Makes ~16 cookies45 minutes —Easy — The oatmeal raisin cookie is a true underdog; always outshined by the popular chocolate chip, but no less tasty. This recipe uses the same base as my Oatmeal Creme Pies, with all the same wonderful spices that make this cookie taste like Fall.
A low-effort-high-reward recipe. The addition of brown sugar makes these cookies a bit richer & promotes some extra browning on the bottom — and the recipe is mad simple! Cream the butter, zest and sugar, add the wet ingredients, the dry ingredients, and your dough is ready. Perfect for whipping up a quick treat for that party tonight that you forgot about.
Makes 7-8 sandwich cookies90 minutes —Intermediate — I grew up on Little Debbie — nothing beats a Zebra Cake (not that I’d really know, I haven’t had one in probably ten years). But out of the entire catalogue of gas station impulse-buys, (yes even honey buns) there’s one that reigns supreme. The Oatmeal Creme Pie….
Makes 10-14 cookies90 minutes —Intermediate — The best chocolate chip cookie recipes kind of have to be a little bit of everything; memorable, memorize-able, achievable, approachable, delicious, and perhaps most important: simple. For decades, my mother made cookies every other weekend in an attempt to satisfy each and every one of these personality traits. She…