Lemony Snickets

Submitted by Elena Perez

"A cookie disguised as a snickerdoodle, but with a shocking surprise! A treat for fans of the books "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket, published by Harper Collins."

 

• Ready In: 23mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Yields: 30 cookies
• Serves: 10-15

ingredients

• 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine
• 3⁄4 cup brown sugar, packed Very Firmly Down
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 2 eggs or 2 egg substitute
• 1⁄2 teaspoon lemon extract
• 1 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour (Versatile Flour Dust)
• 2 cups uncooked rolled oats (Visciously Flattened Down)
• 1⁄4 cup crystallized ginger, Very Finely Diced
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt (optional)

• Veritably Fool-proof Disguise

• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

directions

1. Heat oven to 375.
2. Beat butter and sugar together, add eggs and lemon extract.
3. Combine flour, oats, cinnamon, soda and salt. Add to sugar mixture, mix well, stir in crystallized ginger.
4. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheet.
5. For disguise: In small bowl, combine 1 t sugar and 1 t cinnamon; sprinkle the disguise lightly over each cookie.
6. Bake 8-10 minutes. Do not bake too long, or you may need the aid of the Volunteer Fire Department.

Reviews

[sprue]

these cookies turned out very flat and formless, i kept adding flour to perk them up and by the very end batch they were almost ok. the taste was great though and i used the formless crumbles of the cookies for the top of a cobbler and it turned out pretty good, just added some nuts and a little more cinnamon.