Breakfast Cookies
“This is one of my family’s favorite cookie recipes. I hope you like them, too." -- Karen Mathis, Auburn
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup margarine, softened
1 cup extra fine sugar
1 cup light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups plain flour
2 1/2 cups oatmeal, ground into flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
12 oz. white chocolate chips
8 oz. dried cranberries
1 1/2 cups nuts of choice, chopped
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cream margarine with sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. Sift dry ingredients and add to mixture. Oatmeal can be ground into flour by pulsing oats in a food processor. Stir in chocolate chips, cranberries and nuts. Roll into balls. Bake on lined pans, two inches apart. Bake in oven for 10 minutes.
Makes about 5 dozen cookies.