Garbage Cookies Recipes

MOM'S GARBAGE COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together sugars and shortening. Add in flour, salt and baking soda. Add eggs and mix well. Stir in rest of ingredients and work dough with your hands until mixed.
• Divide dough in 1/2. Place each half on waxed paper. Form two long rolls. Refrigerate 1-2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Slice dough 1/4 inch thick. Place on cookie sheet and bake 10 minutes.

GARBAGE COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees
• In a medium bowl sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
• In a separate large bowl, cream together shortening, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla. Combine well.
• Add flour mixture to wet ingredients and stir until just combined. Then add oats and stir by hand to combine.
• Use 1/4 cup and scoop onto cookie sheet, you should get about 6 per sheet.
• Bake for at least 8 minutes, but most likely will bake for 12 depending on your oven.

KITCHEN SINK COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with Silpat baking mats or parchment paper.
• In a large bowl with a wooden spoon, beat butter, sugar and brown sugar together until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until well blended. Stir in vanilla.
• In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Gradually stir into butter mixture until well blended. Add oats, chips, coconut, raisins, and walnuts, and stir until well blended.
• Drop batter by heaping tablespoons or with a 1 ounce ice-cream scoop onto silpat about 2 inches apart. Press tops down with the bottom of a glass to flatten cookies evenly. Bake until golden, about 16 to 18 minutes. Cool on pan for 2 minutes. Remove from pan, and finish cooling completely on wire rack.

NICKEY'S GARBAGE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine and sift flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
• In a separate bowl, combine oatmeal, bran flakes, pecans, coconut, chocolate chips and cranberries. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream the butter. Add both sugars. Add egg, oil, and vanilla.
• Stir flour mixture into creamed mixture, blending well -- I add a third at a time.
• Add chocolate chips mixture.
• Drop by heaping teaspoonful onto ungreased cookie sheet. [The amount of cookies you get will depend on how large you make them.].
• Bake at 350 until cookies are lightly browned, about 15 minutes depending on your oven. Wait a few minutes then transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.

GARBAGE COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix it all together in a large bowl.
• Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.
• Cool on rack.