National Homemade Cookie Day

Sometimes I just love social media. How else would you be able to find out it’s National Homemade Cookie day?!

I love baking. There is just something about a warm, soft cookie right out of the oven. I have been lazy, as of late, and making cookies using mixes. “Box” cookies are still super tasty but there’s something satisfying about baking from scratch.

Now I didn’t have a homemade cookie today, but I did make a couple batches a few weekends ago with some alpha class sisters. I made a variation of these Raisin Pecan Oatmeal Cookies from Ina Garten using what I had in my pantry. I mixed the dough as plain oatmeal cookies than I added chocolate chips to half of the dough and raisins to the other half.

Ina’s perfect cookies (Image from FoodNetwork.com)

Both cookies were delicious but the oatmeal raisin were really something special. I soaked the golden raisins in bourbon (a play on rum raisin) the night before and the Jim Beam added a unique flavor to the cookie. I think I used just enough for a subtle hint that makes you want to take another bite.

I think these Oatmeal Pumpkin Cookies from Budget Bytes (I’m going to add chocolate chips) are the next cookie on my Fall baked goods to-do list (doesn’t everyone have one of those? Or is it just me). Follow my Pumpkin Spice Pinterest board to see more recipes that include Fall’s shining food star.

What’s your favorite cookie to bake? Or, better yet, eat?
Let me know in the comments!