I've had Nestle's butterscotch pieces in the cabinet for at least a year, and just haven't had cause to use them yet. I would have followed the regular Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe adding butterscotch chips, but I had no regular chocolate chips. Instead I used the Oatmeal Scotchies recipe printed on the package and made a few modifications.
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| The ingredients |
The only oatmeal I had was leftover from the Oatmeal Raisin Cookies I made a few weeks ago. It looked like it might be a cup and a half (if that) so I halved all the ingredients in the recipe. It was a little tricky to eyeball 3/8 of a cup of sugar, but I wanted to have the cookies done quickly and didn't stop to measure more precisely.
I didn't just cut the recipe in half, I also added two things: walnuts and cardamom. I've been on a cardamom kick lately; I've added it to the recipe for the last two things I've baked. I really added just a small pinch of cardamom, I didn't want to go overboard.
I mixed the butter, vanilla, and sugars with the whisk attachment, then added the dry ingredients. First the flour, baking soda, and cinnamon, then chunkier ingredients later. Because I cut the recipe in half, I only needed half the bag of butterscotch chips, but about 3/4s ended up in the batter. Oh well.
The walnuts needed to be broken up a bit, so I used a ramekin and a spoon as mortar and pestle. Ramekin is a word I had never heard until I worked in a restaurant, but I don't know what I called them before I learned that word. I guess if anything we called them custard cups. I put too many walnuts in the ramekin here, they would overflow when I tried to mash them up.
I waited to preheat the oven until the cookies were ready to shape, otherwise the oven is ready way too early. I don't know how much energy this wastes, but it makes me feel like an idiot when the oven beeps and I'm still assembling the ingredients.
They took 2-3 minutes more to bake than the 8-10 minutes the recipe advised, and even then they were just beginning to brown around the edges.
The cookies are tasty and came out good considering how much scrounging I did for the ingredients. They don't look much like the picture
I mixed the butter, vanilla, and sugars with the whisk attachment, then added the dry ingredients. First the flour, baking soda, and cinnamon, then chunkier ingredients later. Because I cut the recipe in half, I only needed half the bag of butterscotch chips, but about 3/4s ended up in the batter. Oh well.
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| Not enough room to mash |
The walnuts needed to be broken up a bit, so I used a ramekin and a spoon as mortar and pestle. Ramekin is a word I had never heard until I worked in a restaurant, but I don't know what I called them before I learned that word. I guess if anything we called them custard cups. I put too many walnuts in the ramekin here, they would overflow when I tried to mash them up.
I waited to preheat the oven until the cookies were ready to shape, otherwise the oven is ready way too early. I don't know how much energy this wastes, but it makes me feel like an idiot when the oven beeps and I'm still assembling the ingredients.
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| Ready to shape |
They took 2-3 minutes more to bake than the 8-10 minutes the recipe advised, and even then they were just beginning to brown around the edges.
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| Out of the oven |
