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 Food:
Oatmeal Packet Cookies
If you're like us, you love those huge boxes of flavored
instant oatmeal packets from the local membership warehouse. They're fun,
convenient, and contain enough pseudo-food to satisfy a small army.
Unfortunately, there's always some flavor in the boxes
that no one in the household will eat. Packets of the unwanted flavor
accumulate endlessly, taking over the kitchen cabinets and eventually
sprouting vermin.
Until now, that is. Using our recipe, you can recycle
the unloved oatmeal packets into a steaming plate of unhealthy, sugar-
and fat-laden cookies.
If your family doesn't like these, tell the lazy ingrates
to get off their rumps and make their own darned cookies.
Ingredients:
- 1/4 c white sugar
- 1/2 c brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 c butter, softened
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1 egg
- 6 packets flavored instant oatmeal
- 1 c flour
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all ingredients except
flour and oatmeal packets. Stir in flour and oatmeal packets. (The mixture
will be sticky due to the milk. If you prefer crisp cookies to chewy ones,
eliminate the milk. If you like your cookies chewy and cakey, add an extra
tablespoon of milk.)
Roll dough into 1 1/2" balls and drop onto an ungreased
cookie sheet, about 2" apart. Smash the balls down to a thickness of about
half an inch.
Bake until light brown, about ten minutes. Allow to
cool on cookie sheet briefly, then remove to a rack to finish cooling.
Makes about 2 dozen cookies
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