Cookies are YUM! Proportioning Recipes Down

Cooking is super fun. As you grow older, knowing how to prepare healthy food and being independent ensures that you eat a balanced meal always, even if you move away from home.

Cookies are not the healthiest thing to eat, but even cookies can be healthy!

Here is a recipe for a delicious, healthy cookie that tastes like warmth and is actually good for your heart and your tastebuds.

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Once you finish calculating the changes needed, we will be making these cookies!!!
Don't eat raw -- This recipe has eggs and  can make you sick - Salmonella is bad!

Quaker Vanishing Oatmeal Cookies - 4 dozen cookies

1/2 cup plus 6 tablespoons butter, softened
3/4 cups firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cups granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt (optional)
3 cups Quaker Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
1 cup raisins
  • Heat oven to 350.
  • In large bowl, beat butter and sugars on medium speed of electric mixer until creamy.
  • Add eggs and vanilla; beat well.
  • Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl, and add to the egg batter; mix well.
  • Add oats and raisins; mix well.
  • Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
  • Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown. Don't overbake!
  • Cool 5 minutes on cookie sheets before touching; remove to wire rack. Cool and enjoy!
This recipe is great if you want to make six dozens of cookies; but what if you only need three dozen? How can you shrink this recipe in a proportionate way?

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