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Best Cookie Mix Base Recipe Ever! – Entertaining Guide

December 14, 2011 By Greta Brinkley

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The Best Cookie Mix Base Recipe

 

This is a fantastic cookie mix base that can be altered to make about a zillion different cookies.  This cookie mix base is perfect for cookie parties or exchanges, as you just need to make a couple additions and you'll end up with a wide variety!   This is a clone of the pouch cookie mix base that comes from your Aunt Betty C. 

You will need:

5 cups All Purpose Flour
5 3/4 cups Granulated Sugar
2 TBSP Baking Powder
2 tsp Salt
1 1/2 C + 2 TBSP Butter or Margarine (3 1/4 sticks)
 

Measure the flour and pour it into a large bowl.  Remember, to measure flour, you spoon it in to the measuring cup and level it off with a knife.

 

Add the sugar, baking powder, and salt to the flour and mix thoroughly.  Add the butter and cut it in with a pastry cutter, fork, or your clean hands (my favorite option!) until it resembles coarse cornmeal or a fine streusel topping.
 

Store it in the fridge or freezer in an airtight container.  Most of my cookies take 2 cups of cookie mix base, so I go ahead and package the mix into 2-cup containers or quart bags.  Then, when I'm ready to bake, I just grab a container and go!

 Yields about 10 cups

Helpful hints: Don't use lowfat margarine, soft margarine, or whipped margarine.  I prefer butter, but when doing a cookie swap, I sub margarine.

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About Greta Brinkley

Greta is originally from the West Coast. Now living in the Midwest, she loves hockey, sparkles, nail polish, and bright colors. She also cannot resist anything that has peanut butter and chocolate together. And she hates filling out bios. Yep.

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