Garbage Cookies Recipes

GARBAGE COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees
• In a medium bowl sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
• In a separate large bowl, cream together shortening, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla. Combine well.
• Add flour mixture to wet ingredients and stir until just combined. Then add oats and stir by hand to combine.
• Use 1/4 cup and scoop onto cookie sheet, you should get about 6 per sheet.
• Bake for at least 8 minutes, but most likely will bake for 12 depending on your oven.

EVERYTHING COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• Cream the butter and sugars. Add the vanilla and eggs. Next, add the flour, baking soda and salt. Add in the granola and oatmeal. Fold in the apricots, cherries, pecans and raisins.
• With a cookie scoop or two spoons, drop onto cookie sheets and bake for 12 to 14 minutes. Cool on a rack. Eat, and feel unguilty because there's no chocolate in this cookie.

KITCHEN SINK COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with Silpat baking mats or parchment paper.
• In a large bowl with a wooden spoon, beat butter, sugar and brown sugar together until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until well blended. Stir in vanilla.
• In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Gradually stir into butter mixture until well blended. Add oats, chips, coconut, raisins, and walnuts, and stir until well blended.
• Drop batter by heaping tablespoons or with a 1 ounce ice-cream scoop onto silpat about 2 inches apart. Press tops down with the bottom of a glass to flatten cookies evenly. Bake until golden, about 16 to 18 minutes. Cool on pan for 2 minutes. Remove from pan, and finish cooling completely on wire rack.

GIANT KITCHEN SINK COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
• Place butter and sugars in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Reduce speed to low. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until combined. Mix in vanilla.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. With mixer on low, gradually add to butter mixture, beating until well combined. Add oats, coconut, apricots, dark chocolate, cherries, and pecans; mix on low until just combined.
• Arrange 3/4 cup balls of dough on prepared cookie sheets, about 3 inches apart. Use the palm of your hand to flatten into 4-inch rounds. Bake until golden brown, rotating cookie sheets halfway through, about 16 minutes. Let cookies cool on pan 2 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

NO BAKE COOKIES I

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, combine sugar, milk, butter, and cocoa. Bring to a boil, and cook for 1 1/2 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in peanut butter, oats, and vanilla. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto wax paper. Let cool until hardened.

GARBAGE COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix it all together in a large bowl.
• Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.
• Cool on rack.

KAREN'S GARBAGE COOKIES!

Steps:

• Cream shortening and sugars; add eggs and vanilla.
• Sift together dry ingredients.
• Mix well and add "garbage", 2 Celsius of any of the following:.
• oatmeal, rice krispies, chocolate chips, coconut, chopped nuts, raisins, dates, M & M's, Reese's Pieces, chopped apricots, or whatever sounds good to you! Mix and match!
• Bake at 375 F for 10-12 minutes.