Hyacinth’s jewels—renamed “Everything Cookies” by yours truly because they have lots of delightful stuff in them and because I didn’t like their given name, “Garbage Cookies.” These cookies are flavorful, satisfying, and chock full of delicious dried fruit, crunchy nuts, and all the good things in life.
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- Yields:
- 36 serving(s)
- Prep Time:
- 20 mins
- Cook Time:
- 10 mins
- Total Time:
- 30 mins
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 c. Butter
- 1 1/2 c. Sugar
- 2 c. Brown Sugar
- 4 whole Eggs
- 2 tsp. Vanilla
- 4 1/4 c. Flour
- 4 tsp. Baking Soda
- 1 tsp. Salt
- 1 1/3 c. Quick Oats
- 3 c. Quaker Granola (oats And Honey, Yellow Box)
- 1 1/2 c. Chopped Pecans
- 1 1/2 c. Cran-raisins
- 1 1/2 c. Apricots
Directions
- Cream butter and sugars. Add egg and vanilla. Next add flour, baking soda, and salt. Add in oatmeal and granola. Fold in pecans and other ingredients.
With cookie scoop or two spoons, drop onto cookie sheet and bake at 375 for 10 minutes. Eat—and feel unguilty because there’s no chocolate in this cookie.
Hyacinth came over with her brood and her ingredients and her dadgum Bosch Mixer the other day, and we spent the afternoon baking cookies. You’ve seen mine—the silly little colorful numbers that could only be created by a middle child. But Hyacinth’s jewels—renamed “Everything Cookies” by yours truly because they have lots of delightful stuff in them and because I didn’t like their given name, “Garbage Cookies.” If you ever saw my garbage, you’d understand why I don’t really want to associate anything about it with a delightful cookie.
Problem is, I was so absorbed in my silly little cookie project that I kept forgetting to take photos of Hyacinth’s able hands at work. Plus, she works so dadgummed fast, she knocked hers out in about thirteen seconds—not nearly enough time for be to get the detailed shots I normally crave. But Hyacinth is always fun to watch in the kitchen. C’mon. I’ll show you.
Hyacinth’s Cast of Characters: butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour, baking soda, oatmeal, salt, granola, pecans, Cran-Raisins, and dried apricots. Get ready for wholesome goodness, folks!
Zing! Whiz! Zip! In seven seconds flat, and in her Bosch mixer that makes me covet my neighbor’s goods, Hyacinth has just mixed butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla. My girl is QUICK. She’s very Type A and I’m not.
Then she mixed in the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, and salt, and realized that since she’d doubled the recipe, she wasn’t going to have any room left for all the other delightful ingredients. Even a Bosch mixer has its limits.
So I mosied into the pantry and fetched her one of my large stainless bowls. Then she transferred the dough and resumed the onslaught of ingredients. First came the Cran-raisins. Craisins? Cranbraisins? Cranberaisins? Raisincrans? Raisinberrycrans? (You realize I could keep this up forever, don’t you?)
Then came the quick oats.
Whoosh! Then came the granola. Mmmm…how can you go wrong with granola?
And then—oh, man—Hyacinth chopped up some apricots in no time flat. And we’re running out of daylight—look! The sun is starting to set. Oh, and I love Hyacinth’s hands so much. I want them. I covet them. I love to rub and carress them.
Not really on that last part.
After the apricots went in, she topped it off with a whhhhhole buncha chopped pecans.
Now I must explain something. As much as I love Hyacinth and her hands, there are two things that will forver separate us from being the best of friends. The first thing is, her favorite movie on the planet is Operation Dumbo Drop. And I’m sorry, but I could never be the best of friends with someone who doesn’t take movies as seriously as I do.
The second thing is, Hyacinth LOVES mixing huge quantities of messy food with her bare hands. I don’t. She does. I don’t. I like to use spoons, spatulas, mixers, and mashers. She likes to use her bare hands. And I don’t. And she does. And I don’t.
Other than that, we’re full on homies.
But gosh, I do love Hyacinth’s hands. Have I said that already?
Yeah, that’s right. I’m talkin’ about you, Holmes. So stop eyeballin’ me.
And oh, boy. Did this dough taste good. I had a cup or so.
But it was nothin’ compared to the finished product.
These cookies are flavorful, satisfying, and chock full of delicious dried fruit, crunchy nuts, and all the good things in life (i.e. butter and sugar.)
Thank you, Hyacinth, for coming over and using your beautiful hands to make your hearty, wholesome cookies in my kitchen. They were so tasty, I might even consider forgiving you for the whole Operation Dumbo Drop thing.
But it’s going to take some time.
Love,
P-Dub
