Copycat Tate's Cookie Recipe Review

 If you are a Tate's cookie fan than you can spot the infamous green bag of Tate's from a distance at your favorite market (or white bag if gluten free). My local market first started carrying Tate's, the original Chocolate Chip flavor, known for its' crispy buttery flavor; the market now carries the entire line of cookies including gluten free. 

If you like your chocolate chip cookies on the crispy side then you will enjoy Tates! I came across a copycat recipe for Tate's Chocolate Chip Cookies which I have tried quite a few times and found very enjoyable. Not exactly the same of course as the original Tate's but still yummy on its' own.

CopyCat Tate's Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup salted butter
• 3/4 cups sugar
• 3/4 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1 tsp water
•  1 tsp vanilla
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Heat oven to 350 degrees.  Serving size is a medium to large cookie. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. 

1. Combine dry ingredients and set aside.
2. Cream softened butter and the two sugars in another bowl.
3. Then add vanilla and water to the sugar creamed mixture.
4. Add eggs, mix together. 
5. Stir flour mixture into bowl. 
6. Fold in chocolate chips.
7. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-16 minutes depending on your oven and how large you make the cookies.

Medium-Large cookie size is 1.5 tablespoons of dough per cookie. Adjust up or down to your preference and don't forget to adjust baking time.

History of Tate's

The idea and recipe behind Tate's is from Kathleen King from the Hamptons.  She has been creating desserts since 1980 and has two cookbooks: Baking For Friends and the Tate’s Bake Shop Cookbook still available on Amazon or used online book sites. As Tate's grew through the years with the inevitable ups and lulls business' encounter, Tate's rise and success of it's products was ultimately purchased in 2018 by Mondelez for a reported 500 million dollars.

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Palmiers Puff Pastry Review

The Palmier pastry trend was difficult to miss this year if you have baking in your internet feed! Whether on Tik Tok, Youtube or Instagram it was a plethora of content creators making the two ingredient (maybe 3) Palmier pastry.

Admittedly, my neighborhood was incredibly fortunate to have an authentic French bakery so we have been spoiled! However, as a fan of puff pastry I had to give the Two ingredient version a try.

Two Ingredient

I decided to try the simplest recipe with frozen puff pastry and sugar. Parchment paper was also necessary. 

Defrost puff pastry.

Place a piece of parchment paper on counter.

Generously sprinkle sugar on a sheet of parchment paper.

Lay puff pastry dough on sugar. Press into sugar.

Sprinkle top of puff pastry with sugar.

Fold each side of puff pastry (short side) toward the middle. 

A log will form.

Cut log into pieces of pastry about 1 inch thick. 

Lay on parchment lined baking sheet about 2 inches apart.

A natural heart shape will appear or if needed, assist the pieces by shaping in a heart with a quick maneuver.

Bake at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes, begin checking pastry at 10 minutes.

Cool.

So Many Recipes

There are quite a few variations of the Internet Palmier recipe. Each contains puff pastry and sugar, but the variations include making a sweet version, a savory version, cinnamon version, brush with butter version, flip midway through baking version and different baking times and temps. 

All are easy! Search two ingredient Palmier recipe and the various versions will appear. The roll puff pastry that is refrigerated will be slightly different than the frozen version regarding the ease of assembling and baking temp/time. Many Youtube videos are available to demonstrate rolling the pastry into heart shapes.

Palmiers date back to 19th century France as a way to use puff pastry leftovers. 

Recommendation

I believe this recipe has potential for a quick sweet or savory treat, if you are a puff pastry fan! Add cinnamon for a quick cinnamon flaky treat.  If you have ever had the pleasure of tasting authentic French palmiers then the Internet version is almost adequate! Both versions look flaky, enticing and very similar. However, besides the visual, the comparison of each pastry is in different lanes and difficult to make a direct comparison.

 

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Christmas Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Recipe

Turning an Old Standard Cookie Recipe into Christmas Cookies

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies are my husband's favorite cookies so, of course, our Oatmeal Raisin Cookie recipe must be included in the holiday baking.

I use my mother's recipe for Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, but I have pulled out my treasure trove of cookie cutters to make the traditional, nondescript cookie into a pretty Christmas cookie.

I did not change the recipe, I just changed the presentation, making the traditionally plain, exceptionally beautiful. 

No only do children like the cute shapes, but adults do too.  They are perfect for Christmas parties and gatherings. 

 

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cup Softened Butter
• 3/4 cup Brown Sugar
• 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
• 1 Egg
• 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1 1/2 cup All Purpose Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tsp Cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp Nutmeg
• 3 cups Quaker 1-minute Oats - Uncooked
• 1 cup Raisins

Instructions 

1. Pre-heat the Oven to 375° 
2. Beat together Butter, Brown Sugar, Sugar and Egg until well blended 
3. Stir in Vanilla 
4. Add All Purpose Flour, Baking Soda, Cinnamon, Nutmeg and Quaker Oats. 
5. Stir together until well mixed. 
6. Stir in Raisins By hand
7. Pat out part of the mixture onto a plate or onto wax paper 
8. Using the cookie cutters, cut out cookies and lay on an ungreased cookie sheet 
9. Bake for 8 or 9 minutes

Note: Do not overcook. Cookies will be soft when you first remove them from the oven and will harden as they cool. 

 

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Delicious Protein Oat Cookies | A Dairy Free & Gluten Free Treat

 Today I'm going to review a very simple and easy-to-make recipe that tastes absolutely decadent.   Once you try these delicious protein oat cookies you will wonder how you lived without them in your life!

Decadent Protein Oat Cookies
Photo by Louanne Cox

You will need the following ingredients:

• 2 ripe bananas
• 1 egg
• 1 cup oats (see baker's notes)
• 1/2 cup protein powder (I used Arbonne's vegan protein powder that is also gluten-free)
• 2 tbsp raw cacao powder
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips (I used Sweet William dark choc buttons, they are dairy-free, nut-free and gluten-free)

Now that you've checked you have all of your ingredients why don't you go ahead and preheat your oven to 180C or 350F.

Let's bake!

First, mash up your ripe bananas and then add your egg, beating it together (if you want to make these cookies vegan you can use a flax egg).

I mix up all of the dry ingredients in another bowl before adding to the wet ingredients, but I'm sure you could do it all in one bowl if you so desired.

So mix the oats, protein powder, cacao powder and chocolate chips together.   Now the recipe that I loosely based this on said that you could use 1/2 cup of quinoa in place of the protein powder - I haven't tried that, but quinoa is a source of protein so a great idea if you don't have any protein powder.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet and mix together really well.   The mixture is quite sticky and it makes quite a soft cookie so I definitely recommend lining your baking sheet with baking paper.

Now I don't mind a rustic-looking cookie so I just used a spoon to get some mix, popped it on the baking paper and flattened it with the back of the said spoon.

Bake them for 13-15 minutes until they are browned and slightly tender to the touch.

Extra Baker's Notes

Now let's talk about a few of the ingredients.   When it comes to the protein powder I used a limited edition choc mint flavour protein powder last time which was delicious and I thoroughly recommend getting this if it's still available.   I would usually just use chocolate protein powder, but since trying this combination I know that when I run out I'll be experimenting with a few drops of orange essence, strawberry essence and (of course) peppermint.

I used dark chocolate buttons because I wanted to use dark chocolate and they only had them in buttons as opposed to the smaller chips.   I will continue to use buttons because they add such a decadent taste to these cookies.  I can't describe how much of a treat these tasted like and yet they were on my healthy eating plan!

If the mixture seems a little too dry I did (on one occasion) add 1 tbsp of water to the mix, it made no difference to the outcome so don't be afraid of doing that, but I wouldn't add much as it shouldn't be a sloppy mix.

A quick note on oats, I'll be honest I just use regular oats.   Oats do not naturally contain gluten, however, in the processing of the oats they can become contaminated apparently which is why celiacs should always grab the gluten-free oats.

A Treat for Celiacs 

I actually work with a celiac, a lady who's lactose intolerant and a third lady who can't eat nuts so these cookies are absolutely perfect for them.   Knowing that I can also eat them on the 30 days to healthy living program is amazing.

As I have said previously you can also make this vegan by using a flax egg - click on the link above if you haven't made a flax egg before, it is very easy.

Perfect with a Cuppa

These cookies are perfect for either morning or afternoon tea with tea, coffee, or even water.   If you're wondering what beverage to try then check out our tea, coffee and other drink reviews:

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Honey Walnut Drops – Cookie Recipe Review

I have an old Church Cookbook from my mother-in-law's collection.  It's the kind many churches put out, especially in small towns, with recipes from church members handed down from one generation to the next. Many of you probably have something similar, acquired the same way.

While browsing through this Garden City (KS) Cookbook one day before the holidays, I found a new (to me) cookie recipe with two of my favorite ingredients ~ walnuts and coconut. I thought it would be fun to share it with you today. 

Honey Walnut Drops Recipe

Ingredients:

1 c. sugar
1 c. honey
2/3 c. shortening
3 eggs
3 ¾ c. flour
1 tsp. Salt

1 c. commercial sour cream

1 c. chopped walnuts

¾ c. flaked coconut

1 tsp. Vanilla

1 tsp. soda

Directions:

Cream sugar,  honey, shortening and eggs. Mix flour (not sifted) with soda, salt. Add alternately with sour cream to creamed mixture. Stir in walnuts, coconut and vanilla.

Drop teaspoonfuls on greased cookie sheet.  Top each cookie with walnut half and coconut. 

Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes.

*Yield not given in this recipe, but I got about 6 dozen cookies from my batch. 

PS: I did not have any extra walnuts, so did not top the cookies with a one-half walnut. Lots of walnuts IN the cookies, though. 

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This cookie recipe was published in this Garden City cookbook in 1979, so no nutritional information is included of the kind you often find in today's recipes (such as calories, fat grams, carbs, etc.), in case you were wondering. :-). Considering the ingredients, I am sure there are a 'number' of calories in it, but, after all, it is a cookie! 

Old Joke:  Did you know that if you break a cookie in half before eating, all the calories 'fall out'? LOL. 

More About Cookies

For more cookie recipes on this site, check out ReviewThisRecipes.com

In case you want a special day to celebrate baking cookies, December 18th is National Bake Cookies Day. 

Plus, October is known as National Cookie Month, giving you a whole month to enjoy cookies (as if we needed an excuse). :)


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Bake Cookies Day, December 18 – Holiday Review

Bake Cookies Day (Source: Pixabay & Fotojet)

  'Tis the season for baking cookies, so how appropriate that Bake Cookies Day is held every December 18th right in the middle of the holiday season. 

The word 'cooky' or 'cookie' comes from the Dutch word “koekje”, meaning “little cake”. Cookies arrived in America along about the 17th century, although they may date back as far as 7th century Persia! Today they are a global phenomena, coming in more varieties, flavors and styles than you can possibly imagine.

The writers on Review This Reviews often write on the subject of food and have reviewed recipes for many varieties of cookies. It seems appropriate for Bake Cookies Day to share a few here. 

Cookie Varieties and Recipes on Review This Reviews

Cookie Recipe Reviews on ReviewThisReviews!

• Dawn Rae tells us 'How to Make Super Easy Gingerbread Cookies', perfect for the holiday season.

• Dawn also has a fun Snickerdoodles Cookie Pie recipe.

• RenaissanceWoman (Diana Wenzel) shares her Favorite Christmas Cookies - Rosettes Recipe.

• If you don't  have time to bake, try out Dawn Rae's Easy No-Bake Bliss Balls.

• Beverly Owens shares her Christmas Wreath Marshmallow Treats Recipe.

• If you want to give a gift of cookies, but don't have time to bake your own, try out  Byrd's Famous Cookies reviewed by Wednesday Elf. They are delicious.

Other Cookie Days

Source: Pixabay

There are other dates throughout the year that celebrate 'cookies'. 

• National Chocolate Cookie Days happens on August  15th.
• National Homemade Cookies Day is October 1st.
• National Gingerbread Cookie Day is November 11th.
• National Cookie Day is December 4th. 

Summary

So, enjoy Bake Cookie Day December 18th, or any of the other fun cookie days all year long. And don't forget to leave a couple cookies out for Santa on Christmas Eve! 

(Source: Pixabay)

Bake Cookies Day
December 18

Supplies for baking cookies can be found here on Amazon


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