker at 12 🙂 I can’t wait to try these because I love oatmeal cookies and the way you described them made me which it wasn’t 6 am.
A bowl of oatmeal (cookies) is perfect for breakfast! 😉
you are a born baker Korena!
that’s funny… I also started to do some serious baking around 12. I remember a lot of failed attempts and some success which made me feel like the queen of the kitchen 🙂 at the time I was into sweet baking, far away from the idea of baking bread. my most successful bakes where at the time pineapple upside-down cake and, a little later than 12, say 15 years old, my strong point were eclairs, crepes, and sachertorte. regarding the latest… once I will have to blog about it… they had a pastry competition in school and there I come with my sachertorte, which I spent the whole night decorating with some fancy tools I got as a present… guess what happened? they did not believe I made it and excluded my cake from the competition. no wonder I am no longer a cake person 😉
love your cookies, will ask my hubby to make a batch, he is the cookie person at home.
Haha, oh Barbara, the same thing happened to me! When I was about 7 or 8 I entered a cake decorated like a train in a baking contest at the local fall fair but I didn’t get a prize. I found out later that the judge didn’t think that a kid could have made it without help from an adult. However, the judge knew me, and after she found out that I had made the train cake (the entries were anonymous), she felt terrible because she knew that I was actually capable of making it myself, lol! She still mentions it when she sees me. I haven’t entered a baking contest since 😉 I’d love to see your sachertorte – I’ve never made one.
lol. this is interesting and sad that we both had the same bad experience regarding cake contests. mistrust is really not fun when the object is you and your cakes 🙂 never made a sacher torte since that time… the recipe I had back then was from an Austrian friend, the real stuff. will have to search for a good real one again…
I love your cookies Korena! They look as a perfect combination of crispy and soft! You were talented at 12 just as you are now! <3
Aww, Sibella you are too sweet 😉