Dads Cookie Slice Recipes

THE ULTIMATE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in eggs and vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Stir in chocolate chips., Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 3 in. apart onto greased baking sheets. Flatten slightly. Bake 10-12 minutes or until light brown. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.

DAD'S COOKIES (COPYCAT)

Steps:

• Grease cookie tins.
• Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).
• Beat butter, eggs, sugar and vanilla together until they are light and fluffy.
• Sift flour with baking powder, soda and salt and stir them into the first mixture. Blend well.
• Stir in coconut and rolled oats.
• Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheets and bake for 10 minutes.
• Cool on wire racks and store in tightly covered cookie tins.

DAD'S MELT-IN-YOUR-MOUTH COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In the bowl of a large mixer cream the butter until fluffy, then add vanilla and the espresso.
• In a large bowl sift the confectioners' sugar then add to it the butter mixture in the mixer and mix well.
• In the same bowl used to sift the sugar, add flour and salt and sift. Add them to the mixer that contains the cream, butter mixture. Turn the mixture out on a floured board and sprinkle the pine nuts on the mixture and mix nuts in well with your hands (if dough gets too sticky add a bit more flour to the board and to your hands). When nuts are mixed in, place mixture in a large glass bowl and put in refrigerator for 1/2 hour to make it easier to roll. Take bowl out of the refrigerator and with your hands pick up walnut sized balls of dough, roll them in your hands and place them in an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 20 minutes or until cookies turn a light golden brown. When all of the cookies have been baked place them on a cooling rack overnight. If you are pressed for time 5 hours will do.
• In a large resealable plastic bag place the pound of confectioners' sugar (this is a bit of overkill but I wanted to have enough powdered sugar for the cookies). Add 6 to 12 cookies at a time and gently toss them in the powdered sugar and then place them on a cooling rack trying not to disturb the sugar coating. Continue until all cookies are coated. Let cookies rest so that the coating really adheres. Now - when you eat one - you will want another and another and another!
• My Dad used to also coat these cookies with raw sugar (that he had family ship from Italy), and I have made them that way also. However, people seem to like the powdered sugar more.

DAD'S COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together butter and sugars.
• Beat in eggs and vanilla.
• Stir in salt, soda and flour, mixing well.
• Stir in oatmeal.
• Shape into 4 round logs.
• Wrap well in wax paper and chill.
• Slice 1/4-inch thick, place on baking sheets and bake at 350°F for 10 minutes.
• You can add 1 cup of any of the following if you wish for a variation: coconut, nuts, raisins or chocolate chips.

DAD'S OATMEAL COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, oats, cereal, baking soda and baking powder; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. , Roll into 3/4-in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets; flatten with a fork. , Bake at 375° for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool for 3 minutes before removing to wire racks.

DAD'S COOKIE SLICE RECIPE

Steps:

• Mix crushed cookies and butter together. Line pan with parchment paper. Press 2/3 of the mixture into pan. Bake for 10 min in a 350 oven. Put chocolate and butter in a double boiler to melt. Add icing sugra, eggs , vanilla. Beat until fluffy. Add walnuts. Put on top of hot crumbs and sprinkle rest of crumbs on top. Press down gently. Place in fridge to cool.

OATMEAL (DAD'S) COOKIE SQUARES

Steps:

• Crush 2 dozen cookies in the blender and add 1/4 cup melted butter.
• Mix together, reserving 1/4 cup for topping.
• Pat in greased 8 x 8 pan and bake for 10-15 minutes at 350°.
• Let cool.
• Melt together in double boiler 3 squares semi-sweet chocolate and 1/4 cup butter.
• Add 1 teaspoon vanilla and 1 egg and mix well.
• Remove from heat and add 1 1/2 cups icing sugar and 1/2 cup chopped nuts.
• Put on top of cooled crust and sprinkle remaining cookie mixture on top of filling.
• Place in fridge and let cool before slicing.