>>Hilah: Hey there!
I am Hilah, and today on Hilah Cooking I want to show you my new favorite oatmeal cookie
recipe.
This one has apples in it and toffee bits, and it’s kind of, it’s a borderline kind
of like cookie/granola bar because of the apples and everything I think, you know, you
could in maybe some universe say it’s healthy enough for breakfast.
I don’t know, maybe you could.
It sure does go good with coffee.
That’s what I am telling you, ok.
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[Apple Oatmeal Toffee Cookie Recipe]
>>Hilah: We are going to start out with creaming some butter.
This is just butter that is kind of been out on the counter for about an hour just to get
nice and soft, so kind of a medium speed.
I am just trying to kind of fluff it up, incorporate a little bit of air into it.
Ok, that looks good, and now we are going to add some brown sugar and a little tip,
you’ll notice this brown sugar looks a little bit weird.
I realized too late that I actually was almost out of brown sugar, so what I did was, um,
just the right amount of white sugar to make up the difference and then added a tablespoon
of molasses, so I, I actually did a quarter cup of brown sugar and then a half cup of
white sugar with a tablespoon of molasses, so it is a good trick to remember if, you
know, during baking season when you tend to kind of run out of things a lot, so molasses
and sugar makes brown sugar.
There you go, tip trick.
I will just cream this together until it’s smooth and fluffy.
Smooth and fluffy!
Never mind [laughs].
Ok, that looks good.
So, there is not lumps of brown sugar.
It’s everything is mixed up together.
It kind of looks like very wet sand or mud, and now I can add an egg, and our vanilla.
I am just going to eyeball it, bloop!
Get that combined.
Alright, and once this is kind of smooth, I am going to turn the heat down, or turn
the speed down to low and just kind of scoop my, this is all my dry ingredients; baking
soda, baking powder, flour, and nice herbs and spices, not herbs, just spices.
Just add this slowly just so it doesn't like splatter everywhere, and if you wanted to
you could use whole wheat flour and make these actually pretty healthy, and we can add our
oatmeal the same way, and I am just using rolled oats, obviously you don’t want to
use like steel cut oats because those are like little rocks, but rolled oats or quick
oats are fine, and then some diced apple.
I am using a gala apple because that is what I like, and that is what I have on hand, but
a granny smith apple would be great too, pretty much any kind of apple you like, get those
mixed in, and then some toffee bits, and you can buy these in a bag like where your chocolate
chips and stuff are.
If you can’t find them for some reason, you could get one of those like a Heath Bar,
or a Score Bar, those chocolate covered toffee bars, put it in the freezer for like 30 minutes
to get it really hard, and then leave it in the package and just smash on the counter
like you are trying to kill it, and then it will break into a bunch of pieces and you
can use that instead, so a little bit of those.
This looks great, and if you wanted to add some walnuts you could do that too, actually
pecans would be good, and then I am ready to portion.
So I have just got a baking sheet here, and I have just lined it with some parchment paper.
If you don’t have parchment paper, you can just lightly oil your baking sheet a little
bit.
I really like using parchment paper, especially when it is holiday time and I am going to
be like baking cookies all day because when they are done you can just let them cool just
enough to touch the paper and then lift the whole thing off, and you have your baking
sheet ready to use again, so it save a little bit of time, and you can also re-use parchment
paper three or four times, so I am just kind of maybe like a tablespoon size blobs.
Ok, awesome.
I am just going to put these in the oven for about 10-12 minutes.
Alright, these are done, still kind of soft in the middle, the edges are getting toasty,
so you just want to cool them off on a rack.
I am just going to transfer all these over here, and I can smell the melty toffee, ok,
they are so hot, but I am going to try one anyway.
Look at that, nice.
So, when these cool off they are going to get a little bit chewy, like, you know, like
a good oatmeal cookie in my opinion, but right now they are a little bit caky because they
are so warm, but I am going to go ahead and taste it for ya.
These cookies are so awesome you guys.
Oh, my God, look how big my eyes are.
Um, it’s true.
So, these are just so good.
They are cinnamon and almost like an apple-cinnamon muffin or something with the toffee chunks
in there.
It’s really, really good, and it makes your house smell delicious, so I hope you try it.
If you have any questions, leave them below in the comments.
I will get to them as soon as I can over at Hilah Talking, and you can find a printable
recipe at hilahcooking.com, and also if you have any other favorite cookies, you can leave
those in the comments too, I would love to hear what ya’ll like to eat, so thanks for
watching, and have a great day, and eat them cookies, eat them cookies, cookies is good
for you.
That’s not true.
Cookies are not that good for you, but they are good tasting!
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