Color Field Cookies Recipes

COLOR-FIELD COOKIES

Steps:

• Prepare the glaze: Combine box of confectioners' sugar, corn syrup, lemon juice and 3 tablespoons warm water in a medium bowl. Stir with a fork to combine well, slowly adding water as needed to achieve the desired consistency. You should have 2 cups total. Test the glaze on a cookie as you go: If it doesn't spread out on its own to a smooth finish within 10 seconds, it is too thick and needs more water. If it runs off the edge of the cookie, it's too thin and needs more confectioners' sugar.
• Let glaze sit, tightly covered, until ready to use, stirring occasionally. The glaze will keep for at least a week in a small airtight container like a glass jar.
• Decorate the cookies: Pour about 1/3 cup glaze into a small, wide bowl. Starting with a light gel food coloring, mix in color until desired shade is reached. Holding a cookie by the edges, with the top-side down, dip into the glaze, moving the cookie around a bit to make sure it coats the whole surface. Gently shake the cookie from side to side to let the excess glaze drip off.
• Use a small offset spatula to stop the flow of icing, gently scrape cookie against edge of bowl, and flip the cookie over. Use the spatula to spread the icing to pop any air bubbles, and make sure it goes all the way to the edges. The glaze should quickly smooth out on its own. If not, thin it out a bit until it does. Use your fingers to wipe away any icing on the outside edges.
• Continue in this way until you have mixed nine different colors and coated 2 or 3 of the cookies in each color. Let dry completely, a few hours. Cookies will keep in an airtight container up to 3 days.

BASIC SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl, and whisk to combine. Set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and granulated sugar on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add egg and vanilla, and beat on medium speed until well combined, scraping the bowl as needed.
• Add flour mixture and beat on low speed just until combined. Scrape the bowl and fold a few times to make sure everything is well combined. Wrap dough in plastic wrap, flatten into a disk, and chill until firm, at least 1 hour.
• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Roll out dough 1/4-inch thick. Use 3-inch floured cutters to cut out cookies, and transfer to two parchment- or silicone mat-lined baking sheets, spacing the cookies about 1 1/2 inches apart. Reroll scraps as needed, chilling as needed until firm before rolling and cutting again. Freeze until very firm, about 10 minutes.
• Bake until golden brown at the edges, 12 to 14 minutes.
• Let cool a few minutes on the baking sheets, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely. Cookies will keep in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 weeks, or frozen up to 3 months.

MRS. FIELDS COOKIE RECIPE I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.
• Cream butter, sugars, eggs and vanilla until very smooth and fluffy.
• In a separate bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. In a food processor, blend oatmeal until fine. Add to flour mixture.
• Stir butter mixture into flour/oatmeal mixture. Blend well.
• Add chocolate chips and walnuts. Stir until blended. Roll into golf balls size and bake for 8-10 minutes. You do not want to over bake these.

AUTHENTIC MRS. FIELDS CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together butter, sugar and brown sugar.
• Add eggs and vanilla and mix well.
• Mix together flour, oat flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
• Stir in chocolate chips, grated Hershey bar and nuts (if using).
• Drop by 1 1/2" balls onto ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 375° for 6-10 minutes.
• NOTE: If you want your cookies to spread out a bit more, flatten them a bit before baking.
• Cookies will be soft but will firm up a bit after cooling.

MRS. FIELDS CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350ºF.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, sugars, eggs, and vanilla.
• In another bowl, mix together the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
• Combine wet and dry ingredients.
• Stir in chocolate chips by hand.
• With your fingers, place golf ball sized dough portions 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake 9-10 min or until edges are light brown.

MRS. FIELDS COOKIE RECIPE II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
• Cream together butter or margarine, white sugar, and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla.
• Mix together in a separate bowl: salt, baking powder, baking soda, flour and oatmeal (put small amounts of oatmeal in blender until it turns to powder. Measure out 5 cups of oatmeal and only "powderize" that, NOT 5 cups "powderized" oatmeal).
• Mix all of the above.
• Add: chocolate chips, grated chocolate bar, and chopped nuts (any kind).
• Bake on greased cookie sheet (make golf ball sized balls) and bake about two inches apart. Bake for 8 -10 minutes. Do not overbake.