stfnwuf
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When camping I tend to eat more goodies than I do at home. I'd like to bake cookies this next trip out, but I do not want to use a mix. Has anyone mixed up the dry ingredients, taken along the wet ingredients and then finished the dough in their rig? If so, what is the best type of cookie to do this with?
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I have done oatmeal chocolate chip cookies like that. If you will search homemade cookie mix, there are several recipes on the web.
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swtgran
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If you have the freezer space you can mix up cookies, shape them in balls, freeze on cookie sheets, bag when frozen and bake when you get there.
I have a 500 chocolate cookie recipe I think I posted here that I make up a couple times a year. I bag them and grab what I need when I need them. I used to always have them on hand for those mornings when the kids remembered they had to take treats to school that morning.
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stfnwuf, I bet those cookies in a jar recipes that one makes for gifts would work well. You could skip layering the dry ingredients in a jar and just toss them all in a baggie and add the wet ingredients while camping before baking.
Here's a link to some recipes Cookie Mix Recipes the recipes start about 1/2 way down the page.
How about the cookie dough you find in the refrigerator section in the grocery store!
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stfnwuf
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Thanks for the tips. I am going to try making some dough and freezing it as well as the cookie jar trick. The reason I am trying to stay away from packaged cookies, mixes, etc is that I have DH on an "eating plan" to lower cholesterol. I don't want to cut all goodies from his (and mine as I am doing this with him) diet and so if I do homemade I can better control the ingredients. Plus, there is something theraputic to making cookies from scratch. As my kids would say, "Oh like when you were a kid in the olden days."
We are taking the trailer out next weekend for a few days. I will post an update on my results.
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Don't forget to do something special to avoid burning the bottoms. I've read that TWO cookie sheets, one on top of the other, will work. We take cookies in a package; much easier. Besides our oven is used for storage!
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Cruzette
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Dick_B wrote:Don't forget to do something special to avoid burning the bottoms. I've read that TWO cookie sheets, one on top of the other, will work. We take cookies in a package; much easier. Besides our oven is used for storage! If you use an air bake cookie sheet, cookies won't burn in an RV oven, unless of course you overbake them.
I keep an air bake cookie sheet in the RV oven at all times and place whatever I am cooking in the RV oven on it, this way things do not burn on the bottom.
FYI - An air bake cookie sheet won't break and it doesn't weigh as much as the cooking stones or tiles that others use in their RV ovens.
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stfnwuf
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Cruzette wrote:Dick_B wrote:Don't forget to do something special to avoid burning the bottoms. I've read that TWO cookie sheets, one on top of the other, will work. We take cookies in a package; much easier. Besides our oven is used for storage! If you use an air bake cookie sheet, cookies won't burn in an RV oven, unless of course you overbake them.
I keep an air bake cookie sheet in the RV oven at all times and place whatever I am cooking in the RV oven on it, this way things do not burn on the bottom.
FYI - An air bake cookie sheet won't break and it doesn't weigh as much as the cooking stones or tiles that others use in their RV ovens.
Hmmm, I wonder if I have an airbake cookie sheet that would fit the oven. We put a tile in it last time out. It worked well for baking yams.
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Cruzette
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Sorry I can't give you the dimensions of my RV air-bake cookie sheet, the RV is in storage.
I know the cookie sheets I have at home are too big for the RV oven and they are 14X16. So it has to be smaller then that.
I did a Internet search and found 12 x 14 insulated cookie sheets, but I'm still not sure if they will fit an RV oven. Can someone measure the inside of their RV oven and post the dimensions please. Thx!
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stfnwuf
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The cookies were a success!! WhooHoo!! First time actually baking something in the oven. (Potatos don't count.) I found a recipe for Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. Instead of using butter, I cut shortening into the dry mix and put it in a baggie. Before baking I added the wet ingredients. As convenient as a mix, but I know what the ingredients are.
The cookies took a long time to bake and I think that was because I used both a floor tile and an airbake cookie sheet. Next time I just use the cookie sheet. I also have confirmed that the oven temp is accurate. That will help in future endeavors.
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