December is Cookie Month!

December always makes my house Cookie Central!
Cookie are the core of my Holiday baking!

I was known for sending beautiful cookie baskets to family and friends for the Holidays.
Well times have changed, but I still love cookies and was able to share cookies in a different way this year. I gave away a Cookie Cookbook on my Website!


The Food is Love cookie book is now available on Amazon for everyone to pick up!
It is packed with Cookie Recipes that will be the highlight of anyone's Holiday Baking!

I've included Traditional, Chocolate Heaven and even some special Cookie Recipes that used to include in my baskets every year!

Like the Italian Fudge!
It is to die for!
Layers of Flaky pastry and a fudgey center you will just Love!
I'm posting a recipe today for my Mom's classic Chewy Oatmeal Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies! They are crowd pleasers!
Enjoy them and stop by and pick up my Cookie Book.
You'll love the recipes and want to pass them down from generation to generation!

Happy Holiday Special

You can pick up 5 Ingredient Solutions on Amazon for 99¢ until Christmas!

Chocolate Covered Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

I am absolutely enamored with a cookie. My favorite cookie of this Season of Cookies so far is this one! 

One would think "How could a Fresh Homemade Oatmeal Cookie get better"? Well It has...

Chocolate Covered Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup Butter (room temp)

1 cup Brown Sugar

1/2 cup White Sugar

2 Eggs

1 tsp Vanilla

1 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour

1 tsp Baking Soda

1 tsp Cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground Clove

1/2 tsp ground Nutmeg

1/2 tsp Salt

3 cups Old Fashioned Oats

1 1/2 Cups Raisins

**Dried Cranberries,

 Apricots or Chopped Dates can be substituted for Raisins

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350°.

Line Baking Sheets with Parchment Paper

Cream together Butter and Sugars.

Add Eggs & Vanilla. Combine.

Beat well until light and fluffy.

Add Dry ingredients.

Stir in Fruit of choice.

Spoon out a Tbsp of dough per cookie, onto lined baking sheet.

Dough is dense so doesn't spread much.

Bake for 8-10 minutes. Do not overbake.

When you take them out of the oven they will be soft.

Move them to a cooling rack for 15 minutes.

Keep in a sealed container.

** Note:

 If cookies start to become hard, keep a piece of apple in container with cookies, this will keep them soft :)

Chocolate Covered Oatmeal Cookies

In a Small bowl pour 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips.

Place in microwave for 15 seconds. Remove bowl, and stir chocolate.

Keep doing that at 10 second intervals until chocolate is melted.

Dip half cookie into chocolate. Let set on parchment until chocolate is set-up.

Enjoy!

I especially love these oatmeal cookies with chopped apricots and chocolate covering! Yum!!