Calling All Cookie Recipes!!

ETA - Those Oreo balls are calorie-free, correct!!!! Yikes - I can't wait to make them.

What is an Oreo ball??

My best recipie is a bit time consuming but is one hell of a chocolate cookie! BTW - they don' go flat - they go from a dough ball to a sort of round puff with a flat bottom.

Chocolate Truffle Cookies

4 (1oz.)sq.unsweetened chocolate
2c.(12oz.) semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/3 c. butter
1 c.sugar
3 eggs
1and1/2 tsp.vanilla
1/2 c. flour
2 Tbsp. baking cocoa
1/4 tsp.baking powder
1/4 tsp.salt
confectioners sugar

In microwave melt together unsweetened chocolate, 1 cup chocolate chips and butter.
Cool about 10 minutes.
In an electric mixing bowl, beat sugar and eggs 2 minutes.
Beat in vanilla and chocolate mixture. Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt.
Beat into the chocolate mixture.
Stir in by hand, 1 c. remaining chocolate chips. Cover and chill
at least 3 hours.
Roll dough into small balls.
Place on ungreased cookie sheet
or parchment paper on pans.
Bake @ 350 for 10 to 12 min.or until lightly puffed and set.
Cool on pans 3-4 min before removing to a wire rack to cool.
Dust with confectioners sugar

Makes about 4 doz.

I posted this one in answer to someone else's question earlier this week:

People go crazy for these and they look very festive:

Corn Flake Cookies

2 egg whites
1 Cup sifted Confectioners sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 Cup shredded coconut
2 Cups corn flakes
1 6-ounce package chocolate chips
1/2 tsp vanilla
Candied Cherries (red) - usually sold in the baking section of the grocery store

Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry

Gradually add sugar and beat until stiff and satiny (a long time - maybe 5 minutes).

Add salt.

Hand mix in the rest of the ingredients with a wooden spoon or silicone spatula.

Place parchment paper on a cookie sheet.

Using two spoons or a mini ice-cream scoop, place rounded spoonfuls of the cookie mixture on the parchment (e.g. similar shape and spacing as if baking chocolate-chip cookies).

Cut candied cherries in half and place a half-cherry in the center of each cookie.

Bake at 300 degrees for 25 minutes. Let cool slightly before removing.

Parchment paper is non-negotiable! Before I discovered parchment paper, I would lose half the cookies trying to remove them from the pan.

Everybody loves these. I make 5 or 6 kinds each Christmas, but these always win the most compliments.

pumpkin chocolate chip... omygosh, so good:

http://littlelovables.blogspot.com/2011/08/sweet-treats-p...

The Oreo Balls are surely from Satan! LOL
I, like everyone else I know, has made them exactly ONCE--they are SO MESSY! haha But good! :)

I just made little mini-cheesecake cookies for a wedding:

2 - 8 oz pkgs. of cream cheese, softened to room temp
1 T lemon juice
1T vanilla
3/4 c sugar
3 eggs.

Mix.

Place O. Vanilla Wafer in into bottom of each 2" Reynolds foil baking cups.
Spoon a generous T of mix onto the vanilla wafer
Bake 20 min on 350.
Cool
Top with cherry pie filling.

Makes roughly 4 dz.

Chocolate chip cookies... best recipe is from the back of the Nestle Tollhouse page of chips. I've had many people tell me how good my chocolate chip cookies are :)

http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/18476/Original-NEST...

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip (I don't like raisins).... check out quaker oats website and look for their recipe. Again, I get complements on those too!

http://www.quakeroats.com/cooking-and-recipes/content/rec...

Black and White cookies - easy recipe from Martha Stewart

http://www.marthastewart.com/333865/mini-black-and-white-...

Easy peanut butter cookies:
1 cup peanut butter (I use natural PB)
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla

Mix. roll heaping tablespoons of dough into balls. Put on cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Press down with fork twice to make lines on top of cookies.

Bake at 350 for 10 minutes or so.

The best cookies I made last year were off the allrecipes.com website. I made em cause I love ginger and they had so many reviews I had to give it a try. They are by far the best cookies I have ever made- and I try 5 new cookie recipes and 10 old ones every holiday. I tell everyone about this recipe- it is that good. Also, two other pieces of cookie advice. Line your trays with parchment paper (found everywhere in baking section) to make cookies never stick and clean up a breeze. Second tip: Put a piece of bread in the tin with the cookies. It keeps them soft and yummy. Works very well. Happy cooking.