Getting back on track.

Well I finally went back to Art Club today.  I really missed everyone, it was good to be back.  How quickly I had to start working again!  There is a Bake Sale tomorrow and one of my pieces was chosen for the student Art show, YEAH ME!  I went to the grocery store right afterwards and started baking my heart out.

 While I was baking I got a phone call.  The evil parental figures found out about the student art show.  God knows how!  They asked what I had in there.  I told the female one that it was an image I painted in Photoshop, she said "I don't know what that means"  SIGH.  "It was just something that I did in Photoshop." I said.  "Well, I'd like to see it." she squealed.  "Yea sure mom." I replied.  Mind you she has never ever asked to "see" one of my drawings, paintings, knitting, or any sketches for that matter.  Maybe she got a sniff of success.  That I was being recognized and she wanted EVERYONE to know that I am her daughter.  Sometimes I wonder how I can be related to her, SIGH.  Well cookies are done.  Art Club Cookie Mania was awesome.  In celebration I am going to share my secret recipe for Oatmeal (insert dried fruit) Cookies and no it's not a recipe from my female parental unit or mother (whatever you want to call the woman)  I made it myself (raises shoulder's in adoration) and it's damn good!!

Oatmeal Raisin Cranberry White Chocolate Cookies.  YUM.

Ingredients:

2 sticks of unsalted butter (unsalted makes a world of difference)

1 cup of brown sugar
1/2 cup of sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp of vanilla
1 1/2 cups of flour
1 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp of cinnamon  (eliminate if using Cranberry's)
1/2 tsp of salt
3 cups of oats (old fashioned works the best)
1 - 8oz pkg of cranberry's
1/2 a 12 oz bag of White Chocolate chips (for added yum)

- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl, set aside.  Beat butter and sugar for 5 minutes.  Add eggs and vanilla, beat well.  Then add the flour mix in only folding it a few times, the more you blend it the dryer the cookies will be, and who likes dry rock hard cookies?  Then add oats and berries and white chocolate or whatever else is a good combo with oatmeal, fold this a few times until everything is blended, don't over blend!

- Get one of those awesome cookie droppers, you know the one's that look like ice cream scooper's, it will make your live so much easier.  Place the cookies onto a cookie sheet (I like to spray mine with no stick, once again making my life easier) and bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown.


- Enjoy!