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.
stop making such adorable desserts… it’s making the rest of us look lame 🙂
Oddly enough, I was not much of a cook as a kid–I mostly just decorated cookies in the kitchen:)
I never baked with the kids I babysat for, they probably would have shut me in the oven. But I did feed them, peanut butter & jam sandwiches were the only way to make them go to sleep!! Your cookie balls look really tasty, I may have to make some, though maybe less patriotic.
Weird thing, I was reading back over some of your old posts & comments and saw you were born in Pembury hospital, that’s about 5 miles from where I live, small world eh? Damn now I sound like a stalker. Anyway going now!!
Are you serious?! Oh my gosh too cool! It’s so beautiful there… of course, I was 5 the last time I was lucky enough to visit. But maybe next time I go, I can meet you! Haha who’s the stalker now? 😉
It is pretty beautiful 🙂 though I think sometimes I take it for granted!
Let me know when you come visit!! I’ll bring cupcakes!
I hated cooking when I was young. My mother would work late and I’d have to make dinner for my sister and I. Chocolate chip pancakes or macaroni with a can of tomatoes. Either or. Every night. Now I love it!
Sooooo cute! I’ll bet your little helpers were soooo happy!
I loved to bake cookies when I was younger. Every Christmas/Hannukah, my mother and I would make holiday cookies for all of my teachers. My favorite part was definitely the frosting. We’d turn the frostings into different colors: Red, Green, Blue and Yellow. I was always shocked when they all tasted the same 😉
Happy 4th!
I can definitely think of worse things those little girls could be doing! lol. I loved playing in the kitchen and cooking as a child. My Grandma was just telling me today about how I would pull a chair up to the counter and play in the spice rack for hours.
These are super patriotic…love it!
Have a great 4th of July Katie!!
(wish I was at the party and could try the dessert u make!!! :D)
I loved to cook when I was a kid – but couldn’t make anything that difficult, of course.
I loved making & decorating pizza (especially getting to knead the homemade dough that my aunt would make) and baking cookies. I loved licking spoons with drippy batter. MM…and no-bake cookies….
One of my most vivid memories of my childhood is making little mochi-ish balls with my mom & decorating them to look like eyeballs for Halloween. 🙂
I loved to bake as a kid with my mom – my favorite is our special chocolate chip cookie recipe.