1st cookie recipe
 

probably the no bake chocolate/peant butter/coconut ones were the first ones "I" made as a kid.
Preceded by many years of helping mother. Smelling the vanilla. licking the bowls.

I remember making sugar cookies for Xmas. We kind of had a production line. The eldest would mix the dough. Next ones would roll and cut. Mom took care of the oven. The rest would decorate. Ah, the good times !

I'm thinking peanut butter cookies smashed down with a fork for imprint. Yummy.

My very first cookie was a sugar cookie recipe from a cookbook, I purchased from the Weekly Reader magazine they handed out to the class. I remember I did not know what fractions were, so when I read 3/4 cup of sugar, I thought it meant 3 or 4 cups of sugar. Of course, I put in 4, I liked sweet things. The cookies did turn out but they were hollow with little columns in them of sugar.

The only cookies my mom ever made were chocolate chip. My grandmother used to help us make wonderfully large, perfectly round sugar cookies, with a hint of lemon. So good!! The only downside was she always served it with a glass of pineapple juice!

Tollhouse (chocolate chip), definitely. I still make them as they are everybody's favorite.

Ice box shortbread cookies with my Grandma. Butter, brown sugar and flour, roll into a log, freeze and then cut into rounds. Add half a maraschino cherry and bake.
I miss my Grandma.

Watson

My aunt is the one that taught me how to bake. Somehow, I recall making Snickerdoodles. My Mom loved to cook too, when she was well enough, & I remember making Spritz cookies with her. To this day these are my 2 favorite cookies.

I guess ours were chocolate chip also?

I really remember homemade chocolate cake way more than cookies! 3 sisters. Mom always let us have a spoon of the batter. One time she decide to rid us of the habit by making a cake batter and just giving it to us on the back patio to eat. Boy did that backfire for her. Still love it!!!

Mine was Honey Balls

1 cup Crisco, 1/4 to 1/2 cup honey, 1/4 tsp. Salt, 2 cups flour, 2 cups chopped pecans, 1 tsp almond flavor or 2 tsp. Vanilla.

Mix crisco and honey until light and fluffy, add salt, flour, extract and pecans. Refrigerate until easy to handle. Start heating oven to 350 degrees. Shape dough into 1” balls. Bake on undressed cookie sheets. 12 -15 minutes. While still warm roll in powdered sugar.

Still a favorite!

Snickerdoodles , in School.

I remember making the no bake cookies while in high school with oatmeal, walnuts, sugar, cocoa and butter. Boy that sounds so fattening now that I am much older.

Original Tollhouse chocolate chip cookies! Still favorites for us, our kids and grandkids!

Kolachky's and Sugar Cookies

Molasses Crinkles - I won a purple ribbon at the fair in my 1st year of 4H!

Tollhouse Choc. Chip cookies. Mom would have me: double the dough and halve the chips. Literally a Chocolate "Chip" cookie.

Our first cookie bakes used Pilsbury Slice and Bake Chocolate Chips. My mom worked a lot.

The first cookies I made were peanut butter cookies. I started learning to cook at a very young age. For a long time it was peanut butter cookies of pumpkin pies for desert. I even made my own crust for the pies. We always seem to have dozens of peanut butter cookies in the kitchen and it smelled so good.

Recipe, please!