Dana Marie's Country Living Blog

I want to share what you can do if you decide you want to make a batch of cookies but open the fridge and realize you are out of eggs. To replace the eggs, add a nut butter or applesauce to your cookie recipe.   For example, my Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe already has 1/2 cup of peanut butter in it, so you can add another 1/2 cup of peanut butter to total 1 cup overall. They come out great, but with a texture all their own - a little more crumbly and with a kind of a melt-in-your-mouth feature. I quite like them.   Another example is oatmeal cookies. Instead of the egg you can add a cup of applesauce. And again, they turn out great.   Oatmeal Cookies Without Eggs As you can see in the photos, these cookies look great too! This is a tip that didn't make it into my new cookie cookbook coming out shortly, so here are the recipes.    Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Without Eggs   Ingredients 1 cup salted butter, softened 1 cup peanut butter 1...

I made these delicious cookies today with semisweet chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, and Peanut M&Ms.® It's kind of one of those cookies that you use what ya got. They are great! You can't tell in the photo but they are big!  For Large Cookies Step 1. I use an ice cream scoop for the big scoop and a regular-sized cookie scoop to add another scoop to the top of the ice cream scoop. Step 2. Then push down slightly on the stacked scoops. By doing this you will make your cookies nice and ooey gooey in the middle and crunchy on the outside. Look for my new cookie cookbook, My Olde Country Home: Vintage Cookie Recipes , coming out soon on Amazon. You can get a sneak-peek of the book  here . This big cookie is not in it, so I will share the recipe with you.  M&M®, Semisweet and Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients 1/2 cup salted butter 1/2 cup shortening 1-1/2 cups brown sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking ...