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How to Make an Easy Compost-Like Cookie for Bake it Happen

October 19, 2017 By Kimberly

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Cookie desserts - How to Make an Easy Compost-Like Cookie


I have highlighted the Bake it Happen campaign since 2015.  The initiative raises awareness and money for Metastatic Breast Cancer research. My friend Shari co-founded Bake It Happen in honor of her mom who passed away from this disease. The campaign keeps growing each year and I’m happy to share that 100% of the money that is raised this year will be DOUBLED as a donation to The Cancer Couch, which raises funds for Metastatic Breast Cancer.

Tastebuds Kitchen is also a Bake it Happen campaign partner this year. The NYC kitchen offers great cooking and baking classes for both kids and adults. (I attended a Tastebuds Kitchen class with Michael several years ago and we had a great time. It was the first time that he enjoyed broccoli!)  They are offering a Cookie Pie Workshop (Ages 5-8 w/ Caregiver) where they will be making one of the recipes from this year’s campaign and have committed to donate a portion of the proceeds from their classes to The Cancer Couch Foundation. 
Michael at Tastebuds Kitchen in April of 2011

Bake it Happen 2017 Details

Go to the Bake It Happen website and see how simple it is to join the campaign. Basically..

1.  YOU BAKE. (There are 4 recipe options this year.)

Bake It Happen Breast Cancer Promotion
Judy’s Black Bottom Cupcakes
 
Bake It Happen Breast Cancer Promotion

Pumpkin Oatmeal Chip Cookies
 
Bake It Happen Breast Cancer Promotion
Banana Chocolate Chip Loaf
 

Bake It Happen Breast Cancer Promotion
Compost-Like Cookies

2. YOU SHARE. (Share what you bake with loved ones in real life and online using the #bakeithappen hashtag.)

3. THEY DONATE FUNDS DIRECTLY TO THE CANCER COUCH FOUNDATION. [When you share a photo tagging @ubakeithappen  (Facebook) @bakeithappen00 (Instagram) or emailing it to [email protected], they donate money.] Now, that’s a sweet deal!

**Since the month is almost over, you are also more than welcome to donate directly instead of (or in addition to!) the $5 donation that your picture provides. You can do that directly at www.bakeithappen.net/donate.**

Coleman’s Easy Compost-Like Cookie Recipe

My family chose to do a version of the Compost-Like Cookies using our favorite cookie base and adding a hodge-podge of ingredients.  Sean wasn’t thrilled that compost was another word for garbage. However, when I let them all know that they could choose which ingredients to add to the base, everyone was fine.

Coleman’s Easy Compost-Like Cookies  

Ingredients

  • 2 sticks of unsalted butter (softened to room temperature)
  • ¾ cup fine granulated sugar
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
  • ¾ tsp baking soda
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • Optional “compost” ingredients: potato chips, pretzels, graham crackers, chocolate chips and butterscotch chips

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 375ºF.
  2. Mix sugars, butter, vanilla and egg in a large bowl.
  3. In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda and salt together.
  4. Add the dry ingredients from the medium bowl into the large bowl and mix all of the ingredients together well.
  5. Gently fold desired optional ingredients into the dough.
  6. Place rounded tablespoonfuls of the dough (approximately 2 inches apart) on an ungreased cookie sheet. (You can use parchment paper if you like.)
  7. Bake the cookies for 8 to 10 minutes. The cookies will be light brown with soft centers.

These cookies were *almost* as good as the compost cookie (a registered trademark!) that I enjoyed from Momofuko Milk Bar at a 2012 event with Momofuku Milk Bar Pastry Chef Christina Tosi and her mom Greta Miller.

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Sean and Michael at the 2012 cookie party.

If you can, please bake and or donate to Bake it Happen. It’s definitely a worthy cause!

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