Grandpas Cookies Food

GRANDPA'S MOLASSES GINGER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375ºF and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Cream the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, 4-5 minutes, scraping down the sides 2-3 times.
• Add the molasses, egg, and spices, and beat to combine, about 1 minute, scraping down the sides when needed.
• In a separate bowl, combine the sea salt, baking soda, and flour.
• Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix until combined with no flour pockets remaining.
• Shape the cookies by spooning out 2 Tablespoons of dough at a time and rolling each portion into balls. Roll the cookie balls in the extra sugar before placing them on the parchment lined baking sheet.
• Bake the cookies for 6-8 minutes or until they've puffed up in the middles but are still moist in the center.
• Remove the cookies from the oven and cool on a cooling rack. Repeat the shaping and baking process until all the cookie dough has been baked.
• Cooled cookies can be store at room temperature for 2-3 days or frozen for up to 1 month.

GRANDAD DANNER'S FAVORITE PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Whisk together the dry ingredients in a medium bowl. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, peanut butter, and brown sugars. Stir in the egg and vanilla. Add the flour in thirds and stir until smooth. Fold in the peanut butter chips. Roll the mixture into golf ball-sized balls (about 1 1/2 tablespoons). At this point you can roll them in granulated sugar or you can press each cookie down with the tines of a fork. Either way, bake for 10 minutes, in a nonstick baking pan, rotating the pan halfway through baking time. Cool the cookies on a rack before serving.

BIG GRANDMA'S BEST PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together the sugars, Crisco, peanut butter.
• Add the eggs and vanilla.
• Sift the dry ingredients together and add gradually until blended well.
• Roll into tablespoon size balls.
• Roll cookie dough balls into sugar.
• Place on cookie sheets- do not mash with fork in normal "peanut butter cookie" fashion!
• Bake at 350° oven for 11-13 minutes.

GRANDMA'S PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and peanut together in a large bowl.
• Add sugars and eggs, mix well.
• Sift together dry milk, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt, stir into butter mixture.
• Let dough stand 15 minutes.
• Roll into balls, about the size of a walnut and place on a slightly greased baking sheet.
• Flatten with a fork, dipped in flour, criss-cross fashion.
• Bake at 375 degress for 10-12 minutes.
• Watch closely and remove when tops just start to brown.
• Wait about 5 minutes before removing from baking sheet. Cool on racks.

GRANDMA'S CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°.
• In a mixing bowl, cream together the first five ingredients.
• After creaming the first five ingredients add the last four and make sure everything is mixed together well.
• Drop by tablespoonfuls on to cookie sheets and bake for 9-10 minutes.
• For M&M cookies: Replace chocolate chips with M&M plain baking bits.

GRANDMA'S OLD FASHIONED OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F - you will need 3 baking sheets lined with parchment paper (again the parchment keeps the cookie from burning and makes clean up faster).
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, soda and salt.
• Beat together with mixer at low speed - butter and sugar until the sugar granules are not visible. Increase speed and beat 1 minute longer, scrape sides as needed and add egg, beat another 30 seconds. Add flour mixture 1/3 at a time and incorporate well over med speed until mixture is smooth. Add oatmeal and stir into the dough using your rubber spatula.
• Divide into 24 equal portions and bake for 13 to 16 minutes placing only one cookie sheet in the oven at a time and rotating the cookie sheet half way through your cooking time -- these are the best and the thinnest cookies and very crispy.