Cindy McCain’s cookie recipe
October 30, 2008 by Sharon Thompson
A cookie recipe just might predict the winner of Tuesday’s Presidential election.
Family Circle readers have a 100 percent track record in predicting the winner of the White House, based on whose wife has the most popular recipe.
In 2000, Laura Bush’s cowboy cookies were judged tastier than Tipper Gore’s ginger snaps, and her oatmeal-chocolate chunk cookies beat out Teresa Heinz Kerry’s four years later.
This year Cindy McCain’s oatmeal-butterscotch cookies beat out Michelle Obama’s shortbread cookies. Here’s the winning recipe that appears in the magazine’s November issue.
Cindy McCain’s oatmeal-butterscotch cookies
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter or margarine, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 cups rolled oats
1 2/3 cups butterscotch chips
Heat oven to 375 degrees. In a large bowl, beat the butter or margarine, granulated sugar and brown sugar together. Add the eggs and vanilla, beating well. In a medium-size bowl, stir together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture; stir until blended. Stir in oats and butterscotch chips. Drop by tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes, until the edges begin to brown. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Makes 5 1/2 dozen.
