Recipe: Create-A-Cookie (Quaker Oats, 1981)

CREATE-A-COOKIE

"Add a different ingredient to this basic recipe and presto - you've created a cookie! Try our suggestions or invent your own. These cookies freeze well so plan to double the recipe. Wrap cooled cookies securely, freeze, and bring them out when you need them."

1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 1/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon EACH ground nutmeg and ground cloves (optional)
3 cups Quaker Oats (Quick or Old Fashioned, uncooked)

Beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy; blend in eggs and vanilla. Add combined flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon; mix well. Stir in oats. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet.

Bake in preheated moderate oven (350 degree F) 10 to 12 minutes or until light golden brown.

VARIATIONS:
- Add 1 cup raisins.
- Add 1 cup chopped nuts.
- Add 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate, butterscotch or peanut butter flavored pieces.
- Add 1 cup shredded or flaked coconut.
- Add 1/2 cup chopped dried apricots, dates, candied fruit or dried cherries.
- Add 1/2 cup sunflower seed.

Makes about 5 1/2 dozen cookies
From: Recipelink.com
Source: Recipe booklet: The Quaker Oats Wholegrain Cookbook, January 1981