Your Bosch Universal is your power tool for your kitchen!  I can make up to 32 dozen chocolate chip cookies at one time.  Now, we don't eat that many at one time but freeze the dough and have fresh chocolate chip cookies when the whim hits us.

So at Christmas you might want to make a variety of different cookies to give as gifts or in my case EAT!  Here is the One Stop Cookie recipe.  You make the basic batch, then divide the dough into 3 parts.  Put one part of the cookie dough back into the Bosch bowl and incorporate the different ingredients to make totally different types of cookies.  Your guest/family will be ecstatic with all the choices of cookies and you won't be exhausted because you only made 'one' batch of cookies!  

Basic Cookie Dough

3 lbs unsalted butter, room temperature

4 1/2 cups brown sugar

1 1/2 cups raw sugar

12 large eggs, room temperature

2 Tbs vanilla

18-20 cups sifted pastry flour *

3 tsp salt

2 Tbs baking soda

Add the below combinations for cookie variety.

In the Bosch Universal Plus with the cookie paddles attached, place in butter and the raw sugar.  Cream together for about 2 minutes.  Add brown sugar and cream another 2 minutes.  Crack eggs in separate bowl and add the eggs slowly to the mixer at speed one.  Add vanilla.  

In separate bowl, combine flour, salt and soda.  Whisk thoroughly.  Add flour in small batches to the wet ingredients.  Do not over mix.  Only mix until the flour has been incorporated.   

Scoop out in 1 oz. balls.  Place on cookie sheet close together and freeze for 2 hours.  Once hard, place in freezer bag and store up to 2 months!  If baking now, bake 350 till golden brown.

Variety Cookie Combinations:

Craisin/white chocolate:  

1 cup craisins (presoak in water); 1 cup chopped pecans; 1 cup large white chocolate chips.

Chocolate Mint Cookies:

1 cup cocoa powder; 1 tsp peppermint extract; 1/2 cup mint chips 

Candy Cane Cookies:

3/4 cup crushed peppermints (about 36 peppermints); 1 tsp peppermint extract; 1 cup shredded cocoanut (optional) Use your Bosch blender or Bosch food processor to chop/crush the candy. 

Peanut Butter Cup Cookies:

1 cup Reeces chips; 1 cup cocoa.

Check out my blog for more varieties!