How to Make Cookies

Cookies, cakes and chocolates are the delicacies that immediately tempt you to grab a handful and you simply cannot resist yourself from eating one after another. If cookies allure you so much, then why not preparing them at home instead of spending oodles on buying the prepackaged ones. Making homemade cookies is just as easy as eating them. Before hunger drives you crazy, make some different varieties of cookies and stock them. Have a bite whenever you feel hungry.

Easiest Recipes to Make Cookies

The recipes for making cookies are very simple. They're usually made from chocolates, walnuts and butter. Keep the ingredients ready so that there's no shortage while preparing. Check out the recipes mentioned below. The recipes are explained below.

Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate cookies when additionally decked with chocolate chips, make them taste heavenly. Follow the recipe below to make the best quality chocolate cookies.

Ingredients

• Flour, 150 gm
• Butter, 120 gm
• Sugar, 125 gm
• Egg, 1
• Baking soda, ½ tsp
• Salt, ½ tsp
• Vanilla essence, 1 tsp
• Chocolate chips

Preparation

• First mix butter and sugar, until it becomes fluffy.
• Add egg and vanilla essence to the mixture. Stir the mixture and blend it well.
• Prepare the dough with flour and baking soda. Then add salt. Mix this with the butter mixture and blend well.
• Add the chocolate chips to the dough and stir thoroughly. Refrigerate for ½ an hour.
• Now apply a layer of oil over the baking tray.
• Make the dough in the shape of cookies and spread them over the baking sheet, placing them at some distance.
• Preheat the oven for 2-3 min at 190°C and then bake for 8-10 mins.
• Take it out once they get baked uniformly and serve either hot or cold.

Butter Walnut/Almond Cookies
The combo of butter and walnut is indeed yummy and this is also quite easy to make. The cookies are crispy with walnuts and almonds studded in them.

Ingredients

• Flour, 1 cup
• Butter, 3/4th stick
• Sugar, 1/4th cup
• Almonds/walnuts /cashews coarsely ground, 1/4th cups
• Baking powder, 1/4th tsp
• Cardamom, ½ tsp
• Warm milk, 1-2 tsp

Preparation

• Mix butter, sugar, baking soda and milk in the bowl. Mix thoroughly until fluffy.
• Make the dough with flour. Add the butter-milk mixture. Sprinkle cardamom to flavor.
• Now add ground almonds, walnuts/cashews to the mixture and mix once again
• Grease the baking sheet and place the cookies.
• Bake for 350°C until they turn golden brown.

Cake-Mix Cookies
To get the flavor of cakes in cookies, you have to try this recipe. Cake mix cookies are prepared either from prepackaged mix or from freshly prepared dough at home. The following recipe will explain you further.

Ingredients

• Pre-packaged cake mix (favor your choice), 18 oz
• Butter, ½ cup
• Eggs 2
• Vegetable oil, 2 tsp

Preparation

• In a large bowl, add the cake mix, butter, vegetable oil and eggs. Mix thoroughly and adjust the concentration with water.
• You might also add almonds or walnuts to the mixture.
• Place the differently shaped cookies 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Preheat the oven to 375°C.
• Now bake the cookies for 6 min until they turn golden brown.
• Take them out from the oven after they get completely baked.
• Let it cool and then serve with creamy toppings.

Cookies from Scratch
In this section you shall come to know how to make cookies from scratch. The combination of dark sugar and chocolate is simply awesome. So let's go ahead with the preparatory steps.

Ingredients

• Flour, 3 cups
• Baking soda, 1 tsp
• Softened butter, 2 sticks
• Brown sugar, 1 cup
• Granulated sugar, ½ cup
• Vanilla, 1 tsp
• Salt, 1 tsp
• Eggs, 2
• Chocolate chips (semi sweet), 2 cups

Preparation

• Mix cream, butter and brown sugar. Add vanilla, egg and beat it. Make sure no froth develops.
• Prepare the dough with flour and add baking soda and salt.
• Add chocolate chips and the butter-egg mix to the dough. Blend it well.
• Refrigerate the dough for at least 2-4 hours before baking.
• Make the dough in the shape of balls and spread them to the baking sheet, 2 inches apart.
• Preheat the oven and bake them for 8-12 minutes at 190°C.

The expenses involved is definitely less when you prepare them at home instead of buying. I'm sure the recipes presented in this article have proven useful to you. You can also improvise the recipes by adding flavors and ingredients of your choice.