Fat City Sugar Cookies

Despite the horrid title, we decided to try these anyway. Except I ran out of flour. And had to use a cup of whole wheat flour that I hadn't really taken the time to grind until silky, so it was a bit grainy. The cookies didn't turn out that great, they tasted quite bland and had a bit of a grainy texture. So here's another recipe I won't bore you with!

Easy Butterscotch Drop Cookies

These were fairly easy to make and kind of reminded me of snickerdoodles. Emmy thoroughly enjoyed smashing them down and could have spent all afternoon on that activity alone! The sugar/cinnamon ratio was way off, though. All I could taste was the bitter cinnamon when I first took a bite. Next time (if there is a next time) I'll correct that and add a tiny bit of cinnamon to a bunch of sugar for "stamping".

Easy Butterscotch Drop Cookies:
2c. all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2/3 c. oil
1 c. packed dark brown sugar
2 lrg. eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt.
3. In large bowl, beat the oil and brown sugar. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Beat in the vanilla. Gradually blend in dry ingredients.
4. Combine sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl.
5. Drop the dough by spoonfuls 1 1/2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets. Flatten each cookie with the bottom of a glass dipped in canola oil and then in the cinnamon sugar.
6. Bake for 12 to 15 min. (I did 11 min. and let them cool on sheets) until lightly colored. Transfer to wire racks to cool.

I give these cookies 3 STARS

Dainties

The latest recipe we tried from our big book was called "Dainties". It was such a simple recipe I decided to go ahead with it even though it was Friday and I already had a dozen things going. We were supposed to split the dough in 3 parts and color them pink, blue, and yellow, but really, I was making cookies with EMMY, so they all became pink cookies. The dough was thick and very pliable, and fun to form into balls to place on the cookie sheets. I thought it was a great success!! - Until I tasted one. Blech!!!

Seriously. A total waste of ingredients! Emmy ate one and thought it was great, but I'm fairly certain that was because it was cute and pink. These cookies were obviously aimed toward making points for being cute, not for being tasty.

Zero stars for this one. My only thought as I tried to find some redeeming quality is that if you have a child that tends to eat the play-do, this is the recipe for you.

And so I won't bother any of y'all with the recipe unless you're just dying to have it.

Since I already had most of the ingredients out, I went ahead and made a double batch of the good old stand-by: the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever! No one ever complains about those being brought to potluck! I didn't bring a single one home!