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Drop Cookies from Cake Mix!

It's been two years and literally thousdands of cookies since I posted
the original technique for using cake mixes to make cookies.  Since
then, I've added a few new tricks to make them even more
intersting...and no one suspects just how easy they are.  I ran a coffee
hour for a large church in NYC and baked about 5 recipes a week and had
to come up with interesting twists [just so that I wouldn't get bored]

Basic technique...

preheat oven to 350 and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
ingredients:
1 box cake mix
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil or butter [melted and cooled]
1 cup chopped nuts, chocolate chips, dried fruit and/or coconut
grated rind of lemon [opt]

combine all ingredients in mixing bowl, using paddle and mix well. Using
mini ice-cream scoop, drop onto prepared cookie sheet.  Bake one sheet
at a time for 10-12 min or until bottom is golden [not brown[.  Leave on
sheet for 2 min to firm up before removing to rack to cool completely.
Store in air-tight tin.  Makes 3 dozen.

Now comes the fun...
suggested combinations

yellow cake mix, juice and rind of 1 lemon and 1 cup coconut
    [the favorite of the coffee hour...even preferred above choco chip]

chocolate cake mix, 1 tablespoon instant coffee, 1/4 ground cloves,
   1 cup chcolate chips, 1 bar white chocolate, chopped. 1 cup  nuts

yellow cake mix with 1 teas cinnamon, 1/2 teas nutmeg, 1/2 teas
allspice, 1/4 teas cloves, 1 cup raisins

You can use this technique to make cookies you couldn't make before.Look
at the recipe of a favorite cookie....how many dozen does it make?  One
box of cake mix makes 3 dozen cookies.  Adjust the amt of spices and
other ingredients for 3 dozen. Let the cake mix be the basics and just
add the other ingredients. I used this to make Martha Stewart's
lemon/thyme cookies. To one yellow cake mix, I added the juice and rind
of one lemon and 1Tablespoon dried thyme and followed the basic
recipe...the result, a very sophisticated cookie.

Have fun!
Ann

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