For August 19, Michelle of Bad Girl Baking chose Granola Grabbers on page 82 from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook ‘Baking: From my Home to Yours’. Cookies! I love baking cookies (and eating them). As usual I waited until the last day to bake them. I should have baked them instead of the 7 dozen chocolate chip cookies for the day camp where my daughter worked as a counselor in training.
My husband thought these were ‘healthy’ cookies because of the granola and that they were chocolate chip free. He doesn’t know about the amount of butter used to make these Granola Grabbers. Since I cannot eat peanuts, I substituted sliced almonds instead. Also, I could not find just plain granola so I used granola with honey. I used 1/4 cup less brown sugar and made them smaller than the recipe called for. Donna of Spatulas, Corkscrews and Suitcases wrote a great article on granola which includes a recipe for Honey Raisin and Nut Granola.
They came out really good, although I thought they were just a bit too sweet. The husband is eating them as I am writing this post and I am sure once our daughters come back from the movies, they will sit at the island in the kitchen with a glass of milk each to drink and a mound of cookies to eat as they tell us all about the details of the movie they saw. There’s something to be said about home made cookies – no one can resist eating them!
Thanks Michelle for choosing a cookie recipe. Visit Bad Girls Baking for this delicious cookie recipe. The Tuesdays with Dorie Bakers are sharing their cookies at Tuesdays with Dorie.
Homemade cookies solve all problems, in my opinion. I’m guessing the honey granola is why they tasted almost too sweet, but they were borderline for me as well. They look delicious.
Glad you enjoyed them so much!
yeah….let’s don’t think about the butter. *fingers in my ears* la la la la la…. 🙂
Gorgeous cookies! So, you’ve made … 10 dozen or so this week? No wonder Mrs. Fields is going out of business! 😉
These look delicious! Great job!
yummers… they look perfectly cooked. I cut the sugar, too, and used unsweetened coconut, which helped a bit!
Agree. There’s just something about homemade. Cookies look yummy! Great job!
Clara @ iheartfood4thought
WOW! They look wonderful! And all at the last minute too!
And thanks for the mention and link. You are Way too sweet for your own good!
Homemade cookies really are in a class all their own! There’s nothing like them. I really was surprised by these cookies, not expecting to like them nearly as much as I did. By the way, your Panzanella looks fabulous.
Your cookies look good!
They are healthy! And don’t let me hear you say otherwise! 😉