source: Great American Recipes
What Is A Cookie?
A cookie (American English) or biscuit (British English) is a baked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat, and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, or nuts.
Most English-speaking countries call crunchy cookies “biscuits“, except for the United States and Canada, where “biscuit” refers to a type of quick bread. Chewier biscuits are sometimes called “cookies,” even in the Commonwealth. Some cookies may also be named by their shape, such as date squares or bars.
Cookie Variants
Biscuit or cookie variants include sandwich biscuits, such as custard creams, Jammie Dodgers, Bourbons, and Oreos, with marshmallows or jam filling and sometimes dipped in chocolate or another sweet coating. Cookies are often served with beverages such as milk, coffee, or tea and sometimes dunked, an approach that releases more flavour from confections by dissolving the sugars, while also softening their texture. Factory-made cookies are sold in grocery stores, convenience stores, and vending machines. Fresh-baked cookies are sold at bakeries and coffeehouses. (Wikipedia)
Ingredients
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
one half cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
one half teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup rolled oats
1 and 1/4 cups chocolate chunks
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease two large baking sheets.
Combine the butter, granulated, and brown sugar in a large bowl. Beat with a wooden spoon or an electric mixer set on medium speed until creamy. Beat in egg and vanilla extract; set aside.
Sift the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda into a small bowl. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, beating continuously. Stir in the rolled oats and chocolate chunks.
Spoon tablespoonfuls of the dough, about 2 inches apart, onto the prepared baking sheets. Bake cookies until lightly browned, 8-10 minutes. Let cookies cool for 1 minute before transferring to wire racks. Repeat with any remaining dough.
Enjoy!
Also, try; Mocha Chocolate Chip Cookies
