Enjoy!
Magic Christmas Cookies
Soft and sandy
texture
Different
combinations added to the base cookie makes it magic.
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1 egg
1 cup salad oil
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 cups quick oats
3 ½ cups flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
Preheat oven to 350 F. Line
cookie sheets with parchment paper.
Cream butter and sugars until
light and fluffy. Add egg, mix well, then add salad oil and vanilla, mixing
well. Add oats, flour, soda, and salt.
Stir to combine. Cut dough in half.
Mix into ½ batch of dough, either:
Zest from one orange
½ cup craisins
½ cup white chocolate chips
½ cup chopped walnuts
OR:
1 tsp. ground chipotle pepper
1/2 cup bacon crumbles, (Kirkland
bacon crumbles-1 cup fried until toasty) drain on paper towels.
1/2 cup butterscotch chips
1/2 cup pine nuts, toasted
OR:
¾ cup toasted coconut, (1 cup
unsweetened coconut, toasted in pan)
1/3 cup mini chocolate chips
1/3 cup toasted almond slices
OR:
Zest from one orange
½ cup white chocolate chips
½ cup craisins
½ cup NaturSource salad topper
mix (sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, craisins)
OR:
¾ cup Heath toffee bits with milk
chocolate
½ cup chopped pecans
1 Tbls. ground cinnamon
OR:
½ cup fried bacon crumbles
Large pinch Hickory finishing
salt
2/3 cup of mixed chocolate chips
(Milk, mini, semi-sweet, butterscotch, white, sea salt caramel, etc)
Using a cookie scoop (@ 2 Tbls),
place balls on parchment lined cookie sheet, lightly flatten. Bake for 12
minutes. Cool on cookie sheet for 2-4 minutes before removing to a cooling
rack.
Makes about 60 2-inch cookies.
Tips
and Tricks:
·
Parchment paper is God’s gift to baking—no muss,
no fuss, just toss it in the trash.
·
Some of the combinations were invented simply
because I happened to have the ingredients on hand (bacon crumbles, salad topper
seeds/craisin combination, oranges to zest).
·
To toast the bacon, coconut, almond slices, or
pine nuts, just heat in skillet on the stovetop, tossing until they are as
toasted as you want. Do not leave the room. It will seem like the ingredients
are taking forever to toast, but as soon as you walk away they will burn. Don’t
ask me how I know this…
·
When mixing in strong spice flavors (chipotle,
hickory salt, and cinnamon) start with the amount suggested. Bake and taste a
small sample cookie. The chipotle has a late burn, but it shouldn’t be an overpowering
flavor, just unexpected. Same with the hickory salt. Don’t over do it.
·
I baked all the cookie combinations and took
them to work. ALL cookies were demolished within 4 hours. Not a true taste
testing, but many people liked the chipotle-bacon, hickory salt bacon and the
coconut macaroon combinations the best. I’m a fan of the orange zest with seeds.
·
If you want to make smaller cookies, then go for
it, but bake a few practice ones first to adjust your timing.
Enjoy!
