Dirt Dabs by The Careless Cook

 

Dirt Dabs by The Careless Cook

 

No dirt in the recipe, so no shovels required.  Sit back and be prepared to bake delicious and deliciously easy cookies that you can just drop on a baking sheet and pop in the oven.

 

As usual, The Careless Cook did not use a recipe.  Some of the recipes he found were not to his liking, or were too sweet, or he didn’t have the ingredients and he was too pressed for time to race to the closest grocer.  He had a flock of hungry, older ladies depending on his charity and you know how demanding they are. One against many. No chance. Better get those cookies in the oven.

 

But NO recipe?  Well, once you know how to make cookies, you have the basics.  Flour. Sugar. Salt. Butter. The rest is up to your imagination.

 

The Careless Cook lacks a lot of things, but not imagination. For one thing, he talks too much.  So let’s get on with it!

 

Dirt Dabs

Heat the oven to 350ºF or 180ºC

Get a couple of baking sheets ready, spray very lightly with vegetable oil.

 

Ingredients:

 

2 cups flour

½ teaspoon salt

1 cup raisins, plumped (toss the raisins in simmering water, just long enough to get them soft.)

½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder (This is the Dirt!)

½ cup white sugar

½ cup brown sugar (either dark or light. I used light.)

1 stick  (1/2 cup) melted butter

2 eggs

½ cup rolled oats

½ teaspoon cardamom powder

¼ cup vegetable oil 

 

Puttin’ It Together

 

Mix all the dry ingredients, including the raisins.

 

Mix the wet ingredients. 

 

Mix well the wet and dry ingredients.

 

Plop the mixture, tablespoon by tablespoon on the baking sheets.

 

NOTE:  You can make the Dirt Dabs large or small.  I chose small and mine took about 10-12 minutes to bake.  Hey, I was baking for ladies!  If you’re baking for lumberjacks who eat with both hands, you will want to bake the big ones and they need to bake longer.  Either way, when the edges barely start to crisp, the Dirt Dabs are done.

 

And so are you!  Time to be so pleased with yourself you sit back, sip your Irish Coffee and wait for the compliments to flow.

 

Depending on how The Careless Cook is feeling, he may keep the Irish and give up on the coffee.