| Rookie cooks are often scared to get beyond | | | | deliver on flavor.Oatmeal cookies: These are |
| opening pouches and mixing milk with cheese | | | | the ones made by the kids whose moms wanted |
| powder to make macaroni and cheese. The idea | | | | them to have cookies, but wanted something at |
| of taking raw ingredients and mixing them | | | | least a little bit healthy. For the |
| together to produce a finished end product | | | | fiber-conscious sweet hound, they're great, |
| scares them more than spiders and snakes. | | | | and they're one of the greatest blank slates |
| The sad thing is how many people go their | | | | for add-ins from raisins to chocolate |
| entire cooking lives like that. Sometimes, | | | | chips.Chocolate chip cookies: From the |
| all it takes is making a few easy cookie | | | | classic Toll House to the vast world beyond, |
| recipes to get their comfort level up and get | | | | every recipe collection has at least one |
| them cooking on their own.For all of these, | | | | chocolate chip recipe. They are a universal |
| it's perfectly fine to start off using a | | | | favorite, and a good step to more complex |
| boxed mix. That will get you accustomed to | | | | baking as they are usually the most complex |
| the baking process and to the routine of | | | | of the easy cookie recipes.Sugar cookies: The |
| dishing the batter onto the cookie sheets and | | | | holiday favorite, this will get you some |
| then pulling the finished products off to | | | | great practice with a rolling pin and with |
| cool.Eventually, though, it's time to leave | | | | producing cookies in volume and decorating |
| the prepackaged mix nest and spread your | | | | them.Whichever easy cookie recipe you choose, |
| wings to fly into the world of real cookie | | | | you're sure to have fun eating the |
| baking. Here are the four main types of easy | | | | results!Ann Marie Krause has been making |
| cookie recipes:Peanut butter cookies: For the | | | | cookies for over 30 years, at persent I am |
| kid whose favorite lunch was a peanut butter | | | | retired, for over 23 years I owned a Gourmet |
| and jelly sandwich, this is the king. | | | | Bakery called The Cheese Confectioner. |
| There's no cookie easier to make, and they | | | | |