Tuesdays with Dorie: Granola Grabbers

      This week's Tuesdays with Dorie recipe, from the cookbook Baking:  From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan, is Granola Grabbers, can be found on pages 82-83, and was chosen by Michelle of 

Bad Girl Baking. 

 

      What a great name for a cookie!  I was excited when I first saw it posted...if there is anything around here, food-wise, that is grabbed by teenage boys and husband alike, as one is headed out the door, it would be cookies. 

      Mark's favorite breakfast fare is cookies.  He eats cookies more times than not for breakfast.  (This, I believe, is left over from his college days when he would sleep until the last possible second, or maybe one or two beyond that even, and then madly dress, grab either cookies or a couple of spoonfuls of applesauce, and head out the door for class.  Some things never change...he still operates that way here most mornings.  Mark is not, by any stretch of anyone's imagination, a morning person in any regard whatsoever.  I cannot speak for his college days, but I can tell you this is 30 years experience of married life speaking.) 

      Matt and Alex inhale cookies by the dozens.  These, my friends, are GREAT cookies.  Guaranteed to disappear faster (almost) than one can place them on racks to cool.   (Photo is of cookies cooling nicely as boys were out of the house...the recipe made 45 cookies...one obviously missing as it was the "test cookie."  Come on, we all make the cookies in the first place so we can have the test one, right?) 

      Dorie's recipe comes together easy and fast, as promised, bakes exactly as she suggests, and produces very wonderful cookies.  What's in them?  Okay, here's the class list:  Granola, Peanuts, Almonds, Raisins, Coconut, Wheat Germ, and all the usual lineup of butter, sugar, brown sugar, egg, salt, and flour.  Surprisingly enough, baking soda and/or baking powder were not on call, but yet the cookies were nice and rounded, maybe the egg's job in this recipe.  I noticed on the TWD site that a few people were commenting on the dryness of the raisins and how they wished they had soaked them first, so I am including the raisin package in the photo at the left as I have found these "Baking Raisins" to be just the right item for recipes calling for raisins.  They are moist and small, which is really nice for baking.

      If you would like to make and bake these in your own kitchen, just click on Michelle's site above as she will have the recipe posted at some point today.  Better yet, just buy the book and you will be ready to go with a flick of the wrist and your page-turning fingers.  Really, you'll want the book. 

      Next week's recipe is Chocolate-Banded Ice Cream Torte, can be found on pages 288-289, and was chosen by Amy of Food, Family, and Fun. 

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