#cookiee

And give some cookies and milk

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(You seem tired)

heres some cookies 🍪🍪🍪

The Quaker Chocolate Chip Cookie is a classic favourite that combines the comforting flavours of oats and chocolate chips into a deliciously chewy and satisfying treat. Made with wholesome ingredients like Quaker oats, these cookies are perfect for satisfying your sweet tooth while still providing a hint of heartiness. With this homemade recipe, you can recreate the beloved Quaker Chocolate Chip Cookies right in your own kitchen. Let's dive into the recipe and learn how to make these irresistible cookies!

Ingredients:

 1 cup unsalted butter, softened

 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar

 1/2 cup granulated sugar

 2 large eggs

 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

 1 teaspoon baking soda

 1/2 teaspoon salt

 3 cups Quaker oats (old-fashioned or quick-cooking)

I try to only post recipes and such on Tumblr that I think are reasonably reproducible for people without fancy equipment, so no pictures of my bomb rotisserie chicken.

However, today's subject is window pane cookies! I'm going on a day (or so) trip to Lousiana tonight/tomorrow to visit dear friends, which necessitates baking as a gift for hosting me. Along with the more standard fare of chocolate chip cookies and brownies, I went for these cookies (I would've done pound cake, but it is very resource intensive and I am broke atm lol)

Cookie Base: Spiced Shortbread

You could use sugar cookie dough, I suppose, but I find shortbread to have a richer flavor and be less finicky than sugar cookie dough. I take my traditional shortbread cookie recipe and add spices so it pairs extra well with the butterscotch, but we'll get to that

Ingredients:

Oven, preheated to 350 F

1/2 cup softened butter (2, 8-ounce sticks of butter)

1/2 cup of sugar

1 tsp vanilla (or any extract you'd like; you can double this amount too, if you'd like)

2 cups of all purpose flour (I imagine the type of flour you use is pretty flexible

Spices

Candy/Sprinkles

Spices?

Yes! The amount and type I use depends on my mood. Spices could be a sachet of herbal or chai tea, cinnamon, and so on and so forth.

Typically I do around one teaspoon of cinnamon, but in the picture above I did (2 tsp cinnamon, 1/5 tsp ginger, 1/2 tsp clove, and 1/8 tsp cloves-- so approximately pumpkin spice proportions)

Candy?

This is also pretty flexible! I typically use butterscotch instead of the more typical jolly ranchers, but I found those granulated sprinkles work just fine too. Do not reccomend using regular sugar-- it doesn't melt too well. You could also use jam/jelly, though I'm not sure how well it'll stay in the hole.

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 F, if not already done

If butter is not already softened from sitting on the counter a while, place both sticks in the microwave for 15-20 seconds. We do NOT want them melted, so be cautious

Put your to-be-smashed candy in a paper bag and take it out into your garage, place where you've got hard floors. Beat the hell out of it with a rubber mallet until it's powdered. I usually use around 12 candies.

Come back inside to the kitchen. In a bowl mix butter and sugar together until it looks more like a spread than a gritty mess

Stir in vanilla and spices

Stir in flour in 1/2 to 1 cup batches until incorporated. It's best not to overmix cookie dough-- it can toughen it up

Pull a sheet of parchment paper to cover your countertops and sprinkle some flour onto it. Plop your dough ball onto there and pat it, your hands, and the rolling pin with flour. Roll out the dough until it seems like an acceptable thickness

Using a biscuit cutter (around two inch diameter) or a large cookie cutter, cut out the outer shape. Use a smaller cookie cutter (or freehand it with a knife; whatever works) to make a space for the candy.

Place these "doughnuts" onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper

Take your smashed candy/sprinkles and painstakingly fill the hole (I used a 1/8 teaspoon for precision, though time consuming. A spoon is fine too if you don't care about the cookies being perfect)

Bake for 11 minutes and allow to cool completely before removing from pan

You should be able to reroll the dough and easily make 2 dozen or more cookies.

Cookie saw me with it while I was inspecting the refrigeration unit the other day. He decided to take it while I wasn't looking so he could wash it "for (my) own health and safety."

Fair. I can't really remember the last time I gave it a good scrub.