I’ve never been a baker, but I’ve always wanted to be one. Cooking is easy, you just through some ingredients together and ta-da you have a meal. Baking is very intricate you have to be precise about you measurements and the order you do things. And no matter how hard I try, baking doesn’t come easy. But that doesn’t stop me, I keep on baking and maybe one day I will be able to call myself a baker.
Ingredients:
1-cup butter, softened
1-cup brown sugar
½-cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 tsp orange juice (you could use the zest of 1 orange if you prefer a bolder citrus flavor, I didn’t have an orange so I just used juice)
1 ½-cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp ground cloves
½ tsp ginger
½ tsp salt
3 cups rolled oats
1 ¼-cup dried cranberries
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Cream together the butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and orange juice. In a separate bowl stir together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and salt and stir into the sugar mixture. Then stir the oats and cranberries into the sugar mixture. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes until light and edges are beginning to brown. Cool 2 minutes on cookie sheet and continue cooling on a rack. Makes 40 cookies.
Food for Gary 