“Kids” and “cancer” are two words that should never, ever go together.
Unfortunately – they do. Thousands of kids are diagnosed with cancer each year.
Want to help change this cold, hard fact?
You can – by raising funds for pediatric cancer research.
How? With everyone’s favorite fund-raiser: a bake sale.
Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, a nonprofit devoted to funding pediatric cancer research, suggests one very effective way to raise money is a community bake sale.
To that end, the CKC site offers “tips, tools, and ideas to guide and inspire your bake sale every step of the way.”
Plus, they sell a Bake Sale Supply Kit that includes everything you need to hold your own Cookies for Kids’ Cancer bake sale – including coupons for King Arthur Flour. We’re proud to be one of CKC’s main sponsors.
And to that end, we’ll be holding our own bake sale Saturday, Oct. 27, at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Traveling to New England that weekend? Stop by; a large number of KAF employee-owners are spending several days prior to Oct. 27 baking up a storm for this special event.
CKC’s Best Bake Sale Cookbook offers an array of yummy recipes specially suited to bake sales. We highly recommend Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies as a potential best-seller at YOUR bake sale!
We also recommend you try them out first. You know, just to make sure you still love chocolate chip cookies…
Preheat the oven to 325°F. Line several cookie sheets with parchment paper, or lightly grease with non-stick vegetable oil spray.
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Beat together the following until smooth:
1 cup (16 tablespoons) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
Add 1 large egg and 1 large egg yolk, both at room temperature; and 1 tablespoon vanilla extract. Beat to combine.
BTW, have you tried our new King Arthur vanilla? Its extra-strong, pure vanilla flavor is ridiculously good. And it’s perfect for you active bakers, since it comes in a nice, big 16-ounce bottle.
Add the following to the batter:
2 cups (8 1/2 ounces) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1 cup quick-cooking or old-fashioned oats
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon kosher salt or 3/4 teaspoon regular table salt
Mix until everything is thoroughly incorporated. Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl, and mix briefly.
Finally, add 3 cups (18 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips. If you don’t buy chips in bulk, feel free to substitute a 1-pound bag of chocolate chips.
Decide what size cookies you want to make.
A teaspoon cookie scoop (2 teaspoons) will make 100 small (2 1/2″) cookies; a tablespoon cookie scoop (4 teaspoons) will make 50 medium (2 3/4″ to 3″) cookies; and a muffin scoop (1/4 cup) will make 20 large, palm-sized cookies – a nice, big size to sell individually.
Scoop the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, leaving about 1 1/2″ to 2″ between cookies.
Bake the cookies for 12 to 15 minutes, until they’re a light golden brown, with slightly darker edges.
Their middles may still look a tiny bit shiny; that’s OK, they’ll continue to bake just a bit as they cool down.
Remove the cookies from the oven, and as soon as they’re set enough to handle, transfer them to racks to cool.
But be sure to sample one before they’re completely cool – a warm chocolate chip cookie is surely one of life’s great pleasures!
When the cookies are completely cool (and not a moment before), wrap large cookies individually; or package 3 to 6 smaller cookies in a bag with a twist of ribbon.
And, if the cookies aren’t bound for a bake sale – enjoy! They freeze very well, so don’t feel obliged to plow through them all at once (though that may very well be your initial desire).
You can also freeze the unbaked balls of dough, and bake as many or as few as you like at a time – for those times when you just HAVE to have a fresh-baked, hot-from-the-oven chocolate chip cookie.
Please read, bake, and review this recipe for Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies.
Print just the recipe.
October 2nd, 2012 at 10:58 am
What a great idea – thank you KAF for your generosity and support! My question is about the cookie scoops – why on earth does a teaspoon scoop hold 2 teaspoons, a tablespoon scoop hold 4 teaspoons? I have several scoops with no numbers or markings on them but I know which one I like for cookies or for muffins or for meatballs. Is there a standardization anywhere to use as a guide? It would be nice when writing a recipe to say “use a #10 scoop…” Thanks for the great blog and all of KAF great services and products!
The scoops mimic, in size, the amount of dough one would use back when “drop dough by the tablespoon” actually meant a soup spoon, and a teaspoon was a regular eating spoon. Those traditional sizes don’t equal a measuring teaspoon or measuring tablespoon, and we didn’t want to confuse people. Their foodservice numbers (imprinted on the scoops) are 16 (muffin), 40 (tablespoon), and 100 (teaspoon). Hope this helps – PJH
October 2nd, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Add some coconut to the top of these and it toasts up really nicely.
Thanks for the tip!-JDB
October 2nd, 2012 at 3:34 pm
New ‘favorite’ cookie. Have made two batches and both disappeared fasterthanyoucanreadthis!
Thanks for sharing PJ – deeeeeeeel e cIous! Perfect too. I know I know, not to use that word, but they are so amazing exactly as written. I heartily endorse the 3 cups of chips as I didn’t have that much in the cupboard for the first batch, but added all of them on the 2nd. Oh Yeah. I heartily endorse that many chips.
October 2nd, 2012 at 4:41 pm
Can you give us an idea of the cookie ball diameter for the various size cookie scoops, for those of us without cookie scoops, or who still eyeball the size of cookie dough balls?
Thanks!
Yes, and here you are:
The Teaspoon scoop, item 5638, is 1 1/16″ wide. The Tablespoon scoop, item 5639, is 1 3/8″ wide. The Muffin scoop, 5640, is 2 1/4″ wide. Hope that helps, Julia! Elisabeth
October 3rd, 2012 at 6:31 pm
I am quite sure, from looking at those photos, that I do indeed still like chocolate chip cookies. Especially those with some oatmeal in them. I can almost smell them.
Teaspoon and tablespoon scoops are some of the best investments in kitchen equipment. I have a small kitchen and so limit the range of gagets, but they do come in handy for many situations.
You are right about that! I resisted for years from getting any scoops and finally got the T. scoop. Now, I really need to get the teaspoon scoop for those times when you just need a little cookie! Elisabeth
October 10th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
I am so glad I read this blog! First reason, I’m looking for great cookie recipes for gift-giving and second, I’ll be in Norwich on October 27 and I bet I’ll get even more great ideas from the bake sale! Plus a little hands-on tasting!
October 13th, 2012 at 12:15 pm
I really like that you show the cookie scoops and the different size cookies they make. It is really helpful. Because each cookie spreads a little differently, I think I will take pictures of different cookies I make and show the sizes of them. That would be a good reference for when I have to make a lot of cookies. I have been baking for a Cookies for the Cure bake sale at my local bank. We do it every Friday in October. It is a lot of fun!
I I also like the pictures provided in this blog. I never thought I would be a cookie scoop consumer, but they are so handy! Now, I need the teaspoon scoop! Elisabeth
January 21st, 2013 at 1:54 pm
The first I made these I discovered we were out of oatmeal after I had already creamed the butter and ended up substituting the 1 cup of oatmeal for 1 cup of granola. They tasted great and made the texture very crispy, but I found it to be too sweet – can I reduce the amount of sugar without effecting the texture? We loved the flavor that the granola imparted!
I would try and reduce the sugar by 1/3rd and see how it works!-Jon