Haikus are tricky
Butter and sugar taste good
And haikus don’t rhyme
Have cookies with milk
I like mine with a cuppa
Or with a haiku
Stuck for ideas
I used my BigOven App
To find these cookies
It’s my Gen Y way
I want instant recipes
Search-able by phone
So now I’ve combined
Japanese poetry style
With app for cooking
If haikus offend
Get off your bloomin’ high horse
And try do better
Leave me a comment
With your own haiku effort
And best gets a hug*!
*hug may or may not be virtual.
Ingredients
115 grams butter, softened
¾ cup brown sugar, firmly packed
¼ cup caster sugar
1 large egg
2/3 teaspoon vanilla essence
¾ cup flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon cinnamon
1 ½ cups quick cooking oatmeal, uncooked
¾ cups sultanas (or raisins, if that’s your kinda thing)
½ teaspoons salt
Method
- Preheat oven to 180 C and line cookie trays with baking paper.
- Beat together butter and sugars until creamy, add egg and vanilla and beat well.
- Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt and mix well.
- Stir in oatmeal and sultanas/raisins until well blended.
- Drop rounded tablespoons of mixture onto baking paper and bake for 10-12 minutes, or until golden brown.
- Cool one minute on tray, then transfer to rack to finish cooling.
Makes: One day I will learn to write this down while baking. I think it made 40.
Healthy: If you make 40 it’s 72 calories a cookie.
Storage: Will keep for a week or two in an airtight container. I had mine for a couple of weeks and they stayed fresh.
Source: Modified from BigOven, accessed through their handy App.
Sending you a virtual Christmas gift, ignore that it’s in men’s medium: http://www.threadless.com/product/623/Haikus_Are_Easy_But_Sometimes/tab,guys/style,shirt.
Lol! A friend of mine has this shirt and I FReAkin’ LOVE IT! I especially find it how funny how much some people get it, and others just frown and walk away. I’d be lying if I wasn’t thinking of it a little as I wrote this…
you can not go wrong
with oatmeal and sultanas
stomach is growling
Yay!!! Nice one Courtney.
You are so clever!! c
Hmmm, let’s see…
There once was a young clever muffin,
Who baked yummy stuff in her oven,
With a little oatmeal and spice
And, of course, everything nice
Out popped a cookie we’re lovin’!
Oops… that was a limerick;)
Not quite a Haiku but I’ll play that! Too funny 🙂
Nice one, Barbara!
It the end of my day so I got nothing for ya expect that I love me some chewy oatmeal cookies. 😉
Thick and yummy looking!! Perfect comfort cookie!!
Mmmm, oatmeal raisin cookies are one of my all time favorites. These sound delicious.
You’re too funny, I love your haikus. But, I really hated writing them in my high school English class. I had to suck it up though in college when I was required to take a couple of poetry courses. Don’t hate me for not writing a haiku…my brain just doesn’t function in the poetry sense anymore, haha.
It’s funny – they’re no better way to take the fun out of something than having to study it. And I think being made to analyse haikus (instead of just writing funny ones) would be especially taxing!
those cookies are pure poetry! (lame, i know, but i had to say it)
Haha – if I had of thought of it I would of said it!
I can’t offer poetry but love oatmeal cookies. Just finished baking some with raisins as that was what was available. A favorite in our house year round.
Must say, I’m quite impressed that you wrote an entire post in haiku!! I was always determined that poetry must rhyme 🙂 Great looking cookies, by the way. Gottta love all those apps that are out now!
There’s nothing like a gooey, chewy oatmeal cookie. I mean I can just sit and eat them all day. This is definitely a cookie recipe I will be trying. Nice post
Chewy oatmeal friend
So comforting in hunger
And screw the dentist
http://www.EasyCookieRecipesWithFewIngredients.com
THAT. IS. AWESOME!!!
Chocolate as muse
butter and sugar the paint
baking is my art
Thanks for the challenge! Love this and the cookies of course!
Lovely! Wonderful haiku Geni 🙂
Wow, these cookies look good!
Can you spend me some of these for Christmas?
That’s a clever haiku, Clever muffin! I miss seeing you around! You need to come tell me what you think about my two cheese tartlets! Haven’t heard from you in so long.