BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe

Subject: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 10:56 AM

If anyone has come here because his or her cookie won't reset, this is the wrong place. : ) Some people on ICQ last night had expressed an interest in my non-electronic chocolate chip cookie recipe, but I got booted from ICQ before I could give it. So...here it is.

Ingredients:
3 eggs
1 lb. light brown sugar
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
2 tbs. vanilla
1 lb. butter, softened
6 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
2 12 oz. packages Ghirardelli choc chips (one bag semi-sweet, one bag milk chocolate)I use Ghirardelli because the chips are bigger, but that's really just a personal preference)
5 cups walnut chunks
1/2 cup Kahlua

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350. In one bowl, beat eggs until frothy. Four into large mixing bowl. Really large. This makes a lot of batter. Add softened butter to eggs. Add sugars and vanilla and mix to combine. Add 1/4 cup of Kahlua and mix in well. Now measure out the six cupos of flour, Sifting each cup into a yet another bowl as you measure. Once all six cups are measured and sifted, add salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Mix well with a fork or whisk. Now add the dry ingredients slowly (about one cup at a time) to the egg mixture. Periodically mix in the remaining 1/4 cup of Kahlua. Once batter is done, fold chocolate chips and nuts into mixture. (Be sure to use a sturdy spoon...a friend of mine broke the handle off of a wooden spoon in this batter!)
Line a cookie sheet with wax paper and use an ice cream scoop to drop batter onto paper. (I can usually fit about 6 cookies on a cookie sheet.) Bake the cookies for 15 minutes and let them cool for at least 5 before attempting to move them. Makes about 50 cookies.
Hope you enjoy them!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: sophocleese
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:09 AM

Wow! That's quite recipe there Caitrin. I'm still jush catshing upp on the hot ruttered bum that Joe gave us. Cookies with Kaaaahlua would be an addishun. Tanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: GUEST,Mbo
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:15 AM

Mmmmm...cookies! Sounds great, Caitrin. I'm well known to be a connisseur of cookies--and these sound GREAT!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:27 AM

How do you Four things into a bowl? One bowl? Four bowls? I want these cookies! :>)

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:50 AM

Oops. That would be "pour". Sorry. Proofread everyting, as one of my favorite doonesbury cartoons says.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 12:37 PM

OOOOOOOHHHHHH . . . AAAAAAHHHHHH . . . MMMMMMMMMMM . . .

These are great! Thank you mucho, Caitrin!!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 03:03 PM

Caitrin, thanks and I bet they taste delicious but what is Kahlua?

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Allan C.
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 03:13 PM

Jon, look here.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 03:14 PM

You should be able to find it in the nearest liquor store -- it's a coffee-flavored alcohol, strong and tropical tasting. Used for really fancy-pants drinks with little umbrellas in them!! .

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 03:16 PM

coffee liquor. MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmgood!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Peg
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 03:22 PM

so when is the Mudcat cookbook coming out?

my contributions would include:

Venison Meatloaf

Cream of Mushroom Soup with Champagne and Tarragon

Grasshopper Brownies

Cheddar-Cauliflower-Bacon Quiche

bon appetit peg

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 03:34 PM

Thanks for the info and Allan for the link. Can't say I've ever seen it though - I'll have to try it if I do if I do find it... although maybe we don't have it in North Wales - I don't know, I loose track with a lot of the drinks - most of the time, I'm just a simple, bitter/stout/cider/whisky drinker...

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 03:34 PM

Peg - there is a thread for MudCat cookbook - do a search and add your recipes!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Jeri
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 05:05 PM

Peg - the most recent cookbook thread is here. I'm supposed to be compiling all the threads and sorting things into categories and whatnot. I got started on this and have been very slow working on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:09 PM

Jon, one time I was making these and only had about 1/4 cup of Kahlua, and I substituted bourbon for the rest...it might work for the whole half cup. Or maybe Bailey's Irish Cream...It's at least worth a shot.
Glad you liked them, Aine!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: The Shambles
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:10 PM

Are there any contributions from the Cakes Maid?

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:31 PM

Caitrin, I doubt that Baileys would get as far as the cookie mix...

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:32 PM

I been drooling over this sucker all day. I continue to resist the temptation to go to the store.

I will not go to the store.
I will not go to the store.
I will not go to the store.
I will not go to the store.
I will not go to the store.
I will not go to the store.
I will not go to the store.
Fockit..I'm going to the store.
I will NOT go to the store.
I will NOT go to the store.
I will not go to the store.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:35 PM

Give in spaw,

You WILL go to the store

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:36 PM

*L* You've got to work on that willpower, Jon! These are good cookies, I promise! Although I can't honestly say how they'd taste with Bailey's.
And 'spaw, they're definitely worth a trip to the store!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:46 PM

Whoa! These are booze cookies? What a concept! You know you can make cake with Coca-Cola?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: sophocleese
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 06:56 PM

Popular, but misguided, wisdom also suggests that you can kill sperm with Coca Cola, does this mean you can have your cake and eat it too?

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 07:05 PM

I don't want to hear another word from anyone about ME around this place....Not another word. Soph, that really was hard to swallow.......

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 07:09 PM

'SPaw you is SECH a bad possum-blower. I wouldn't think you'd find anything hard to swallow after all your time cruising the MudCat side of town.
.
I for one am making these cookies, ice-scream scoop and all, and will report back on how hard (or otherwise) they are to swallow..
.
A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Willie-O
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 07:38 PM

"We don't eat cookies, cause cookies have yeast.
One little bite turns a man to a beast..."

apparently, it doesn't even take the bite...

W-O

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 07:51 PM

*shakes head in dismay* Y'all are bad, bad people. : )

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 08:00 PM

Oh can you imagine, a sorrier sight?
Then a man eating Cookies until he gets tight!!!

Ah, well, that's virtual reality for you!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 10:55 PM

Been to the store yet, 'spaw?

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 10:59 PM

'Ach, the poor creature,' said the red-haired woman as she watched the weaving saggy butted tortoise attempt to make his way home from the liquor store. 'And to think all he wanted was a wee bottle of the sweet brown stuff for his cookies,' she sighed, shaking her head.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Alice
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:13 PM

gee, we used to make these brownies with stuff in them when I was in college........

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:16 PM

You roomates with Alice B. Toklas?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Alice
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:17 PM

The classic Alice B. Toklas cookbook... I thought every tie-dyed in the wool hippie girl had that brownie recipe.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Jan 00 - 11:55 PM

Ya know Alice, the LAST grass I did was in some really fudgy Brownies and I found myself going something just over 10 mph on I-70 with one part of my brain saying "Speed up Asshole, the cops are goin' ta gitcha'" while the other part screamed "TOO FAST!!!"

I figured that would about do it....until the next night when my friend baked another batch and I was riding home at 3 AM on my 903 and kept looking down 'cause I thought my feet were on fire.

Spaw (and I didn't go to the store...its too damn cold)

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Alice
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 07:47 AM

Well, Spaw, thank God my college days are long ago and far away.... I wish I had never been exposed to the brownie crowd. (Sorry for diverging, Caitrin, your recipe sounds great.)

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Allan C.
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 08:01 AM

I have diverged once or twice myself, Alice. Kinda liked it!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 09:24 AM

I hate to disappoint you, but the closest the cookies will come to messing anyone's brain up is the large amount of sugar and chocolate in 'em. : ) That half cup of Kahlua is awfully spread out.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: MMario
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 09:27 AM

It's the thought that counts. And I bet they would be fantasmagoricalistic! with Baileys....

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 09:58 AM

It's snowing here again today...and when stuff falls outa the sky, your'e s'posed to bake somethng, my mama always said, so I AM going to the store!! Two of them actually, because of our booze laws. NO BOOZE in grocery stores, the kiddies might see it!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 10:10 AM

All right Sorcha! We all expect a full report (full of cookie crumbs, that is) on the cookies and your state of mind after imbibing, I mean, consuming, them.

-- Áine (staring at the ice on the driveway and cursing the sleet gods!)

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Bert
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 11:06 AM

Of course it's not the cookies that are the problem, it's what you do with the rest of the bottle after you've poured the 1/2 cup into the dough.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 12:25 PM

That is a PROBLEM??

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Alice
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 01:11 PM

Kahlua and cream.... Very nice evening treat, and it is not one with an umbrella. I think I have a Kahlua recipe around somewhere. Friends made it as Christmas gifts one year and gave the recipe along with the bottle. The best price on Kahlua, of course, is in Mexico... and no guzano (worm) in the bottom like mescal has.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 06:24 PM

**************CAITRIN'S KAHLUA COOKIE UPDATE!************* LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I am here to tell you this is the BEST chocolate chip cookie recipe I have ever tried. I split the recipe in 1/2, and made 1/2 with Kahlua and 1/2 with Bailey's....both are aboslutely SCRUMPTIOUS!!!Nice and chewy, and full of chocolate!! I think I actually prefer the Bailey's ones, just a hint of Irish Cream.....ummm, good. Definitely worth a trip to the store. Oh, yeah, the little airline size mini bottles are exactly 1/4 cup each, so all you people who are worried about leftovers, just buy the little ones instead. BTW, the recipe halves beautifully. THANKS, CAITRIN!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 07:22 PM

I'm so glad you liked them, Sorcha! I'm going to give the Bailey's cookies a shot. And I'd never tried halving them, so that's good to know, too. : )

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Áine
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 07:29 PM

Ok, Sorcha, so we know *you* liked them . . . what about those little fellas in knee britches that started dancing around the kitchen after you'd eaten about six of these sinful delights? Did the whirring wings of the wee women flying about your face distract you from your consumption of same? What about that funny looking white horse in the garden?

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Mbo
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 07:39 PM

And what about the pink spiders--with stripes?

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Alice
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 07:53 PM

Mbo, you mean the pink spiders the size of elephants? Seriously, Caitrin, as soon as I trim off that last 5 pounds, the first sugar binge I will go on will be with your cookies... promise.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 08:49 PM

Well, the Little Guys tend to stay out of sight in my kitchen lest they get stepped on or run over by frapping Corgis. I can however, testify that 15 yr old females can eat more than six. The gentleman with the "Enhanced Grain Storage Center" is sleeping, so he hasn't tried them yet. It's so cold here that I think all the bahn-sidhe's have hibernated for the winter in empty Bailey's bottles. Mbo & Alice-- I DO NOT have either pink elephants or spiders in my kitchen....I relegate same to the desolate garden. Kitchen space is reserved for empty Bailey's bottles.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: GUEST,Rayvon
Date: 28 Jan 00 - 10:21 PM

Oh can you imagine a greater disgrace, Than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face.

Subject: RE: BS: Caitrin's Cookie Recipe
From: Caitrin
Date: 29 Jan 00 - 08:37 PM

Oh can you think of a sorrier vision
than one crumb of these cookies left for the pigeons?

Ok, so the rhyme is a little shaky. : )