bachelor night cookies
steps to success:
- flip open the joy of cooking and confirm that you have enough butter to make oatmeal cookies
- realize that your butter is all in the freezer, so you have to set up an extremely slow double-boiler to soften them
- play with the dogsittee until you remember that your butter is probably melting in the wrappers
- put together the dry mix, but deviate from the spices based on what you want to finish from the ancient box of spices
- (grate. nutmeg. forever.)
- agonize over trying to pound the sugar, egg, and half-frozen/half-melted butter into something that you are ashamed to call 'blended' like the book asks for
- stand over the stove for a little more heat to melt the butter, damn it
- dump in the dry mix. remember, after getting a nice whiff of your overpowering spice mix, that you forgot the 'vanilla extract'
- (you haven't stocked vanilla extract in years when you realized whiskey is a fine substitute)
- the only whiskey left in the cabinet is a wee dram of 15 year macallan so you slosh in a wee wee dram
- mix, realizing you can keep working on breaking up butter chunks as you go
- dump in the last bit of oatmeal from the jar and go looking for the new bag of oatmeal
- fail to locate a new bag of oatmeal
- realize you're out of oatmeal
- add a cup of sunflower seeds instead
- bake two cookies to test
- decide that this is fine, but it's now almost midnight and you're tired, so you'll only make one more batch and stick the rest in the fridge
- as usual, get greedy with pan space and put them too close together
- watch in horror as half the cookies on this pan collapse and melt into each other
- when they're done baking, scrape them onto a plate in a big pile, because, let's be real, you're just going to eat this mess with a spoon for breakfast. in your oatmeal bowl. because you're out of oatmeal and have nothing else to eat for breakfast.
this, surprisingly, worked. i am not really a baker, though.
the full recipe
heat oven to 350F; prepare for 45ish cookies
flour mixture:
- 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground anise
blend well in a large bowl:
- 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted, softened butter
- 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- a splash of your favorite whiskey/bourbon
stir in the flour mixture, then add:
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup roasted, unsalted sunflower seeds
on a greased cookie sheet, drop smallish spoonfuls about 2 inches apart. flatten, or not, at your whim. bake for about 9 minutes, or until golden brown all over. let stand for a few minutes to set, then remove to a plate for cooling.
27 May 2017 23:01