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Amish Oatmeal Cookies

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My sister-in-law shared this recipe with me. She got it from a bed and breakfast she stayed in. These cookies are soft and chewy, a little butterscotchy with sweet powdered sugar gathered in the crinkles. Yum!

 

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Amish Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients

  • 2 cups brown sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 2 eggs beaten
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 3 cups quick cooking oats
  • 1/2 tsp. salt

Instructions

  • Cream the sugar and butter.
  • Add beaten eggs and vanilla and beat till combined.
  • Stir together the dry ingredients and then mix with the wet ingredients.
  • Chill the dough.
  • Form into balls and roll them in powdered sugar.
  • Place on cookie sheet and press the balls down a bit.
  • Bake at 375 degrees for 8 min or so. Don’t over bake them.

 

No Bake Cookies

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These cookies take me back to being a little girl. I remember them like I remember cheese sandwiches on white bread with Miracle Whip and iceberg lettuce or applesauce with red hots stirred into it.

Now we make them often when we have a need for chocolate that needs to be met quickly.

What you’ll need:
1/2 cup butter
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 cup milk
a bit of salt (the recipe says 1 tsp, but i just shake some in)
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup peanut butter (I never measure this either, just add a big glob)
3 cups quick cook oats

Boil all the ingredients except the oats for three minutes. Add in the oatmeal and drop by teaspoons full onto wax paper. It takes them a little while to set up. I like them while they’re still glossy and a bit soft, but they are good the next day too.