I use butter and eggs right out of the refrigerator so the dough stays cool and the cookies maintain their thickness during baking; I also use ungreased cookie sheets. To keep the cookies soft and chewy, store them in an airtight container along with a slice of bread.
I modified Beatrice's Excellent Oatmeal cookies very slightly. I came up with something that my boyfriend went CRAZY over! I've never seen him enjoy cookies to that extent! He said I blew his mother's recipe away.
'Both my daughters love these sweet muffins,' reports Lori Thompson of New London, Texas. 'I usually double the recipe so I have extras to keep in the freezer for a quick breakfast or snack.'
Get your glass of ice cold milk ready! Each cookie, loaded with chocolate chips and nuts, is a treat worthy of dunking. Try them as pan cookies, cut into brownie-like squares.
'I'm one of the cooking project leaders for my daughter's 4-H club, where these soft delicious cookies were a great hit with the kids,' reports Marietta Slater of Augusta, Kansas.
These treats come heartily endorsed by Joanne Shew Chuk of St. Benedict, Saskatchewan. She relates, 'I bake a lot of different muffins, but I use this recipe the most.'
Let me tell you from bottom layer to top layer pie crust, chocolate chip cookie dough, cake icing, vanilla ice cream, rainbow chip cake, more cake icing and sprinkles. Big, fat, rainbow sprinkles!
