My Kookie Cookie Theory by Ladymermaid

My Kookie Cookie Theory:

Cookies can be good for you! You just have to eat healthy cookies. It is easy. When baking your cookies choose healthy ingredients to put into them. Or as mama would say........just bake tons and tons of love into them.

There are a lot of little secret tricks to make your cookies healthier:

When recipes call for lard or margarine, use non-hydrogenated margarine, this will reduce or eliminate those very unhealthy trans fats.

Reduce the amount of sugar that the recipe calls for by at least one quarter. The cookies will taste just as good if not better.

Use walnuts to replace pecans or almonds.

Use Raisens or cherry bits to replace chocolate chips or candied jujubes.

Use 1% milk instead of evaporated milk and your fat content reduces substantially.

Make healthy food choices - Choose recipes calling for oatmeal and fruit or other healthier options.

Of course this theory of mine is just an excuse for me to eat as many cookies as I can.

I can't help it. I'm addicted to them.

They tempt me. They taunt me. Counseling hasn't helped. I cannot walk by the cookie jar without tasting at least one cookie! If the cookie jar is empty then I start baking.

I love them. I crave them. I am addicted to them.

I'm pitiful!

Hermit Cookie Recipe:

My theory on Hermit cookies is:

Walnuts lower cholesterol so walnuts are good for me.

Raisins are a powerful antioxidant so raisins are good for me.

Cherries are an antioxidant and natures very own natural pain killer so cherries are good for me.

Hermit Cookies actually contain walnuts and raisins and cherry bits! That means that Hermit Cookies are good for me.

Oh goodie goodie!

MY ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC RECIPE FOR HERMIT COOKIES:

4 cups brown sugar
1 cup lard
1 cup margarine
1 cup cold coffee
3 eggs
2 teaspoons baking soda
(excited yet?)

2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons nutmeg
2 teaspoons cinnamon
7 cups flour
2 cups raisins
2 cups walnuts
1 cup chopped up cherry pieces

Mix together first 7 ingredients. Stir in remaining ingredients and mix to form dough. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet.

DO NOT FLATTEN. These are sooooooo good they need to stay nice and chubby.

Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes.

Yummy!

Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe:

My theory on Peanut Butter cookies is:

Peanut Butter is protein and protein is good for me
thus Peanut Butter cookies are good for me.

MY AMAZING PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE RECIPE:

3/4 cup non-hydrogenated margarine
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
3/4 cup peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 & 3/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon soda

Cream together butter, sugar, egg and peanut butter. Then add the remaining ingredients and mix till dough is formed.

A little sticky is OK.

Shape dough into balls - put these on a greased cookie sheet. Then with a fork that has been dunked in sugar, press each dough ball to flatten it, yum yum .... looking more like a cookie now.

Bake for 10 to 14 minutes at 325 degrees.

Cookie Jars That Will Bring A Smile To Your Kitchen:

Fill A Cookie Jar With Your Homemade Cookies And You Have The Perfect Gift:

The Lone Ranger Ceramic Cookie Jar by Vandor

Even More Wonderfully Decorative Cookie Jars:

Tea Pots Because Nothing Goes Better With A Cookie Than A Cup Of Tea:

Teapot And Set Of 4 Tea Cups - Style 41221

Mor Delightful Little Tea Pots!

Licensed Garfield And Friend Collectible Teapot For Kitchen Decor And Teas

Cast Iron TeaPots:

Old Dutch 38-Ounce Cast-Iron Nobility Teapot, Moss Green

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