Junior Chef
Kids Cooking Lessons
12-15 years old
Lesson 9

Today's kids cooking lessons is going to pick up where we were in Lesson 8 with baking cookies. However, today we will practice halving and/or doubling a recipe.

Halving or Doubling Recipes

Pick out which cookie recipe you'd like to work with today or use the one below.  Now either halve the recipe or double it. Remember those math lessons in school!! They really do come in handy.

Have you ever heard of the famous Neiman Marcus $250 cookie? Well even if you haven't it is a great recipe that makes a lot of cookies! Therefore, it is a great recipe for cutting in half.

2 Cups butter
2 Cups brown sugar
2 Cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs
2 teaspoons baking soda
5 Cups blended oatmeal-measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
4 Cups flour
1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
24 oz. chocolate chips
3 cups chopped nuts walnuts, almonds, or pecans

In a mixing bowl add softened butter, white sugar and brown sugar. Cream together. Then add eggs and vanilla. Blend together. In a  separate bowl add dry ingredients-flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. In a mixing bowl combine the dry ingredients with the sugar mixture. Mix together and then add chocolate chips, Hershey Bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees.
Makes 112 cookies.

Try halving or doubling different cookie recipes to gain experience in baking.