Boiled Oatmeal Cookies Preacher Cookies Food

PREACHER COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix butter or margarine, cocoa, sugar, milk, and salt together in saucepan. Boil for 1 minute.
• Stir in oatmeal, peanut butter and vanilla. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto waxed paper. Allow to cool and harden.

MICROWAVE " NO-BAKE OATMEAL COOKIES"

Steps:

• Mix together sugar, margarine, milk, cocoa, and vanilla. Heat in microwave 2 minutes. Stir. Heat in microwave 2 more minutes. Stir in peanut butter until well blended. Add oats. Drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper. Allow time to cool.
• * Measure oats carefully; too much and they will be too dry.

NO BAKE COOKIES I

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, combine sugar, milk, butter, and cocoa. Bring to a boil, and cook for 1 1/2 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in peanut butter, oats, and vanilla. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto wax paper. Let cool until hardened.

THE VERY BEST OATMEAL RAISIN COOKIES (SOFT AND CHEWY)

Steps:

• Start by preparing your raisins and walnuts, if you plan to add nuts. Bring a small pot of water to a boil. Add 1 and 1/2 cup raisins to a small bowl. Pour the boiling water over the raisins. Set aside to plump (at least 10-15 minutes.)
• In a small pan, add 1/2 cup walnuts and set over medium heat. Stir frequently for 3-5 minutes, until the walnuts are light brown and fragrant. Don't burn them! Nuts are so easy to burn. Set side to cool.
• In a large bowl or stand mixer, beat the butter until is is soft and creamy.
• Add the brown sugar and granulated sugar and beat together. Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl and beat for another 2-3 minutes, until fluffy.
• Add 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons vanilla, and 1 tablespoon molasses. Beat well until incorporated, scraping the sides and bottom.
• Add 2 and 1/2 cups flour (spooned and leveled!) but don't mix it in yet.
• On top of the flour in the bowl, add 1 and 1/2 teaspoons baking soda, 1 teaspoon kosher salt, 1 and 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon, and 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg. Add in a dash of cardamom, but only if you already know you like cardamom. Stir it into the flour with a small spoon.
• Use the beaters to stir the flour into the dough, but not all the way. Stop when the dough is still pretty white from the flour. Scrape down the edges.
• Add 1 cup quick oats, 1 cup old fashioned oats, and the 1/2 cup of toasted walnuts, if you're using them.
• Beat just until the flour streaks are gone. Make sure to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl to make sure it has all been mixed properly, but do not over mix (or you will get tough cookies).
• Drain the raisins through a strainer. Lay out a paper towel on the counter and pour the raisins on top to dry them out a bit. Set aside 1/4 or 1/2 cup raisins to press into the top of the baked cookies, if you want.
• Use a wooden spoon to stir the raisins into the dough. If they are still a little wet, they may not mix in very well. Just do your best to get them incorporated.
• Cover the dough and refrigerate for 2 hours or up to 48 hours. If you are in a big hurry, you can shape the dough into balls right away, set them on a plate, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 30 minutes before baking (they will chill faster if they are already shaped into balls).
• When you are ready to bake, preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
• Line a few baking sheets with silicone baking mats or parchment paper.
• Use a 2 inch cookie scoop (< this is the one I have) to shape the cookie dough, or just use your hands. Your cookie dough balls should be about 2 inches across, or a little bigger than a golf ball.
• Place the cookie dough on the prepared baking sheets with about 2 inches in between each cookie. I was able to fit 12 on a half sheet baking pan.
• Bake at 350 for 11-12 minutes. The cookies should be firm on the edges and slightly golden. They should not be too shiny. A little bit of shine is okay right in the center, but not much. If the whole top of the cookie is still shiny, leave it in for 2-3 more minutes.
• Remove the pan from the oven.
• For an extra thick cookie: Immediately after you take them out of the oven (seriously, don't wait) use two spoons to gently push each cookie together. I just used two regular spoons, the kind you eat cereal with. Push the cookie together so that it comes up a bit in the middle. That's how you're going to get a soft, thick center. If you wait even just a minute after taking them out of the oven, the brown edges will start to crisp up, and you won't be able to shape the cookies. Work your spoons all the way around the edges so that your cookie is a nice circle shape. Work quickly to shape all the cookies before they crisp on the edges. (See photos of this process on my recipe for 30 minute Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies.)
• Press extra raisins into the top of each cookie, if desired. (You can use ones that you plumped or ones straight from the bag.)
• Remove to a wire rack and let cool completely. But not before eating at least one!
• Store covered on the counter.

THE BEST OATMEAL CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• To the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or large mixing bowl and electric mixer) combine the egg, butter, sugars, vanilla, and beat on medium-high speed until creamed and well combined, about 4 minutes.
• Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the oats, flour, cinnamon, baking soda, optional salt, and beat on low speed until just combined, about 1 minute.
• Stop, scrape down the sides of the bowl, and add the chocolate chips, optional raisins or nuts, and beat on low speed until just combined, about 30 seconds.
• Using a large cookie scoop, 1/4-cup measure, or your hands, form approximately 11 equal-sized mounds of dough, roll into balls, and flatten slightly. Tip - Strategically place a few chocolate chips on top of each mound of dough by taking chips from the underside and adding them on top.
• Place mounds on a large plate or tray, cover with plasticwrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, up to 5 days. Do not bake with unchilled dough because cookies will bake thinner, flatter, and be more prone to spreading.
• Preheat oven to 350F, line a baking sheet with a Silpat or spray with cooking spray. Place dough mounds on baking sheet, spaced at least 2 inches apart (I bake 8 cookies per sheet).
• Bake for about 11 minutes (for super soft cookies, longer for more well-done cookies), or until edges have set and tops are just set, even if slightly undercooked, pale, and glossy in the center; don't overbake. Cookies firm up as they cool.
• Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for about 10 minutes before serving. I let them cool on the baking sheet and don't use a rack.

NO BAKE COOKIES - SUGAR FREE

Steps:

• Bring this to a boil for 1 1/2 minutes butter, splenda, salt, cocoa, milk.
• In large bowl mix oatmeal, peanut butter, vanilla.
• Add boiled mixture, a little at a time until you have the consistency of a drop cookie. Put wax paper on a cookie sheet, use tablespoon to form balls, drop onto wax paper. Put cookies into freezer on the tray.
• After a few hours put them into zip lock baggies. Keep the cookies in the freezer and eat them. You can eat them frozen, or let them defrost a bit.

MOM'S PREACHER COOKIES / AKA NO BAKE COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine margarine, sugar and milk; boil for 3 minutes.
• Remove from heat, add vanilla and peanut butter.
• In large bowl, combine oatmeal and cocoa.
• Add cooled liquid mixture to oatmeal mixture. Stir well.
• When slightly thickened, drop on waxed paper, and cool competely.

BOILED OATMEAL COOKIES (PREACHER COOKIES)

Steps:

• Put oats in a large bowl.
• In a small saucepan over medium heat bring to a full boil: butter, milk, sugar, and cocoa. Reduce heat and simmer for 3 minutes. Remove from heat. There is a knack to this. Boil them too long, they will be dry and crumbly, too short and they will be runny.
• Quickly add peanut butter, salt, vanilla.
• Mix liquid into oats. Add more oats as necessary until it has a moist doughy consistency.
• Quickly put in buttered cake pan or quickly drop by the teaspoonful onto wax paper. Let them stand at room temperature for one hour.
• Variations: Add 1/2 cup coarsely chopped nuts, or Coconut. Replace 1/2 the oats with coconut. Use less cocoa and more peanut butter.

PREACHER COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Mix butter, cocoa, sugar, milk, and salt together in saucepan. Boil 1 minute.
• 2. Stir in oatmeal, peanut butter and vanilla. Let cool, then roll into small balls and flatten out on wax paper. Refrigerate for 15 minutes then take out and leave at room temperature.