Cookie Dough Balls coming atcha!
Full speed ahead.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Chefs in Training
Last Friday, I once again babysat for the two little girls I mentioned a few posts back. I love babysitting for them, and I never thought I’d say that because babysitting has never been my favorite thing. But these girls are just so much fun. It’s not like work at all; it’s more like hanging out with my friends.
On Friday night, we made Cookie Dough Balls.
The recipe is so simple that I was curious as to just how much time it takes, from start to finish. So I set a timer. Including baking time, the cookies were done in ten minutes flat! Of course, I did have two of the world’s greatest helpers. Yesterday, the girls’ mom informed me that I’ve created a monster (or rather two monsters). Apparently they spent all day in the kitchen, making cookie dough balls!
The recipe is the same as my Funfetti cookie dough balls. But I’m posting it again below for your convenience, so you don’t have to click over.
Patriotic Cookie Dough Balls
Based off the recipe for Single-Lady Cookies.
- 5 level teaspoons oat flour or white flour (18g)
- scant 1/16th tsp baking soda
- 1/16th tsp salt (less if using margarine)
- 2 tsp oil or pre-melted margarine (can do a fat-free version, but they’ll be cake-ier)
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1-2 tsp sprinkles
- 12 or so chocolate chips (or raisins, nuts, etc)
- sweetener (My testers liked 1 tsp brown + 1 tsp white sugar. Xylitol works too.)
- 1 tsp milk of choice, or as needed (Don’t use water.)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Combine dry ingredients, then add wet and mix with a fork. Form into three little balls (Do not smush.) Cook for 8-9 minutes. (Take out when still a bit undercooked, so they don’t get hard.) If not eating right away, store in a lidded plastic container to keep soft.
Question of the Day:
Did you like to cook when you were a kid?
I did! One of the first “recipes” I ever created was some type of bean soup. My poor family… I made them eat multiple bowls of my soup every day.
I also liked making: 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Balls.
Those are so cute! I love it!
Those are so cute Katie — and I love the red/blue star garland 🙂 Makes me think of the fake flowers!
I did like to cook when I was a kid — I’d always help my dad with dinner ( usually making the crescent rolls or other biscuits) or my mom if she had to make cookies or something. Licking the beaters was the best part!
Seriously, EVERY time I take photos with fake flowers, I think of you! It makes me smile :).
Lately I’ve been into ribbon… but I need to get back into the fake flowers. They’re feeling neglected!
I really enjoyed cooking as a kid! I was very lucky as my mother was very encouraging – she got me kids’ cookery books and little aprons and baking tools. She would also give me little bits of pastry or dough anytime she was baking to play with before making my own mini dessert!
My favourite things to make were cupcakes, cookies, Rice Krispy cakes, granola and fruit crumbles. So not much has changed 🙂
My family officially hates rice krispie squares because I made them so often haha. These looks delish though! very patriotic 🙂
Awwww! How fun 😀
And I also enjoyed cooking when I was little! Never missed a chance to bake some cookies for my family 😀 And back then-they were not healthy-and they were full of sugar! ha! How times have changed…
I liked to help my mommy in the kitchen all the time when I was a kid! Especailly when she was baking a cake cause that ment I’d get to lick the bowl and the beaters and help frost it 🙂
I think I’ve literally been in the kitchen since I was bron…..my earliest memories are actualyl of me in the jitchen helping my mom bake cakes, chop veggies, and stir sauces! So I definitely looove to cook! I am probably in the kitchen more than any other room in my house!
oops! so many typos there! Born* actually* Kitchen*
Addddorable! Sprinkles are mah fave 🙂
I loved to cook! In fact, when I was in first grade (when I first got interested), my grandma got me this alphabet cookbook. I think it was sold by a cereal company and the recipes were like “Z” is for “Z”ebra Cookies and “P” is for “P”izza Pockets. It single-handedly launched me into cooking. I still have a copy. 🙂
I’d say I made a lot of no-bake cookies and chocolate chip-oatmeal cookies. Haha. And for the no-bakes I’d have to stand on a chair to be able to stir them!! Good times. Got me into a lifelong hobby!
I used to love making cakes, especially these ones called mooncakes. Not sure why they were called that, they were little chocolate chip cupcakes with lemon icing, but I made them so much, I still know the recipe now!