Don't be intimidated by baking this season. Most of my readers know that I am not a 'baker' by nature but the Brainy Gourmet is brainy about drop cookies.
A drop cookie is just a ball of cookie dough you drop on a cookie sheet. I don't use any particular recipe because what makes a good drop cookie is a no 'brainer': a stick of butter, 1 cup of brown sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, one egg and 1-1/2 cup of flour more or less adding to that 1/2 tsp of baking soda, 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/4 tsp of salt. That is the basic mix.
To that basic drop dough mix, you can add all kinds of tasty things: any kind of chopped nut, or slivered almonds, raisins, or dried cranberries, oatmeal or grated coconut; and, of course any kind of dark/white chocolate or butterscotch chips you want.
*Note - more flour than sugar will produce a cake like drop cookie; more butter/sugar will produce a crispy flat drop cookie.
Another favorite drop "Sugar/Pecan"
Cookies
30 min · Yield: Yield: 5 dozen
Ingredients
1 3/4cups all-purpose flour
1/2cup granulated sugar
1cup butter, softened- 2 sticks
1/8teaspoon salt
1cup chopped pecans
1/2cup powdered sugar
1/2teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F.
Combine first 5 ingredients with a spoon. Shape into
1-inch balls and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake 20
minutes. Combine powdered sugar and cinnamon.
Sift powdered sugar mixture over warm cookies or roll
cookies in sugar mixture.
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