It's Almost Fall Cookies

Ingredients:

I decided to go ahead and post one of my very favorite cookie recipes, "It's Almost Fall" Cookies.

2 Sticks Softened Butter
1 Cup Packed Light Brown Sugar
1/3 Cup Granulated Sugar
2 Large Eggs
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 1/2 Cups AP Flour
1 tsp Baking soda
2 1/2 Cups Quick Cooking Oats
10 oz package Hershey's Cinnamon Chips
1 Cup Golden Raisins
1 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice

Be sure to start preheating that oven to 350F

Step 1:

Begin by softening your butter, especially if you're spontaneous and didn't set your butter out to soften before you started baking.

Step 2:

To a large mixing bowl add the 2 sticks softened butter, 1 cup light brown sugar,...

Step 3:

and 1/3 cup granulated sugar.

Step 4:

Butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar.

Step 5:

Cream together sugars and butter, either by hand or with a mixer or some sort.

Step 6:

Add 2 Eggs.

Step 7:

Add vanilla extract... not that imitation stuff either, do yourself a favor and get the real thing... PURE.

Step 8:

Mix in 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract.

Step 9:

Time for the secret ingredient... a combination of spices known only to those who look forward to tryptophan induced comas. CINNAMON, GINGER, NUTMEG, AND ALLSPICE or the essence of Fall itself.

Step 10:

Add about 1 1/2 tsp of the pumpkin pie spice to the batch and give it another mix.

Step 11:

Last step means the chunky stuff... time to put the hand mixer away and use something like a wooden spoon. However, we don't own a wooden spoon... I say nay to them. I prefer to use a spoon just like my mom used to beat the crap out of me when I misbehaved, mouthed off, or generally made someone's life a living hell.

Step 12:

Add the 1 tsp of Baking Soda, 1 1/2 cups of flour, 1 cup of Golden Raisins, 2 1/2 cups of oatmeal, and the whole 10 oz package of Cinammon chips and mix by hand.

Step 13:

Mmmm... honestly this tastes so awesome right now that I could eat it straight out of the bowl.

Step 14:

Scoop some dough balls out a cookie tray and stick them in the oven for around 14 minutes.

Step 15:

The cookies are always good and remind me of fall back home. Hopefully these cinnamon chips will be making their seasonal re-appearance this fall, because at the moment I cannot find them in the store.