Best Garbage Cookies Recipes

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.

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.

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.

KAREN'S GARBAGE COOKIES!

Steps:

• Cream shortening and sugars; add eggs and vanilla.
• Sift together dry ingredients.
• Mix well and add "garbage", 2 Celsius of any of the following:.
• oatmeal, rice krispies, chocolate chips, coconut, chopped nuts, raisins, dates, M & M's, Reese's Pieces, chopped apricots, or whatever sounds good to you! Mix and match!
• Bake at 375 F for 10-12 minutes.

ED'S CHICAGO GARBAGE COOKIES (AMARETTO)

Steps:

• ** SOAKING DATES AND RAISINS: For best results, soak the raisins and dates in the amaretto and water for 24 hours or up to a week or more in a glass or plastic container with an airtight lid. (Trust me. This is worth it!) .
• HARDWARE: 2 cookie sheets (the 13 x 9 inch variety or larger), BAKING PARCHMENT! IT TOTALLY RULES!, A big 'ol wooden spoon. (a new spoon is also fine), An ice cream scoop or a really strong metal tablespoon (or both), A "REALLY BIG" GLASS or METAL BOWL (You can also use a KitchenAid-type mixer.).
• DIRECTIONS- **IF YOU ADD EVERYTHING AT ONCE, IT WILL BE REALLY HARD TO MIX SO PLEASE USE THE INGREDIENT SEPARATIONS I'VE LISTED BELOW:.
• CREAM SOFTENED BUTTER AND COMBINE WITH BROWN SUGAR.
• THEN ADD EGGS and vanilla extract.
• MIX WELL, THEN ADD salt, baking soda, and slowly mix in the flour .
• MIX THE DOUGH UNTIL EVERYTHING IS COMBINED,.
• THEN ADD: maple syrup (a few squirts from the syrup bottle is fine), peanut butter, and slowly mix in the Rolled/Quick Oats.
• MIX WELL, THEN FOLD IN (don't over mix) the RAISIN, DATE and AMARETTO/water* mixture.
• (*only use water if you soaked the dates and raisins).
• Add butterscotch and semi-sweet chocolate chips.
• Refrigerate the dough for at least an hour.
• MAKES ABOUT 3 QUARTS OF COOKIE DOUGH.
• ARE YOU READY TO BAKE COOKIES?.
• PREHEAT THE OVEN TO 350 °F. (use an oven thermometer in your oven to make sure your oven is at 350).
• Line your cookie sheet with the baking parchment. TRUST ME, YOU WANT TO USE BAKING PARCHMENT. NO GREASING NECESSARY (if you don't have parchment paper, you can do the greasing thing on your cookie sheet).
• With a good metal tablespoon or icecream scoop, Scoop out golfball size balls of dough and place them about an inch and a half apart or more on the sheet. You can fit about 9-12 cookies on each sheet.
• Keep the unused dough cold until you're ready to use it. (the warmer the dough is, the more it will spread out).
• If you're waiting for the first batch to bake, refrigerate the unused dough. You'll be much happier with the results.
• Bake 18 to 20 minutes for soft, 22-24 minutes for crispy. (times are approximate).
• Perfect cookies are light golden brown and just barely golden brown around the edges.
• ** ALL OVENS ARE DIFFERENT! WATCH YOUR COOKIES! **.
• DO NOT LEAVE THE KITCHEN! DO NOT LEAVE THE HOUSE!
• DO NOT LEAVE ON VACATION WHILE THESE ARE BAKING!
• ** VERY IMPORTANT! : AFTER BAKING, SLIDE THE PARCHMENT FULL OF COOKIES OFF THE PAN VERY GENTLY ONTO A COOLING RACK OR TABLE, COUNTER TOP, ETC.
• *DO NOT TAKE COOKIES OFF THE PARCHMENT until they set up!*. The soft cookies will be VERY FRAGILE right out of the oven, so wait about 3-5 minutes before removing them from the parchment.
• After they cool a bit, they will slide right off the parchment paper. When the cookies are done, keep them in an airtight container or ziploc bag.
• DON'T EAT THEM ALL! SAVE SOME FOR ME!