Here’s a simple Oatmeal Cream Pie Cookies Recipe

Here’s a simple Apple Pie Cookies Recipe

I loved the cookies so much I had to turn them into donuts!
Ingredients you need:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour (250g)

• 2 teaspoons baking powder

• ½ teaspoon baking soda

• ½ teaspoon salt

• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg

• ¾ cup granulated sugar (150 g)

• 2 large eggs, room temperature

• ¾ cup whole milk (180 ml)

• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

• ¼ cup vegetable oil or melted butter (60 ml)

For the Toppings

• 1 ½ cups shredded coconut

• ½ cup caramel sauce, store-bought or homemade

• ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil

The full recipe instructions are here: Samoa Donuts

These are the cookies from my mother's old 1974 Better Homes & Gardens New Cookbook. I made substitutions for my diet, but they still taste great. Original recipe and modified recipe are in the pictures.

Carrot cake cookie, cashew chocolate chip cookie made with almond butter, peanut butterfinger cookie, and crackle top molasses spice cookie.

Every year I make a large number of cookies for my families business vendors/our friends and neighbors. I couldn’t last year because I was sick so this year I’m back with a vengeance!

I have a basic list of cookies I make and a few elusive elements I’m trying to include, so if you have suggestions for next year I’m all ears!

Recipes I make every year:

- Mrs. Field’s copycat oatmeal chocolate chip

- Peanut Butter Blossoms

- Snowballs made with pecans

- Gingerbread cupcakes

- Snickerdoodles

- Buckeyes

- Christmas crack in 4 varieties, milk and dark chocolate with and without almonds

New recipes this year:

- Peppermint Fudge

-Spritz. These are *perfect* for almond/butter notes and is crazy easy and fast.

- Linzer (these did not work out so aren’t included.

I’m aiming for 10 varieties of cookies and candies but I’d also kind of love to have 12 elements total. The oatmeal chocolate chip I use to fill spaces and I make double/triple batches for most, though for the buckeyes I make 6 batches.

I prefer cookies that I can freeze; if I can get in a rhythm with my cookie scoop I get done fast. I freeze the cookies starting a few weeks before “cookie day” and would start sooner but I have limited freezer space. Cookie dough that I can refrigerate for a few days is ok as well, but if it’s temperamental I can’t work with it.

I’m still missing a “jammy” or “citrus” flavor that is part of the flavors of the season. I think I’ve hit all but that; the peppermint fudge has a good, mild flavor that might not transfer so I think that is cracked.

What I’ve tried and rejected:

- gingerbread cookies. For the life of me I cannot make gingerbread people. I can’t even make cutouts without it taking a long time, it doesn’t matter if the dough is homemade or box, so I gave up on doing that. Mini cupcakes are a bigger hit anyway. I did try lactose free cream cheese for the frosting and it separated all weird so I didn’t frost and they are much better with cream cheese frosting.

- Sugar cookies. Most of the recipes make cookies that aren’t quite the soft texture I’m seeking, and I feel like they should be decorated with icing to look right and I don’t have the time to frost.

- Butter cookies. Same as sugar cookies.

- Peppermint Patties. Turns out well but batches are small and I don’t want to transfer the peppermint smell and I don’t like the option of packaging them separately.

- Candy Cane cookies. The smell is too strong and it requires too much labor.

- Checkerboard Cookies. Too labor intensive but I do love them.

- Thumbprints. They were ok, but didn’t wow me.

- Linzer, this year. I was going to use lemon curd and raspberry jam for the fillings. The almond flour made the dough extremely crumbly. I was able to get it to where I could work very small amounts, cut and get it on the tray. But it took about 15 minutes for one tray, and I was using a star cutter and the arms kept breaking off. It *might* work if I use rounds but would still be some effort.

So I need ideas for next year, to hit the jam/citrus/fruitcakey notes I’m missing. I’ve got chocolate, peanuts, cinnamon, almonds, gingerbread, pecans, toffee, peppermint. If I’m missing anything let me know as I have three spots I can fill!

Attached:

Finished cookie box (vendor/business size), and all the cookies/candies before assembly.

I completely forgot to post here so it’s 3 months late. Anywho, here they are! Sea salt caramels, chocolate covered pretzels and pringles (requested by family), monster cookie, classic sugar cookie, lemon blossom, peanut butter blossom, rice crispy treats, and white chocolate morello cherry fudge.

Cookies used: Mrs. Field’s copycat oatmeal chocolate chip Peanut butter balls/buckeyes Snowballs Snickerdoodles Gingerbread cupcakes Peanut butter blossoms Thumbprints with homemade apricot jam Christmas Crack, both with and without almonds

Large, medium, and small plates

Wish I had bigger sea salt but they were still delightful.

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Also a splash of almond extract in the dough :)