What a weekend! A wedding to attend, a birthday party, random baking, house plan preparation and shopping. The weekend just zoomed by but the weather outside on Friday evening was quite nice for a change.
The wedding was very nice and the food was really tasty. As you know I am all about the food. I was over at my mom’s earlier in the weekend as we made a couple of cookie treats. One of which is featured here today.
Growing up I always loved Raisin Drop Cookies. In addition to the drop cookies, I have always loved anything with raisins. Especially raisin bread, war cake, or raisin pie.
Ingredients
- 2 Cups raisins
- 1 Cup water
- 1 Tsp. baking powder
- 1 Tsp. vanilla
- 1 Tsp. cinnamon (optional)
- 1/4 Tsp. nutmeg (optional)
- 1 Cup Butter
- 2 Cups brown sugar
- 3 Eggs (beaten)
- 1 Tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 Tsp. Salt
- 4 Cups flour
Method
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Boil raisins in water for 5 minutes.
- Cool then add baking soda. Let stand then add vanilla cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Cream together butter and sugar then add eggs, baking powder and flour.
- Add raisin mixture to flour mixture and stir together well.
- Drop by teaspoon onto cookie sheet
- Bake for 12 minutes.
- ENJOY!
Zesty Tip: When baking with raisins, it is a great idea to boil them in water to plump them up and ensure they will be juicy in your baked goods. You can also do this procedure with any dried fruit.
I have some really great treats for you this week. Staying at my inlaws and my mother in law is a great baker – I am learning lots of great tips and techniques that I will be sure to share with you.
I hope you have a great day and I will see you again tomorrow.
Take care
zesty
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those were my absolute favourites when I was a little girl!
I love anything with raisins!These look awesome!
Nice tip regarding the raisins. I’ve always wondered how bakeries/bagel shops have such plump raisins in their baked goods!
Yummy!
Crazy weekend here as well! Aren’t weekends supposed to be relaxing?! I love the looks of those cookies!
Wow what a busy weekend and you STILL found time to bake cookies – impressive!
I love raisin cookies – I believe these are insulin worthy!
Thanks for posting Zesty!
Yum! I have been looking for a way to use up my huge stash of raisins(besides eating them plain of course!). Thanks for the help! =) Hope your summer is going swell.
These sound great. I love raisins and all those added spices sound perfectttt. Thanks!
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I made these for one of our desserts for Sunday dinner (last Sunday each month) these are great. The only thing, I used 3 cups of raisins! Yum. thanks.
I believe the Raisin Drop cookie recipe has at least one error. Baking soda is listed twice but baking powder isn’t mentioned. Also there doesn’t appear to be any salt in the recipe which is usually a part of the baking powder, baking soda combo. I just made cookies almost identical to these on the weeked and they contain all three.
Heather – You are so right! My apologies and I updated the recipe to reflect the proper ingredients. Thanks for pointing that out.
zesty