Easiest Cookie Recipe

This cookie recipe is the easiest, no flop recipe for the most delicious cookies you'll ever find.  Throughout the years, I've kept the cookie jar full with these cookies.  And the best thing, is that you can use the cookie dough as a base and add extra ingredients in to create different variations.

Basic Cookie Recipe
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2T milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt

For chocolate add in a 1/4 cup cocoa powder.
For spicy currant add in 1/4 tsp ginger, 1/4 tsp cinnamon and 1/2 tsp mixed spice and a handful of currants.
For orange add in the zest of an orange and replace the milk with orange juice.


Preheat the oven to 190 degrees C (375 F).  Soften the butter, add in the sugar and mix together. Add in the egg, milk and vanilla extract and mix together.  Next put in the salt and baking powder and mix that in.  Finally start adding in the flour, a little at a time, mixing all the while.  You'll end up with a stiff cookie dough that isn't sticky at all.  At this point you can add in the extras if you are creating variants.  What I do, is I split the cookie dough mix into 3 and create 3 variants.  Let the cookie dough rest for 30 minutes.
You can roll out the dough and then ct out different shapes with cookie cutters or you can just roll them into balls and then squash them down with a fork.  Place on a greased or lined baking tray and bake for 8-10 minutes.  Done!
Cindy Vine is the author of numerous novels including Defective, Not Telling, Hush baby and The Freedom Club.  All her books are available on Amazon in both ebook and paperback format.