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A large double tray of cookies showing one cookie recipe with many variations
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One Basic Cookie Dough Many Cookie Flavours

Make one large recipe of cookie dough, then divide it up and put in a variety of different cookie flavours. You end up with a wide assortment of cookie flavours from one dough. Great for gatherings, or weekly lunch preparation.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, Canadian
Keyword cookie flavours
Prep Time 20 minutes
40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 48 Large Cookies

Ingredients

Basic Cookie Dough

  • 1 pound butter
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 ½ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt

Yummy Variations

  • ½ cup each chocolate chips, pretzels, Skor pieces
  • ½ cup each peanut butter, coconut, peanuts (add extra dry ingredients, flour, nuts etc.)
  • ½ cup each chocolate chips,raisins, Rice Krispies
  • ½ cup each Skor bits, Cornflake Cereal
  • ½ cup each chocolate chips, raisins, walnuts or pecans

Instructions

Basic Cookie Dough

  • Add white sugar and brown sugar beating very well after each addition.
  • Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each egg.
    A large mixer bowl of whipped basic cookie dough with butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla.
  • Add the vanilla, and beat well.
  • In a separate bowl mix together the flour, soda, and salt.
    The dry ingredients from a one dough many cookie flavours recipe.
  • Combine the dry ingredients into the butter mixture.

Cookie Flavour Variations

  • Take about two cups of the cookie dough and place in a bowl (the used flour bowl works fine and no extra dishes), add up to 1 of goodies of your choice. This is a general guide, I guessed the amount of the dough. I took approximately 1/4 of the cookie dough base placed it in a separate bowl. Then add the measured variations.)
    11 cups of different cookie flavours like chocolate chips, peanut butter, coconut, pecans, walnuts, raisings, skor bits, pretzel bits, cranberries etc. Each cookie flavour is shown in a pretty lilac coloured paper cup.
  • Each variation makes a dozen big cookies.
  • Mix well, scoop out onto a parchment lined cookie sheet and bake for about 7-10 minutes at 350 degrees
    A dozen Caramel Pretzel drop cookies starting with a cookie recipe base to which caramel bits and pretzel bits were added. The cookies are in large drops on a parchment lined cookie sheet waiting for the oven.
  • If adding peanut butter, if your dough appears to soft to you, add a little bit more flour and whatever dry ingredient your using. For example, Peanut butter and coconut, or peanut butter and peanuts.
    One dough peanut butter cookie variation. Each of the 12 cookies have been rolled and then flattened with a fork. They are unbaked, lined up on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
  • Another suggestion- For a simple sugar cookie, leave the dough plain, roll into balls and then into sugar.

Baking the Cookies

  • Once the basic cookie dough is made, preheat your oven to 350F. Line a large cookie sheet with parchment and set aside.
  • Mix together whatever variation you choose and place onto the cookie sheet.
    A large double tray of cookies showing one cookie recipe with many variations
  • Bake the batch of cookies for about 7 -10 minutes until golden brown.