OT recipe help

thanks, Lee
jmcquown wrote in message
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kilikini wrote:
Jo Firey wrote:
"Stormmee" wrote in message
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I am thinking about chocolate chip cookies, and would like recipe
suggestions, the simpler the better, thanks, Lee

Buy a package of Nestles semi sweet chocolate chips. There will be a
recipe on the package. The only changes we make are to use half
butter and half butter flavor Crisco in place of the shortening. Oh
and we drop the oven temp by 10 degrees, but that could just be our
oven.
Get a roll of parchment and put a sheet of that over your cookie
sheet.
Bake and enjoy.

Jo

I add a smidgen of cinnamon to the batch, too. It's heavenly!

kili

My mom puts a tablespoonful of peanut butter in hers

Jill

now I wish I had ask for bread recipes instead, we don't have the geek toys
but from similar failures I always turns ours down by ten percent, thanks,
Lee
Yowie wrote in message
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Stormmee wrote:
I am thinking about chocolate chip cookies, and would like recipe
suggestions, the simpler the better, thanks, Lee

I am a geek. And I have access to some geek toys. So I took the very
carefully calibrated thermal probe home from work and checked my oven.

At the setting of 200 degrees celcius on the oven, my carefully calibrated
temperature probe read 241 degrees celcius.

At the setting of 150 degrees celcius on the oven, my carefully calibrated
temperature probe read 180 degrees celcius.

It was fairly consistent around the oven, but I used the 'fan forced'
option. I didn't bother to check for hot spots and cold spots without the
fan on because I don't tend to use the oven without fan force unless I'm
using it on its lowest setting.

Moral of the story" ovens can be *way* out temperature wise. I had failure
after failure with bread baking until I corrected the temperature, and now
I
can make wonderful, perfectly cooked, home made bread (and I will keep
using
that a good excuse every time one of my baking projects fails miserably!)

Yowie

outstanding, thanks, Lee
Jane wrote in message
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On Apr 21, 2:04 am, "Stormmee" wrote:
I am thinking about chocolate chip cookies, and would like recipe
suggestions, the simpler the better, thanks, Lee

You want simple? I got SIMPLE!

Take one boxed cake mix. Any flavor, but for chocolate chips, yellow
cake works great.
Mix in 1/2 cup of vegetable oil and 2 eggs. Add 1 1/2 cups of
chocolate chips.
Drop by spoonsful onto ungreased cookie sheets and bake for however
long you
bake cookies (10 minutes?) at about 350 degrees.

You can't get much simpler unless you bought cookie mix.

Note: Chocolate cake mix is awesome with white chips.

Jane
- owned and operated by the Princess Rita

nice, thanks lee
Sherry wrote in message
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On Apr 21, 7:15 am, Jane wrote:
On Apr 21, 2:04 am, "Stormmee" wrote:

I am thinking about chocolate chip cookies, and would like recipe
suggestions, the simpler the better, thanks, Lee

You want simple? I got SIMPLE!

Take one boxed cake mix. Any flavor, but for chocolate chips, yellow
cake works great.
Mix in 1/2 cup of vegetable oil and 2 eggs. Add 1 1/2 cups of
chocolate chips.
Drop by spoonsful onto ungreased cookie sheets and bake for however
long you
bake cookies (10 minutes?) at about 350 degrees.

You can't get much simpler unless you bought cookie mix.

Note: Chocolate cake mix is awesome with white chips.

Jane
- owned and operated by the Princess Rita

These really are good. The variation I've seen called for a 1/4 cup of
oil and 1/4 cup of butter, and some walnuts. She prepared one batch
with chocolate cake mix and one with yellow. Then she formed a small
ball of each and kind squooshed them together, giving it a marbled
look. (It was that "Semi-Homemade with Sandra" cooking show, the
recipe is on her website, "Harvest Walnut Cookies" or something like
that. Too easy, and good if you like a cookie that's soft and chewy.

Sherry

yes it is I just got wondering if anyone had anything different they liked,
on another group it was a consensus, with some little variations, thanks,
Lee
Normin wrote in message
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The Toll House cookie recipe on Nestles TollHouse chocolate chips
is wonderful

Sara

"Stormmee" wrote in message
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I am thinking about chocolate chip cookies, and would like
recipe
suggestions, the simpler the better, thanks, Lee

My DH is diabetic and we don't eat Choc Chip cookies.
Good luck with your recipe
Hug
Kyla

Mosey would eat the dough tho
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"Yowie" wrote in message
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Moral of the story" ovens can be *way* out temperature wise. I had failure
after failure with bread baking until I corrected the temperature, and now
I can make wonderful, perfectly cooked, home made bread (and I will keep
using that a good excuse every time one of my baking projects fails
miserably!)



In my experience, ovens tend to burn hotter before they flare out. The
stove we had previously burned hotter at first then fluxuated before it
finally kicked the thermostat. The one before that was consistently 50F
hotter than the setting called for. The one before that was 75F hotter.
Before that it was again 50F hotter. And so on.

I never tried a new recipe on company because I was never sure how the oven
would behave with it. The current oven is pretty close and I use the called
for temperature. Now if I could only convince the kids to wipe it out after
I use the self cleaning feature on it. I can't bent over enough and I'm
afraid the kids and Rob will do a Hansel and Gretel on me if I did.

Pam S.

thanks, Lee
Kyla =^. .^= wrote in message
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My DH is diabetic and we don't eat Choc Chip cookies.
Good luck with your recipe
Hug
Kyla

Mosey would eat the dough tho
http://i26.tinypic.com/x440lt.jpg

I am so short that if I want to wipe it out I have to sit on the floor in
front of it and lean in, Lee
tanadashoes wrote in message
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"Yowie" wrote in message
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Moral of the story" ovens can be *way* out temperature wise. I had
failure
after failure with bread baking until I corrected the temperature, and
now
I can make wonderful, perfectly cooked, home made bread (and I will keep
using that a good excuse every time one of my baking projects fails
miserably!)



In my experience, ovens tend to burn hotter before they flare out. The
stove we had previously burned hotter at first then fluxuated before it
finally kicked the thermostat. The one before that was consistently 50F
hotter than the setting called for. The one before that was 75F hotter.
Before that it was again 50F hotter. And so on.

I never tried a new recipe on company because I was never sure how the
oven
would behave with it. The current oven is pretty close and I use the
called
for temperature. Now if I could only convince the kids to wipe it out
after
I use the self cleaning feature on it. I can't bent over enough and I'm
afraid the kids and Rob will do a Hansel and Gretel on me if I did.

Pam S.

tanadashoes wrote:
"Yowie" wrote in message
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Moral of the story" ovens can be *way* out temperature wise. I had
failure after failure with bread baking until I corrected the
temperature, and now I can make wonderful, perfectly cooked, home
made bread (and I will keep using that a good excuse every time one
of my baking projects fails miserably!)


I never tried a new recipe on company because I was never sure how
the oven would behave with it.
I never try a new recipe on company, regardless. Forget the oven, it could
be a total disaster simply because the recipe is a bad one! I do try
recipes out on John but he hardly counts as "company"

Jill