When I'm desperate I turn to graham crackers with chocolate frosting in the middle!

/tricia

I don't even have a graham cracker!!!!!!!And wasa bread doesn't cut it!!

When I need a coooookie really fast, I make a batch of No Bakes. Made some on Tuesday, but I took most of them to work so nothing left here now.... Crackers dipped in jam aren't too bad.

Nancy

Yesterday I saw a recipe for a snickerdoodle that was one box of yellow cake mix, once stick of butter and two eggs. Mixed and made into balls which were rolled in cinnamon sugar, then placed on the pan and flattened. She said from start to eating was 30 minutes.

I just finished peeling and chopping about 15 lbs of tomatoes too, and then had to have a chocolate chip with bittersweet, semisweet and milk chocolate chunks. They're better with toasted chopped pecans, but didn't have any when I made these. They're always good when you want sweet but not too sweet, with crispy edges but still soft in the middle.

AARGH!!!"Crispy edges and still soft in the middle..."

I do what I just did tonight. Rummage around till you find a packaged piecrust that you bought to have on hand in case of pastry failure and is about to expire. Cut it into strips and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Bake and eat. Ten minutes start to finish.

Better if there are leftover scraps of homemade pastry dough in the fridge, but either one probably beats cookies out of the gas station vending machine.

It's what I'd bring if I lived closer, sorry...

1/2 c butter
1/2 c margarine
1/2 c granulated sugar
1 c brown sugar
1 egg
2-1/4 c AP flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 c coarsely chopped nuts (I like toasted pecans)
8 ounces of chopped bittersweet chocolate cut into chunks
4 ounces of semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375

Cream butter, margarine and sugars. Mix in egg. Stir flour, baking soda and salt. Stir in nuts and chocolate chips/chunks. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonful about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet (I use a Silpat). Bake until light brown 8-10 minutes (larger cookies need 10-12 minutes). Cool slightly and remove from cookie sheet.

Makes about 6 dozen cookies.

If using self-rising flour, omit baking soda and salt

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or there's a family favorite my grandmother used to make

3-ingredient PB cookies

1 c sugar
1 c peanut butter
1 egg

Mix and drop onto ungreased cookie sheet, press down & make criss-cross pattern with the tines of a fork dipped in sugar. Bake 375 for 12-15 minutes. Makes 40-50 small cookies. They're crumbly and fall apart but are yummy.

Jen

In similar situations I have made cinnamon toast.

In a pinch, Ghiradelli brownie mix easily converts to cookies by omitting the water. I always keep a box on hand.
Jo

Cinnamon toast is my emergency fix too... but if I was bringing you cookies last night it would have been either Snickerdoodles or Cranberry White CHocolate Chunk.

Hope you made it through the night!

Whew! Was a long night!!...but I survived!
Never thought of cinnamon toast....that would ahve solved the problem...but I didn't have even a brownie mix in the house....
I may celebrate survival by making French toast for breakfast!
Linda C

When I'm having a late night craving, I make this fast cocoa brownie recipe:

Cocoa Brownies
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
1/2 cup soft butter
2 eggs
3/4 cup flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 wheat germ(opt)
chopped nuts to taste(opt)

Thoroughly mix cocoa and sugar. Mix in butter, then add eggs and vanilla. Mix well.
Combine in separate bowl the flour, salt and baking powder(and wheat germ if using), then add to wet ingredients. Stir in nuts if using.
Spread into buttered 8"x 8" pan and bake for approx 20 minutes at 350 degrees. Cool and cut.

When I get that urge and there is nothing sweet in the house I get a handful or two of chocolate chips. It's not the same as a just out of the oven cookie, but it's quick!

I have my first batch of 36 hour chocolate chip cookies chilling in the fridge now. Only 16 hours to go.

Not being one who has cravings for sweets, I haven't thought of emergency cookie fixes before. When my Dad had a sudden sweets craving, my stepmother could make a pie crust, fill the pie with her own canned mince meat or whatever fruit was available and have a warm piece of pie on his plate in under an hour. I've seen her put together a mincemeat or fruit pie in 10 minutes. She always had a jar of flour with the salt & crisco worked into it in the fridge, ready to just moisten with iced water and roll out.

However, if I had a friend going mental for a cookie, I'd probably make one of the following. It would be a huge shock to me if I didn't have the ingredients on hand for these recipes.

Scotch Shortbread... they mix quite nicely in a food processor, and bake in 20 minutes. To add insult to injury, I brush them with melted butter when they come out of the oven just to make absolutely sure that there is enough butter flavor. If I have time, I divide the batch, mixing some with toasted coconut, some with finely ground pecans, some with minced dried fruit of some kind. Chocolate is good too, subbing good cocoa for some of the flour. These cookies keep for weeks and weeks in the fridge if properly wrapped, honestly.

If my friend wanted something more sweet, less rich, I might make Sesame Seed Wafers. In the oven in 10 minutes, cook in 8. Very thin, sweet & crisp and they keep for weeks.

Lace Cookies are another fast, yummy cookie. Sort of an oatmeal wafer. 10 minutes to the oven, 5 minutes in the oven. Sweet & crispy.

Ooh, ooh, Ginger Snaps! A little longer to the oven...'cause you have to hand roll the batter into balls, maybe 15-20 minutes, then 12 minutes in the oven.

All these recipes are from my favorite Cookie cook book, The Fannie Farmer Baking Book (some with my own variations, of course). I have never tried a cookie recipe from this book that wasn't wonderful.

If anyone wants one of these recipes, I will type it out.

Buttered toast with peanut butter and chocolate syrup. Nutella also works as does honey. I seldom keep cookies so the toast with sweet something is a common fix when the sweet tooth acts up.

: )
lyra

I love a flour tortilla crisped in butter on the stove in a skillet and liberally sprinkled with cinnamon sugar.

Thanks guys for thinking of me....
Iw as too tired to do any of the pie crust things and even too tired to whip up a batch of 3 ingredient peanutbutter cookies...not even that quick brownie thing ( I call that one pan brownies...and I mix the drys tuff, melt the butter...let it cool add the egg beat, add the dry stuff and bake...
I will have the recipe for those awful shortbread things...the ones with the extra butter on top!...please!
Been messing with tomatoes again....sensing a cookie urge coming on.....
Linda C

Linda, here is what DH does when I don't have a dessert that he wants in the house. I have never tried it but he loves it and says they did it at his DGM's house.

He mixes cocoa, powdered sugar and a little milk and spreads it on saltine crackers.

Sounds disgusting to me, but he loooves it!

I have a favorite that also fills nearly all the food groups!!! You take a banana and drizzle it with chocolate syrup and then throw on a handful of sunflower nuts. Yummy, Makes you feel like you are really having a banana split without the ice cream and extra calories. The chocolate just fills my needs. Deanna

AHA! I have tempted Linda!

O.k., here goes, and enjoy!

Scotch Shortbread

1 c butter, softened
2/3 c powdered sugar
1 t vanilla
2 c flour
1/4 t salt
(and extra butter, melted, for later)

My directions aren't as wordy as Fannie Farmer's...

Cream butter, beat in sugar & vanilla. Mix in flour and salt well. I do this in a food processor.

At this point, decide if you want simple, butter flavored shortbread cookies or if you want to get fancy. If you want to get fancy, add your ideas to the mix. I put all sorts of things into my shortbread cookies, as I said.

Anyway, lightly flour a surface (or butter it), roll out the dough to about a half inch thick, and then have at it with your cookie cutters. I would suggest small ones, as this is a rich cookie.

You don't have to grease your cookie sheet, and they don't expand/spread very much, so you can get a lot of them on one sheet...the recipe says to put them 1 inch apart, but 1/2 inch is plenty.

Cook 20 minutes...you want them to be barely colored around the edges, not brown. The window of cookie perfection is a small one in this case. The minute you see a touch of golden brown on a pan-side edge of cookie, you must whisk them off the sheet onto a cooling rack.

Then, make sure your favorite pastry/bbq brush has been cleaned well since last use and brush the cookies with melted butter. If you do this all quickly enough, you will be able to get 2 brush loads on while the heat of the cookie still draws the butter in. I have been toying with the idea of simply dipping(!) the still-warm cookies into melted butter 2 or 3 times as though I were making candles.

No, I don't like butter. Much. :D

My quick & easy...

CHOCOLATE WHITE CHIP COOKIES

One box chocolate cake mix - I think Betty Croker Butter Recipe is tastiest for these-
Dump it in a bowl add:
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
2 TBSP water
Stir and add 1/2 bag white chips (about a cup?)
Bake at 350 for about 8-9 min.

I'm still working on the exact timing since we moved. We were in AK (sea level) and had a convection oven. In the convection oven, it took 6 1/2 minutes to have soft, but not undercooked cookies. If the chips start to brown, you'll have crispy cookies, still good though.
I made these yesterday while cooking zuchinni for dinner. They took about the same amount of time.