Easy Cooking Recipe: Cookies

Most people love cookies, and they are a great thing to have made around the house, for when family and friends stop by. You don't have to spend hours slaving over a stove to make delicious cookies, and in fact there are some great easy cooking recipe ideas for cookies that you can use, just as there is an easy cake recipe you could follow.

There are a couple of easy cooking recipe ideas for cookies in particular that you are sure to be interested in trying out.

Heavenly Cookies

For this heavenly cookies easy cooking recipe, all you need is 2 cups flour, 1 cup + 1 tablespoon vegetable oil or melted butter, 1 + ¾ cups confectioners sugar, ½ teaspoon vanilla, 1 tablespoon cocoa powder, 1 tablespoon ginger, pinch of salt, and silvered almond, pistachio and chocolate chips to decorate.

Now for this easy cooking recipe you want to preheat the oven to 350ºF, sift the flour with salt and set aside. Now you mix the oil with the powdered sugar, beat well for a couple of minutes, add vanilla and continue beating for a few more minutes. Add the flour slowly in multiple additions, and mix well after each addition.

Divide the dough that you have created into three, and add the ginger powder on to one part, the cocoa powder to another and the last one will be left plain.

Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper, make balls of dough, and put on baking sheet about 2 inches apart so they will not melt together while they are baking. Now you just bake them until they are finished, and they should be golden brown around the edges.

This is just one easy cooking recipe idea and you need to remember that there are many others out there you can try as well. There are lots of great recipes out there that you are sure to love, and you can try out as many as you want. Your family is going to love you and enjoy eating all these delicious goodies, just make sure that you know what your family's food preferences are so that you know which recipes they will enjoy and which they will not.

Cooking can be a lot of fun, but if you don't have the time or skill for it, you can still enjoy it by following easy to make recipes, which are available everywhere. You can also throw a couple of your own ingredients into each to make them unique and really your own.