Cookies

Basic Cookies

1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
cream sugars together with 1/2 cup butter

Combine and beat:
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 tbsp milk

Add and mix with the sugar mixture.

Sift and add:

1 cup flour
1 tsp soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

Beat until smooth and add:

1 cup rolled oats.

Now...you can add 1 cup of:

Nuts or chips or broken smarties or coconut or raisins etc.

Spoon onto greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 10 to 15 minutes.

1 1/4 cup butter/margarine, softened
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
2 cups unsifted all purpose flour
3/4 cup cocoa
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
2 cups Reese's Peanut Butter Chips

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; blend into creamed mixture. Stir in chips. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet (about 20 to a sheet). Bake at 350° for 8 to 9 minutes. Do not overbake; cookies will be soft. They will puff while baking and flatten while cooling. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet to rack.

Snickerdoodles

1 cup buttery Crisco
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 3/4 cup flour
2 tsp. cream of tartar
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
2 T. cinnamon
4 T. sugar

Combine first 7 ingredients. Mix and roll into small balls. Combine cinnamon and sugar in small bowl. Roll balls in this mixture. Bake at 375° for approximately 10 minutes.

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