You will also need: Baking Parchment Paper Plastic Cocktail Swords Toothpicks/Sammich Picks Scissors Firstly, heat the oven to 350F/180C. Check. Beat together margarine, brown sugar an' granulated sugar until creamy.

Add eggs an' vanilla; beat well.

Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon an' salt; mix well.

Stir in oats and raisins; mix well.

Drop rounded tablespoonfuls onto an un-greased cookie sheet and press thumb in middle to flatten. Mold the dough into roughly boat-like shapes. The dough will spread out as the cookies bake, but they'll hold the shape to some degree.

Bake cookies for 10-15 minutes, or until golden brown! Anchors away, mateys!

And chopped up a bunch of parchment paper into two sizes (small and large sails) and cut the toothpicks in half, discarding the non-pointy ended half.

15 minutes later, golden brown perfection!

Then I slid a large sail onto each of the half-toothpicks, and a small then large sail onto each plastic sword. I'm going for a galleon-esque design.

Jab 'em into place and I'm ready to sail my fleet into war! The recipe makes roughly two dozen sea-worthy vessels.

The Great Battle of 10:35pm, pitting the great USS California Golden against its bitter arch rival, HMS Bac-Os.

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