Recipes: Maple Drop Cookies

Hello, Friends!

Sorry this post is up late. You can still make these cookies in time for supper, though!

Recently, I have discovered a type of cookie called drop cookies. Drop cookies are soft and cake-like, as opposed to chewy or crunchy. If you've ever been to Panera, they are very similar to muffies.There are many different types of drop cookies, from plain (sugar) ones to orange ones, which I wrote about here.

Today, in keeping with the fall season, I am going to share a recipe I found about maple drop cookies.

I found the original recipe on an Amish cooking website: http://www.amish365.com/homemade-maple-drop-cookies/

Also, feel free to add nuts, chocolate chips, and just play with the recipe!

Ingredients:

2 cups brown sugar (not packed)
3 large eggs
1 cup butter
1/4 teaspoon maple flavoring
3 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
A pinch of salt

Directions:

1) Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

2) Combine all dry ingredients EXCEPT sugar in a separate bowl.

3) Cream butter and sugar.
Creaming butter and sugar basically means to put the butter and sugar in a separate bowl and mix with an electric mixer until combined. I accidentally put the sugar in with the dry ingredients. It still turned out though. :)

4) Add eggs to the butter and sugar mixture one at a time. Mix after adding each one.

5) Add maple flavoring to butter-sugar-egg mixture. Even though 1/4 teaspoon doesn't sound like a lot, you can taste in really well.

6) Gradually add dry ingredients. After each time you add dry ingredients, mix with the mixer until blended. My bowls were not the same size, so I had to add the dry ingredients a little at a time until that bowl was full, but then add the wet-and-dry mixture to the bowl of dry ingredients. (All the dry ingredients would not fit in the smaller bowl.)

7) Form balls that are about 1 inch in diameter and place 2-3 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.

8) Cook for 6-10 minutes. The cookies should not look doughy, and a toothpick inserted into one should come out clean.

9) Let cool on cookie sheet for 2-3 minutes. Remove and cool on cookie rack. Store in an airtight container.

10) Enjoy!

Drop cookies are great because they are soft. If you know someone who can only eat soft foods, just got braces, or got teeth pulled out, these are the perfect thing to make them feel better.

Spruce Nogard