Cowboy Oatmeal Cookies

Sorry for my absence those past days - I was apartment hunting in Vienna, or more precisely taking a look at the apartment that was already promised to me via internet. Skype makes it possible.
I am really happy that I finally found something that seems nice. So much trouble with pets and nudists - both are not really my favorite flatmates.
Besides doing a short trip to Vienna I spent the time in the “Weinviertel” in the Wachau, Austria. A lovely region for everyone who likes good wine, good food and a picturesque landscape. I definitely consider myself as more of city person I sometimes love to get out in the nature and take a break from the everyday life. But more of this trip in the next post.

Before leaving I made cowboy oatmeal cookies. Great recipe for basic outmeal cookies. I just put in whatever I found in the kitchen that day. So one is very flexible with the ingredients.

Have a wonderful day,
Annika

Cowboy Oatmeal Cookies
(makes about 25 medium sized cookies)

Ingredients

125 g/ 1/2 cup butter
125 g/ 1/2 cup brown sugar
125 g/ 1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
vanilla
lemon zest
250 g/ 1 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 baking powder
pinch salt
125 g/ 1/2 cup oats
125 g/ 1/2 cup white chocolate chips
125 g/ 1/2 cup butterscotch chocolate chips
60 g/ 1/4 cup cranberries
60 g/ 1/4 cup brittle chips

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius/ 350 degree Fahrenheit
2. Beat butter, brown sugar and white sugar until creamy.
3. Add egg, lemon zest and vanilla and stir until well blended.
4. Mix in all dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
5. Fold in the brittle chips, butterscotch chips, white chocolate chips and oats.
6. Place tablespoon sized balls of dough on the baking sheet.
7. Bake for 8 minutes until the edges are golden brown.

White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies

Sun is out - and the end of the exam period is in sight!
What else do I want. I am so excited for tomorrow noon: I will be able to do all the things I haven’t had time for during the last weeks: go out, see friends, go shopping, do some paperwork, hang out in the garden, read books (I have accumulated a very big pile), plan vacation, look for an apartment in Vienna and obviously bake ;)

I really like those cookies - white chocolate and cranberry. A combination that you don’t get too often. At least in Germany. We are not that much of a cranberry nation. We don’t even have a German name for them. But the berries give the cookies the special twist…!
So give them a try.

Enjoy the sun and have a wonderful day, 
Annika

White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies
(makes 30 cookies)

Ingredients

250 g/ 1 cup butter, room-temperature
125 g/ 1 cup confectioner’s sugar
2 tsp vanilla sugar
2 cup flour
pinch salt
125 g/ 1/2 cup white chocolate chips
90 g/ 3/4 cup cranberries

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius/ 350 degree Fahrenheit.
2. Mix the butter and confectioner’s sugar.
3. Add vanilla sugar, flour and salt.
4. Fold in the white chocolate chips and the cranberries.
5. Make a log of dough with a diameter of 3 to 4 centimeters.
6. Place the log on plastic wrap.
7. Put the dough in the fridge for about an hour.
8. Cut the log into 1 cm thick cookies.
9. Place on a baking sheet.
10. Bake for 10 minutes until golden brown.