Love to cook? Check out Southern Living’s New Cookbook – Comfort Food Made Easy. I received this new cookbook along with a jar of LouAna’s Coconut Oil. As soon as I received this I started using the coconut oil in my recipes. I made cupcakes and replaced vegetable oil with the coconut oil and no one could tell the difference. I’ve also replaced my margarine with this when I fry up my green beans.
There are so many delicious recipes that it was hard to just choose just one to make. But I knew desserts would go well with my family so I made Oatmeal Cookies, page 273. It calls for pecans and toffee bits but I used chocolate chips instead.
Very easy to make and a bit different than the oatmeal cookies I’ve made in the past (from the box).
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups uncooked regular oats
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- optional –
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1/1/2 cups toffee bits
- Preheat oven to 375. Beat butter at medium speed with electric mixer 2-3 minutes or until creamy. Add sugar, beating well. Add eggs and vanilla, beating until blended.
- Combine oats and next 3 ingredients; add to butter mixture, beating juts until blended. Stir in chopped pecans and toffee bits. ( I added my chocolate chips here)
- Drop dough by heaping tablespoons onto lightly greased baking sheets. ( I used parchment paper instead.)
- Bake at 375 for 10 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool completely.
All the recipes in this book contain a “Make It Easy” tip. For this recipe the tip was to, “Microwave the butter for 20 to 30 seconds on medium heat to soften it.”
