This week, I was having trouble picking out what I wanted to bake, so I phoned my father and he said “why not boiled rasin cookies!” Now, I’d never heard of these before, but he told me that they were his favourite cookie growing up, so I decided to give them a try.
As alway, I will start of with a shot blerb on my mental health this week. I have been doing okay, though to be honest I have been a little down this past week, though I am not too sure of the reasons why.
Here is a link to the recipie if you would like to try for yourself https://www.food.com/recipe/grandmas-boiled-raisin-cookies-196432
Now for the cookies! To start, I put a pot of water on to boil. Once it was boiling I added two cups of rasins to the water and let it boil for 5 minutes. After this I removed the rasins from the water and put them both to the side to cool. And don’t forget to preheat your oven to 400°F.
From here I then creamed the sugar with the butter. The recipie calls for margerine, and then in the instructions it says shortening, So I think the original reecpie called for shorthening, but I decided to sub this out for butter, and it still turned out! After this I mixed in three eggs.
Once the rasins had cooled I put them into the butter and egg mixture and added one cup of the water I used to boil the rasins.
After this I transfered the mixture to my stand mixer adn added the baking powder, salt, cinnimon and allspice, mixed for a but then added the flour. And of course swapped the whisk attachment for a dough hook as I was unsure how think the cookie dough would be when I was done. After all the ingredients were mixed in, I began to drop the batter onto a greased baking sheet. If you try this recipie for yourself, dont worry if the batter is a tad thin, as long as it’s not runny you should be fine.
Once you are ready, place the cookie sheet in the oven and cook for about 10 minutes, then pull the sheet out and remove from baking sheet to cool.
And there you have it! Boiled Rasin Cookies! Absolutely delicious.
Hey Matt!
To start, I really thought your cookies were delicious and super neat! When I tried one in class I was pleasantly surprised by the muffin top texture. They were the perfect bite and I appreciated your sharing.
Your post looks awesome and the way you incorporated images, videos, text and more made it super easy to follow and an enjoyable read!
Great work Matt, keep it up!
– Em:)
Hey Matt!
Great post! I have never heard of boiled raisin cookies before and while I am not a huge raisin fan, these still looked amazing. Do you think it would be possible to try out this recipe with craisins?
– Natalie
Hi Matthew!
Sorry that you didn’t feel 100% last week.
I really enjoyed your cookies when you brought them to class. I’m not usually the biggest fan of cookies or raisins but your cookies where truly fabulous! As always I really appreciate that you put everything step by step with lots of pictures, it makes your recipes really easy to follow!