cookie ideas (please help!)

[Jan in SC]

We are attending a homeschool party tomorrow and I just realized that I need to take 4 dozen cookies! Ack!!!

 

Any great cookie ideas and recipes? I don't love cooking, but I don't mind baking. My cooking vocabulary is quite limited, so simple is awesome!

 

Thanks! :D

[MariannNOVA]

Someone here directed me to Pioneer Woman's blog and there were great tutorials and links to other places with easy but fabulous ideas (I firmly believe that 90% of the WOW is in the presentation).

 

And, I found great and really easy cookie ideas on CHOWHOUND last night.

 

HTH

[i.love.lucy]

My fav new thing is where you make cookies from a cake mix.

 

One box of cake mix

3/4 c oatmeal (quick rolled oats)

2/3 c choc chips

1/2 c oil

2 eggs

 

Drop by tablespoonful onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Makes 3 dozen!

 

I have made German chocolate with the german choc cake mix, 1/2 c coconut, 1/2 c pecans added in.

 

I made white chocolate spice where I used a spice cake mix and subbed the chips for white choc ones.

 

And get this, I also made orange dark chocolate. Orange supreme cake mix, 1/2 tsp orange zest (to really make it orangey) and dark choc chips. My husband FLIPPED over these.

 

Next up, red velvet with white and dark choc chips! :tongue_smilie:

 

When you change things up the main ingredients of cake mix, oats, oil and eggs stay the same every time.

[Jan in SC]

Thanks! I'm heading there now. (I'm going to look, but I really hope my dh will walk in the door and offer to bake them while I go to the bookstore!)

[Jan in SC]

My fav new thing is where you make cookies from a cake mix.

 

One box of cake mix

3/4 c oatmeal (quick rolled oats)

2/3 c choc chips

1/2 c oil

2 eggs

 

Drop by tablespoonful onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Makes 3 dozen!

 

I have made German chocolate with the german choc cake mix, 1/2 c coconut, 1/2 c pecans added in.

 

I made white chocolate spice where I used a spice cake mix and subbed the chips for white choc ones.

 

And get this, I also made orange dark chocolate. Orange supreme cake mix, 1/2 tsp orange zest (to really make it orangey) and dark choc chips. My husband FLIPPED over these.

 

Next up, red velvet with white and dark choc chips! :tongue_smilie:

 

When you change things up the main ingredients of cake mix, oats, oil and eggs stay the same every time.

 

I love the red velvet idea, but I wouldn't want to share them!

[Dianne-TX]

This recipe is not only the best of everything cookie, but it makes A LOT! We make these every year at Christmas time.

 

http://www.christmas-cookies.com/recipes/recipe524.laura-bushs-cowboy-cookies.html

 

ETA: I don't make them as large as the recipe picture shows and get more out of the mix.

Edited December 14, 2010 by Dianne-TX

[happi duck]

My fav new thing is where you make cookies from a cake mix.

 

One box of cake mix

3/4 c oatmeal (quick rolled oats)

2/3 c choc chips

1/2 c oil

2 eggs

 

Drop by tablespoonful onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Makes 3 dozen!

 

I have made German chocolate with the german choc cake mix, 1/2 c coconut, 1/2 c pecans added in.

 

I made white chocolate spice where I used a spice cake mix and subbed the chips for white choc ones.

 

And get this, I also made orange dark chocolate. Orange supreme cake mix, 1/2 tsp orange zest (to really make it orangey) and dark choc chips. My husband FLIPPED over these.

 

Next up, red velvet with white and dark choc chips! :tongue_smilie:

 

When you change things up the main ingredients of cake mix, oats, oil and eggs stay the same every time.

 

Oooo! I forgot about these, they're yummy!

[Vida Winter]

After making several varieties of cookies over the past week, the easiest ones turned out to be everyone's favorite:

 

http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/no-bake-cookies-i/Detail.aspx

 

if bringing these to a group gathering make sure people know there is peanut butter in the recipe.