OATMEAL COOKIES

I've never really been a fan of sweet things. When ever I eat something sweet, I start craving salty or spicy food and if I have none around I get a little bit anxious and I'm not talking about the good anxiety.  I could eat a piece of sweet, moist, heavenly red velvet cake and the next minute I start craving garri and egusi soup, it's weird but that's the way God made me. The funny part is that my sweet treats always turn out to be so good. When ever I'm experimenting on a new recipe and I make mistake, often times the mistake turn out to be delicious and I wonder how I can be so good as something that I don't like eating. My friends, hubby, family and anyone who's fortunate to be around end up being the ones that enjoy my sweet treats. Recently I developed a hankering for sweet treats, I don't know what's causing it, maybe I just developed my sweet tooth but what ever it is, I've decided to go with flow until the urge passes. So on one of those sweet tooth days, I decided to try my hands on oatmeal cookies. I figured that if I was going to be on a sugar craze then I can at least make it a little bit healthy, hence the oatmeal. So guys here is the recipe, enjoy!!

INGREDIENTS

1) 1/2 pound of unsalted butter, at room temperature (Tip: when baking it's always better for all your ingredients to be at room temperature except the recipe specifies otherwise)

2) 1 cup of dark brown sugar (200g)

3) 1 cup of granulated sugar (190g)

4) 2 extra large eggs, at room temperature

5) 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

6) 1, 1/2 cups of  flour (330g)

7) 1 teaspoon of baking powder

8) 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon

9) 1 teaspoon of salt

10) 3 cups of old fashioned oatmeal (240g)

11) 1, 1/2 cups of raisins (225g)

PREPARATION

1) Pre heat the oven to 350 degrees F.

2) In the bowl of am electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar on medium high speed until light and fluffy. With the mixer on low, add the eggs one at a time and the vanilla.

3) Sift the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt together into a medium bowl. With the mixer on low, slowly add the dry ingredients into the butter mixture.
Add the oats and raisins and mix just until combined. Be careful not to over mix.

4) Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Using a small ice cream scoop or a tablespoon, drop 2-inch mounds of dough o to shhet pan. Space each mound at least 2 inches apart. Flatten each mound lightly with a dampen hand. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until lightly browned. Immediately they are baked, transfer the cookies to a baking rack and leave to cool.

SANTA'S LIST OF GOODIES

It's the most wonderful time of the year and also our favourite time of the year here at Ravineux kitchen.  Remember how you always watched what you ate in the past eleven months and every time you hop up on your bathroom scale to see how many pounds you've gained or lost. Well darling it's christmas so it's time to put away that bathroom scale and put on those loose fitting pants and shirts because this is the season to eat to your hearts desire. We're celebrating the birth of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ and there's no better way to celebrate than with food. I don't know if you guys have noticed but food tends to taste a lot  better at Christmas. We're so excited here at ravineux because this year we are privileged to be the Official keepers of Santa's Goody list..whoop whoop!!! This list contains all the delicious goodies you could ever dream of and we're not talking about biscuits,  juice and cereal. We're talking freshly baked cookies, white chocolate cake, hot spicy chicken wings, shrimps in tempura batter , oh Lord the sweet sweet aroma coming from the kitchen right now is making me heady. OKAY!!! Let's focus *clears throat*, where we're we? So over here at Ravineux we're wrapping up beautiful hampers  stuffed with all these goodies so you can give your loved ones a truly unique Christmas this year. All you have to do is go through the list, pick as many items as you want in your hamper and we will take care of the rest. If there's any item you would like to add to your hamper but can not find on the list just tell us what it is and we'll be sure to include it. Now if you pick as many as five items or more for your hamper, you get 10% off your total purchase and a bottle of wine, compliments of our kitchen. So hurry and place your orders while our kitchen doors are still swinging because come 29th of December,  we will be closing for the year so we will be well rested and ready to begin 2014 with a bang!! Merry Christmas guys. XOXO...

SANTA'S LIST OF GOODIES

1) Chocolate cakes (Angel food cake, chocolatey chocolate cake, white chocolate cake) with butter cream frosting-----------N10, 000 each

2) Any other cakes ( Vanilla cake, sponge cake, red velvet cake, carrot cake, fruit cake) with butter cream frosting----------N8000 each

3) Cupcakes with butter cream frosting-------------N400 each

4) Cupcakes with chocolate gnache frosting---------N450 each

5)  Crispy fried prawns in tempura batter-----------N1, 300 per serving

6) Butterfly prawn kebab-------------------------N1, 800 per serving

7) Pepperd gizzard kebab--------------------------N300 per skewer

8) Spicy hot chicken wings--------------------------N1, 500 per pack

9) Spicy chin chin-------------------------------N300 per pack

10) Chicken and cheese balls----------------------N150 each

11) Cinnamon rolls------------------------------N150 each

12) Apple cinnamon pancakes---------------------N900 per serving

13) Cookies (chocolate chip cookies, thumb print cookies, oatmeal cookies, coconut cookies)------N800 per pack

14) Brownies-------------N1, 200 per pack

PACKAGING AND DELIVERY ------------------N4000

N/B
Order as many as five (5) items or more and get 10% off your total purchase and a bottle of wine, compliments of our kitchen.