Cookie Recipes for your Stand Mixer

Cookies are delicious. It’s as simple as that. Everyone loves cookies and as we enter holiday season you may have the opportunity and desire to bake a few cookie recipes to enjoy or to treat your loved ones. For those hosting parties, your guests can bask in the flavor of your hand made favorite cookies while those attending parties can delight their hosts with a gift of beautifully crafted homemade cookie deliciousness.

Baking cookies can be super fun and nostalgic. Just about everyone has fond memories of their moms letting them take a taste of the cookie dough as she baked cookies for her little helpers. And, it is holiday season which is the best time to make new memories.

Whether you’re trying to treat someone else or simply just want to bake some really awesome cookies, doing it from scratch is the way to get it done right. Cookies are not difficult to make and is one of the most fun culinary tasks in general because it does not take much time either. So, get your mixing tools and ingredients ready, you’re about to learn a few of the most delicious classic and unique cookie recipes that you can make at home using your stand mixer. These recipes can be done with a simple hand mixer, but you will never get the consistency of a stand mixer which will also cut your prep time in half while offering larger servings per batch.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Time needed: About 30 minutes

You cant go wrong with classic homemade chocolate chip cookies! This staple cookie is a must try for beginner bakers and connoisseurs alike. If you think it is boring, wait until you bite into one, you will quickly remember why classic chocolate chip cookies are considered the most favored and best cookies.

Ingredients

• 2.5 cups of all purpose flour

• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 8 oz unsalted butter

• 1 cup of light brown sugar

• 2 large eggs

• 1.5 teaspoons vanilla extract

• 1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans will provide the right texture and taste to compliment the chocolate and cookie dough)

• 15 oz of chocolate

Instructions

1. Mix the flour, baking soda, and salt into a mixing bowl and leave it aside for now.

2. Use your stand mixer with the flat beater attachment to beat the butter (cold) until its smooth and creamy, add the sugars and continue beating for a few more minutes. Then add in one egg (room temperature) at a time while continuing to beat everything for another minute or so, then add in and beat the vanilla.

3. Using the mixers lowest speeds add in the remaining dry ingredients with the chocolate and nuts being added last. It’s important to do this part slowly to ensure the dough is mixing properly and to also avoid an insane amount of backsplash that can fling cookie dough all over your kitchen lol. It’s also worth noting that the type of chocolate you should use is up to you and your preference in sweetness. Know, the higher quality the chocolate, the better your cookies will taste. The “fast food” brands of chocolate use replicated chemicals for taste. Semi sweet chocolate chips are recommended.

4. Once everything is mixed, wrap the cookie dough into parchment paper and refrigerate for about a day. You don’t have to wait that long if you don’t have the time as long as the cookie dough has been chilled enough and you can also use your 1.5 tablespoon cookie scoop to prepare the dough into balls before being chilled.

5. Place the cookie balls onto an ungreased baking sheet (you can line with parchment paper or silicone) separated about 2-4 inches and bake at 350 for about 12 minutes or until the edges are golden brown or crispy. Leave them to sit on the pan for a few minutes once you remove them from the oven and they‘re ready to serve and enjoy!

*Turn this recipe into a chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe by melting the butter instead of beating it cold, increasing the brown sugar to 1 1/4 cups, adding a 1/2 teaspoon of cornstarch, and one extra egg yoke. This should add richness and softness to your cookies.

Chocolate Peppermint Cookies for Christmas

Time needed: about 25 minutes

These Christmas cookies are fun to make, delicious to eat, and makes for a terrifically themed gift for loved ones, parties, or to treat your coworkers at the office for the holidays.

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup cocoa powder

• 3/4 unsalted butter

• 1/2 cups white granulated sugar

• 1/2 cup light brown sugar

• 1 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 2 large eggs

• No more than a 1/4-1/2 teaspoon of peppermint extract

• 1 bar quality white chocolate

• Peppermint candies or peppermint candy canes

Instructions

1. Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl ensuring there are no clumps from the cocoa powder and flour and set aside

2. Beat the butter in your stand mixer using its paddle until creamy, then add in the sugars and extract. Add in the eggs last one at a time and mix.

3. While at its lowest speed, add the dry ingredients into the mixers bowl slowly until it just mixes with the wet ingredients. Do not over mix.

4. Chill the cookies for a few hours or overnight in the fridge. This will ensure they retain a nice shape when they’re baked.

5. Scoop and roll the dough into balls and place on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

6. Bake for about 10-12 minutes or until the edges and top look and feel baked.

7. Let the cookies completely cool on a cooling rack or wire rack before the final step.

8. Melt the white chocolate in a pot or microwave. Crush the peppermint candies into small pieces.

9. Dip the cookies in the melted white chocolate then sprinkle the crushed peppermint candies on them. You can dip the cookie entirely in the chocolate or halfway for a nice aesthetic. You can also drip the chocolate onto the top of the cookie and then add sprinkles. The chocolate cools and congeals quickly so you will need to do this part fast. Now they’re ready to eat!

Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe

Time needed: about 25 minutes

Since it’s holidays and cinnamon is so yummy and fitting to the season, we’re going to look at a classic snickerdoodle recipe that is easy to make.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter

• 3/4 cup granulated sugar (dough)

• 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar (coating)

• 1 large egg

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1 1/3 cups all purpose flour

• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar

• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Instructions

1. Mix the dry ingredients into a bowl excluding the sugar and cinnamon set aside for the cookie coating.

2. Beat the butter in your stand mixer using its paddle until creamy, then add in the sugars and extract. Add in the eggs last one at a time and mix.

3. Whisk together the dry and wet ingredients with your stand mixer.

4. Scoop the cookie dough into balls and place on a baking sheet in the fridge to cool for about an hour.

5. Mix the remaining sugar and cinnamon into a bowl. Roll the cookie balls in the mixture, place back onto the baking sheet, and bake at 350 degrees (preheat) for about 12-15 minutes. let cool for about 5 minutes.

Baking and Storing Cookies

As you can see, baking cookies is not that complicated. in fact most of these recipes share the same ingredients and processes. So much that you can feel free to change or alter whatever you like and they will still probably be really awesome and delicious. Once you can bake one cookie recipe successfully, you should easily be capable of baking with your your favorites like peanut butter, shortbread, or oatmeal cookies. Butter cookies and sugar cookies are both also very easy to make and you can turn anything gluten free by using gluten free flour and extracts.

Cookies store very well and can even be frozen (depending on the type of cookie). Freezing raw cookie dough will last longer, save space, and is a little easier than freezing ready to eat cookies which should be wrapped individually in an airtight container before freezing. You can also store your cookies in an air tight cookie jar that can be left out for people to enjoy as they desire.

The Best Stand Mixer

Deco Chef has an wide assortment of cooking appliances and kitchen gadgets that will help you master your culinary skills while satisfying your hunger. The Deco Chef 5.5 QT Kitchen Stand Mixer, 550W 8-Speed Motor With Pulse Functionality is the perfect mixer for all your baking needs and would be a lovely addition to your home kitchen. Mixers are required for many recipes and you will need one for virtually any type of baking unless you’d like your arm to feel like it’s going to fall off from doing things by hand. Stand mixers are fantastic for crafting dishes like creamy mashed potatoes and dark chocolate chip brownies to making ice cream. The Deco Chef stand mixer is a terrific price and with its 550W motor offers a lot of power at variable speeds. the 5.5Qt bowl lets you make more at once in case you have many mouths to feed and keeps your kitchen clean with a splashguard. This stand mixer is a great size to fit on your countertop and offers easy operations with a power dial and tiltable head. This is the best stand mixer for those passionate about homemade cooking and baking.

• Powerful 550W motor with full metal gear operation

• 8-speed settings with pulse functionality

• 5.5QT steel mixing bowl with splash guard

• Includes dough hook, wire whip, flat beater

• Quiet - under 75dB when operating at the highest speeds