If you want to bake a batch of cookies with butter flavored shortening, here’s a recipe.
Cheap, Quick Oatmeal Chip Cookies
Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies made with shortening.
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time12 mins
Total Time22 mins
Servings: 24
Ingredients
- 1/2 stick 8 tablespoons Butter Flavored Crisco (regular is okay)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon molasses
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all purpose flour 4 1/2 oz, don't spoon too lightly but don't pack either
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup oats quick cooking or old fashioned, not instant
- 1 cup bittersweet chocolate chips or semi-sweet
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat shortening and sugar with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in molasses, egg and vanilla.
- Stir together flour, baking soda and salt. Add flour mixture to butter mixture and stir until incorporated. Stir in oats and chocolate chips.
- Chill dough for 1 hour for thicker cookies, or bake immediately. To bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Form dough into 1 ½ inch balls and arrange 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 12-13 minutes. Cool 5 minutes. Remove from sheet and cool on rack.
Brenda, there’s a no weep meringue recipe here:
http://www.baking911.com/recipes/meringue/safe.htm
I haven’t tried it, though. Also, the recipe I’m using is topped with whipped cream.
Kraft has some excellent recipes — a bunch, actually. I wanted to make a scratch version first, but I suspect some Jell-O pudding versions will follow suit. If I make the scratch version, I can compare the two.
My husband loves coconut cream pie. I have made one every Thanksgiving and Christmas since I met him. I finally perfected the recipe when I used cook & serve vanilla pudding…lol! So much easier than making a pudding. I’m still working on getting the meringue to not weep…any ideas? I seal it to the edges but it still weeps at times.
I had those cinnamon chips once. Unfortunately, I ended up eating them all straight from the bag before I could make anything with them!