Craisin Good Cookies and My Ridiculous Cookie Jar

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I made some really good cookies last night and was so excited because they used everything I had in my pantry (and I’m betting you have in yours too), as well as some BOGO Craisins!

My favorite thing about this recipe is that it used all the same size measuring tools – all you’ll need is your 1 cup measurer and 1 teaspoon measurer (is that what those things are called?) I know it’s silly, but I love when I’m baking a recipe and I don’t have to dirty a zillion sized “measurers”, so it make things a little quicker in the kitchen!

Craisin Good Cookies (adapted from Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook)

1 cup softened butter
$1/1 Organic Valley Butter HERE

1 cup white sugar

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 cup quick cook oats
$1/1 HERE

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 eggs
$.50/1 Egglands Best Eggs from 1/17 or 1/31 SS

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon cinnamon
$.75/1 McCormick Spice 1/3 RP or $.25/1 from 1/24 RP

1 teaspoon baking powder
$.40/1 Argo Baking Powder HERE

1 teaspoon baking soda
$.50/2 Arm and Hammer HERE

2 cups Craisins
BOGO $2.29, look for $1/1 Peelie

Heat oven to 350. Beat first together six ingredients with mixer for five minutes on medium speed (it really helps to have a stand mixer for this, if not, set your kids to work holding the mixer!) In a separate bowl, mix next four ingredients (everything but the Craisins) with spoon, and then add 1 cup of mixture at a time to butter mixture. Add in Craisins. Drop by rounded teaspoonful onto baking sheet and bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes. Cool on pan on wire racks for 2 minutes then remove from pan and cool completely on wire racks.

Note – I read a cookbook once that said to tap your cookie sheets on the counter a few times as soon as you take them out of the oven. It kind of helps take the air out, and makes cookies look even yummier!

Now, on to my ridiculous cookie jar. I received this super cute cookie jar as a gift a few years ago and have a love/hate relationship with it! Have you ever had a glass cookie jar? Here’s my predicament: if it’s empty, I feel like I have to fill it (it just looks pitiful empty); if it’s full, I have to eat cookies: it’s a vicious cycle! I love this cookie jar, but ohhhhh it hurts my dieting!