Well, it has been quite a while, hasn’t it? Sorry for the hiatus, but life is funny like that sometimes. Things are starting to calm down again, so I *should* be updating more regularly. Once again, my apologies.
Theses cookies are great–they’ve got a little bit of everything (hence the name) but without being too sweet. All of the flavors work together nicely and none of them over power one another.
The Everything Cookie Clusters
Yield: 2 dozen
Ingredients:
- 1/2 stick salted butter, room temp
- 1/2 c peanut butter
- 1/2 c sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 c flour
- 1 c oats
- 1/2 c raisins
- 1 c semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, cream butter, peanut butter, sugar, and eggs.
2) Mix in cinnamon, baking soda, and vanilla. Stir well. Hand stir in oats, raisins, and chocolate chips.
3) Spoon onto a cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Cookies will start to brown slightly, but not much. Lightly lift up the cookies and if the bottoms are completely cooked, then so is the rest of the cookie. It only took me 10 minutes though, so it really shouldn’t take much longer than that (unless you have a weird oven).
I love muffins in the morning. You can just pick one up and eat it on the go and they’re so simple to make. These muffins remind me a bit of coffee cake because of the crunchy stuff on the top. You can use either walnuts or oats for the topping. I prefer oats.
Cinnamon-Apple Muffins
Yield: about 16 muffins
Ingredients:
Muffins
- 1 and 1/2 cups flour
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 salt
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp cloves
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 stick salted butter, melted
- 1 diced medium tart apple
Topping
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1/2 cup uncooked oats
- 3 Tbsp sugar
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp nutmeg
- 2 Tbsp cold butter, cut
Directions:
1) Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large bowl, combine all dry ingredients for the muffins. In a separate bowl, combine eggs, sour cream, and butter. Stir into dry ingredients until well mixed. Fold in apple.
2) Pour batter into prepared muffin tins. Set aside. In a small bowl, combine all ingredients for topping and cut in cutter with two knives or a pastry cutter. The topping will be crumbly. Sprinkle over muffins and bake at 375 degrees for about 20-25 minutes, until an inserted knife comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before handling.