Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

I like to think a cookie must be pretty darn good if you get requests for more of them less than a week later from the first time you baked them. I baked a batch of these Oatmeal Raisin cookies for John's neighbor who loaned me a hand ax. You see... I have one... for camping, you know for chopping fire wood. But I couldn't find it anywhere. So I walked across the street to visit Augie and to see if he had one. The man drives a Subaru... that in my mind means he must be a camper... and therefore has a hand ax on hand! I know I know stereotypes... anyway (I was right!) and when I baked the batch for him I put a few aside to bring over to John's parents (they love random baked goodies from me). Well this past weekend when I asked John's dad what he wanted for his birthday (which was yesterday) he said "some of those cookies you made last weekend!" So that's what he got. :)

Oh what's that? You want to know why I needed an ax? Well you see there was this massive bush that was overtaking part of John's house, we tag teamed it and he cut all the branches off and then I got to attack the base... I think I had a little too much fun with the ax since multiple people who where walking by stopped to say hello and see what I was up to :) I got a great arm workout too!


Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
makes 24 large cookies Recipe from gahhh can't remember the name of the cookbook and it's at John's I'll update to let you know!

Beat sugars and softened butter in a bowl.
1/2 cup white sugar (or use 1/2 cup splenda)
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 Tbs butter (softened)

Then add these and beat until incorporated:
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup apple sauce

In a separate bowl mix these:
1 cup whole wheat flour (she used AP flour)
1 tsp cinnamon (my addition)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
dash salt
3/4 cup plus 2 Tbs oats (old fashion kind)

Mix dry into wet until just barley incorporated. Then gently mix in:
1/2 cup raisins

Scoop onto a silicon lined baking sheet (2 inches apart these bad boys spread like crazy) and bake at 375 for about 10 minutes