Accessorize Your Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Recipe

The oatmeal raisin cookie recipe is a marvel of cookie engineering, with a hearty texture, balanced sweetness and even some health benefits. It may be America's favorite lunchbox cookie, because it allows moms to give their kids a sweet treat that's not all just empty calories.

The flavor is one that defies description, and the aroma of them baking is one that will turn even the most modern of kitchen spaces into a Donna Reed-era cooking emporium. Don't be surprised if you find yourself fighting the overwhelming urge to tie on a gingham apron while the mixing and baking process takes place...

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Behind The Popularity Of The Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Recipe

The oatmeal raisin cookie is the icon of the Baby Boom generation, especially those who came of age in the '60s, when the previously alien concept of health food began to infiltrate the public consciousness. People started looking for ways to add fiber and grains into their diets, and the idea that a cookie could help with that was an almost irresistible lure.

And unlike many health claims that came out of the original health food craze, this one actually has some facts to back it up. There were dozens of foods that were touted as being good for everything from your heart to your charkas, the mystical energy centers of the body, and over time most of them have been either disproved or at least damped down. Such crazes continue to today, although they are more likely to be sparked over a new drug or herbal tablet that has a higher profit potential than over something anyone can make at home.
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What To Look For In A No-Bake Cookie Recipe

When it comes to cookie recipes, there are certain "must have" ingredients that make the whole thing possible. You've got a binder of some sort, usually flour, that holds the assemblage together. You've got a fat of some sort, that adds moistness and flavor and helps in the browning and cooking. There will usually be a leavening agent, to make the cookie puff up and look right and eat properly. And, of course, you'll have a flavoring of some sort, running the gamut from peanut butter and chocolate chips to more exotic things like anise or poppy seed. The no bake cookie recipe has some of these, but not all.

First off, very few of the ingredients will be in raw form. Thus, you'll have no raw eggs, very little flour and no leavening agents. Since these cookies will not be baked, eggs would simply make the no bake cookies dangerous, and leavening agents wouldn't have the heat they need to work properly.

You may find other cookies or baked goods actually used as flour would be used in a regular cookie recipe. For instance, vanilla wafer cookies, ground or chopped, are often used as the binder for shaped items like baseball cookies.

Even if cookies are not used to make the cookies, some form of finished product will usually find its way into the recipe. Take haystack cookies, that perennial holiday cookie basket favorite, which use chow mein noodles to form the haystack shape and bind together the peanut butter and butterscotch or chocolate. Graham crackers, with their fairly light flavor and sweet finish, are often used. Some recipes even use powdered sugar as "flour," which makes sense from a structural standpoint.

One thing you'll almost never find is a "lightly sweet" no bake cookie recipe. Almost all of them are very heavy on the sugar, honey, peanut butter, chocolate or other sweet source. Without the subtle chemical reactions of baking, the sugar has to carry the day.

About The Author Ann Marie Krause has been making cookies for over 30 years, at persent I am retired, for over 23 years I owned a Gourmet Bakery called The Cheese Confectioner.You can visit my site at http://www.annsgoodies.com NOTE: You are welcome to reprint this article online as long as it remains complete and unaltered (including the about the author info at the end).

How To Find A No-Bake Cookie Recipe

One of the most popular recipes around, the no-bake cookie recipe is one that just about everyone has sought out at least once. The problem is that the search can be confusing, full of unnecessary information and blind leads.

While just about all general purpose cookbooks contain their fair share of cookie recipes, with all the favorites like chocolate chip, peanut butter and sugar cookies. But the no-bake cookie is an odd duck, and frequently doesn't make the cut when editors decide what to include in their offerings.

Oddly enough, because of the relative simplicity of the recipes, and the fact that no hot ovens or other dangerous utensils are generally involved, one of the best sources for no bake recipes are children's cookbooks; that is cookbooks designed either for kids directly or for parents teaching little ones their way around the kitchen.

Of course, finding kids' cookbooks can be a challenge in and of itself. Often times, bookstores don't file them with the regular cookbooks, not considering them proper culinary literature. They're more often found with the children's books, alongside Dora the Explorer, Clifford, Bob the Builder and Dr. Seuss. They often have a theme, such as Halloween or Christmas recipes, or are built around one of the more popular kids TV characters.

The advantage to these cookbooks for kids is that the recipes are usually very well tested. No publisher wants an army of ticked off parents beating on their doors (or their mailboxes) complaining that Little Johnny tried to make their cookies and the recipe failed. In fact, they'll often be so simple as to be nearly error-proof.

You may be a little bit appalled the first time you read one of the recipes at the simplicity, but if you mix your culinary know-how with the framework provided by one of no bake recipes, you'll start to "cook" up your own variations. Who knows? You might be the first person to write a no-bake cookie recipe cookbook for adults!

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