Kiki asked:


Just on a small scale… I want to sell holiday cookies to people at my college for a little extra cash. But what if I use, say, the chocolate chip cookie recipe from the back of the Tollhouse bag? Is it illegal to sell those?
Just seems like it would be hard to enforce, I could put an extra 1/8th of a teaspoon of sugar and it would be my own…

Also, do I need a food-handler’s license to do this? Or can I just put a disclaimer on the flyers that says they’re home-made?

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pinksham51 asked:


does anyone have a quick chocolate chip recipe that i can cook in about 30 mins? thankyou. oh yeah it should be suitable for vegetarians
thanks

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Grandma Linda asked:


Now that winter has set in and with it the long, cold, often rainy or snowy days, it is time to warm your home and hearth with some delicious baked goods.  Here is a good selection of recipes from my vintage collection that would be perfect to make with the kids or just by yourself to share later.  The Applesauce Raisin Muffins would make good after-school treats, lunchbox items, or breakfast treats with a hot drink and some yogurt for protein.  The mint cookies are great to make with the kids and they remind you of the famous Girl Scout Mint Cookies.  The Lacy Oatmeal Wafer Cookies are Swedish cookies known as Havreflarn in Sweden.  They are easy but fancy.  How about letting the kids help you make Homemade Granola Bars they can have as treats or take in their lunchboxes.  Kids love eating something they helped to make.  So get out the flour, sugar, etc, don an apron and get started on that baking!

HOMEMADE GRANOLA BARS

3 1/2 cups oats

1 cup walnuts, chopped

1 cup raisins

2/3 cup butter, melted

1/3 cup honey

1 egg, beaten

1/2 tsp vanilla

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1 can cherry pie filling

Spread oats in a jellyroll pan and toast in a 350 degree oven for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. In a large bowl, mix oats, nuts, and raisins. Melt butter in saucepan. Add honey, egg, vanilla, salt, brown sugar, and pie filling. Stir into oat mixture. Press firmly into greased jelly roll pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Cool, cut into squares.

QUICK AND EASY MINT COOKIES

This recipe was passed out at a Christmas Open House at a local flower shop in Southern Indiana years ago. These cookies are very simple and they will remind you of the “Girl Scout” Mint Cookies.

Melt 1 pound semisweet chocolate coating. Add 6 drops of oil of peppermint flavoring and mix well to blend. Dip Ritz crackers till well coated and place them on a waxed paper lined cookie sheet to set. Store in an airtight container and keep in a cool place until ready to serve.

LACY OATMEAL WAFER COOKIES

This is a cookie recipe from Sweden. It is known as Havreflarn in Sweden.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

1/2 cup butter

1/4 cup sifted all-purpose flour

1/2 cup sugar

3/4 cup quick-cooking oats

2 tbsp cream

Melt butter in a medium saucepan. Add flour, sugar, oats, and cream. Cook, stirring constantly, just until mixture starts to bubble. Remove from the heat and stir briskly for a few seconds. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls about 4-inches apart onto well greased and lightly floured baking sheets. Place only 5 or 6 cookies on a baking sheet at a time. Bake at 375 degrees five to six minutes until golden brown. Cool wafers for 2 minutes on baking sheet. Remove carefully from baking sheet with a thin spatula and place over rolling pin until firm. If cookies harden before they can be removed from pan, reheat in oven for a few seconds to soften again. Makes about 2 1/2 dozen.

APPLESAUCE RAISIN MUFFINS

1 large egg

2 tbsp vegetable oil

1 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce

2 cups flour

3/4 tsp baking soda

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp cinnamon

3/4 cup raisins

Beat together the egg, oil and applesauce.  Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg, and cinnamon; beat well.  Stir in raisins.  Spoon batter into oiled and floured muffin tins.  Bake at 375 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes or until firm to the touch and browned.  Cool on wire racks.  Delicious topped with cream cheese!

Note:  This is a soft and spicy muffin.  Very good.

Enjoy!

 





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Linda Wilson asked:


One of the easiest things to learn in the kitchen is baking cookies.  Most of us learned to bake cookies as kids.  I vividly remember my mother allowing me to “help” her…God bless her for her patience…bake cookies.  I was so excited when I was allowed to take on the project on my own.  I remember coming home from a junior high home economics class with my chocolate chip cookie recipe in hand.  I couldn’t wait to tell her how excited I was to make these for my family.  She looked at my recipe and asked if I was planning to do that now.  Of course I was.  She looked around her perfectly clean kitchen, I realized later that she had just cleaned the kitchen and mopped the floor, and told me I should get right to it.  Then she told me I needed to remember I would have to clean up my mess.  (Treat her kindly for me, God.  She deserves it!)  So have patience with your youngsters and get them in the kitchen and let them help you make these cookies.  Someday you will be gone, but they will always have the memories of these times spent with you…even when they are grandparents themselves!

OATMEAL RAISIN CINNAMON COOKIES

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup light brown sugar, packed

1/3 cup granulated sugar

2 eggs

1 1/2 tsps vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

2 1/2 cups quick cooking oats

1 pkg (10 oz) cinnamon chips (I prefer HERSHEY’S)

3/4 cup raisins

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a medium mixing bowl, beat together the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until creamy. Add the eggs and vanilla; beat well. In a small bowl, combine the flour and baking soda. Add to the butter mixture, beating well. Stir in the oats, cinnamon chips, and raisins. The batter will be stiff. Drop by heaping teaspoons onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool 1 minute on the cookie sheet before removing to cool completely on wire racks.

Yield: Approximately 4 dozen

Enjoy!



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Sunil Punjabi asked:


Even if some of these can be considered plausible explanations, it goes without saying that eating out frequently is not recommended at all. An occasional ‘food binge’ might be okay even if you are a ‘food faddie’ or not, but frequent eating out, whatever the reasons for it, is unacceptable. Home cooking has its enormous charms, and thankfully, too few people deny the charms of home cooked food. Everyone is happy to have food cooked at home with excellent recipes. That is, everyone enjoys delicious home cooked food so far as they do not have to do the cooking themselves. In other words, cooking is forced to bear the stamp of a tedious chore. This is a rather unjust burden that is forced upon it. Cooking is an art, and a talent people can cultivate if they have some interest.

Time is ripe for the reverse evolution of getting addicted to home cooking and delicious recipes instead of getting addicted to the chips and fries of fast food chains. Trying out new recipes has its own reward. There are plenty of recipes to choose from, starting from a variety of appetizers and ending with an array of desserts. Though some dishes may entail laborious work, there are enough simple ones you can choose from. And ensure that there is variety in your cooking. One of the reasons people opt to eat out is the monotonousness of home cooked food. Too many people use the same menu for lunch and dinner and this could make mealtimes unappetizing. Try out new and exotic recipes. Incorporate some novelty into your cooking. Different family members would obviously have different tastes, and unless there is variety and novelty in home cooked food, it is not possible to attract all family members to the meal table.

Vegetarianism and Veganism is in fashion. Fusion food is a gourmet’s passion. Outdoor grills are fun. Salad carving and food decor are arts that can be developed to perfection. Each of these simple statements offers a world of information and lots of challenges to those who are interested in home cooking and are keen to improve their knowledge of the art. Further, when you are using recipes, you have ample opportunity to concentrate on the nutritional aspects of the family’s diet. Be careful of the calories in your dishes, even while giving importance to its taste and appearance. Barbecuing and grilling outdoors can be great fun. If you have space to manage that, it is one of the best facets of home cooking and an ideal way in which the whole family can join in the cooking and share its fruits together. Above all, remember that cooking is not just for one’s own family. Invite your friends and relatives on festival days and have a barbecue outside or use your best recipes inside to entertain them. You will soon realize that it is a very rewarding experience.

Please do visit our site for hundreds of Free Recipes for Home Cooking – Veg Recipes, Vegan Recipes, appetizers, salads, soups, main course dishes, chili recipes, desserts, Cookie Recipes, Chocolate recipes and an extensive cooking guide.



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Kristin H asked:


I like my cookies chewy and I like them to stay that way after cooling. My friend gave me a chocolate chip cookie recipe she had modified and tested over a long time to get it right; they are super chewy! My question is do you think I can use the same dough base and just put white chocolate chips and macadamia nuts in instead? How much of each should I use? My only concern is that the cookies won’t have enough dough to hold them together if there are more add-ins. Any advice would be great!

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Cookie Jeans asked:


Cookies look like simple clumps of hard, dry breads. It seems that you will never get satisfied with it and you only waste time thinking about eating such. However, when you get to taste one, everything changes and you even want more!  That is how the crunchy chocolate cookie chips indulge you with trying more! Get these sweet chocolate goodies and learn how to cook them with cooking games!

Learn how to cook the crunchy chocolate cookie chips that stay all its goodness in your mouth with cooking games. Like the real life cooking, you have to prepare all the needed ingredients so you will not cram in the kitchen getting this and that. More so, good preparations make cooking an easy and a better experience.

Prepare one cup butter, one whole egg, and one teaspoon of chocolate powder, one cup sugar, and one cup of flour, one cup baking soda and one cup chocolate chips for the ingredients. You can easily find these through the virtual kitchen.

Start  chocolate chip cooking of the cooking games by placing butter in a pan. Add an egg and chocolate powder, sugar, flour and the baking soda. After stirring the mixture altogether, add the chocolate chips and stir the mixture to evenly spread out the chips. After doing so, place the mixture into the moulder at the pan or you may use a ladle to divide the mixture into small proportions. Place it into a cooking pan and cook it into the oven at 350 degree temperature. After cooking, cool it down and keep fresh into a sealed container.

Chocolate cookies are one of the best comfort foods that one can have. If you are able to learn how to make the chocolate cookies through the cooking games, you can then move to cooking other cookie varieties like oatmeal cookies, vegan chocolate cookies, and even your own cookie recipes discoveries!

Aside from making crunchy chocolate chips, cooking games has still other means to make you a good chef. You can also learn how to bake cake, make salad, fry fish, make an ice cream and assemble you own burger. Moreover, you can also learn to cook international dishes like Indian foods, Italian pasta like the fettuccini, bake strawberry and blue berry muffins, cook Chinese noodles and even Greek salad! Isn’t amazing?

Let cooking games pave the way for you to become an expert chef. Learn not only how to cook but also how to properly use the kitchen utensils and equipments used for cooking. This way, you get familiar  of these when you cook in a real kitchen and get to impress you mom and even your dad with the delicious and palatable recipes that you learned how to cook.



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Sunil Punjabi asked:


Fast food like pizzas, burgers, and soft drinks may satisfy the stomach, but these are not healthy if consumed on a regular and daily basis, instead of wholesome home cooked food. Eating home cooked food is not only healthy, but cooking at home can also be fun as well, and anyone can prepare a variety of dishes with the hundreds of Recipes available for free on thousands of websites. There is no need to buy expensive cookbooks and recipe books. The multi-cuisine, multi cultural, multi-country, multi-ethnic, Veg recipes and meat-based recipes are easy and fun to cook and many people readily try them out. Many of these vegetarian recipes, especially from India and countries in the East, are easy to cook, but there are also hundreds of recipes available for meat and egg dishes, soups, appetizers, main course dishes, desserts, and chocolates.

In fact there are Home Cooking Recipes available for special days and holidays too, like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and for Diwali in India. With these Easy Recipes, you can prepare desserts, snacks, main dishes, drinks, soups, and chocolates, and surprise your family and friends with your cooking skills. Even if you are not an expert cook, you can still prepare mouth-watering dishes by following the step-by-step guidance provided in the recipes. These Free Recipes also provide a full list of ingredients along with spices and herbs that you will require to cook up a delicious meal.

Although meat and eggs are a mainstay of western cooking, vegetarianism and veganism is quickly catching on and many people have now totally turned to veg and vegan dishes. Although western home cooking does not have many recipes for cooking with vegetables or cooking exclusive veg dishes, the east has hundreds of veg recipes and vegan recipes for cooking delectable veg and vegan dishes at home. A vegetarian or vegan in western countries like the USA, UK, and even Europe can find Free and Easy Recipes for many veg and vegan dishes on hundreds of websites. You can prepare a variety of vegetable soups, appetizers, salads, main course dishes, desserts, chocolates, cakes and pastries, and enjoy a healthier life.

Many people are turning to vegetarianism and veganism by choice, but millions of others swear by meat and eggs, and prefer vegetables and veg dishes as a side item, instead of the main course. For people who prefer meat and egg dishes, there are hundreds of Free Recipes available for different meat cooked in different styles and with a hundred different herbs. Some of the eastern recipes for meat dishes are more difficult to cook and time consuming as the meat has to be marinated for hours with herbs and spices, before being cooked. But many others are Easy Recipes and can be cooked quickly. Whether you prefer vegetarian, vegan, or meat and eggs in your meals, home cooking recipes are easy to find and cook.

Please do visit our site for hundreds of Veg Recipes for Home Cooking – for appetizers, salads, soups, main course dishes, chili recipes, desserts, Cookie Recipes, Chocolate recipes and an extensive cooking guide.



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Abdrew Krause asked:


So often, home cooks creating their favorite 10-inch cheesecake recipe devote all their energy to getting the body of the cake just right that they neglect the crust. They tinker and tweak, adding flavors and changing ingredients incessantly to get just the perfect balance of taste and texture.

And, through it all, that generic graham cracker crust sits below. Whatever exotic flavors are poured into it, whatever rave reviews the cheesecake draws, that graham cracker crust gets none of the glory. I’ve even seen people eat the cheesecake out of the crust, leaving it lost and forlorn on the plate.

Strike a blow for fairness and make your crust stand up and be noticed by working with its flavor to either match or set off the flavor of your cheesecake.

Take, for example, the peanut butter cheesecake, one of the most popular variations on the basic recipe. To take it to the peanut butter max, use crushed peanut butter cookies for the crust. Or, if you’re a Reese’s fan, smash up some chocolate cookies for your base.

Making a turtle cheesecake, another one of the big favorites? Your options here are legion. Personally, I’d stick with the chocolate cookies, although vanilla wafers can provide a nice counterpoint to the many strong flavors of the turtle recipe.

Maybe you’re going in a more brunch-type direction, with a light lemon cheesecake? Lemon cookies, especially the soft ones like those made by Archway cookies, make great crust ideas. You can also go with the vanilla wafers here, too.

Basically, any sort of cookie or other crunchy or semi-crunchy baked good you can lay hands on can become a cheesecake crust. Ever heard of or been lucky enough to sample a savory cheesecake? You can make a crust for one of those out of salad croutons, believe it or not.

Whatever flavor the filling of your 10-inch cheesecake recipe takes on, do some work with the crust to make a match!



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virgilio vallecera asked:


Looking for some cookie recipes? The Internet is the ultimate place to searching the web for exquisite cookie recipes. You will find most sites offering some great cookie recipes. Some recipes are quite simple. You can surprise your family and friends by preparing cookies with these types of recipes. Thanks to individuals websites, all the present cookie recipes should at your fingertips. Whether it is chocolate brownie cookies, blarney stone cookies or peanut-butter cookies, online cookie recipes may help you make them perfectly. Not only that, you will also find sugar-free cookie recipes for those who experience diabetes. Sugar is also strictly prohibited for individuals who want to waste weight. For those cookie lovers, it’s fairly painful to resist the temptation.

Sugar-free cookie recipes will produce people an option to enjoy cookies without being nervous close to calories and carbohydrates. These types of cookie recipes use artificial sweeteners. The use of artificial sweeteners is the real problem area, as artificial sweeteners can leave a nasty flavor in your mouth. Nevertheless, cookies serves to remain popular. If you want to give somebody a gift, you can do that with cookies. It’s really impracticable for anyone to dislike cookies. That’s why cookie recipes are pretty popular worldwide. During the holiday season, the requirement for cookie recipes will be sky high.

If you want to appreciate more about cookie recipes, all you seek to do is preventing out various websites offering innovative cookie recipes. Learning traditional Christmas cookie recipes has now become quite simple. Just log on to those sites specializing in such cookie recipes. You can also learn how to make a greater amount of popular cookies, such as refrigerator cookies, shortbread cookies and more. You will definitely feel temped to try the cookie recipes at home. Explore the world of cookie recipes on the Internet.



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