Chocolate Covered Raisin Cookies Recipes

CHOCOLATE COVERED RAISIN COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 325 degrees.
• In a heavy saucepan, add butter, cocoa powder, and 1/2 cup of the chocolate chips, reserving the rest for later. Melt them together over low heat, stirring occasionally. When mostly melted, remove from the heat.
• In a bowl, mix together the eggs and sugars. Beat for one minute once they're combined. Turn the mixer down and slowly pour in the chocolate mixture. Add vanilla and mix to combine.
• Add baking powder and salt and mix again. Add oats in two batches, stirring between additions.
• Add the flour and stir until just combined. Add the remaining 3/4 cups of chocolate chips and the raisins and stir gently to distribute.
• Use a cookie scoop or tablespoon to drop cookies onto sil pat covered (or greased) baking sheet.
• Bake 14-16 minutes until cookies are just set and cracks start to appear in the tops of the cookies.
• Let cool on the baking sheet for 10 minutes before removing to a cooling rack to complete the cooling process. Store in an airtight container on counter for 3-5 days.

CHOCOLATE-COVERED RAISIN COOKIES

Steps:

• In a bowl, cream butter and sugars. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in cereal, raisins and coconut. Drop by tablespoonfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool for 5 minutes before removing to wire racks.

CHOCOLATE COOKIES WITH CHOCOLATE COVERED RAISINS

Steps:

• Whisk the flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda, together in a medium bowl.
• Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat or in the microwave oven. Remove pan from the heat, and add the bittersweet chocolate, set aside until melted.
• Whisk the eggs, yolk, brown sugar, and vanilla together in a medium bowl then slowly whisk in melted chocolate mixture.
• Stir in the flour mixture to make a loose dough. Don't over work the dough. Fold in the chocolate covered raisins. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours.
• Alternate Method for Food Processor owners:.
• Melt butter in micro.
• Finely chop chocolate in food processor with metal blade.
• Pour in warm melted butter and process till smooth.
• Add vanilla, brown sugar, pulse to blend. Add slightly beaten eggs and yolk pulse to blend.
• Whisk together flour, baking soda baking powder and salt add to chocolate mixture and pulse to blend.
• Remove dough and and fold in chocolate covered raisins.
• Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Form dough into balls, about 2 inches or 1 1/2 ounces each, and put on the prepared baking sheets, leaving a couple inches between the cookies. Bake about 13 to 15 minutes. Cool on a rack.

CHOCOLATE-COVERED RAISIN OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• For oat flour: Put 1 cup rolled oats in food processor or blender. Cover and blend or process until oats turn into a powder. Transfer powder to a small bowl. If using a blender do 1/2 cup of the oats at a time. Set aside.
• Beat butter and shortening in a large mixing bowl with on electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add granulated sugar, brown sugar and baking soda; beat until combined, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Beat in oat flour and all purpose flour. Stir in the 1 cup rolled oats, walnuts and chocolate-covered raisins.
• Drop dough by the well-rounded teaspoonful 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake in a 350' oven for 8-10 minutes or until the edges are lightly browned. Transfer to wire racks and cool.

CHOCOLATE RAISIN COOKIES

Steps:

• Take a stick of butter out of the refrigerator, open the wrapping and leave the butter on the kitchen counter until it gets pretty soft - allow at least 30 minutes.
• When the butter is soft, wash your hands and put on an apron.
• Put the butter in the bowl, and beat it with the wooden spoon until it gets creamy. Beat in the sugar until it is thoroughly mixed.
• Crack open both eggs, and put them into the bowl that has the butter and sugar in it. Be careful not to get any bits of eggshell in the bowl. Beat the eggs with the butter and sugar until they are all mixed in.
• Take the sifter, and put these ingredients into it: the flour, the cocoa, the baking powder and the salt.
• Sift them into the bowl with the butter, sugar and eggs. Slowly mix everything together with the wooden spoon until it becomes brown and gooey. Then mix in the raisins.
• Have an adult turn on the oven for you and set it to 350 degrees.
• Wrap your cookie sheet with a piece of aluminum foil, keeping it nice and smooth. Smear the remaining 1 or 2 teaspoons butter all over the foil. Scoop up a teaspoon of the batter. Now, take the second teaspoon and use it to push the batter off onto the cookie sheet. Keep doing this until you have formed about 18 cookies, leaving about 2 inches of space space between the cookies. Don't worry that you have batter left over. You can make another batch of cookies.
• Have an adult help you put the cookie sheet into the oven. Let the cookies bake for 15 minutes - the tops will no longer look shiny. Have an adult take the cookies out of the oven and help you slide them off the cookie sheet with the spatula and put them on the wire rack. Let them cool while you make another batch of the cookies with the rest of the batter.