Oatmeal Cookies #recipe @vmburns

 V. M. Burns: My mom hated going to the grocery store. She would drag my sister and I with her for her weekly torture. She would let us pick one thing at the grocery store if we behaved ourselves. My ONE THING would go to buy cheap, plastic jewelry or some other toy that would fall apart in a matter of hours. My older sister was smarter than me (don't tell her I said that). She saved her ONE THING to pick the cookies or cereal. My sister didn't like chocolate so her choice meant a week of boring sugar cookies or frosted flakes. Don't get me wrong, I like sugar cookies and frosted flakes, but I also like chocolate chip cookies and Cocoa puffs. Regardless of what cookies my sister picked, my mother would always buy a package of oatmeal cookies. She would say, "Your father likes oatmeal." I like oatmeal cookies, too. In fact, I have rarely met a cookie I didn't like. But, we had a cookie drawer full of oatmeal cookies. There would be oatmeal, oatmeal raisin, oatmeal nut, oatmeal date nut raisin cookies, and any other variation on the theme. Sometimes, there would be four or five packages of unopened oatmeal cookies. I was tapped out on oatmeal. After eighteen years of oatmeal cookies, I swore I would NEVER eat oatmeal cookies again. Fast forward about twenty years. An oatmeal cookie is thrust upon me in a setting where I couldn't refuse. After one bite I realized, "This is pretty good. Why don't I eat oatmeal cookies?" My dad's birthday would have been November 2nd and I decided to remember him by baking his favorite cookie. Oh, and today (November 14th) is also my birthday. 

OATMEAL COOKIES

Ingredients

• 3/4 Cup flour
• 1/2 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 Teaspoon salt
• 1/2 Teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 Cup butter
• 3/4 Cup brown sugar, packed
• 1 large egg
• 1 Teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 1/4 Cup quick cooking oats

Instructions

1. Mix the flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and set aside.
   
   
   
2. Cream the butter and brown sugar in a separate bowl. Add the egg and vanilla beat until smooth.
   
   
   
3. Add the dry ingredients gradually and mix until smooth. Add the oats, but don't over-mix.
4. Scoop the dough into balls and place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for approximately one hour.
   
   
   
5. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and bake for 10-12 minutes until golden brown.
6. Cookies will firm up as they cool. 

• READERS: What's your favorite cookie? Let me know in the comments.
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• Thanks to Maddy’s social media savvy, Baby Cakes Bakery is becoming a huge success—so much so that she’s attracted the attention of her former nemesis, the fiancé-stealing Brandy Denton. When Brandy blows into New Bison like an ill wind and disrupts a vlog Maddy’s filming, their argument goes viral. After Brandy’s body is found in the freezer at Baby Cakes, Maddy instantly goes from viral sensation to murder suspect.
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• AS Maddy is still reeling from the murder, a stranger shows up in the bakery claiming to have been a friend of Octavia. He believes Maddy is in danger. When a second body washes up on the lake shore, it seems clear someone’s out to kill to keep a secret—and it may have to do with her great aunt.

Maddy rallies her aunt’s friends, the Baker Street Irregulars; Sheriff April Johnson; and her veterinarian boyfriend Michael—not to mention her English mastiff Baby—to do some digging and root out whoever’s behind the killings. . .

 

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