Cookies on demand

We just finished a grand lunch all prepared by my sister. The next thing we know it, we were craving for dessert!

My sister wanted me to make sugar cookies but I was putting it on hold for no particular reason.

That's when my sister took a poll on Twitter: 'Who wants CookieNF to bake sugar cookies?' I got enough votes from there that finally compelled me to bake these cookies.

The recipe I used is from here.

Sugar Cookies

3/4th cup sugar

2/3rd cup oil

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons vanilla essence

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 eggs

2 cups flour

Mix sugar, oil, baking powder, salt, eggs and vanilla with spoon. Stir in flour.

Drop dough by teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart on baking tray.

There is no need to grease the tray.

Flatten balls with finger until 1/4 - inch thickness.

Preheat oven to 400º F/205º C. Bake for 8 minutes. Remove from oven immediately.

Do not wait for them to go hard in the oven. Cool completely.

Recipe makes about 2 dozen cookies.

Come to the dark side, we have cookies!

This is my all time favorite recipe.

My sister was baking cookies for the first time so we decided to split the recipe and go ahead with half of all the ingredients.

This recipe makes about 4 dozen cookies and that's quite a lot of work for beginners in baking.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 and 1/4 cups regular sugar

1 and 1/4 cups brown sugar

225g butter

1/2 cup oil

1 tablespoon vanilla essence

2 eggs

4 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

In a large bowl beat both sugars, butter, oil, vanilla essence and eggs.

Caution! At this stage the batter tastes extremely yummy so please avoid licking it.

In another dry bowl first mix the dry ingredients (i.e. flour, salt & baking soda) then add it to the above mixture with spoon.

Mix well with hands to form dough. Stir in the chocolate chips.

Preheat oven to 175°C/350°F.

Take a tablespoon of dough and make a cookie. Place cookies on a cookie sheet or baking tray.

There is no need to grease the tray.

Bake for 10 minutes ONLY. Cool slightly. Remove tray from oven and cool completely.